Category: World

PM Abbasi undertook a day-long visit to Kabul on Friday where his high-level delegation held extensive talks with President Ashraf Ghani and other senior leaders of his government …

Three people were killed and some 30 injured after a van drove into a crowd in the western German city of Muenster on April 7, German authorities said. …

Several people were killed after a vehicle drove into a crowd in the western German city of Muenster on April 7, police said. (NonstopNews/Reuters) …

Muslim-American advocacy organizations are hailing a legal settlement with New York City police over the department’s surveillance of the community, saying the agreement sends a message that simply being Muslim is not a crime. The settlement, announced Thursday by lawyers for New York City, the New York Police Department and the Muslim community, resolves a …

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The U.S. Justice Department said Friday it might formally enter a lawsuit accusing Harvard University of discriminating against Asian-American applicants as the agency probes its admissions policies for potential civil rights violations. The department disclosed its plan in a brief urging a federal judge in Boston to not allow the Ivy League school to file …

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Republican U.S. Representative Blake Farenthold of Texas, accused by a female former aide of sexual harassment, abruptly resigned from Congress on Friday after admitting to allowing an unprofessional culture to flourish in his Capitol Hill office. “While I planned on serving out the remainder of my term in Congress, I know in my heart it’s …

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Russian President Vladimir Putin has fired 11 top officers in two of Russia’s main law enforcement agencies and other ministries, in the latest shuffle of the agencies. …

The head of Geo TV, Pakistan’s largest television network, says the company’s broadcasts have been blocked throughout much of the country, The New York Times and media watchdogs report. …

Viktor Orban, Hungary’s right-wing prime minister, appears set to serve a third consecutive term as a result of the country’s upcoming general election, although polls indicate a closer contest than 2010 and 2014. …

Malaysia’s scandal-tainted prime minister announced Friday that Parliament will be dissolved to pave the way for general elections, expected to be held next month, that will pit his long-ruling coalition against a revived opposition led by former strongman Mahathir Mohamad.  The polls are seen as a test of survival for Prime Minister Najib Razak, who …

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Did March provide another month of blowout hiring? Was pay growth healthy? When the government issues its monthly jobs report Friday, those two questions will be the most closely watched barometers. Economists have forecast that employers added a solid 185,000 jobs in March and that the unemployment rate dipped from 4.1 percent to a fresh …

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A South Korean court has sentenced disgraced ex-President Park Geun-hye to 24 years in prison over corruption scandal. Park was earlier found guilty of abuse of power and coercion.    The verdict came as a Seoul Central District Court judge read a lengthy statement Friday. The sentencing was to follow. Prosecutors have requested a 30-year term. Park …

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Afghanistan accused Pakistan of launching air strikes that caused “huge financial damages” in its Kunar border province one day ahead of Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi’s scheduled visit to Kabul on April 6. …

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s spokesman has condemned a recommendation by U.S. prosecutors that a Turkish Halkbank executive get 20 years in prison for helping Iran evade U.S. sanctions. …

The foreign ministers of Russia and China have jointly denounced what they described as efforts by the United States to unilaterally change negotiated treaties ranging from the Iran nuclear deal to the global-warming pact and world trade rules. …

The woman who police say shot three people at YouTube’s headquarters was prolific at producing videos and posting them online, many of them bizarre, such as a clip in which she removes a revealing purple dress to expose fake breasts with the message, “Don’t Trust Your Eyes.” In others, Nasim Aghdam exercises, promotes animal rights …

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Kim Kardashian West has shared the first photo of her family. The reality star posed with husband Kanye West, daughters North and Chicago, and son Saint in the photo, which was taken on Easter.   Kardashian wrote on Facebook : “I don’t think you really understand how hard it is to take a good family …

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North and South Korean officials held preparatory talks Thursday for a summit later this month between the countries’ two leaders amid a global effort to resolve tensions over Pyongyang’s nuclear program. The meeting of working-level officials at the border village of Panmunjom was to discuss security, protocol and media coverage issues for the planned April …

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A Kyrgyz court has handed down prison terms to a couple convicted of preventing its children to attend school. …

Discord over the form and substance of a final joint statement for the European Union’s flagship Western Balkans summit in Sofia threatens to derail the meeting more than a month before it is to take place. …

The Cannes film festival will open next month with Iranian director Asghar Farhadi’s new film Everybody Knows. …

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In 1968, students at Columbia University stormed the school president’s office to protest racism and involvement in the Vietnam War. Before the protest ended, they had held the university president for 24 hours and were successful in effecting change. That same year, college students in North Carolina staged sit-ins at segregated lunch counters that spread …

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NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg is visiting the U.S. later this week, set to inspect a fighter jet production plant and American military command posts. The NATO chief is touring a Lockheed Martin F-35 manufacturing factory in Texas on Thursday, as well as participating in a town hall event at Southern Methodist University and taking …

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