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The climate for press freedom in Pakistan is deteriorating as the country’s powerful army “quietly, but effectively” restricts reporting through “intimidation” and other means, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) says in a new report. …
A group representing major internet companies including Facebook, Amazon.com and Alphabet said on Tuesday it backed modernizing U.S. data privacy rules but wants a national approach that would preempt California’s new regulations that take effect in 2020. The Internet Association, a group representing more than 40 major internet and technology firms including Netflix, Microsoft and …
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In Iraq, a major Middle East grain buyer, will cut the irrigated area it plants with wheat by half in the 2018-2019 growing season as water shortages grip the country, a government official told Reuters. Drought and dwindling river flows have already forced Iraq to ban farmers from planting rice and other water-intensive summer crops. …
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The United States has imposed sanctions on Nikola Spiric, an ethnic Serb deputy in Bosnia’s national parliament, over what the State Department says is his involvement in “significant” corruption. …
The rapidly warming ties between Eritrea and Ethiopia took another step forward Tuesday when the once-bitter rivals reopened their shared border afer two decades. Yemane Meskel, Eritrea’s information minister, announced the historic event on Twitter “President Isaias Afwerki & Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed today officially opened the Debay Sima – Burre border point between the …
More than 40 people were killed Tuesday when a bus carrying pilgrims from a Hindu temple plunged off a road in southern India. Authorities say the bus was returning from the famous Anjaneya Swamy temple in Telangana state when the driver lost control and drove into a ravine. Local residents and other motorists rushed …
The coach of the Czech Republic’s soccer team is departing in the wake of a 5-1 defeat by Russia. …
Oil has been flowing through the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline — which cuts across four Midwestern states — for more than a year. But some residents in the state of Iowa believe it’s not too late to stop it. On Sept. 12, the Iowa Supreme Court will hear arguments on whether the Iowa Utilities Board …
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At least 19 people have been killed and 62 wounded in a suicide attack in the eastern Afghan province of Nangarhar, the governor’s office has told RFE/RL. …
Complaints filed with a West Virginia state agency say assisted living ResCare Agency facilities are struggling with staff shortages, causing problems such as missed doctors’ appointments and incorrectly administered medication. The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports nine substantiated complaints filed with the state Office of Health Facility Licensure and Certification since last year lay out the problems …
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Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic’s praise of Slobodan Milosevic as a “great” leader has triggered condemnations from Balkan neighbors and the European Union. …
Opening Ceremony, the label that always seems to find quirkier and more unusual ways to display its clothes during Fashion Week, upped the ante on Sunday with a festive drag show, featuring a surprise performance by Christina Aguilera and an appearance by Nicki Minaj — her first fashion show since a very public altercation with …
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A look at the best news photos from around the world. …
Iran’s reeling economy and a crashing national currency combine to make disposable diapers tough to come by. …
The imam of a Tashkent mosque has been relieved of his duties just hours after he posted a video appeal to the Uzbek president calling for greater religious freedom. …
The U.S. Open final suddenly appeared to be slipping away from Novak Djokovic. He dropped three consecutive games. He was angered by a crowd roaring for his popular opponent, Juan Martin del Potro. He was, in short, out of sorts. And then came Sunday’s pivotal game, a 20-minute, 22-point epic. Three times, del Potro was …
Read more “Djokovic Tops del Potro for 3rd Title at US Open, 14th Slam”
The Islamic State (IS) militant group claimed responsibility for a suicide attack near a procession in the Afghan capital commemorating the death of a revered resistance leader, killing at least seven people. …
Serbia’s Novak Djokovic won his second straight major tennis title by defeating Argentina’s Juan Martin del Potro in the U.S. Ope …
French police have arrested a man who wounded seven people, including two British tourists, in Paris late Sunday. Reuters news agency quoted a judicial source saying there was no indication the attack was terror related. It also reported that four of those wounded were in serious condition. Witnesses told Agence France Presse the man was …
Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif issued a Jewish New Year greeting to Jews in Iran and around the world on Twitter amid a time of heightened tensions between Iran and Israel. …
Ford says it has no plans to move production of a small car from China to the United States despite President Donald Trump’s enthusiastic tweet Sunday. “It would not be profitable to the build the Focus Active in the U.S. given an expected annual sales volume of fewer than 500,000 units,” a Ford statement said. …
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Emergency officials are urging residents to prepare for severe storms that are forecast to hit the East Coast and Hawaii over the next week at what is the peak of this year’s hurricane season. Coming in from the Atlantic Ocean, Tropical Storm Florence is expected to make landfall Thursday as a level 3 …
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An Afghan official says insurgents have attacked a checkpoint in the western Herat province, killing at least nine Afghan security forces and wounding another six. Gelani Farhad, the provincial governor’s spokesman, says the attack late Saturday ignited a gunbattle in which around 10 insurgents were killed and five wounded. He says the attack …
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North Korea has marked the 70th anniversary of the founding of the country with a massive military parade, but it did not display its intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBM) that have become the subject of international sanctions. …