Category: World

Fresh finger-pointing erupts in Skopje after Macedonia’s fugitive former prime minister, Nikola Gruevski, appears to turn up as an asylum seeker in the EU. …

South Korea continues to have one of the highest rate of suicide among developed nations, sparking actions plans from the government in Seoul to tackle the issue.  Recent findings from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) showed South Korea was the second highest in the number of suicides among member nations. South Korea …

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Three months after her death and 46 years after she first recorded it, Aretha Franklin’s live gospel concert is coming to the big screen. “Amazing Grace,” filmed in January 1972 when the Queen of Soul was just 29 years old, follows Franklin over two nights giving a concert at the New Missionary Baptist Church in …

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With U.S. sanctions cutting into Iran’s oil exports and global trade, Iranian businesses have been looking to expand their presence in a traditional market — Iraq. …

The Asian Football Confederation has warned Iran it could face sanctions ahead of January’s Asian Cup over government interference with the nation’s soccer association. …

Frustration, finger-pointing and questions spilled over a closed-door meeting of House Republicans Tuesday night as lawmakers sorted through an election defeat that cost them the majority and began considering new leadership for their shrunken minority. Republicans complained about the unpopularity of the GOP tax law they blamed for losses in New York and other key …

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel is calling for the eventual creation of a European army, echoing a suggestion by French President Emmanuel Macron that recently angered the U.S. president. …

Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny was stopped at the border Tuesday and barred from leaving Russia as he was about to travel to a court hearing at the European Court for Human Rights in France. Navalny said in a blog post on Tuesday that he was due to attend a hearing at the ECHR which …

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The Serbian Orthodox Church says it will not recognize a decision by the leadership of Orthodox Christianity to rehabilitate the leaders of two Ukrainian Orthodox churches breaking away from Moscow. …

Italy’s premier hosted a meeting Tuesday of Libya’s rival leaders on the sidelines of a conference aiming to help its former colony crack down on Islamic militants and human trafficking. Photos of the encounter show Premier Giuseppe Conte presiding over a handshake between the Tripoli-based U.N.-backed prime minister, Fayez Serraj, and rival Gen. Khalifa Hifter, …

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A leader of the Cameroon church school where 79 students and three staff were abducted in the country’s troubled northwest more than a week ago says the principal and all remaining students and staff have been released. Fonki Samuel Forba, moderator of the Presbyterian Church that runs the school, said Tuesday the remaining four captives …

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Amnesty International has recognized three Russian activists arrested over protests in the city of Rostov-on-Don in 2017 as prisoners of conscience. …

The French ambassador in Belgrade has offered an apology to Serbia after President Aleksandar Vucic expressed frustration about the way he was treated during World War I commemorations in Paris. …

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg has cautioned the alliance’s European members not to endanger the transatlantic defense bond. …

Palestinians have fired dozens of rockets at southern Israel, and Israel responded with airstrikes on Gaza, a day after deadly clashes on the Israel-Gaza border.   Israeli officials say the rocket fire wounded at least seven people, including a 19-year-old who was critically hurt when a mortar shell hit a bus. On the Palestinian side …

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The communities said to be favored to become homes to a pair of big, new East Coast bases for Amazon are both riverfront stretches of major metropolitan areas with ample transportation and space for workers. But there are plenty of differences between New York’s Long Island City and Crystal City in northern Virginia.   Set …

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A Russian rom-com set during the construction of a bridge linking Crimea to Russia has been panned by critics and a box-office disappointment. …

Bekim Gashi barely escaped a 1999 massacre by Yugoslav troops in Kosovo in which his mother and sisters died. Nearly 20 years later, he must relive the tragedy as he testifies in the war crimes trial of two officers who ordered the killings. …

Prime Minister Theresa May will say on Monday Britain is “open to a different relationship” with Russia if Moscow takes a new path and stops “attacks” that undermine international treaties and security. Just a year ago, May used her annual speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet to accuse Moscow of military aggression and of meddling …

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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman on Sunday the U.S. will hold accountable all those involved in the killing of a dissident Saudi journalist, in a telephone call that also took in the conflict in Yemen. The killing of Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul and the …

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Fighting has broken out in the streets of Yemen’s key port Hodeidah between Iran-backed Houthi rebels and Saudi-led coalition forces. A pro-Yemeni military official said Sunday the forces aim to “purge” the city of the rebels, who control the port, where nearly all food, medicine, and other supplies for civilians are delivered. Humanitarian workers fear …

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Valentin Konovalov, a Communist who ended up being the sole candidate in the runoff for governor in Russia’s Khakasia region, has won. …

A former Iranian minister of welfare and social security has been arrested for financial fraud, official media reported on November 11. …