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Security was tight on October 29 as Sri Lanka’s cricket squad arrived in Lahore to play the final of a three-match series, eight years after its players and team officials were attacked by terrorists in the city. …
Hundreds of men and women have joined forces with firefighters to help control a wildfire that has ravaged more than a quarter of a national park in Brazil’s central state of Goias. Brazil’s Environment Ministry says nearly 160,000 acres of the 595,000-acre Chapada dos Veadeiros National Park has burned since it began Oct. 10. The …
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The Russian Emergency Situations Ministry says it has dispatched a rescue team to Norway to aid in efforts to recover the crew and passengers of a Russian Mi-8 helicopter that had gone missing off the Arctic Svalbard archipelago. …
The head of the United Nations nuclear watchdog has arrived in Tehran for talks on October 29 with senior Iranian officials, as opposition from the United States threatens to undermine a landmark international agreement to limit Iran’s nuclear program. …
An Afghan official says at least nine police officers have been killed in separate attacks by Taliban insurgents on police checkpoints in eastern Ghazni province. Arif Noori, spokesman for the provincial governor, says two police checkpoints came under attack by Taliban fighters in the early hours Saturday, also wounding two police. He said six insurgents …
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A passenger bus heading toward Nepal’s capital has veered off a key highway early Saturday, killing at least 14 people and injuring 15, police said. The bus drove off the highway early Saturday and plunged into the Trishuli River, which is known for fast currents, said police official Dhruba Raj Raut. The bodies were pulled …
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The U.S. defense secretary says the U.S. will never accept a nuclear-armed North Korea. Jim Mattis said Saturday in Seoul that the North’s aggressive nuclear and missile development programs are undermining the isolated nation’s security instead of securing it. Mattis warned the North that its military is no match for the military might of the …
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While the FBI was investigating possible involvement of the Soviet Union in the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy, the Soviet authorities were voicing suspicions that U.S. right-wing groups — and even Kennedy’s own vice president — were behind the killing, newly released documents show. …
U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has filed charges for the first time against an unidentified target of his investigation into Russian meddling in last year’s U.S. presidential election, media reported late on October 27. …
Jose wears an ankle monitor on his right leg. Caught crossing the U.S.-Mexican border, the Honduran native was detained for about 17 months in an immigration facility, first in Texas and then in New Jersey, where his bail was set at $20,000. Jose, who asked not to be identified by his real name, did not …
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The head of a Moscow theater has been placed under house arrest in connection with a politically charged fraud case involving another prominent Russian director. …
Egypt’s state news agency MENA says security forces have killed 12 armed militants in the country’s western desert. No police were killed in the incident Friday. MENA reported that an anonymous security source said, “Security forces dealt a severe blow to the terrorist elements in revenge for the blood of the men who were martyred …
U.S. Defense Secretary Jim Mattis said there has been no change in the United States policy protecting South Korea, in the face of missile and nuclear threats from North Korea. Speaking to U.S. and South Korean troops Friday at the Panmunjom “truce village” where South meets North, Mattis said “We’re doing everything we can to …
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While visiting Burkina Faso in August, the head of the Confederation of African Football (CAF) said Cameroon still needed “to convince CAF of its ability to host” the 2019 Africa Cup of Nations. For CAF president Ahmad, who uses only one name, it was his clearest indication that Cameroon could lose its right to host …
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A company with ties to an ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin has won the right to develop a prime piece of Moscow real estate near the Kremlin, two sources familiar with the deal told Reuters. Moscow city government auctioned off the plot, which lies on the bank’s of the Moskva river and includes a …
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The United States blacklisted seven North Korean officials and three government entities Thursday, saying they had engaged in human rights abuses that were “among the worst in the world.” The State Department and Treasury imposed economic sanctions on officials in Pyongyang’s military security, labor and diplomatic outposts, as well as forced labor operations in foreign …
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The U.S. House of Representatives, in a near-unanimous vote, approved legislation to impose new sanctions related to Iran’s ballistic-missile program, an issue separate from the 2015 international nuclear deal with Tehran. …
Toyota has apologized to the United States after a subsidiary sold a single vehicle to the Iranian Embassy in India, underscoring foreign companies’ reluctance to do business with Tehran despite a two-year-old nuclear deal easing sanctions. …
U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson says the United States sees no role for President Bashar al-Assad in any future Syrian government. …
An explosion in Kyiv on Wednesday killed a bodyguard and wounded three people, including Ukrainian lawmaker Ihor Mosiychuk, Ukrainian officials said, describing the incident as a deliberate attack. Mosiychuk, a member of the opposition Radical Party, was hospitalized but did not suffer life-threatening injuries, while his bodyguard was killed, according to party leader Oleh Lyashko. …
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U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley issued a stern warning Wednesday to South Sudan’s president, telling him “the hate and the violence that we are seeing has to stop” or the U.S. will reconsider its financial support for the country. “It was a very honest conversation. I basically said the United States had …
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The United States and the six Gulf states on Wednesday imposed sanctions on several individuals and entities accused of supporting the Islamic State and al-Qaida in Yemen. The U.S. Treasury Department said the action was the first coordinated effort under the Terrorist Financing Targeting Center (TFTC), which is co-chaired by the United States and Saudi …
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An explosion in Kyiv late on October 25 killed one man and wounded three others, including Ukrainian lawmaker Ihor Mosiychuk of the opposition nationalist Radical Party, an Interior Ministry official said in a post on Facebook. …