Month: August 2018

U.S. federal prosecutors have reportedly granted immunity to the owner of a tabloid that is a central focus of the investigation into President Donald Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen.  The CEO of the company that owns the National Enquirer, David Pecker, met with prosecutors to describe his involvement with Cohen, Trump, and the hush money …

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Tensions are high in Uganda after days of bloodshed, arrests and protests over treason charges brought against opposition lawmakers — including on Thursday against musician Robert Kyagulanyi, known as Bobi Wine. Authorities say the lawmakers and rowdy youth threatened President Yoweri Museveni’s life by throwing stones at his car. However, analysts say the clashes show …

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A detained British-Iranian aid worker sentenced to five years in jail in Iran has been released from detention for three days, her supporters and Iran’s envoy to Britain said on Thursday, in a move welcomed by Britain’s foreign minister. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, a project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, was arrested in April 2016 at …

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Five Ukrainian soldiers have been killed and seven others wounded in clashes with Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. …

Students at a school near the front line in eastern Ukraine received military training as part of a program to promote “patriotic education.” …

British Airways and Air France say they will suspend direct flights to Iran next month, blaming low profitability. …

The commander of U.S. and international forces in Afghanistan says the Trump administration’s strategy for the war-torn country is yielding progress, despite no significant changes on the battlefield and several deadly Taliban attacks. “I believe the strategy is working,” U.S. Army Gen. John Nicholson told reporters at the Pentagon via telephone. Last year, the Trump …

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A third Brazilian soldier has died of wounds he sustained in a shootout with suspected drug traffickers in Rio de Janeiro’s slums, the army said. At least five civilians and two other soldiers have died since the army launched coordinated raids in violent neighborhoods in the north of the city Monday. A little over six …

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Aygul insists she’s not really in the “Eid mood.” But that didn’t stop her from preparing a traditional Uighur meal for family and friends on this holiday at her home in northern Virginia.  In between handing out bowls of homemade laghman noodles and cups of hot tea, Aygul tears up as she and her guests …

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Bosnian Serb leader Milorad Dodik has accused the United States of using its development agency to interfere in Bosnia-Herzegovina’s internal affairs and election process, a charge dismissed by the U.S. Embassy in Sarajevo. …

Hundreds of people have protested on the streets of Kosovo’s capital, Pristina, to demand the resignation of the chief prosecutor over claims he was hindering the fight against corruption. …

The United States and Afghanistan both say they will not attend Russia-hosted peace talks scheduled for next month, with Kabul asserting it prefers instead to hold direct talks with the Taliban. …

A U.S. judge has denied bond to an Iranian-born U.S. resident accused of involvement in a conspiracy to spy for Tehran on Iranian opposition activists and Israeli and Jewish groups in the United States. At Tuesday’s hearing at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Magistrate Judge Michael Harvey denied a defense lawyer’s …

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White House national-security adviser John Bolton says the United States will continue to push for full withdrawal of Iran’s military from Syria in talks with Russia over the Syrian civil war. …

The United States, France, and Britain are warning Syrian President Bashar al-Assad not to use chemical weapons as he launches a campaign to retake the last remaining rebel-held province in Syria. …