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Armenia’s water provider has pledged to restore full supply in the nation’s capital, where residents have complained about water shortages amid a record heat wave that has hit the entire Caucasus region. …
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has told the leaders of France and Germany that a European package of economic measures to counter the effects of U.S. sanctions does not go far enough, Iranian news agencies are reporting. …
The parties in Germany’s ruling coalition on Thursday reached agreement on a package of measures to deal with asylum-seekers who have already registered in other European Union states, and vowed to push ahead with an immigration law before year’s end. The two-page agreement, reached after a short meeting at the historic Reichstag building, ends a dispute that had threatened to …
Bustling newsrooms across the United States fell silent for one minute Thursday afternoon to remember the five Annapolis, Maryland, journalists who were shot to death last week. Reporters at the Voice of America newsroom in Washington stood at their desks, with computer keyboards, televisions and phones falling silent. Editors at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk read …
A senior American diplomat has again criticized Pakistan for its inability to translate promises into action against various terror and extremist groups operating from Pakistani soil. Alice Wells, principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, spoke to a group of reporters Thursday in a roundtable discussion at the U.S. …
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The Afghan government has sent a delegation to the northern province of Faryab to ease tensions that gripped the area following the arrest of a powerful militia commander. …
The U.S. ambassador to Russia has defended President Donald Trump’s decision to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and insisted that it was up to Moscow to reverse the downward spiral in relations with Washington. …
When a 12-year-old boy traveled to the United States from Poland, looking for his mother in New York City, he was put into detention. The unaccompanied minor, Chain Shlome Kleinman, was slated to be deported unless the U.S. government found his relatives and verified his information. Kleinman made the journey in 1907 as a stowaway. …
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“No man left behind.” With that phrase, a recovery team leader identifies an excavation spot and splits it into grids. Whether the weather be bitingly cold or blisteringly hot, excavators filter the soil from the grids through quarter-inch wire screens, eyes alert for any sign of human remains. For decades, the Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii …
Read more “Trump-Kim Deal Raises Hopes for New MIA Recovery Bid”
A rescue ship carrying 60 migrants picked up from rubber boats in the Mediterranean Sea arrived in a Spanish port Wednesday, after being refused entry by Italy and Malta. Tens of thousands of migrants have reached European shores this year so far, and southern European countries are refusing entry to the latest arrivals unless their …
Read more “Europe Grasps for Solutions in Growing Migrant Crisis”
U.S. authorities are allowing China’s ZTE Corp. to resume some business with American companies, temporarily easing a ban imposed over the telecom giant’s export of sensitive technology to Iran and North Korea. …
Iran’s foreign ministry summoned the French and Belgian ambassadors and Germany’s chargé d’affaires to protest the arrest of an Iranian diplomat in Germany, Iranian news agencies reported on July 4. …
The United States and Iran have traded warnings over U.S. efforts to block Iran’s oil exports, with Tehran suggesting that it could retaliate by blocking oil tankers from leaving the Persian Gulf. …
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has given up on a plan to visit Iran this summer, Kyodo News said on Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump has taken an increasingly tough line against Tehran. The visit to Iran would have been the first by a Japanese leader in 40 years, forming part of Abe’s scheduled …
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The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as Mexico’s next president hands the reins of power of the largest country in the Spanish-speaking world to a new, leftist political party. Experts say the president-elect, who ran on a campaign of change, could alter U.S.-Mexico relations at a critical moment in the history of both countries. …
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A media watch group has expressed serious concern at “an alarming deterioration in the working environment of journalists in India” and demanded that the government ensure the safety of journalists who are feeling threatened. Reporters Without Borders said in a report Wednesday that that at least three journalists were killed in India in 2017 and …
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During a visit to Vienna, Iranian President Hassan Rohani has reiterated that Tehran will remain in the 2015 nuclear deal with world powers as long as its interests are guaranteed by other signatories. …
Russia and the United States have agreed that their top diplomats will meet after a summit between the two countries’ presidents scheduled for later this month, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has said. …
The head of Poland’s Supreme Court has showed up at work in defiance of a controversial law that lowered the retirement age of the court’s judges. …
A cluster of volcanoes known as the Nevados de Chillan in southern Chile could erupt within “days or weeks,” according to the country’s national emergency office. The office, Onemi, issued an orange alert for risk of eruption, the second most serious alert for volcanoes, in an advisory late Monday. The agency had previously warned that …
Bangladeshi cities have signed up en masse to a U.N. campaign to develop local action plans and improve infrastructure to prepare for disasters, officials said Tuesday. Low-lying, densely-populated Bangladesh is one of the world’s most disaster-prone countries, hit every year by cyclones that are becoming more frequent due to climate change. About 60 percent of …
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Poland braced for protests on Tuesday against the conservative government’s makeover of the judiciary that takes effect at midnight despite strong opposition at home and legal action against the changes by the European Union. Through legislation and personnel changes, the Law and Justice (PiS) party has taken de facto control of the entire judicial system, …
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Tajik opposition activists who opt or are forced to move abroad to carry out their work are being lured back by Dushanbe. But a return to the homeland essentially means giving up their vision for change. …
The invalidated mayoral vote in the Moldovan capital have robbed pro-Western candidate Andrei Nastase of his victory, but have propelled him to the top of a protest movement that could shake the foundation of Moldova’s besieged political establishment. …