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Google Maps has renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America days after President Trump signed an executive order calling for the change last week amid a U.S. trade war with Canada.

Niger's capital of Niamey on Sunday appeared calm with normalcy restored after a day of unrest as young soldiers staged a mutiny that threatened the ruling military junta before being repelled by loyalist forces aided by Russian troops.

Guinea-Bissau is voting Sunday in a referendum to decide on granting new presidential powers ahead of December's general election, which will return the West African nation to democracy after its latest coup.

As the U.S. and Israel relentlessly bombed Iran in the opening days of war, the most dramatic predictions of the conflict's toll were unsparing: surging oil prices, worldwide recession and economic catastrophe.

Thieves broke into a municipal museum in Villena, Spain, almost 250 miles southwest of Barcelona, and stole 3,000-year-old gold artifacts rediscovered in the town in 1963.

Six children and seven women were released by a gang in Haiti that had kidnapped more than 50 people after launching a deadly attack on a community near the capital, Port-au-Prince, nearly a week ago, according to UNICEF.

Voters in Iceland went to the polls Saturday to decide whether the country should resume long-stalled negotiations to become a member of the European Union, in the shadow of President Trump's threats to control nearby Greenland.

Tens of thousands of mourners paid their respects to Norway's King Harald V on Saturday, placing flowers and condolence cards outside the royal palace in Oslo a day after the monarch died at 89.

President Donald Trump on Friday said the U.S. has entered an agreement with Venezuela to take control of 65 billion barrels of the South American country's oil reserves.

President Trump appeared to dismiss U.S. national security concerns over large-scale Chinese intelligence collection, espionage and cyberattacks in a recent exchange with reporters noting similar U.S. practices.