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Like fans all over soccer-mad Brazil, Carlos Junior followed every move the national team made on the field Monday in its 2-0 victory over Mexico. He wiped his brow every time Mexico closed in but failed to score. He banged the table or a drum when Brazil took a shot and missed. And he jumped …
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Azerbaijan experienced a total electrical blackout early on July 3, but authorities reported that supplies were quickly being restored throughout the country. …
A White House spokeswoman said the United States continues to reject Russia’s annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea Peninsula, days after President Donald Trump cast doubt on that position. …
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce on Monday denounced President Donald Trump’s handling of global trade disputes, issuing a report that argued tariffs imposed by Washington and retaliation by its partners would boomerang badly on the American economy. The Chamber, the nation’s largest business lobbying group and a traditional ally of Trump’s Republican Party, said the …
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A top U.S. State Department official said Washington is aiming to do as much as possible to shut off Iran’s oil export revenues. …
The last time most Thais saw politician Suthep Thaugsuban was in 2015 when he entered the Buddhist monkhood and announced his retirement after spearheading protests that culminated in a military coup against a government he detested. The military, after taking power, clamped a tight lid on politics, and the rivalry between the military-royalist establishment and …
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Mexico City has elected a woman mayor for the first time in history, local politician and scientist Claudia Sheinbaum, according to exit polls. Sheinbaum, 56, won the election to lead North America’s largest city with between 47.5 and 55.5 percent of the vote, according to an estimate by polling firm Mitofsky. A woman had previously …
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Iranian state media reported clashes late Sunday between police and people protesting water shortages and pollution in southwestern Iran. The IRNA news agency said protesters in the city of Abadan threw stones and other objects at police, and that officers had brought the situation under control. A night earlier, there were similar clashes at a …
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The Indian Embassy in Kabul condemned the deadly attack by a suicide bomber that targeted a group of Hindus and Sikhs in the eastern Afghan province on Nangarhar. …
Tens of thousands of people have gathered in the center of Moldova’s capital for another protest rally against the invalidation of last month’s mayoral election. …
The United Arab Emirates said Sunday a “pause” in the Saudi-led military campaign to retake Yemen’s port city of Hodeida is designed to allow the United Nation special envoy time to shuttle between the warring parties. “The Coalition has paused the advance on the city… to allow the U.N. envoy to secure an unconditional withdrawal …
Thirty African heads of state are meeting in Mauritania Sunday and have opened the 31st African Union summit, which is aimed at finding ways to stamp out the continent’s corruption and discussing efforts to improve peace and security. The summit, on Sunday and Monday in Mauritania’s capital, Nouakchott, is focused on ending the diversion of …
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Holocaust survivor Simone Veil, one of France’s most revered politicians, is getting the rare honor of being buried at the Pantheon, where French heroes are interred, one year after her death. Veil was being inhumed Sunday at the Paris monument with her husband Antoine, who died in 2013, in a symbolic ceremony with her …
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Thousands of people have taken to the streets across Russia to protest against the government’s plan to raise the retirement age. …
Hundreds of demonstrators protesting against shortages of drinking water in southwestern Iran have clashed with police, local media report. …
Thousands of people have rallied in the U.S. capital and in cities across the United States, protesting President Donald Trump’s immigration policies, including one that separates immigrant families. …
The effort to locate 12 boys and their soccer coach missing in a cave in Thailand for a week picked up pace Saturday, as a break in the rain eased flooding in the system of caverns and more experts from around the world joined the rescue mission. The search effort in the northern province of …
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Iraq will begin a manual recount of May national election votes on Tuesday, a spokesman for the Independent High Electoral Commission said in a statement on Saturday. Only those problematic ballots flagged in formal complaints or official reports on fraud allegations will be recounted, the statement said. The recount will start in Kirkuk province …
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For evangelical Christian leaders like Jerry Falwell Jr., this is their political holy grail. Like many religious conservatives in a position to know, the Liberty University president with close ties to the White House suspects that the Supreme Court vacancy President Donald Trump fills in the coming months will ultimately lead to the reversal of …
Iraqi election monitors say a manual recount of the country’s disputed parliamentary vote will begin on July 3. …
U.S. President Donald Trump says Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has told him Riyadh will ramp up oil production in response to turmoil in Iran and Venezuela. …
Gambian President Adama Barrow shuffled his government Friday, moving the leader of his ruling party from the foreign ministry to the position of vice president, according to a statement. Gambia has seen a spate of protests in recent days as the country struggles to reduce debt and drive out corruption since Barrow defeated long-term incumbent Yahya Jammeh in an …
Nearly a week has gone by since a group of boys and their soccer coach, who had gone exploring in a sprawling cave complex in northern Thailand, were last heard from, but their families received words of encouragement Friday from the country’s prime minister. Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha visited the boys’ families, who have …
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France’s media regulator has issued a warning to RT France, the French outlet of Russia’s state-run broadcaster, for allegedly misrepresenting facts in a program about a chemical weapons attack in Syria. …