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U.S. officials say President Donald Trump will likely deliver an Iran policy speech next week, just days ahead of the October 15 deadline to certify whether Tehran is adhering to a landmark 2015 nuclear deal with global powers. …
Three powerful Russian businessmen who control the country’s largest commercial bank have filed the second of two defamation lawsuits in connection with a salacious intelligence report involving President Donald Trump. …
On Monday, a U.S. tourist destination became known as the site for a heinous crime. The worst shooting massacre in recent U.S. history killed 59 people and injured more than 500 in Las Vegas, Nevada. Police say 64-year-old Stephen Paddock fired into 22,000 at a Country Western concert. Now, images of the actual guns found …
U.S. President Donald Trump is going to Las Vegas on Wednesday, as investigators there continue to try to figure out why a gunman attacked a music festival from a hotel room high above, killing at least 58 people and then himself. “We’re going to see some of the folks that are recovering, some of the …
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In a historic, unprecedented move, a Georgian political party has nominated an openly gay candidate for public office. Running on the non-parliamentary opposition Republican Party ticket, Nino Bolkvadze, a 40-year-old lawyer and LGBT rights advocate, is seeking a city councillorship in Tbilisi, the nation’s capital and largest city. “I want Georgia to be a better …
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is traveling to Iran for talks with President Hassan Rohani and Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei. …
Saudi Arabia’s King Salman will travel to Moscow for talks with President Vladimir Putin, the first visit to the Russian capital by a reigning Saudi monarch. …
The prime ministers of Bulgaria, Greece, and Romania have expressed support for Serbia’s bid to join them in the European Union, saying the move would help guarantee regional peace and security. …
They were school teachers and youth football coaches, real estate agents and local business owners. They were parents, siblings, husbands, wives, neighbors and friends. They traveled to Las Vegas to see their favorite stars, posting videos and photos to social media. At least 59 of them never made it home after a …
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People in Las Vegas, Nevada took part in a candlelight vigil Monday, honoring the victims of the worst mass shooting by a single gunman in the U.S., which left 59 dead and 527 injured. The shooter, Stephen Paddock, 64, of Mesquite, Nevada was found dead when police entered his room at the Mandalay Bay hotel. …
The European Union insisted Tuesday that Brexit negotiations with Britain will not move on to the question of future relations until enough progress has been made on divorce issues, such as how much the country’s exit bill should be. Britain desperately wants talks to move on to future trade and security arrangements but EU Commission …
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The bookkeeper of an independent trade union in Belarus, Ihar Komlik, who was charged with tax evasion in a case he calls politically motivated, has been released from pretrial detention. …
The European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) has ordered Russia to pay financial compensation to the independent newspaper Novaya Gazeta for violating its freedom of expression during hearings related to the publication’s reporting on the sinking of the Kursk submarine in 2000. …
The Kremlin has warned supporters of jailed opposition leader Aleksei Navalny not to hold rallies without permission from the authorities, saying that violators will be prosecuted. …
Iran says its military has held a joint military drill with the Iraqi armed forces amid tensions over a recent referendum on independence in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdish region. …
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As violence marred a banned independence vote by the Spanish region of Catalonia, Russian media drew attention to the clashes and accused Brussels of double standards and “repressive” meddling. …
Thailand’s prime minister is visiting the White House, a rare honor for a military leader who seized power in a 2014 coup and has resisted returning the country to democratic rule. President Donald Trump and the first lady welcomed Prayuth Chan-ocha and his wife to the White House Monday, where the two leaders held talks …
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Myanmar told the United Nations refugee agency on Monday that its top priority was to bring back Rohingyas who have fled to Bangladesh. Bangladesh and Myanmar agreed on Monday to set up a “working group” to plan the repatriation of more than half a million Rohingya Muslim refugees who have fled to Bangladesh to …
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Azerbaijani authorities say they arrested more than 80 people last month who offered “sexual services,” following reports by international rights groups that the government had rounded up dozens of members of the country’s gay community. …
A U.K.-based Syrian human rights watchdog says 3,055 civilians and fighters were killed in the country’s civil war during September, the highest monthly total this year. …
The death toll from Mexico’s magnitude 7.1 earthquake rose to 361 on Sunday after another casualty was confirmed in the capital, where a search continued at a collapsed seven-story office building in a central neighborhood. National Civil Defense chief Luis Felipe Puente reported on Twitter that the dead include 220 people killed in Mexico …
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Russian opposition politician Aleksei Navalny is scheduled to appear at an administrative hearing on October 2 on charges of repeatedly organizing illegal demonstrations. …
Facebook Inc founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg asked for forgiveness for ways his work was used to divide people in a Facebook posting marking the end of Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday of atonement on Saturday. “For the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together, I ask forgiveness …
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