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Ayanna Pressley’s victory Tuesday over 10-term House member Michael Capuano in Massachusetts’ 7th District Democratic primary virtually assured that for the first time, an African-American woman will represent her state in Congress. Pressley’s performance against Capuano was reminiscent of Democratic Socialist Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s New York primary win in June over veteran House member Joseph Crowley, …
Britain will brief the UN Security Council on September 6 on the arrest warrants it issued for two alleged Russian operatives charged with carrying out a nerve agent attack on British soil. …
U.S. and Pakistani officials expressed optimism about the possibility of improved relations after a meeting between top U.S. officials and Pakistan’s new prime minister. …
Israel’s Supreme Court on Wednesday cleared the way for the demolition of a Bedouin village in the West Bank, rejecting a final appeal in a case that has drawn heavy international criticism and become a rallying cry for the Palestinians. In its decision, the court rejected an appeal to block the demolition of Khan al-Ahmar. …
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Myanmar’s government looks as if it’s under siege from an international community concerned about the condition of its nascent democracy, with widespread calls for a genocide tribunal to hold its military to account for the brutal treatment of its Muslim Rohingya minority. But experts say not to expect any change of course from the country’s …
Read more “Criticism Doesn’t Have Suu Kyi or Myanmar on the Ropes”
An appeals court has upheld the 30-day jail sentence handed down to opposition activist Aleksei Navalny for what Russian authorities say were violations of the law on public gatherings and protests. …
British prosecutors have accused two Russian men of poisoning former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter with a deadly nerve agent in March on behalf of the Russian state. In a statement to Britain’s Parliament after the charges were announced on September 5, Prime Minister Theresa May accused Russia of “obfuscation and lies” in trying …
Read more “Russia’s ‘Obfuscation And Lies’: May Accuses Kremlin After Novichok Charges”
Attempts to end the 17-year-old U.S.-led war in Afghanistan are gaining traction, U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis insists. “Right now we have more indications that reconciliation is no longer just a shimmer out there, no longer just a mirage. It now has some framework,” Mattis told reporters on his plane en route to India. …
An ancient Persian artifact has been handed back to Iran after a U.S. court ordered its return. …
Qatar amended its residency laws on Tuesday to allow foreign workers to leave the country without exit permits from their employers, a provision which labour rights groups have long said should be abolished. Doha is keen to show it is tackling allegations of worker exploitation as it prepares to host the 2022 soccer World Cup, …
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An attack that killed one American soldier in eastern Afghanistan this week was carried out by a member of the Afghan national police, a U.S. official says. …
Twitter’s CEO says the company is not biased against Republicans or Democrats and is working on ways to ensure that debate is healthier on its platform. In prepared testimony released ahead of a House hearing Wednesday, Jack Dorsey says he wants to be clear about one thing: “Twitter does not use political ideology to make …
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A pressure leak at the International Space Station (ISS) last week was a drill hole that happened during manufacturing or in orbit, the chief of Russia’s space agency says. …
Dutch bank ING has agreed to pay fines and other payments of 775 million euros ($900 million) after admitting “serious shortcomings” in executing policies to prevent financial crime, including bribe payments by an international telecommunications provider to an Uzbek company. …
The Kremlin has rejected claims by French President Emmanuel Macron that Russian President Vladimir Putin “dreams” of breaking up the European Union. …
Pakistan’s new foreign minister said he will “have exchanges” with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo over Washington’s cancellation of a $300 million disbursement for the Pakistani military when he visits Islamabad on Wednesday. Adopting a tougher line with an ally that U.S. President Donald Trump considers unreliable, the United States halted the disbursement of …
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Venezuela’s government Monday said migratory patterns out of the OPEC nation are “normal” and that the situation was being exaggerated to justify an intervention by foreign powers. The United Nation’s migration agency last month said the exodus of citizens out of Venezuela, which is suffering a hyperflationary economic collapse, is nearing a “crisis moment” comparable …
Armenia is willing to take part in the reconstruction of Syria, Armenian Parliament Speaker Ara Babloyan said on September 3 during a meeting with the Syrian ambassador to Yerevan Muhammad Haj Ibrahim. …
It’s coal people like miner Steve Knotts, 62, who make West Virginia Trump Country. So it was no surprise that President Donald Trump picked the state to announce his plan rolling back Obama-era pollution controls on coal-fired power plants. Trump left one thing out of his remarks, though: northern West Virginia coal country will be …
Read more “Trump’s Pollution Rules Rollback to Hit Coal Country Hard”
Amnesty International has called on the Russian authorities to disclose the whereabouts of a Chechen refugee who forcibly disappeared hours after being deported to Russia from Poland last week. …
The sight of five burly guards blocking her way out of her dorm filled Ren Liping with rage. It was 3 a.m. on a recent Saturday (Aug. 4) and the thin, bespectacled 26-year-old Chinese graduate student was exhausted. Her mind raced back to earlier in the day when she had tried once again to …
Read more “As MeToo Unnerves China, a Student Fights to Tell Her Story”
Armenian Prime Minister Nikol Pashinian has downplayed problems in Yerevan’s relations with Moscow, describing them as a “work process in its natural course.” …
Tanned and wearing a swimsuit, So Myong Il walks to the barbecue pit and throws on some clams. He obviously loves the beach he’s on as well as the rugged, emerald Chilbo mountains that rise abruptly behind it. He loves them enough to forget, for a moment at least, that he is a senior …
Read more “Hope, Caution as Kim Jong Un Shifts to North Korea’s Economy”