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Officials in Mali say more than 700 polling stations were not able to operate during Sunday’s presidential election because of attacks or threats of violence. Authorities said Monday the counting of ballots is underway, but said no ballots were cast at 716 polling stations — representing just over 3 percent of the country’s total — …
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Moldovan opposition leader Andrei Nastase has added his voice to strong international criticism targeting the recently approved legislation to cut taxation and introduce an amnesty on registering assets. …
Georgia’s Constitutional Court has abolished administrative punishments for the consumption of marijuana, making the Caucasus country the first former Soviet Republic to legalize the usage of the drug. …
A man the Federal Security Service (FSB) claims was behind an alleged attempt to smuggle nearly 400 kilograms of cocaine from Argentina to Russia has been extradited from Germany and is in a Moscow jail, his lawyer says. …
Heavy fighting along Yemen’s west coast between pro-government forces and Shiite rebels in recent days has left dozens dead from both sides, Yemeni officials and witnesses said Sunday. Government forces, backed by a Saudi-led coalition, have been advancing in the area in recent weeks as they battle Iran-allied rebels known as Houthis. The fighting has …
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Three people, including a top aide to Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny, were released from custody after being arrested as thousands of people protested in central Moscow for a second day against a controversial plan to raise the retirement age. …
America’s dream of space exploration took its first official step 60 years ago Sunday when President Dwight Eisenhower signed a law authorizing the formation of NASA – the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Although humanity had been staring at the stars and wondering since they were living in caves, it took the Cold War to …
Cambodians headed to the polls today for an election in which the only viable alternative party has been banned. That’s helped the country’s prime minister of more than three decades to extend his reign even longer. But that’s not enough for Hun Sen, who wants legitimacy as well as assured victory. David Boyle reports from …
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Some 40 local and international competitors took part on July 29 in the centuries-old tradition of taking a 27-meter dive from Mostar’s Old Bridge into the cold Neretva River. …
Russia, Iran, and Turkey, co-sponsors of Syrian peace talks held periodically in Kazakhstan, will meet on July 30-31 in the Russian Black Sea resort of Sochi to discuss issues related to the seven-year-long civil war. …
A prominent Belgrade lawyer who in the past helped to defend late Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic was shot dead, gangland-style, in front of his home on Saturday, police said. Dragoslav Ognjanovic, 57, was gunned down in front of his apartment building in the Novi Beograd neighborhood and his 26-year-old son was wounded in the right …
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The five Capital Gazette employees killed in an attack in their newsroom last month were “friends of the people,” and “not one of them deserved to be seen as an enemy,” the executive editor of The Washington Post said Saturday at a benefit concert for the victims’ families and colleagues. While Martin Baron didn’t mention …
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Malians went to the polls on Sunday to determine whether to grant a second term to President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita. Zimbabweans will cast votes Monday in the first election since longtime leader Robert Mugabe was forced to resign in November. Whether constituents have confidence in the results of these elections – and those in at …
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Pakistan opposition leader Imran Khan’s party claims it has enough support from lawmakers to form a coalition government after taking the highest number of seats in the July 25 election but falling short of a majority. …
Representatives of jailed former Armenian President Robert Kocharian blasted his arrest, calling it “obvious political and personal persecution” and demanded his immediate release, as the government steps up actions against the country’s previous leaders. …
The Armenian chief of a Russian-led security bloc has been released on bail after being charged in connection with the violent crackdown that erupted following the country’s 2008 presidential election. …
A funeral service for political activist and human rights defender Adem Demaci, a revered figure in Kosovo who was sometimes called the “Balkans’ Mandela,” was held on July 28 in the Kosovar capital, Pristina. Political leaders from Kosovo, Albania, Macedonia, as well as hundreds of Kosovars attended the ceremony. …
Tens of thousands of Russians are taking part in rallies across the country to protest against the government’s controversial plan to raise the retirement age. …
Pope Francis has accepted U.S. prelate Theodore McCarrick’s offer to resign from the College of Cardinals following allegations of sexual abuse, including one involving an 11-year-old boy, and ordered him to conduct a “life of prayer and penance” in a home to be designated by the pontiff until a church trial is held, the Vatican …
Egypt’s state-run media says a court has sentenced 75 people to death, including top figures of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood group, for their involvement in a 2013 sit-in. Saturday’s decision in Cairo Criminal Court will now be referred to the Grand Mufti — the country’s top theological authority — for his non-binding opinion on the …
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The Kurdish-backed Syrian Democratic Council (SDC) says after meeting with Syrian government officials that it will work with the government to end seven years of violence in the country. The SDC said Saturday that both sides, after meeting in Damascus, had agreed to work together to plot a “roadmap leading to a democratic and decentralized …
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Human Rights Watch and the Norwegian Helsinki Committee have called on Tajikistan to lift “a politically motivated travel ban” and allow the critically ill son of an opposition member to receive medical treatment abroad. …
Zimbabwe is preparing for a historic election on Monday, the first in 38 years without former leader Robert Mugabe on the ballot. But voters and observers are cautious in their optimism, amid concerns over whether it will be a free and fair poll, and whether the victor will actually deliver on promises to bring change. …
Iraq’s top Shi’ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani called for a government to be formed as soon as possible to tackle corruption and poor services as further protests took place in the south of the country on Friday. In a sermon delivered by a representative, Sistani — who is revered by millions of Shiites in …
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