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Many Iranians have taken to social media to criticize U.S. President Donald Trump for taking a harder line on the Islamic republic and decertifying the 2015 landmark nuclear agreement with Iran, which is believed to enjoy significant support in the country. …
U.S. President Donald Trump’s announcement to “decertify” Iran on its compliance with the landmark 2015 nuclear accord has sent ripples throughout the Middle East and Europe, raising questions on everything from U.S. obligations to international agreements to whether Tehran will respond with more covert activity in the region. …
Football icon George Weah and Vice President Joseph Boakai are the early front-runners in Liberia’s presidential election results, but election officials said only a third of the ballots had been counted Thursday, three days after the vote. Voters cast their ballots Tuesday, marking the West African nation’s first smooth transition of power from one democratically …
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Human rights group Amnesty International held events Thursday to mark 100 days since several of its Turkish staffers were detained in Istanbul. This week, Turkish prosecutors officially filed an indictment against 10 of the human rights activists detained in July, along with Amnesty’s Turkey chairman Taner Kilic, and demanded jail sentences of up to 15 years …
A Pakistani court has delayed the indictment of former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his daughter and son-in-law on corruption charges following clashes between his supporters and police. …
U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to withdraw his support for the Iran nuclear agreement Friday, but stop short of completely scrapping the deal. The U.S. leader is expected to outline a new strategy. Trump will likely declare that it is not in the U.S. national security interests to certify the 2015 deal that Washington …
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Russian cybersecurity firm Kaspersky Lab said on October 12 that it has expanded its relationship with global law enforcement agency Interpol, agreeing to share threat data to help the global fight against cybercrime. …
Russia on October 12 accused the United States of denying entry to military officials who were planning to conduct a joint Russian-Chinese briefing criticizing U.S. missile defense systems at the United Nations. …
U.S. officials have told The Associated Press that the United States is pulling out of UNESCO, after repeated criticism of resolutions by the U.N. cultural agency that Washington sees as anti-Israel. While the U.S. stopped funding UNESCO after it voted to include Palestine as a member in 2011, the State Department has maintained a UNESCO …
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Four Syrian children have offered a glimpse into the hardship and heartbreak of life as a refugee, by filming their everyday lives over six months. The charity ‘Theirworld’, which commissioned the films, hopes to remind world leaders of their promise of an education for all Syrian children, as Henry Ridgwell reports. …
The wife of an Azerbaijani journalist who had sought refuge in Georgia has left Tbilisi for Germany. …
Four Syrian children offered a glimpse into the hardship and heartbreak of life as a refugee by making videos about their everyday lives over six months, hoping to remind world leaders of their promise to educate Syrian children. “I studied until the 8th grade, whilst I was in Palmyra, which is three hours away from …
Read more “Young Syrian Refugees Film Lives to Remind World Leaders of Education Pledge”
The governor of Russia’s western region of Pskov has resigned — the 11th regional leader to leave his post in recent weeks ahead of a March 2018 presidential election. …
Russia’s Khanty-Mansi Autonomous Region produces half of the country’s oil — but its wealth has done little to help generations of workers there. Thousands of residents live in dilapidated mobile trailers that were brought in decades ago and never replaced with permanent housing. (Vadim Kondakov, Current Time TV). …
Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko has urged the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) to keep pressure on Moscow over “the Russian aggression in Ukraine,” urging the assembly not to return to “business as usual” with Russia. …
The European Union says it won’t transfer a final tranche of loans worth 28 million euros ($33 million) to support the reforms of the country’s justice system, as the authorities have not fulfilled the boc’s conditions for receiving the money. …
A look at the best news photos from around the world. …
Kenya’s election board said on Wednesday that all eight presidential candidates who competed in elections in August – later nullified by the Supreme Court – would be on the ballot when repeat elections were held on Oct. 26. The board also noted that opposition leader Raila Odinga, the main challenger to incumbent President Uhuru Kenyatta, …
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EU ambassadors have agreed to recognize the European aspirations of Georgia, Moldova, and Ukraine, according to a draft statement of next months’ Eastern Partnership summit seen by RFE/RL. …
The Boy Scouts of America announced Wednesday that it would allow girls to join its clubs at various levels. “This decision is true to the BSA’s mission and core values outlined in the Scout Oath and Law. The values of Scouting – trustworthy, loyal, helpful, kind, brave and reverent, for example – are important for …
Notorious winds linked to many of California’s worst wildfires are known by various names — Diablo, Santa Ana and Sundowner — but all share the trait of being able to whip a spark into a deadly inferno that seems to come out of nowhere. Here’s a look at where and when these winds occur: Diablo …
A lawsuit seeking to represent the victims of the Las Vegas rampage, the deadliest mass shooting in modern U.S. history, was filed against the makers of so-called bump stocks, which the shooter used to achieve a near-automatic rate of fire. The proposed class action lawsuit, filed in state court in Clark County, Nevada, over the …
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In the lowlands of Trujillo Alto, a sprawling suburb of San Juan, clean water again flows in the homes of most residents. But in the mountainous part of the city, which is largely poor and semirural, finding clean water remains a daily struggle. Across Puerto Rico, officials say, altitude matters. While workers are making steady …
Read more “Hurricane Recovery Slower in Puerto Rican Mountains”
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan continues a visit to Serbia on October 11 with a visit to Sandzak, a mainly Muslim populated region. …