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The September 19 report by Danske Bank is expected to highlight major money laundering problems, as well as the failure by European regulators to thwart the problem, particularly in the ex-Soviet Baltic states. …
Grigory Rodchenkov, who was one of the architects of the elaborate doping and cheating system, currently lives in the United States, under law enforcement protection, fearing death threats. …
The U.N. envoy for Afghanistan said Monday that the war-torn country is in its best position since 2001 to start the process leading to peace talks with the Taliban. Tadamichi Yamamoto told the U.N. Security Council that the road ahead will be most difficult, requiring “resilience and persistence.” He said Afghan government efforts, “which we …
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Rival contenders for the governorship in a Russian Pacific region girded for court battles, and more protests, after an unusual last-minute vote count in a runoff election gave victory to the ruling party incumbent. …
“Game of Thrones” and “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel” won the top prizes at the Emmy awards on Monday on a night of upsets for the highest honors in television. HBO’s “Game of Thrones” was named best drama series, beating last year’s champion “The Handmaid’s Tale.” Amazon’s “The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel,” about a 1950s housewife who …
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President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed sharply cutting the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year to 30,000. …
South Korean President Moon Jae-in and his delegation of more than 50 government, business and cultural representatives have arrived in Pyongyang for a three-day, two-night inter-Korean Summit in North Korea. It’s the third face-to-face meeting between Moon and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, and the pair are expected to finalize agreements outlined during their …
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Human Rights Watch warned that authorities were unjustly prosecuting and jailing people of possessing materials that were only deemed “extremist” after their arrests. …
British Prime Minister Theresa May has warned opponents of her blueprint for Brexit that rejecting it means crashing out of the European Union without a deal, an outcome the International Monetary Fund said Monday would have “very large” economic costs. May told the BBC that if rebel lawmakers shoot down a deal between her government …
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The German government says it’s concerned about the health of Pyotr Verzilov, a member of Russian protest group Pussy Riot who is being treated in Berlin after falling severely ill. Foreign ministry spokeswoman Maria Adebahr said Monday the government “hopes he will get better soon and recover fully.” Fellow activists claim Verzilov, who served a …
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Britain’s home secretary says on a visit to Pakistan that the eradication of corruption is a priority for both countries and announced a new partnership between them that would strive for “justice and accountability.” Home Secretary Sajid Javid, a son of Pakistani immigrants, met Prime Minister Imran Khan and other Pakistani officials on Monday …
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A gubernatorial candidate from Russia’s ruling party made a stunning surge to eclipse his challenger, thanks to what his opponent called brazen electoral fraud. …
A group of anarchists has attacked the Iranian Embassy in Athens to protest Tehran’s treatment of its Kurdish population, Greek authorities say. …
The Russian military has made a new claim about the downing of a passenger jet over the war zone in eastern Ukraine in 2014, asserting that the missile that brought Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 down was sent to Soviet Ukraine after it was made in 1986 and never returned to Russia. …
The prognosis for President Donald Trump and his party was grim. In a post-Labor Day briefing at the White House, a top Republican pollster told senior staff that the determining factor in the election wouldn’t be the improving economy or the steady increase in job creation. It would be how voters feel about Trump. And …
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The U.S. emergency management chief cast new doubt Sunday on just how many people died last year on the island territory of Puerto Rico during the devastating Hurricane Maria and its aftermath. Brock Long, the administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told NBC’s Meet the Press show, “The numbers are all over the place.” …
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A new phase of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation is dawning after President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort, pleaded guilty to two felony charges and agreed to cooperate with the probe of ties between Moscow and Trump’s inner circle – possibly to influence the 2016 presidential contest. VOA’s Michael Bowman reports from Washington. …
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Georgian Orthodox clerics have led a protest march against the country’s decriminalization and possible export of marijuana. After the ailing church leader, Patriarch Ilia II, condemned Georgia’s marijuana policies in a Sunday sermon on September 16, hundreds of churchgoers marched from the mass to Tbilisi’s City Council, where priests and monks read prayers to express …
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Hundreds of participants in an LGBT pride parade in Belgrade were joined by the city’s mayor, Zoran Radojcic, Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic, who is herself a lesbian, and a number of ambassadors on September 16. A few dozen Orthodox Christian protesters stood near the route of the LGBT parade and recited prayers. They carried …
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The Georgian government has proposed growing cannabis for export, but leaving the cultivation and sale within the country as illegal acts. …
A man was bitten by a shark Saturday in the water off a Cape Cod beach and died later at a hospital, becoming the state’s first shark attack fatality in more than 80 years. The 26-year-old man from Revere succumbed to his injuries following the attack off Newcomb Hollow Beach in Wellfleet at around noon, …
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The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) defended its review committee’s decision to recommend reinstatement of Russia’s antidoping organization amid criticism about transparency and the resignation of a Canadian Olympic champion from the panel. …
Israel attacked Damascus International Airport with missiles Saturday night, Syrian state media said, adding that air defenses shot down some of them. A war monitoring group said the attack targeted an arms depot for Iranian forces or Lebanon’s Hezbollah group. Explosions during the attack were heard across Damascus. The state news agency SANA posted pictures …
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A U.S. Border Patrol agent suspected of killing four women was arrested early Saturday after a fifth woman escaped from him and notified authorities, law enforcement officials said, describing the agent as a “serial killer.” Juan David Ortiz, an intel supervisor for the Border Patrol, fled from state troopers and was found hiding in a …