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The White House dismissed reports Thursday that U.S. President Donald Trump plans to replace Secretary of State Rex Tillerson with CIA Director Mike Pompeo as reported in the news media. The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN and other major U.S. news outlets quoted senior administration officials saying the plan to oust Tillerson could …
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Pakistani Taliban gunmen dressed in all-enveloping burqas have stormed the campus of an agriculture university in northwestern Pakistan, wounding at least five people, police say. …
The world’s biggest lithium-ion battery has plugged into an Australian state grid, delivering on a promise by Tesla Inc. chief executive Elon Musk. Musk said he would build the 100-megawatt battery within 100 days of contracts for the project being signed at the end of September or hand it over to the South Australia state …
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Pakistan Security officials say four heavily armed, burqa-clad terrorists stormed an agriculture university in northwestern Pakistan early Friday. The army said in a statement that security forces engaged the assailants in a gunfight on the campus in Peshawar, killing all four terrorists. Doctors at the city hospital say they have received 11 wounded students. A …
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A leading Democrat in the U.S. Congress says Attorney General Jeff Sessions is refusing to say whether President Donald Trump ever asked him to hinder the Justice Department’s investigation into Russian interference in last year’s presidential election. …
Two moderately strong earthquakes hit eastern Iran in quick succession early on December 1. …
Police say a man detonated two grenades during a murder trial in the eastern Ukrainian town of Nikopol on November 30, killing himself and injuring seven people. …
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A coalition of leftist groups gathered in Manila Thursday to protest President Rodrigo Duterte’s recent suggestions that he will assume sole power of the Pacific archipelago. About 1,000 protesters will march from historic Bonifacio Square to the Mendiola Peace Arch to stage a rally against Duterte’s government. Duterte has threatened recently to declare a so-called …
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The U.S.-led coalition targeting the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq said Thursday its airstrikes have killed 801 civilians since late 2014. The figures came in the coalition’s latest monthly statement about its investigations into reports of possible civilian casualties resulting from the strikes. In October, the coalition says it investigated 64 such reports, …
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North Korea released dozens of photos Thursday of the Hwasong-15, a new intercontinental ballistic missile it claims can reach any target in the continental United States. The photo dump, published in the paper and online editions of the ruling party’s official daily, is a goldmine for rocket experts trying to parse reality from bluster. Their …
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Syrian government negotiators have met with UN mediator Staffan de Mistura in Geneva for talks aimed at ending the more-than-six-year civil war. …
The U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency is targeting opioid abuse in Appalachia by establishing a new field office in Kentucky to oversee a region ravaged by overdose deaths. Acting DEA Administrator Robert Patterson says the new Louisville field office will have a special agent in charge to oversee investigations in Kentucky, Tennessee and West Virginia. The …
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President Donald Trump quickly responded to the firing of “Today” show host Matt Lauer on Wednesday, saying executives at NBC and Comcast should be “fired for putting out so much Fake News.” Trump tweeted: “Wow, Matt Lauer was just fired from NBC for ‘inappropriate sexual behavior in the workplace.’ But when will the top executives …
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The United States should establish a permanent military presence in the Southeastern Europe to help stabilize the Western Balkans and prevent further inroads by Russia, a Washington-based think tank says. …
After decades of legal challenges and political battles that have pitted states against the federal government, U.S. wildlife managers on Wednesday finally adopted a plan to guide the recovery of a wolf that once roamed parts of the American Southwest and northern Mexico. The plan sets a goal of having an average of 320 …
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has signed a law declaring December 25 a public holiday. …
The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission, Ajit Pai, accused social media company Twitter of being politically biased Tuesday as he defended his plan to roll back rules intended to ensure a free and open internet. Pai, a Republican named by President Donald Trump to head up the FCC, unveiled plans last week to scrap …
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China’s growing military strength and a resurgent Russia will pose growing challenges to the trans-Atlantic alliance in coming years, and NATO’s moves to bolster its capabilities could trigger a new Cold War-style arms race, a NATO report said. The report, completed once every four years, identifies 20 global trends that are likely to affect the …
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Scientists say they’ve unearthed fossil remains of a sea cow that lived in the shallow waters off Southern California’s Channel Islands some 25 million years ago. The fossil skull and rib cage were discovered this summer on Santa Rosa Island, in the Pacific Ocean about 50 miles northwest of Los Angeles, the National Park …
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North Korea has fired a ballistic missile, the latest in a series of launches that have raised tensions with the United States and its regional allies. …
Talks aimed at resolving the conflict over Moldova’s separatist region of Transdniester have made “substantial progress,” according to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE). …
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has stressed Washington’s commitment to European security, especially in combating threats from Russia. …
Talks between the Syrian government and opposition forces aimed at bringing an end to the six-year war resume Tuesday in Geneva. Nearly half a million people have been killed since the President Bashar al-Assad’s crackdown on an uprising during the 2011 Arab Spring. Several regional and global powers have intervened in the conflict – and …
Read more “Syria, Russia Step Up Airstrikes Ahead of Renewed Peace Talks in Geneva”