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Robots strut their stuff, race up sacred China mountain

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Dozens of robots took on more than 3,000 steps up one of China's most famous peaks Monday, many carrying eggs and watermelons in a race organizers billed as a test of real-world machine endurance, state media showed.

For hundreds of years, Mount Tai -- the tallest peak in China's eastern Shandong province -- was an important pilgrimage for Chinese emperors, and it features prominently in Chinese mythology.

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Iran says "ball is in the U.S. court" on any deal to end the war

Iran's foreign ministry spokesperson said Monday that the next move in the standoff with the United States is for President Trump to make. "The ball is in the U.S. court, because our demands have been stated very clearly and transparently, and Iran's demands are reasonable and logical," Esmaeil Baqaei told journalists in Tehran. President Trump rejected the initial proposal, but both sides have since exchanged revisions, and Mr. Trump has said repeatedly in recent weeks that he just needs to make a decision on whether to launch new attacks on Iran, or to make a deal to end the war.