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The head of Germany’s Free Democratic Party (FDP) has said in an interview that Germany may need to accept the 2014 annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea region as a “permanent provisional arrangement.” …
A senior U.S. official says about 2,000 Islamic State (IS) militants are battling for survival in the Syrian city of Raqqa, the extremists’ last stronghold in the north of the country. …
Pakistan’s Tehreek-i-Taliban (TTP) has recently published its first women’s magazine, urging potential female jihadists to join the ranks of the militant group and to devote themselves to the cause of jihad. The magazine, Sunnat-e-Khaula (The Way of Khaula), is named after a young female fighter during the time of the Prophet Muhammad, according to local …
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The Taliban has shot dead at least seven Afghan police officers who were captured by the militant group during fighting in the northern province of Sari Pul, a local official said. …
Venezuela’s new legislative superbody is set to convene again Saturday. The controversial Constituent Assembly, inaugurated Friday, is expected to rewrite the constitution and give new powers to the ruling Socialist party. President Nicolas Maduro’s wife and son are among the members of the 545-member assembly that unanimously selected former Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez as its …
The Western state of Utah is home to stunning red rock formations shaped by geological forces over millions of years. Some of the most beautiful are at five of the state’s most popular national park sites, known as “The Mighty 5.” At Arches National Park alone, there are more than 2,000 natural sandstone arches, making …
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Around the world, large cities generate huge amounts of unusable food and other organic waste. While some is recycled into compost, most goes into landfills, and that is wasting a potential source of energy. A pilot project started about three years ago in New York City is adding food scraps to the existing wastewater treatment …
Leading Iraqi Shi’ite clerics are calling for the disbandment of powerful Iran-backed Shi’ite militias now that the nation has retaken its second largest city, Mosul, from the Islamic State extremist group. …
Rescuers at one of Russia’s largest diamond mines were searching early on August 5 for nine miners still missing after a water cavern collapsed into an underground shaft with 142 workers inside. …
Ukrainian prosecutors had begun legal proceedings against the German techno band Scooter, and it faces significant legal consequences for performing at a festival in Crimea on August 4, the Ukrainian ambassador to Germany said. …
President Donald Trump’s former national security adviser, Michael Flynn, is revealing a brief advisory role with a firm related to a controversial data analysis company that aided the Trump campaign, The Associated Press has learned. The disclosure of Flynn’s link to Cambridge Analytica will come in an amended public financial filing in which the retired …
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U.S. President Donald Trump visits the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Friday for a briefing on how the agency has prepared for the hurricane season. The hurricane season historically has begun in August in the Atlantic. There already have been five tropical storms in the Atlantic so far this season. The storms did not affect …
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Italian outreach workers say there has been a significant shift in the migration pattern from Africa with many more young Nigerian women coming. And they add that many, if not most, of the young Nigerians arriving on Italian shores know they will be expected to engage in sex work. But the women have little idea …
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The European Court of Human Rights has issued an extraordinary order barring the transfer of a journalist in Russia to the autocratic Central Asia county of Uzbekistan, the journalist’s defense lawyer said in a statement on Facebook. …
Russian authorities say rescuers are trying evacuate more than 150 workers from a flooded Siberian diamond mine. …
A prominent Kazakh rights activist who heads a group that advocates for the rights and safety of journalists says he has fled the country because he fears for his life. …
Facebook is to send more potential hoax articles to third-party fact checkers and show their findings below the original post, the world’s largest online social network said on Thursday as it tries to fight so-called fake news. The company said in a statement on its website it will start using updated machine learning to detect …
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Kosovo’s new parliament convened Thursday for the first time since a snap election in June, but deputies did not appoint a new speaker or hold a debate as the winning coalition struggled to secure a majority. The PAN coalition of parties made up of former guerrillas who fought in a war in 1998-99 gained 33.7 …
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Fatemah Qaderyan, 14, captain of a team of Afghan schoolgirls who captured the world’s attention at a U.S. robotics competition, lost her father in a deadly suicide attack on a Shi’ite mosque in the city of Herat, a provincial governor’s spokesman said. Mohammad Asif Qaderyan was wounded and later died after two suicide bombers detonated …
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A Russian man extradited from Finland two years ago on computer-fraud charges has been sentenced to 46 months in a U.S. prison for spreading malicious software and netting millions of dollars for himself. …
Two Ukrainian athletes, including an Olympic bronze medal winner, have received provisional suspensions after being charged with doping offenses, international sports officials say. …
A senior U.S. general in Europe says the U.S. military is keeping a close eye on Moscow’s planned military exercises in Russia and Belarus — exercises that some experts say could involve 100,000 troops. …
Climate change could make much of South Asia, home to a fifth of the world’s population, too hot for human survival by the end of this century, scientists warned Wednesday. If climate change continues at its current pace, deadly heat waves beginning in the next few decades will strike parts of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, …
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Families in rural Iraq will get access to urgently needed cash to invest in farming via a new money transfer program on mobile phones funded by the Belgium government, the United Nation’s food agency said Wednesday. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said the cash-for-work program will benefit more than 12,000 farmers in more than …
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