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Former USA Gymnastics president Steve Penny was arrested Wednesday after a Texas grand jury indicted him, alleging he tampered with evidence in the sexual assault investigation of now-imprisoned gymnastics doctor Larry Nassar. In a statement issued late Wednesday night, the Walker County district attorney’s office in Huntsville, Texas, said Penny was arrested by a fugitive …
Russian officials say Wednesday’s attack on a school in Crimea in which at least 19 students were killed was not a terrorist attack, but a case of mass murder. They say video footage captured by a closed-caption camera shows a former student armed with a rifle enter the technical college in the Black Sea city …
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Somalia on Sunday marked the one year anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack in Africa’s history: a car bomb that ripped through the capital, Mogadishu, killing nearly 600 people. No one claimed responsibility for the bombing, but it had the hallmarks of the terrorist group Al-Shabab. As Mohamed Sheik Nor reports from Mogadishu, some victims …
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Authorities have declared an emergency on Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula and Russia sent National Guard troops to protect schools and the bridge connecting with Russia after a teenager’s shooting rampage killed as many as 20 people at a college in Kerch. …
The United Nations envoy for Syria is stepping down after gains this year by Syrian, Russian, and Iranian forces in reasserting control over much of the country, eclipsing prospects for an international peace deal ending Syria’s seven-year civil war. …
Italy’s deputy prime minister says his nation will oppose a renewal of European Union sanctions against Russia, but he suggested Rome is not ready to break with the rest of the EU and veto a rollover of the sanctions. …
Russian President Vladimir Putin voiced condolences for the victims of an attack on a college in Crimea, saying it was clearly a crime and that the results of investigations would be made public. He was speaking after talks in Sochi with his Egyptian counterpart, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. …
Russian investigators say a 22-year-old student was responsible a bomb attack that killed 18 people and wounded at least 50 others Wednesday at a technical college in Crimea. Investigators and the college’s director said following the explosion a gunman went through the building shooting anyone he saw at the school in the city of Kerch. …
Poland’s state-run gas company says it has sealed a 20-year deal to buy liquefied natural gas (LNG) from the United States in a bid to reduce its dependence on Russian supplies. …
The president of the Maldives, Abdulla Yameen, said on Wednesday he had no complaints or reservations about any of his decisions while in office, and that he was preparing to step down, despite having challenged his election defeat in court. In a surprise result, Yameen lost his re-election bid last month and initially conceded defeat. …
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Local media showed chaotic scenes after a blast in Kerch, Crimea, with one injured man being driven away on the back of a truck while other people held a drip he was connected to. Authorities on the peninsula, which Russia annexed from Ukraine in 2014, said the attack was carried out by a student who …
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Vietnamese dissident Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh, known as “Mother Mushroom”, was released from prison on Wednesday and left Vietnam on a flight to the United States, sources with direct knowledge of the matter said. Quynh, one of Vietnam’s most prominent dissidents, was serving a 10-year-sentence for anti-state propaganda. “Mother Mushroom departed Vietnam today for the …
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Culture Minister Vladimir Medinsky is known for eyebrow-raising statements, many of which are hailed by Russia’s social conservatives and derided by its typically liberal artistic community. Add to that his comments at the Valdai Discussion Club about rap music. …
Cologne police are investigating whether extremism was the motivation behind a bloody hostage-taking at the city’s main train station, but so far have found no ties to the Islamic State group, authorities said Tuesday. Criminal police investigation leader Klaus-Stephan Becker told reporters the man has been identified as a 55-year-old Syrian refugee who came to …
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A senior Chinese diplomat in Pakistan has taken to social media to reject as “baseless” Western allegations that China is committing massive human rights abuses in its neighboring northwestern Xinjiang border region. Beijing is blamed by the U.S. and international rights defenders for reportedly running mass detention centers filled with ethnic Uighur and other Muslims …
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The United States has slapped sanctions on a network of businesses that provide financial support to an Iranian paramilitary force that Washington says recruits and trains child soldiers for Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps. …
Russian President Vladimir Putin will attend a ceremony in Paris next month marking 100 years since the armistice ending World War I, the Kremlin says. …
Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, who visualized the indispensability of the personal computer more than 40 years ago, died Monday at 65. Allen’s family said he died in Seattle of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, a form of cancer he had been battling off and on since 2009. After persuading high school friend Bill Gates to drop out of …
Italy will propose that the European Union revive funding for small and medium-sized private businesses in Russia when EU leaders meet in Brussels this week, several sources have told RFE/RL. …
The Russian Orthodox Church announced Monday it would break ties with the Orthodox Patriarchate of Constantinople over the latter’s recognition of a new Ukrainian church, the latest development in a major restructuring of the world’s second-largest Christian denomination. Unlike Catholicism, which has a centralized hierarchy of authority, Orthodox Christianity has several churches spread out across …
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Concerns about debt diplomacy on China’s expansive infrastructure megaproject — the Belt and Road — have become an increasing source of debate from Asia to Africa and the Middle East. In recent weeks, more than $30 billion in projects have been scrapped and other loans and investments are under review. Public opposition is also testing the …
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Kosovo Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj has sacked Bejtush Gashi as interior minister, less than six months after he was appointed to the post. …
The Russian Orthodox Church has decided to end its relationship with the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople in protest over its endorsement of Ukraine’s request for an autocephalous, or independent, church. …