Syria: White House Warns of 'Actions' If Russia Won't Negotiate and other top stories.

• Syria: White House Warns of 'Actions' If Russia Won't Negotiate

  

  President Obama faces an increasingly stark choice in Syria — he can order American military action or watch thousands of women and children die as the rebel stronghold of Aleppo falls. So far, he has shown no willingness to launch a U.S. military response, but White House officials told NBC News Monday they are now considering escalating the U.S. involvement in Syria's civil war, including unspecified "actions…that would further underscore the consequences of not coming back to the negotiat..

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• US abandons efforts to work with Russia on Syria

  

  U.S.-Russia relations fell to a new post-Cold War low Monday as the Obama administration abandoned efforts to cooperate with Russia on ending the Syrian civil war and forming a common front against terrorists there, and Moscow suspended a landmark nuclear agreement. The latter move, scuttling a deal the two countries signed in 2000 to dispose of their stocks of weapons-grade plutonium, was largely symbolic. But it provided the Kremlin with an opportunity to cite a series of what it called “unfr..

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• Duterte Tells Obama 'You Can Go to Hell' in New Tirade

  

  MANILA, Philippines — Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte told his U.S. ally Barack Obama "you can go to hell" in a speech Tuesday that was his latest tirade against the U.S. over its criticism of his deadly anti-drug campaign.He also lashed out anew at the European Union, saying the 28-nation bloc, which has also criticized his brutal crackdown, "better choose purgatory, hell is filled up."Duterte, who took office in June, has been hypersensitive to criticism over his crackdown, which has ..

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• Hurricane Matthew hits Haiti

  

  The "extremely dangerous" storm has already killed at least three people, caused cruise ships to change course and prompted officials to declare states of emergency.And officials have warned that the death toll could climb."We've already seen deaths. People who were out at sea. There are people who are missing. They are people who didn't respect the alerts. They've lost their lives," Interim Haitian President Jocelerme Privert said at a news conference.The Category 4 hurricane made landfall near..

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• US, Philippines launch war games amid uncertainty over ties

  

  The United States and the Philippines launched annual joint military exercises on Tuesday, nearly a week after President Rodrigo Duterte said they would be the last between the treaty allies. The nearly weeklong combat exercises designed to increase capability and boost camaraderie between forces involve 1,100 American and 400 Filipino troops. They come as the newly-elected Duterte has gone on a number of verbal tirades against the United States since taking over the presidency for a six-year t..

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• Turkey purges 13000 police officers over failed coup

  

  Image copyright Reuters Image caption Thousands of police were also among those purged in the immediate aftermath of July's failed overthrow Turkey has suspended almost 13,000 police officers for their alleged links with the US-based Muslim cleric, Fethullah Gulen. The latest wave adds to the 100,000 or so government workers dismissed or suspended since July's failed coup.Mr Gulen denies the government's accusation that he or his supporters orchestrat..

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• Hungary's anti-migrant vote: Is it about refugees or Orbán?

  

  Paris — Ever since Budapest’s Keleti train station became the epicenter of Europe’s migration crisis last fall, Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has led the charge among former communist states of the European Union to reject Muslim refugees in Europe.He sought to shore up that position – and his role as provocateur to Brussels and its aims to relocate asylum-seekers fairly across the bloc – in a referendum on Sunday. But while those who voted overwhelmingly rejected the EU’s redistributi..

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