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The number of slums in Chile, one of Latin America’s most prosperous and stable economies, has nearly doubled since 2011, the government said on Wednesday, as an influx of migrants increasingly face a lack of low-income housing and rising rents. Chile’s Housing Ministry said it had identified 822 slums in Chile that largely lack access …
U.S. President Donald Trump has made an unannounced visit to U.S. soldiers stationed in Iraq, his first presidential visit to troops in a troubled region. …
A father whose push to learn the cause of his son’s death has sparked months of protest and his own detention has vowed to push on with his cause after being released by police in the capital of the Serb-dominated entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. …
Russia has successfully tested its new Avangard hypersonic missile, the Kremlin said on December 26. …
Stars from Buckingham Palace to Bollywood and Hogwarts used their fame in 2018 to highlight a list of global challenges from climate change, to disease and women’s rights. Here are 10 celebrities who took a stand in the past year in efforts to make a positive impact on the world: 1. Meghan Markle: Since marrying …
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Bangladesh’s main opposition alliance on Tuesday demanded the resignation of the chief election commissioner, accusing him of bias, ahead of Sunday’s elections while violence worsens, officials and news reports said. Opposition spokesman Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir said Tuesday night that they demanded the resignation of K.M.Nurul Huda as they did not expect a free and …
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More than 750,000 Rohingya Muslim refugees who fled military attacks in Myanmar remain in Bangladesh camps as future repatriation and resettlement plans remain unclear. Across the sprawling camps in Cox’s Bazar, close to a million Rohingya Muslim refugees remain in limbo — without a clear future. Voluntary repatriation plans last month were postponed amid security …
Japan has decided to pull out of the International Whaling Commission (IWC) as it looks to restart commercial whaling. …
The Islamic State (IS) extremist group has claimed responsibility for a car bombing in the Iraqi city of Tal Afar that left two people dead. …
Belarusian President Alyaksandr Lukashenka has been to Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin that focused on energy pricing, trade, and other bilateral issues. …
Christmas celebrations traditionally filled with laughter and uplifting music were replaced by somber prayers for tsunami victims in an area hit without warning following a volcanic eruption, leaving more than 420 people dead and thousands homeless in disaster-prone Indonesia. Pastor Markus Taekz said Tuesday that his Rahmat Pentecostal Church in the hard-hit area of Carita …
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Iraqi Christians quietly celebrated Christmas on Tuesday amid improved security, more than a year after the country declared victory over Islamic State militants who threatened to end their 2,000-year history in Iraq. Christianity in Iraq dates back to the first century of the Christian era, when the apostles Thomas and Thaddeus are believed to have …
Read more “Iraqi Christians celebrate Christmas One Year after Islamic State Defeat”
As the first two years of President Donald Trump’s administration close, Republican allies still haven’t figured out how best to influence a leader who takes cues from the forces that swept him to office and seems to fear losing them above all else. Republicans on Capitol Hill and even the president’s closest advisers have been …
Read more “GOP Allies Still Trying to Figure out How to Read Trump”
Pope Francis used his Christmas message on December 25 to urge the world to put aside “partisan interests” to find a political solution to conflicts in Syria, Yemen, and other flash points. …
A British-Iranian academic who was detained in Tehran on security charges, has returned to London, Britain’s Foreign Office said on December 25. …
Iran’s president has presented the country’s first annual budget since the return of U.S. sanctions, saying it had been adjusted to take account of Washington’s “cruel” measures. …
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U.S. stock markets fell sharply on Monday with the S&P 500 down more than two percent and the Dow off nearly three percent. President Donald Trump is blaming the Federal Reserve (central bank) for stock market declines and other economic problems. In tweets, Trump has said the only U.S. economic problem is rising interest rates. …
Russia’s Federal Penitentiary Service (FSIN) has asked prosecutors to open a criminal case into allegations of slave-labor conditions among female convicts at a prison in Mordovia. …
Zimbabwe heads into Christmas with a struggling economy and shortages of basic goods — enough to dampen anyone’s holiday spirit. But in the capital, comedians are still managing to laugh it off. Sam Farai Munro, a member of the Magamba TV crew, a satirical group, said their version of “Jingle Bells” sums up the problems Zimbabwe …
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Russia’s Roskosmos space agency has turned over to law enforcement agents samples taken from a mysterious hole in a Soyuz capsule docked at the International Space Station (ISS). …
Russia’s Foreign Ministry has said “it is quite possible” that Ukraine “might switch to full-scale combat actions within the next few days.” …
A coalition of unions in Sudan says it plans to “paralyze” the government with the first of what it says will be indefinite strikes by professionals. Doctors and other hospital workers plan to stay off the job Monday and only deal with emergencies. The coalition urges all Sudanese to keep up their street protests against …
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Five weightlifters from former Soviet states, including two former Olympic champions, have been provisionally suspended after retests of their samples from the 2012 London Olympics came back positive for doping, the sports’ governing body says. …