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Fourteen-times major winner Tiger Woods will serve as one of the vice captains on the U.S. Ryder Cup squad that will try to snap a 25-year drought on European soil later this year, Jim Furyk said on Tuesday. Furyk, who will serve as captain when holders United States battle Europe in September at the Golf …
A Syrian war monitor says pro-government strikes Tuesday in the rebel-held Damascus suburb of eastern Ghouta have killed more than 100 people. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said at least 250 people have been killed since late Sunday, the highest 48-hour death toll in the Syria conflict since a 2013 chemical attack on …
Hawaii’s nuclear missile scare showed that the state began testing alerts before fully developing a plan to address the ballistic missile threat and that a public outreach campaign months earlier wasn’t effective, said a report released Tuesday. The state Department of Defense, the agency that oversees Hawaii’s emergency management, released the internal review after an …
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The United States says it is “deeply concerned” about a surge in attacks by the Syrian government and its allies on a rebel-held enclave near the capital, Damascus. …
The embattled head of Latvia’s central bank has denied bribery allegations against him, saying he is the victim of a smear campaign and will not step down. …
Lawyers and activists from ex-Soviet republics on February 20 urged the European Union to adopt legislation mirroring a U.S. law aimed at punishing officials for corruption and rights abuses anywhere in the world. …
The director of Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny’s Anticorruption Foundation has been detained at Moscow’s Sheremetyevo Airport, a senior Navalny associate says. …
U.S. President Donald Trump is again blaming former President Barack Obama for mishandling Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. “Obama was President up to, and beyond, the 2016 Election. So why didn’t he do something about Russian meddling?” Trump said on Twitter Monday. The attack on his predecessor was the latest in a series …
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Heavy Syrian military airstrikes and rocket attacks on a Damascus suburb have killed nearly 100 people and wounded close to 500 since Sunday, a Syrian monitoring group says. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights says a large number of civilians, including children, are among the victims in eastern Ghouta. The Syrian military has launched an …
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Russia may challenge any move by the United States to impose stiff new tariffs on imports of Russian steel and aluminum in a complaint before the World Trade Organization, Russian state-run news agency TASS has reported. …
Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov accused the United States and some European countries of stoking East-West tensions in the Balkans ahead of a visit to Serbia this week. …
Oxfam hid information about sexual misconduct from authorities in Haiti, a senior official in the Caribbean nation said on Monday, and he vowed to launch a wide-reaching investigation into charities operating there. Oxfam officials met Haiti’s planning and external cooperation minister, Aviol Fleurant, in Port-au-Prince on Monday to hand over a copy of a 2011 …
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The third Monday of February is known as Presidents’ Day in the United States. For nearly 100 years, America honored its first president, George Washington, on February 22. That was his birthday. But the date was not a national holiday until 1968. That year, the U.S. Congress passed a measure known as the Uniform Monday …
U.S. President Donald Trump blasted media mogul Oprah Winfrey on Twitter on Sunday night over a segment on CBS’s 60 Minutes program and again said he hoped she would face him as an opponent in the 2020 presidential race. Actress and television host Winfrey, now a contributor to the CBS program, led a panel of …
Gambia’s president has declared a moratorium on the death penalty, calling it a “first step toward abolition.” President Adama Barrow announced the moratorium while addressing a large crowd gathered Sunday for the country’s independence anniversary. This tiny West African nation is emerging from 22 years of dictatorship that were marked by arbitrary arrests, enforced …
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The mainstream Muslim leadership in Russia’s Daghestan region has condemned an attack that killed five people outside a Russian Orthodox church, saying that the suspect had “nothing to do with the true Islam.” …
Tehran will not place its missile program under international control, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on February 19 in Moscow. …
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Residents of Kosovo’s capital took to the streets on February 17 to join in the celebrations marking the country’s independence anniversary. The festivities culminated in a concert on Pristina’s main square by Rita Ora, a British pop singer who was born in the city. (RFE/RL’s Balkan Service) …
Crimean Tatars say the firm picked by Russia-appointed authorities on annexed Crimea is causing irreparable damage to a 16th-century palace on the Ukrainian Peninsula. …
Zimbabwe’s president Sunday visited the home of deceased opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai to pay condolences to his family and to urge unity as power struggles within the opposition have heightened tensions. President Emmerson Mnangagwa pledged that his government will meet hospital and funeral expenses for Tsvangirai, who died of colon cancer last week in neighboring …
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Russian news reports say a gunman has opened fire on people leaving a church service in the North Caucasus region of Dagestan, killing and least five people and wounding four others. The Tass news agency said the shooting occurred Sunday outside a church in the town of Kizlyar. The assailant was killed by police. “The …
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A few thousand demonstrators have gathered in Ukraine’s capital to call for the removal of President Petro Poroshenko. …
It was an emotional moment for the nearly dozen Somali migrants who were repatriated to Mogadishu from Libya on Saturday. Some fell to their knees, crying; others placed their foreheads to the ground in prayer; while some chanted the Somalia national anthem as they disembarked from a Turkish Airways plane that had flown them from …
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