Calming Post-Impeachment Brazil Takes Time, Says New President and other top stories.

• Calming Post-Impeachment Brazil Takes Time, Says New President

  Brazil’s President Michel Temer said it will take time to bring calm to his country following the ouster of his predecessor and described street protests against his government as isolated and undemocratic.The rallies "are normal during a complicated political moment as was the impeachment," Temer told reporters in Hangzhou, China, on the eve of the G-20 leaders’ summit. "Pacification on the first day is absolutely impossible.”Temer officially took office as president on Wednesday, after the Se..

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• China, US Join Climate Deal; Obama Hails Work to Save Planet

  

  HANGZHOU, China — Setting aside their cyber and maritime disputes, President Barack Obama and China's President Xi Jinping on Saturday sealed their nations' participation in last year's Paris climate change agreement. They hailed their new era of climate cooperation as the best chance for saving the planet.At a ceremony on the sidelines of a global economic summit, Obama and Xi, representing the world's two biggest carbon emitters, delivered a series of documents to U.N. Secretary-General Ba..

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• Philippines President: Explosion that killed 14 was act of terrorism

  

  At least 71 people were injured in the attack on the popular market. Duterte described the attack as an act of terrorism, and declared the nation in "a state of lawlessness," the official Philippines News Agency reported, authorizing the police and military to search cars and frisk people at checkpoints. He said he had not declared martial law, according to PNA."We have to confront the ugly head of terrorism," Duterte said Friday, standing near the explosion site in his hometown. "We will take t..

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• Putin calls DNC hack public service, denies Russia's involvement

  

  Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the hack of the Democratic National Committee’s emails was a public service, but denied that Moscow played any part in the cyberattack. Security experts have suggested that Russian-backed cyber militias were behind the cyberattacks on top Democratic Party groups and the possible breach of Clinton Foundation computers. But Putin wondered why it mattered who was behind the hacks. “Listen, does it even matter who hacked this data?’’ he said in an..

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• Charlie Hebdo slammed for 'lasagna' cartoon on Italy earthquake victims

  

  The latest edition of the edgy French publication features a cartoon entitled "Earthquake, Italian-style," which depicts victims of the 6.2-magnitude quake with varying degrees of injury, each likened to an Italian recipe.A severely bleeding man is labelled "penne with tomato sauce." A woman with a badly bruised or burned face is "penne au gratin." And a pile of victims pancaked beneath a collapsed building, their legs sticking out from the bloodied rubble, is "lasagna."The cartoon prompted a sw..

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• Paris climate deal: US and China announce ratification

  

  Image copyright Reuters Image caption Signing up to cut emissions means China will have to move away from coal power The US and China - together responsible for 40% of the world's carbon emissions - have now both ratified the Paris global climate agreement.After arriving with other leaders of G20 nations for a summit in the city of Hangzhou, Mr Obama said: "History will judge today's effort as pivotal."CO2 emissions are the driving force behind climat..

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• At least 13 killed in two Pakistan attacks

  

  PESHAWAR, Pakistan -- Northwestern Pakistan was struck by two militant attacks hours apart on Friday that left at least 13 people dead. Gunmen wearing suicide vests stormed a Christian colony near the town of Peshawar, killing one civilian in that attack. A suicide bomber struck a district court in the town of Mardan, killing 12 people and wounding 54 others. Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif issued statements condemning both attacks, saying that "these cowardly attacks cannot shatter our u..

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• Islam Karimov: Uzbekistan holds funeral for president

  

  Image copyright AP Image caption The coffin passed through Samarkand's historic Registan square The funeral of Uzbekistan's President Islam Karimov, who died after a stroke this week aged 78, has been taking place in the city of Samarkand.Thousands earlier lined the streets of the capital, Tashkent, throwing flowers as his cortege passed.Karimov, one of Asia's most autocratic leaders, ruled for 27 years, and was accused by human rights groups of harsh..

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• Harlem, Bronx, Brooklyn held place in Mother Teresa's heart

  

  Nobel Peace Prize-winning Mother Teresa of Calcutta accepts the ceremonial "Key to New York City" from Mayor Edward Koch on June 5, 1981. (PAUL BURNETT/ASSOCIATED PRESS). BY Leonard Greene. NEW YORK DAILY NEWS. Saturday, September ...

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