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A South Korean court has sentenced disgraced ex-President Park Geun-hye to 24 years in prison over corruption scandal. Park was earlier found guilty of abuse of power and coercion. The verdict came as a Seoul Central District Court judge read a lengthy statement Friday. The sentencing was to follow. Prosecutors have requested a 30-year term. Park …
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Afghanistan accused Pakistan of launching air strikes that caused “huge financial damages” in its Kunar border province one day ahead of Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s scheduled visit to Kabul on April 6. …
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman has condemned a recommendation by U.S. prosecutors that a Turkish Halkbank executive get 20 years in prison for helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. …
The foreign ministers of Russia and China have jointly denounced what they described as efforts by the United States to unilaterally change negotiated treaties ranging from the Iran nuclear deal to the global-warming pact and world trade rules. …
The woman who police say shot three people at YouTube’s headquarters was prolific at producing videos and posting them online, many of them bizarre, such as a clip in which she removes a revealing purple dress to expose fake breasts with the message, “Don’t Trust Your Eyes.” In others, Nasim Aghdam exercises, promotes animal rights …
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Kim Kardashian West has shared the first photo of her family. The reality star posed with husband Kanye West, daughters North and Chicago, and son Saint in the photo, which was taken on Easter. Kardashian wrote on Facebook : “I don’t think you really understand how hard it is to take a good family …
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North and South Korean officials held preparatory talks Thursday for a summit later this month between the countries’ two leaders amid a global effort to resolve tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear program. The meeting of working-level officials at the border village of Panmunjom was to discuss security, protocol and media coverage issues for the planned April …
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A Kyrgyz court has handed down prison terms to a couple convicted of preventing its children to attend school. …
Discord over the form and substance of a final joint statement for the European Union’s flagship Western Balkans summit in Sofia threatens to derail the meeting more than a month before it is to take place. …
The Cannes film festival will open next month with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s new film Everybody Knows. …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
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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 …
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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 …