Month: January 2018

Russian state broadcaster RT says France’s presidency has turned away journalists from its new French-language channel twice in a week. …

Romanian Prime Minister Mihai Tudose says he is stepping down after losing the backing of his party. …

The Afghan government says President Ashraf Ghani has met with a top-level UN Security Council delegation that included the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley. …

Iraq’s Interior Ministry spokesman says a double suicide bombing in central Baghdad has killed at least 16 people. Maj. Gen. Saad Maan says the rush-hour attack struck at the city’s Tayran Square on Monday morning. He says it was carried out by two suicide bombers and that the explosions also wounded at least 65 people. …

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The Argentine Navy says that Russian search specialists will return to the area where a submarine went missing in the South Atlantic on November 15 with 44 crew members aboard. …

The Iraqi Interior Ministry says at least 16 people have been killed and 65 injured by two suicide bombings in central Baghdad. …

Americans on Monday celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. Day, honoring a man who embodied the U.S. civil rights movement and who understood that the success of the movement depended on its nonviolent principles. Every year on the third Monday in January, Americans honor the slain civil rights leader who in the 1950s and 1960s organized …

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Delegations from the two Koreas are meeting Monday to hammer out details about the North sending a troupe of artistic performers to next month’s Winter Olympics in the South. The meeting Monday in the border village of Panmunjom will likely focus on a schedule for the North’s famed all-female Moranbong music band, whose members are …

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Egypt’s parliament approved on Sunday a Cabinet reshuffle including four new ministers, government sources said, two months ahead of a scheduled presidential election. The reshuffle included the appointment of Abu Bakr al-Gendi as minister for local development, Rania al-Mashat as tourism minister, Enas Abdeldayem as culture minister and Khaled Badawy as public enterprise minister. Two …

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Liberia’s ruling Unity Party has expelled the country’s outgoing president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, who is accused by party leaders of meddling in last year’s presidential elections in which its candidate suffered a bruising defeat. Johnson Sirleaf, a Nobel Peace Prize laureate who has been in power for 12 years, denies the party’s allegations that she …

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Iran says 55 people are still being detained in the capital after hundreds were arrested during a wave of anti-government protests. The semi-official Fars news agency quoted judiciary spokesman Gholamhosein Mohseni Ejehi as saying there were around 400 protesters held across the country but that “some were released” Saturday and Sunday. Last week, an Iranian …

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Iran’s judiciary says that 400 people are still being detained across the country for taking part in a wave of antigovernment protests that began on December 28. …

Uzbek Prime Minister Abdullo Aripov visited Tajikistan on January 10-11 to meet with top Tajik officials in the latest sign of warming ties between the two countries since Shavkat Mirziyoev became Uzbekistan’s president in late 2016. …

A stricken Iranian oil tanker that was burning for more than a week following a collision with a Chinese cargo ship in the East China Sea has sunk after drifting into the waters of Japan’s economic exclusion zone. …

Hawaii emergency officials say an alert of a ballistic missile threat is a false alarm. The alert stated there was a threat “inbound to Hawaii” and for residents to seek shelter and that “this is not a drill.” The alert caused a panic when it went to people’s cellphones Saturday morning but, shortly after, authorities …

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Czech President Milos Zeman has won the first round in the nation’s presidential election, and now must face Jiri Drahos, the former head of the country’s Academy of Sciences, in a runoff vote in two weeks. Eight candidates were hoping to unseat the current controversy-courting 73-year-old leader, who is seeking another five-year term. With 95 …

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The death toll resulting from mudslides that devastated a California town has climbed to 18 as rescue crews continued to search Saturday for seven people who are still missing, amid diminishing hope that survivors would be found. The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Office issued a plea to the public to provide information about the missing …

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