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Growing up in eastern China, Panshu Zhao fell in love with America. He read the Bible his parents gave him, watched Hollywood movies and studied the ideals of democracy. He jumped at the chance to attend graduate school at Texas A&M University. In 2016, Zhao enlisted in the U.S. Army as part of a special …
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Amnesty International has called on Iran to ensure that Iranians have access to clean water and also to carry out an independent investigation into reports that security forces used “unnecessary and excessive force” against those who peacefully protested in Khuzestan Province over water scarcity and pollution. …
When U.S. President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin meet in Helsinki later this month, they’ll shake hands in a city that served as a bridge between Moscow and the West during the Cold War. …
The world’s chemical-weapons watchdog says a substance used in an April 7 attack on a rebel-held town in Syria appeared to be a chlorine-based gas but that it has so far found no evidence of a nerve agent. …
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The man alleged of killing one and injuring many others last year by plowing his car through a group of protesters at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia, pled not guilty Thursday to multiple federal hate crime charges. James Fields Jr., the man suspected, was charged in June with 28 counts of “hate crime acts” …
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Two Iranian Embassy staff members have been expelled from the Netherlands, the Dutch intelligence service said, although it did not give a reason for the action. …
Ankara has criticized Washington’s hardline policy toward Tehran, and with Turkey’s cooperation seen as vital to enforcing U.S. sanctions against Iran, analysts say a new confrontation could be looming. “The implementation of sanctions against Iran will have a negative impact on the entire region and is extremely dangerous,” Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said in …
Three children have been killed and seven others wounded when two roadside mines exploded in residential areas in Afghanistan’s southern Ghazni Province. …
Armenia’s water provider has pledged to restore full supply in the nation’s capital, where residents have complained about water shortages amid a record heat wave that has hit the entire Caucasus region. …
Iranian President Hassan Rohani has told the leaders of France and Germany that a European package of economic measures to counter the effects of U.S. sanctions does not go far enough, Iranian news agencies are reporting. …
The parties in Germany’s ruling coalition on Thursday reached agreement on a package of measures to deal with asylum-seekers who have already registered in other European Union states, and vowed to push ahead with an immigration law before year’s end. The two-page agreement, reached after a short meeting at the historic Reichstag building, ends a dispute that had threatened to …
Bustling newsrooms across the United States fell silent for one minute Thursday afternoon to remember the five Annapolis, Maryland, journalists who were shot to death last week. Reporters at the Voice of America newsroom in Washington stood at their desks, with computer keyboards, televisions and phones falling silent. Editors at The Courier-Journal in Louisville, Kentucky, and The Virginian-Pilot in Norfolk read …
A senior American diplomat has again criticized Pakistan for its inability to translate promises into action against various terror and extremist groups operating from Pakistani soil. Alice Wells, principal deputy assistant secretary for the Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs, spoke to a group of reporters Thursday in a roundtable discussion at the U.S. …
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The Afghan government has sent a delegation to the northern province of Faryab to ease tensions that gripped the area following the arrest of a powerful militia commander. …
The U.S. ambassador to Russia has defended President Donald Trump’s decision to meet with Russian leader Vladimir Putin and insisted that it was up to Moscow to reverse the downward spiral in relations with Washington. …
When a 12-year-old boy traveled to the United States from Poland, looking for his mother in New York City, he was put into detention. The unaccompanied minor, Chain Shlome Kleinman, was slated to be deported unless the U.S. government found his relatives and verified his information. Kleinman made the journey in 1907 as a stowaway. …
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“No man left behind.” With that phrase, a recovery team leader identifies an excavation spot and splits it into grids. Whether the weather be bitingly cold or blisteringly hot, excavators filter the soil from the grids through quarter-inch wire screens, eyes alert for any sign of human remains. For decades, the Central Identification Laboratory in Hawaii …
Read more “Trump-Kim Deal Raises Hopes for New MIA Recovery Bid”
A rescue ship carrying 60 migrants picked up from rubber boats in the Mediterranean Sea arrived in a Spanish port Wednesday, after being refused entry by Italy and Malta. Tens of thousands of migrants have reached European shores this year so far, and southern European countries are refusing entry to the latest arrivals unless their …
Read more “Europe Grasps for Solutions in Growing Migrant Crisis”
U.S. authorities are allowing China’s ZTE Corp. to resume some business with American companies, temporarily easing a ban imposed over the telecom giant’s export of sensitive technology to Iran and North Korea. …
Iran’s foreign ministry summoned the French and Belgian ambassadors and Germany’s chargé d’affaires to protest the arrest of an Iranian diplomat in Germany, Iranian news agencies reported on July 4. …
The United States and Iran have traded warnings over U.S. efforts to block Iran’s oil exports, with Tehran suggesting that it could retaliate by blocking oil tankers from leaving the Persian Gulf. …
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has given up on a plan to visit Iran this summer, Kyodo News said on Wednesday, as U.S. President Donald Trump has taken an increasingly tough line against Tehran. The visit to Iran would have been the first by a Japanese leader in 40 years, forming part of Abe’s scheduled …
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The election of Andrés Manuel López Obrador as Mexico’s next president hands the reins of power of the largest country in the Spanish-speaking world to a new, leftist political party. Experts say the president-elect, who ran on a campaign of change, could alter U.S.-Mexico relations at a critical moment in the history of both countries. …
Read more “Leftist Win in Mexico Heralds Hopes, Risks for US Relations”