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Two policemen were killed and three wounded when an explosive device carried by a militant they were pursuing detonated in the heart of the Egyptian capital on Monday, an interior ministry statement said. According to the ministry, security forces were pursuing the man in the search for the perpetrator of an attempted attack against a …
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The last defenders of the Islamic State terror group’s self-declared caliphate are refusing to surrender, clinging to their last sliver of land while hiding among hundreds of civilians. Commanders with the U.S.-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, observers and officials with the anti-IS coalition say about 300 mostly foreign fighters have so far rebuffed efforts to get …
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The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has begun a hearing over the fate of an Indian citizen sentenced to death in Pakistan. …
Iran says it has arrested six people suspected of involvement in last week’s deadly suicide bomb attack on security forces in the southern province of Sistan-Baluchistan. …
An Armenian politician stirs a long-simmering pot with a call for the country’s national hymn to be replaced by its Soviet analog. …
Australia says a “sophisticated state actor” was responsible for a cyberattack on Australian lawmakers earlier this month, most likely carried out by a foreign country. …
The former acting director of the FBI says U.S. President Donald Trump may have committed a crime if he fired a previous chief of the law-enforcement agency in an attempt to end the probe into his campaign’s alleged ties to Russia. …
Militants have killed at least four soldiers in India-administered Kashmir. A gunfight between the two factions erupted Monday when the militants opened fire on troops conducting a search operation. Two people were also wounded in the shootout. The Pakistan-based Islamist group Jaish-e-Mohammad has taken responsibility for a suicide car bombing that targeted a paramilitary convoy …
At least four Indian soldiers, including a top officer, and one civilian have been killed in a gunfight with rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir, just days after a suicide bomb attack that killed at least 41 paramilitary officers in the disputed territory. …
U.S. Senator Marco Rubio, visiting the Colombia-Venezuela border on Sunday, warned Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro of severe consequences if he takes action against the country’s opposition leader and self-declared president or U.S. citizens. In a televised interview, Rubio declined to say if he would support U.S. military action against Venezuela, which is mired in a …
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Former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe says Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein was “absolutely” supportive of the decision to launch investigations into whether President Donald Trump was inappropriately aligned with the Russians or whether he had obstructed justice. McCabe also said in an interview aired Sunday on “60 Minutes” that the FBI had good …
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Thousands of Serbian antigovernment protesters have marched for the 11th consecutive Saturday. Part of the February 16 march in Belgrade was the collection of signatures for the “Covenant With The People” — a petition initiated by opposition groups to call for fair elections and more public control over the state. The rallies started after the …
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Iran’s parliament speaker said Sunday that an attack that killed 27 members of Iran’s elite Revolutionary Guard was “planned and carried out from inside Pakistan,” which he said should answer for it. Ali Larijani’s remarks, carried by the state-run IRNA news agency, came after Iranian officials initially accused Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates …
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Paris authorities opened an investigation Sunday into anti-Semitic remarks hurled at a noted philosopher during a yellow vest protest in the capital, an incident that raised national concerns about the movement’s ascendant radical fringe. The Paris prosecutor’s office said Sunday an investigation was launched into “public insult based on origin, ethnicity, nationality, race or religion.” …
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A team of Australian paleontologists and volunteers has saved a once-in a lifetime fossil discovery from devastating floods in Queensland state. The dinosaur tracks give a rare insight into an ancient world. Found on an outback farm near the Queensland town of Winton, 1,100 kms from Brisbane, they are estimated to be almost 100 million …
Iranian President Hassan Rohani says that Tehran wants to improve ties with all countries in the Middle East, where Iran has been involved in proxy wars with Saudi Arabia for years. …
Living with disabilities in Central Asia presents many challenges. Tight state budgets and social stigmas make integratingin society tough for many disabled people. …
The U.S. Air Force has begun flying tons of aid to a Colombian town on the Venezuelan border as part of an effort meant to undermine socialist President Nicolas Maduro. The first of three C-17 cargo planes took off Saturday from Homestead Air Reserve Base in Florida and landed in the town of Cucuta. …
In early November, word began to leak that Amazon was serious about choosing New York to build a giant new campus. The city was eager to lure the company and its thousands of high-paying tech jobs, offering billions in tax incentives and lighting the Empire State Building in Amazon orange. Even Governor Andrew Cuomo got …
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Some residents of condemned Soviet-era housing blocks in the Kuntsevo district of Moscow — known as “Khrushchyovka” after Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev — have been waiting 10 years to relocate. But many are now reluctant to move in to new apartments because of what they say are major flaws. …
Several floors of a university building in the Russian city of St. Petersburg have collapsed. …
U.S. Vice President Mike Pence strongly criticized European allies Saturday for their stance on Iran and Venezuela, in a speech at the Munich Security Conference in Germany. “The time has come for our European partners to stop undermining U.S. sanctions against this murderous, revolutionary regime. The time has come for our European partners to withdraw …
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A Moscow court has sanctioned the arrest of a prominent American investment-fund manager who is accused of large-scale fraud. …
A new United Nations report documents widespread and pervasive rape and sexual violence against women and girls, some as young as eight, in South Sudan’s northern Unity Region. The U.N. says at least 175 women and girls were victims of rape or other forms of sexual violence between September and December. It adds the actual …
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