Month: April 2018

A look at the best news photos from around the world. …

In 1968, students at Columbia University stormed the school president’s office to protest racism and involvement in the Vietnam War. Before the protest ended, they had held the university president for 24 hours and were successful in effecting change. That same year, college students in North Carolina staged sit-ins at segregated lunch counters that spread …

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is visiting the U.S. later this week, set to inspect a fighter jet production plant and American military command posts. The NATO chief is touring a Lockheed Martin F-35 manufacturing factory in Texas on Thursday, as well as participating in a town hall event at Southern Methodist University and taking …

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Outgoing White House national security adviser H.R. McMaster has called for stronger measures against Russian “threats” and “provocations,” arguing that Russian President Vladimir Putin is mistaken in thinking the West will not push back against the Kremlin’s “hybrid warfare.” …

Kosovo’s prime minister and its president are in sharp disagreement over the arrest and deportation of six Turkish nationals. …

Darya Komarova was eager to interview a top Russian film director in 2012 — until she says he made an indecent proposal. …

Mexican officials on Tuesday screened a dwindling group of hundreds of largely Central American migrants who are moving through Mexico toward the United States, seeking to break up the “caravan” that has drawn the ire of U.S. President Donald Trump. Trump, doubling down on his tough stance against illegal immigration, has railed against those making …

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An independent presidential candidate running against Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro says government supporters physically attacked his campaign. Henri Falcon tweeted Monday that opposition lawmaker Teodoro Campos was campaigning with him in a poor neighborhood in the capital of Caracas when a man wearing steel knuckles struck Campos.  Lawmaker taken to hospital The attack sent Campos …

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A Dutch attorney who once worked closely with U.S. President Trump’s former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, has been sentenced to 30 days in prison and a $20,000 fine for lying to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators about contacts with an official in Trump’s 2016 campaign. …

Hundreds of flag-waving Ukrainian nationalists took to the streets of Kyiv on April 3 to protest corruption and the power of oligarchs. …

Moldova has become the source of a war between Russia and NATO — a cyberwar in which Russia quickly gains the upper hand and storms into Chisinau. In truth, the story line is a fictitious one made up for a project by the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, but it is part of a …

Read more “NATO Vs. Killer Russian Robots: Graphic Novel Envisions Cyberwar In Moldova”

They chanted his name from the cheap seats: “Di-Vin-cen-zo, Di-Vin-cen-zo.” By the time Donte DiVincenzo was done doing his damage, Villanova had another title and college basketball had its newest star. The redhead kid with the nickname Big Ragu scored 31 points Monday to lift `Nova to another blowout tournament victory – this time 79-62 …

Read more “Villanova Takes Title, 79-62 Over Michigan Behind DiVincenzo”

Stock markets in Asia fell Tuesday, but did not suffer losses as steep as those Monday in U.S. markets where continued fears about a U.S.-China trade war and a verbal attack on an online retailer by President Donald Trump sent stocks lower. Markets in Japan and Hong Kong fell by more than one percent in …

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The Syrian government launched several airstrikes Sunday on the rebel-held eastern Qalamoun area, northeast of Damascus, according to local activists.  The airstrikes came as negotiations are underway between local councils of the main towns in eastern Qalamoun, and representatives from the Syrian government and the Russian Reconciliation Center in Syria. “The rebels and local councils …

Read more “Syrian Government Trying to Capture Another Rebel-held Area After Eastern Ghouta”