Month: June 2018

Thousands of people have rallied in the U.S. capital and in cities across the United States, protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including one that separates immigrant families. …

The effort to locate 12 boys and their soccer coach missing in a cave in Thailand for a week picked up pace Saturday, as a break in the rain eased flooding in the system of caverns and more experts from around the world joined the rescue mission. The search effort in the northern province of …

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Iraq will begin a manual recount of May national election votes on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Independent High Electoral Commission said in a statement on Saturday.   Only those problematic ballots flagged in formal complaints or official reports on fraud allegations will be recounted, the statement said. The recount will start in Kirkuk province …

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For evangelical Christian leaders like Jerry Falwell Jr., this is their political holy grail. Like many religious conservatives in a position to know, the Liberty University president with close ties to the White House suspects that the Supreme Court vacancy President Donald Trump fills in the coming months will ultimately lead to the reversal of …

Read more “Evangelicals Downplay Roe v. Wade Fate”

Iraqi election monitors say a manual recount of the country’s disputed parliamentary vote will begin on July 3. …

U.S. President Donald Trump says Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has told him Riyadh will ramp up oil production in response to turmoil in Iran and Venezuela. …

Gambian President Adama Barrow shuffled his government Friday, moving the leader of his ruling party from the foreign ministry to the position of vice president, according to a statement. Gambia has seen a spate of protests in recent days as the country struggles to reduce debt and drive out corruption since Barrow defeated long-term incumbent Yahya Jammeh in an …

Read more “Gambia’s Barrow Reshuffles Cabinet”

Nearly a week has gone by since a group of boys and their soccer coach, who had gone exploring in a sprawling cave complex in northern Thailand, were last heard from, but their families received words of encouragement Friday from the country’s prime minister. Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha visited the boys’ families, who have …

Read more “Thai Prime Minister Visits Site of Cave Rescue Attempt”

France’s media regulator has issued a warning to RT France, the French outlet of Russia’s state-run broadcaster, for allegedly misrepresenting facts in a program about a chemical weapons attack in Syria. …

U.S. President Donald Trump has declined to rule out recognizing Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula only days ahead of a planned summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin. …

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A growing number of Armenia’s public officials are facing calls to step down as the anticorruption drive launched by recently elected Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian spreads. …

A trade deal with the European Union expected to be ratified this year will accelerate growth of Vietnam’s export-reliant economy without help from the U.S. market, analysts say. The European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement signed in 2015 should speed annual economic growth by half a percent to more than 7 percent by 2019, according to …

Read more “Vietnam Expects Economic Boom from EU Trade Deal”

The suicide rate in the U.S. is rising. A new government report shows nearly 45,000 Americans killed themselves in 2016, more than twice the number of homicides. In fact, the suicide rate, particularly among young people ages 15 to 34, has been rising at an alarming rate for almost three decades, well before the recent …

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Seventy years ago this month, a major record company, Columbia Records, introduced the first LP, or long-playing record. The new format revolutionized music sound recording and was quickly adopted as the new standard by the recording industry. To celebrate the milestone anniversary, Sony has pressed a very limited quantity of that original LP — 500 …

Read more “First LP Record is Re-Released Amid Vinyl Revival”