Month: August 2017

Russian billionaire Roman Abramovich and his wife of 10 years, Daria Zhukova, have separated, reports say. …

Maria Alyokhina says she and another member of the Russian punk protest group Pussy Riot have been detained after staging a protest near the remote prison where Ukrainian filmmaker Oleh Sentsov is incarcerated. …

In one of the most closely watched electoral races on the African continent, Kenya’s President Uhuru Kenyatta will face off Tuesday against longtime rival Raila Odinga. The killing of a key election official a week before the vote has elevated concerns after a contentious campaign period. The race between Kenyatta and opposition leader Raila Odinga …

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Iran has mocked the U.S. push for inspections of the country’s military sites, calling it a “ridiculous dream that will never come true.” This comes after U.S. officials said last month that the Trump administration is pushing for inspections of suspicious Iranian military sites in a bid to test the strength of the nuclear deal …

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China pressed North Korea on Sunday to halt its missile and nuclear tests, saying Pyongyang should not “provoke international society’s goodwill.” Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi, in a blunt show of support for new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, delivered Beijing’s warning to his North Korean counterpart Ri Yong Ho on the sidelines of …

Read more “China Presses North Korea to Halt Missile, Nuclear Tests”

Days after Special Counsel Robert Mueller reportedly impaneled a grand jury in the probe into Russian election interference , the White House on Sunday brushed off questions about whether President Donald Trump intends to fire Mueller. “The president has not even discussed that. The president is not discussing firing Bob Mueller,” presidential counselor Kellyanne Conway …

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U.S. lawmakers as well as President Donald Trump have left Washington for several weeks, but the probe into Russian interference in the U.S. election grinds on. Before the Senate adjourned last week, a bipartisan bill was introduced to protect the special counsel in the Russia probe, Robert Mueller, in the event the president moves to …

Read more “Trump, Lawmakers Vacate Washington but Russia Probe Continues”

“We felt the readiness of our U.S. colleagues,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov told Russian journalists on August 6 following bilateral talks with U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson on the sidelines of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) forum in the Philippine capital, Manila. “After all, the dialogue continues. I think an alternative …

Read more “Lavrov: An Alternative To Dialogue With U.S. ‘Does Not Exist’”

Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) have reportedly clashed with a group of militants in the country’s northwest, killing two of them. …

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Tajikistan has pardoned dozens of its nationals who voluntarily returned from Syria and Iraq. The returnees are now to trying to rebuild their lives under the watchful eyes of the government in a society wary of their intentions. …

Cuban authorities have ordered the closure of one of the island’s fastest-growing cooperatives, days after announcing that they would stop issuing new permits for some private enterprise. Scenius, which provides accounting and business consulting services, will have until December 31 to liquidate, the cooperative’s founder and director, Luis Duenas, told The Associated Press on Saturday. …

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The White House may appoint a senior policy adviser with hard-line views on immigration, who recently sparred with reporters in a televised briefing, as its new communications director, a senior administration official said Saturday. Stephen Miller, a top aide and speechwriter for President Donald Trump, is a candidate to lead the White House’s communications team …

Read more “Trump Aide Miller Is Communications Director Candidate, Official Says”

The head of Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) has said in an interview that Germany may need to accept the 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region as a “permanent provisional arrangement.” …

A senior U.S. official says about 2,000 Islamic State (IS) militants are battling for survival in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the extremists’ last stronghold in the north of the country. …

Pakistan’s Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) has recently published its first women’s magazine, urging potential female jihadists to join the ranks of the militant group and to devote themselves to the cause of jihad. The magazine, Sunnat-e-Khaula (The Way of Khaula), is named after a young female fighter during the time of the Prophet Muhammad, according to local …

Read more “Pakistani Taliban Try to Broaden Reach With Women’s Magazine”