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Tension is high in a remote village in western Kenya after a body an elderly man was discovered Sunday on a sugarcane farm. There were marks of violence on the body. The death comes a day after high government officials visited the area to calm ethnic tension. A body of an elderly man lies on …
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Hundreds of people have gathered near the former KGB headquarters in central Moscow to honor the memory of thousands of men and women executed by the Soviet authorities during Josef Stalin’s “Great Terror.” …
The governor of Puerto Rico, the U.S. territory that was devastated by a hurricane a month ago, called Sunday for the immediate cancellation of a contract to restore electrical power to the Caribbean island as questions grow about the small company that was awarded the work. Governor Ricardo Rossello said the board of the island’s …
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Voters in Macedonia are heading to the polls for the second round of local elections. …
A raised fist made of helmets, pick axes and broken rubble rolled ahead of hundreds of walking skeletons, costumed dancers and flowery floats Saturday in Mexico City’s Day of the Dead parade, which this year honored the 228 capital residents killed by a Sept. 19 earthquake. “Thank you, rescuers!” belted out Guadalupe Perez, 56, as …
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Mexico City’s central Zocalo plaza was filled with the papier mache dead, skeletal Catrina figures and candle-covered shrines where people were invited to place photographs of those killed in two recent earthquakes. …
Security was tight on October 29 as Sri Lanka’s cricket squad arrived in Lahore to play the final of a three-match series, eight years after its players and team officials were attacked by terrorists in the city. …
Hundreds of men and women have joined forces with firefighters to help control a wildfire that has ravaged more than a quarter of a national park in Brazil’s central state of Goias. Brazil’s Environment Ministry says nearly 160,000 acres of the 595,000-acre Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park has burned since it began Oct. 10. The …
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The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry says it has dispatched a rescue team to Norway to aid in efforts to recover the crew and passengers of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter that had gone missing off the Arctic Svalbard archipelago. …
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has arrived in Tehran for talks on October 29 with senior Iranian officials, as opposition from the United States threatens to undermine a landmark international agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear program. …
An Afghan official says at least nine police officers have been killed in separate attacks by Taliban insurgents on police checkpoints in eastern Ghazni province. Arif Noori, spokesman for the provincial governor, says two police checkpoints came under attack by Taliban fighters in the early hours Saturday, also wounding two police. He said six insurgents …
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A passenger bus heading toward Nepal’s capital has veered off a key highway early Saturday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 15, police said. The bus drove off the highway early Saturday and plunged into the Trishuli River, which is known for fast currents, said police official Dhruba Raj Raut. The bodies were pulled …
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The U.S. defense secretary says the U.S. will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea. Jim Mattis said Saturday in Seoul that the North’s aggressive nuclear and missile development programs are undermining the isolated nation’s security instead of securing it. Mattis warned the North that its military is no match for the military might of the …
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While the FBI was investigating possible involvement of the Soviet Union in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Soviet authorities were voicing suspicions that U.S. right-wing groups — and even Kennedy’s own vice president — were behind the killing, newly released documents show. …
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has filed charges for the first time against an unidentified target of his investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s U.S. presidential election, media reported late on October 27. …
Jose wears an ankle monitor on his right leg. Caught crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, the Honduran native was detained for about 17 months in an immigration facility, first in Texas and then in New Jersey, where his bail was set at $20,000. Jose, who asked not to be identified by his real name, did not …
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The head of a Moscow theater has been placed under house arrest in connection with a politically charged fraud case involving another prominent Russian director. …
Egypt’s state news agency MENA says security forces have killed 12 armed militants in the country’s western desert. No police were killed in the incident Friday. MENA reported that an anonymous security source said, “Security forces dealt a severe blow to the terrorist elements in revenge for the blood of the men who were martyred …
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said there has been no change in the United States policy protecting South Korea, in the face of missile and nuclear threats from North Korea. Speaking to U.S. and South Korean troops Friday at the Panmunjom “truce village” where South meets North, Mattis said “We’re doing everything we can to …
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While visiting Burkina Faso in August, the head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said Cameroon still needed “to convince CAF of its ability to host” the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. For CAF president Ahmad, who uses only one name, it was his clearest indication that Cameroon could lose its right to host …
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A company with ties to an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has won the right to develop a prime piece of Moscow real estate near the Kremlin, two sources familiar with the deal told Reuters. Moscow city government auctioned off the plot, which lies on the bank’s of the Moskva river and includes a …
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The United States blacklisted seven North Korean officials and three government entities Thursday, saying they had engaged in human rights abuses that were “among the worst in the world.” The State Department and Treasury imposed economic sanctions on officials in Pyongyang’s military security, labor and diplomatic outposts, as well as forced labor operations in foreign …
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The U.S. House of Representatives, in a near-unanimous vote, approved legislation to impose new sanctions related to Iran’s ballistic-missile program, an issue separate from the 2015 international nuclear deal with Tehran. …