Month: November 2018

The U.S.-led coalition is denying reports that airstrikes it carried out in a part of eastern Syria held by the Islamic State group killed dozens of civilians. Syrian state media, a war monitor and an IS-linked news agency reported Saturday that coalition airstrikes killed 40 people, mostly women and children.   The coalition said in …

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Thousands of people carrying red flags have marched in the streets of the Moldovan capital in support of the main pro-Russian opposition Socialist Party, ahead of next year’s parliamentary elections. …

President Donald Trump on Saturday toured the site of California’s deadliest wildfire, which struck the town of Paradise and nearby communities. The death toll stands at 76, with more than 1,000 people still unaccounted for in the blaze in Northern California. Three people died in a separate fire near Los Angeles. Mike O’Sullivan reports that …

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With billions in investment, U.S.-based OneWeb has counted on using Russian-built rockets, and Russia’s launch facilities, to bring Internet service to remote corners of the world. Roskosmos has counted on millions in revenues. It’s unclear now whether either of those things will happen. …

A planned transgender-rights rally in Kyiv was disbanded after far-right counterdemonstrators assaulted several of the event’s participants on November 18. The radicals used tear gas against two female activists and assaulted Canadian journalist Michael Colborne, who was covering the protest. …

Pakistani police say gunmen shot dead a former senior police officer in the southwestern city of Quetta. …

British Prime Minister Theresa May fought back against critics of her Brexit deal Saturday, telling opponents from within her party their alternative plans for Britain’s departure from the European Union wouldn’t work. May is battling to win over rebels in her Conservative Party and and to preserve her position as prime minister after a grueling …

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A Utah mayor killed while serving in the National Guard in Afghanistan had “loved the Afghan people” and was a man of conviction, confidence and compassion, family and military leaders said at a public funeral Saturday. Brent Taylor, 39, was a deeply patriotic man who was committed to training commandos as part of an effort …

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Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Norwegian cities on Saturday against restricting women’s access to abortion, the subject of talks between the ruling minority coalition and a small party seeking to join the government. In Norway’s capital Oslo, the demonstrators, some pushing children in strollers, marched through the city center carrying banners with slogans such as …

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Thousands of Czechs took to the streets in Prague on November 17 calling for the resignation of Prime Minister Andrej Babis. …

A Belarusian youth, caught on camera slapping a statue of a police officer in Minsk, has been forced to apologize. …

Fashion changes, trends come and go, but jewelry is always present in people’s lives in one way or another. New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art just opened a new exhibition dedicated to the history of jewelry and the role it plays in people’s lives. Headdresses and earrings, brooches and belts, necklaces and rings, old and …

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Washington faces mounting pressure from China, Russia and South Korea, as well as humanitarian groups, to ease sanctions on North Korea as the Trump administration’s denuclearization talks with Pyongyang have hit a snag. Washington’s talks with Pyongyang stalled last week when North Korea abruptly canceled a scheduled meeting with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo amid …

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A federal judge has ruled that John Hinckley, the man who shot President Ronald Reagan in a failed assassination attempt, is well enough now to live on his own. Hinckley was found not guilty by reason of insanity for shooting and wounding the president and three others in 1981. He had been confined for 35 …

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Under pressure from Washington, Iraq has restarted exports of oil from Kirkuk that were halted a year ago due to a standoff between the central government and Iraq’s Kurdish semiautonomous region. …

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev joined with Chinese President Xi Jinping in warning against growing protectionism and urging adherence to global trade rules. …

Russian Ambassador to Finland Pavel Kuznetsov has been summoned to a meeting with Finnish State Secretary Matti Anttonen on November 19 over the disruption of Finland’s global positioning system (GPS) signals during recent NATO war games. …