Category: World

U.S. President Donald Trump repeated criticism of NATO allies and their defense spending, days before he attends a crucial summit of heads of state from the North Atlantic alliance. …

An Israeli military court has indicted a Turkish national for allegedly smuggling funds to a terrorist group, reported to be Hamas. Agents arrested Ebru Ozkan at the airport in Tel Aviv June 11 as she was getting ready to fly back to Turkey. Her lawyer told Reuters that Ozkan was denied access to an attorney …

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British police say a woman who fell critically ill after being exposed to the same nerve agent used in the poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter has died. …

British police have opened a murder investigation after a woman poisoned by the same nerve agent that sickened an ex-Russian spy in March died. Dawn Sturgess, 44, died in a hospital in Salisbury, in southern England, police said on Sunday. She fell sick on June 30 along with another victim, Charles Rowley, who is hospitalized …

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European Union and Ukraine will hold their annual summit on July 9, with the two sides expected to discuss topics that include Kyiv’s reform agenda and Russia’s seizure of Crimea in 2014 and backing of separatists in eastern Ukraine. …

While the Trump administration is putting tariffs on Chinese imports, another battle has been brewing about whether the United States should block Chinese investments in some U.S. companies that work in artificial intelligence (AI), robotics and other key technology.   Some of these technologies have U.S. national security implications, argues the Department of Defense in …

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British police say a woman who fell critically ill after being exposed to the same nerve agent used in the poisoning of Russian ex-spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter has died. …

Turkey issued a decree Sunday dismissing more than 18,000 civil servants, half of whom were from the police force, ahead of this month’s expected lifting of a 2-year-old state of emergency imposed after an attempted coup in July 2016. The decree follows President Tayyip Erdogan’s victory in last month’s presidential election and comes before he …

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Turkey has issued a decree dismissing more than 18,000 civil servants, half of which were from the police force, over suspected links to groups that “act against national security.” …

Kurdish culture thrives in the Shahba refugee camp on the outskirts of the Syrian city of Afrin. Among the city’s displaced residents now living in the camp are members of a local theater group. Nevroz Resho visited the group in the camp as they rehearsed their play, “The Sin of the Horse.” Bezhan Hamdard narrates. …

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The Green Carpet Fashion Awards, now in its second year, challenges emerging designers worldwide to reinvent sustainability, with flair. Competitors must pair ethics with aesthetics by cutting waste, replacing chemicals with natural dyes and using recycled materials. Faiza Elmasry has this story narrated by Faith Lapidus. …

Levko Lukyanenko, a Ukrainian dissident who spent 26 years in Soviet prisons, has died in Kyiv at age 89, the country’s president says. …

A hospital in the British town of Salisbury says a police officer who sought medical advice over concerns that he had been exposed to the nerve agent Novichok appears to be free of the substance. …

The Head of the UN Migration Agency, William Lacy Swing, is appealing to Libyan authorities to stop detaining migrants intercepted or rescued at sea by the Coast Guard after trying to cross the Mediterranean to Europe. The International Organization for Migration praises Libya’s dramatically stepped up anti-smuggler operations.  With European Union support, it notes the …

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Pope Francis denounced the “complicit silence” that has allowed violence to consume the Middle East and drive tens of thousands of Christians from their homes. He was speaking Saturday morning in the southern Italian port city of Bari, during a gathering of Orthodox patriarchs and Roman Catholic leaders united in praying for peace in the …

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Growing up in eastern China, Panshu Zhao fell in love with America. He read the Bible his parents gave him, watched Hollywood movies and studied the ideals of democracy. He jumped at the chance to attend graduate school at Texas A&M University. In 2016, Zhao enlisted in the U.S. Army as part of a special …

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Amnesty International has called on Iran to ensure that Iranians have access to clean water and also to carry out an independent investigation into reports that security forces used “unnecessary and excessive force” against those who peacefully protested in Khuzestan Province over water scarcity and pollution. …

When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Helsinki later this month, they’ll shake hands in a city that served as a bridge between Moscow and the West during the Cold War. …

The world’s chemical-weapons watchdog says a substance used in an April 7 attack on a rebel-held town in Syria appeared to be a chlorine-based gas but that it has so far found no evidence of a nerve agent. …

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The man alleged of killing one and injuring many others last year by plowing his car through a group of protesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, pled not guilty Thursday to multiple federal hate crime charges. James Fields Jr., the man suspected, was charged in June with 28 counts of “hate crime acts” …

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Two Iranian Embassy staff members have been expelled from the Netherlands, the Dutch intelligence service said, although it did not give a reason for the action. …

Ankara has criticized Washington’s hardline policy toward Tehran, and with Turkey’s cooperation seen as vital to enforcing U.S. sanctions against Iran, analysts say a new confrontation could be looming. “The implementation of sanctions against Iran will have a negative impact on the entire region and is extremely dangerous,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in …

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Three children have been killed and seven others wounded when two roadside mines exploded in residential areas in Afghanistan’s southern Ghazni Province. …