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Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny was detained for allegedly violating the law on public gatherings while he was being released from a 30-day jail term on the same charge, his aides say. …
The White House is denouncing a new allegation of sexual misconduct against federal Judge Brett Kavanaugh, President Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court. The New Yorker magazine reported late Sunday that two U.S. senators are investigating a woman’s charge that Kavanaugh exposed himself at a Yale University dormitory party during the 1983-1984 academic …
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South Sudan rebel leader Riek Machar turned down an invitation Saturday from President Salva Kiir to visit the South Sudanese capital Juba. Machar, the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Movement In Opposition (SPLM IO), told Kiir in a meeting in Khartoum that the environment in South Sudan is not conducive for a visit by …
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Two challengers have defeated pro-Kremlin candidates in gubernatorial runoffs, amid widespread anger over pension reforms backed by the ruling United Russia party and President Vladimir Putin. …
Early results in the Yerevan municipal elections indicate the alliance backed by Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian is cruising to a landslide victory in the first major test of the new Armenian leader’s political strength. …
OPEC and allied oil producers including Russia ended their meeting on Sunday with no formal recommendation for any additional supply boost. Oman’s Oil Minister Mohammed bin Hamad Al-Rumhy and Kuwaiti counterpart Bakhit al-Rashidi told reporters that producers had agreed they needed to focus on reaching 100 percent compliance with production cuts agreed at an OPEC …
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Every year in September, global leaders gather at the United Nations headquarters in New York for the U.N. General Assembly. This year, it begins on Tuesday, September 25. What is the U.N. General Assembly’s general debate? The so-called “general debate” is the meeting at the beginning of the General Assembly in which representatives …
A video posted to the Internet has rekindled a long-running debate in Kyrgyzstan, and more generally in Central Asia, about women’s rights and the role of women in contemporary Central Asian societies. …
At least 14 civilians were killed on Saturday in a six-hour attack by rebels on the town of Beni in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, local officials told Reuters, warning the unrest may hamper efforts to quash an Ebola epidemic in the area. The latest outbreak of the deadly disease has been focused in North …
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Russia’s Defense Ministry has doubled down on its allegation that Israel is to blame for the downing of a Russian military plane over the eastern Mediterranean Sea nearly a week ago, saying it was caused by “misleading information” provided by the Israeli military. …
Pope Francis has paid tribute to those who suffered and died in Lithuania during Soviet and Nazi occupations on the second day of his visit to the Baltic state. …
A woman who has accused U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault has agreed to testify before a Senate panel, her lawyers said Saturday. The Senate Judiciary Committee had delayed a vote on Kavanaugh’s confirmation after California professor Christine Blasey Ford’s allegations emerged last week, and her lawyers and committee staff were negotiating the conditions of her testimony. “Dr. …
Russia’s space chief has cast doubt on cooperation with the United States to build a joint space station orbiting the moon, though the agency he leads scrambled to clarify that Moscow has not abandoned the plan. …
Pakistan said Saturday an intense gunfight with militants near the border with Afghanistan has killed seven soldiers, including an officer. The clash in North Waziristan erupted while security forces were conducting a counter-terrorism operation based on intelligence information in the remote region, said an army statement. “A group of terrorists was reported to have …
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Officials in North and South Carolina are warning residents that the danger of flooding is not over, more than a week after Hurricane Florence pummeled the area with wind and heavy rainfall, killing at least 43 people in the Carolinas and neighboring Virginia. South Carolina Governor Henry McMaster warned Friday that “although the winds are …
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Rallies organized by the Communist Party were held across Russia on September 22 to protest unpopular pension-reform proposals. In July, Russia’s parliament gave preliminary backing to a government plan to raise the retirement age to 63 for women by 2034 and to 65 for men by 2028. Tens of thousands have rallied against the proposed …
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China has summoned the U.S. ambassador in Beijing to lodge a formal protest after Washington hit a Chinese military organization with sanctions over its purchases of Russian missiles and fighter jets. …
A fugitive priest who fled the U.S. decades ago amid allegations of child sex abuse has been returned to New Mexico to face charges after being arrested in Morocco last year, federal officials said Friday. Arthur J. Perrault, 80, a former Catholic priest in the Archdiocese of Santa Fe and a former Air Force chaplain, …
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The United States is preparing a “series of actions” in the coming days to increase pressure on the Venezuelan government, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Fox News on Friday. “You’ll see in the coming days a series of actions that continue to increase the pressure level against the Venezuelan leadership folks, who are working directly against the …
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U.S. President Donald Trump has expressed condolences to the Vietnamese people at the death of their president, Tran Dai Quang, who died Friday at age 61 after a serious illness. In a statement, Trump called Quang “a great friend of the United States” and noted that Quang had “graciously” hosted the U.S. president during his …
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The U.S. Treasury has extended until November 12 a deadline for investors to divest holdings of debt, equity, and other assets in sanctioned Russian aluminum giant Rusal and its parent holding company, EN+. …
Pakistan, led by veteran batsman Shoaib Malik, defeated Afghanistan by three wickets in the Asia Cup cricket Super Four tournament in Abu Dhabi. …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov denied Western allegations that Moscow was interfering in the affairs of Bosnia-Herzegovina, even as he met with the leaders of the Republika Srpska in the entity’s capital. …
After a super-typhoon killed 6,200 people five years ago, Filipinos figured the experience had taught their country a lesson. Pre-storm warnings and disaster responses should improve, then-president Benigno Aquino said. This month another super-typhoon killed at least 74 when it set off landslides in the Philippine central mountain range. Now officials are looking for ways …
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