Category: World

Taliban attacks on a number of checkpoints in Afghanistan’s northern Takhar Province have left at least 14 border-police officers dead, an official says. …

A senior Kyrgyz official says 150 Kyrgyz nationals have been killed in Syria fighting on the side of Islamic militants since the beginning of the civil war in the Middle Eastern country in 2011. …

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Hackers from Russia are infecting Ukrainian companies with malicious software to create “back doors” for a large, coordinated attack, Ukraine’s cyber police chief told Reuters on Tuesday. The hackers are targeting companies, including banks and energy infrastructure firms, in a roll out that suggests they are preparing to activate the malware in one massive strike, …

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Joseph Jackson, the strong, fearsome patriarch of the musical Jackson family, has died, according to a person close to the family. The person, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the person was not allowed to discuss the topic publicly, told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he died but had no additional information. …

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The European Commission is set to “immediately” start preparations for EU accession negotiations with Albania and Macedonia, a top EU official says. …

Russian activist Vladimir Dubovsky, the coordinator of opposition politician Aleksei Navalny’s regional team in the Far East, has been rearrested shortly after finishing a 15-day jail term. …

Countries have overwhelming voted to give the world’s chemical weapons watchdog new powers to assign blame for attacks using banned toxic materials, in a motion backed by the West and opposed by Moscow. …

International efforts to make it easier for garment workers in India to speak out against sexual harassment, dangerous working conditions and abuses are failing, campaigners said Tuesday. The U.S.-based certifying agency Social Accountability International (SAI) and Britain’s Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) — an alliance of unions, firms and charities — are not enforcing procedures they …

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As Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos prepares to step down, he says he’s confident that his crowning achievement — the peace deal with leftist rebels that brought him a Nobel Peace Prize — will survive despite sharp criticism of it by the man now coming into office. “The accord is bulletproofed,” Santos told the Associated …

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As gigabytes of data flow from field to fingertips, click by click, the technological divide has been closing between teams at the World Cup. While the focus has been on the debut of video assistant referees, less obvious technical advances have been at work in Russia and the coaches have control over this area, at …

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Russian investigators have blamed human error for a plane crash outside Moscow earlier this year that killed all 71 people on board. …

The Russian ambassador to Bosnia-Herzegovina has indefinitely postponed a visit to Srebrenica after a local official turned down his request to visit the memorial complex where the victims of the 1995 massacre are buried. …

The United States is pushing countries to halt Iranian oil imports from early November, a senior State Department official said on June 26, warning that Washington will not grant any sanction waivers. …

Fresh protests are expected in Chisinau after Moldova’s Supreme Court on June 25 upheld a decision to invalidate the results of a mayoral election in the capital won by a pro-Western candidate. …

A Russian company accused of helping fund a propaganda operation to sway the 2016 U.S. presidential election in Donald Trump’s favor has asked a judge to dismiss the case brought against it by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. …

The United States needs to “up its game” in the Arctic, which is an increasingly important region as global warming opens up new sea lanes and makes oil and mineral resources there more readily available, the U.S. defense secretary said on June 25. …

The number of migrants dying from extreme heat on the U.S.-Mexico border rose 55 percent in the past nine months after an increase in unaccompanied children and families trying to enter the United States illegally, the U.S. government said on Monday. Heat-related deaths, the main cause of migrant fatalities on the U.S. southwest border, rose …

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Historic levels of violent crime in Mexico have sparked a record increase in the country’s car-armoring business, with an industry group predicting a double-digit jump in the number of vehicles bulletproofed this year. There were more than 25,000 murders across Mexico last year, the highest annual tally since modern records began, government data shows, with …

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Lawyers for Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s former presidential campaign manager, said on Monday they plan to appeal a judge’s decision to jail Manafort while he awaits a criminal trial in Washington this fall. Judge Amy Berman Jackson in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia sided with prosecutors from Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s office …

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NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg says he expects the alliance to decide at a July 11-12 summit to officially launch membership talks with Macedonia. …

Melania Trump said Sunday that kindness, compassion and positivity are important traits in life.   The first lady helped SADD – Students Against Destructive Decisions – open its annual national conference at a hotel just outside Washington. The appearance followed her trip last week to the U.S.-Mexico border to see the effect on children of …

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America has waited a year to hear what special counsel Robert Mueller concludes about the 2016 election, meddling by the Russians and — most of all — what Donald Trump did or didn’t do. But how much the nation will learn about Mueller’s findings is very much an open question. Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein …

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A Texas charitable organization says 32 immigrant parents separated from their children after crossing the U.S.-Mexico border were freed into its care, but they don’t know where their kids are or when they might see them again despite government assurances that family reunification would be well organized.   The release on Sunday is believed to …

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