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Romania’s parliament has agreed to hold a referendum on public support for fighting corruption. The move on February 13 failed to appease antigovernment demonstrators, however, who gathered for a 14th consecutive night of protests in the capital, Bucharest. …
Cocaine is probably the last thing most people think about when buying roses. But every year, police and growers in Colombia must work around the clock to make sure that the romance of Valentine’s Day isn’t spoiled by the drug, the nation’s other major export along with flowers. As much as 330,000 pounds (150 metric …
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French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron’s party chief said Macron is being targeted by Russian media and internet attacks with the goal of helping the election campaigns of his pro-Moscow rivals. …
Japanese officials have said they lodged a protest with Russia over Moscow’s decision to give names to five formerly unnamed islands of a disputed chain known as the Southern Kuriles in Russia. …
National security adviser Michael Flynn has resigned after reports he misled Trump administration officials about his contacts with Russia’s ambassador to the U.S. Flynn’s departure less than one month into the Trump administration marks an extraordinarily early shakeup in the president’s senior team of advisers. Flynn was a loyal Trump supporter throughout the campaign, but …
After he was denied asylum in the U.S., Seidu Mohammed’s fear of being deported to his native Ghana, where he believes he’d be killed or jailed, became so great that he set out in brutal winter conditions to cross illegally into Canada. Mohammed and his friend lost all their fingers to frostbite after a 10-hour …
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The Kremlin has weighed in on a heated discussion in the United States over telephone conversations President Donald Trump’s national security adviser held with the Russian ambassador to Washington in late December. …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has stressed that Moscow is hoping for closer cooperation with the United States on Syria under new U.S. President Donald Trump. …
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U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said Monday he regrets the U.S. rejection of his pick to be the world body’s next envoy for Libya. He called former Palestinian prime minister Salam Fayyad “the right person for the right job at the right time.” The United States blocked Fayyad’s appointment Friday, with U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. …
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President Donald Trump’s carefully worded and measured condemnation of North Korea’s missile test on Sunday leaves unclear what new policies he may pursue to halt the Kim Jong Un government’s advancing nuclear program. Standing alongside Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who called North Korea’s missile launch “absolutely intolerable,” Trump said, “The United States of America …
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A Kenyan judge has jailed officials of a national doctors’ union for a month because of an ongoing strike. The public hospital doctors are seeking better pay and working conditions. They have been on strike since December 5. The doctors want the government to implement a 2013 salary and working conditions agreement, and have rejected …
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The United Nations said Sunday that last week’s U.S. airstrikes in southern Afghanistan could have killed at least 18 civilians. The strikes targeted insurgent positions on Thursday and Friday in Sangin, an embattled district in the province of Helmand, according to a statement by the U.N. Assistance Mission in Afghanistan, or UNAMA. “UNAMA’s initial enquiries …
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The parliament of the break-away republic of Somaliland has overwhelming approved a deal to allow the United Arab Emirates to establish an air and naval base in the port town of Berbera. Somaliland President Ahmed Mohamed Silanyo presented the motion on Sunday to a joint session by both houses of the parliament, saying “it …
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Swiss voters have chosen to ease rules for for third-generation immigrants to gain citizenship. …
The United Nations chief says Islamophobia is fueling terrorism and global tensions, amid a rise in anti-immigrant policies in some countries around the world. …
Hundreds of people surrounded St. Isaac’s Cathedral amid competing protests over transferring the famed St. Petersburg building to the Russian Orthodox Church. …
North Korea launched a ballistic missile early Sunday over the Sea of Japan. South Korean military officials said the projectile fell into the sea. The incident was the first military launch by North Korea since U.S. President Donald Trump took office 22 days ago. The initial reaction from Western analysts was that Pyongyang appeared to …
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President Donald Trump has promised that the country’s immigration system will not be used as a tool to advance the cause of foreign terrorists. In his weekly broadcast address to the American people, Trump said he met this week with sheriffs and police chiefs from around the country and pledged that he and his attorney …
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President Donald Trump’s administration is stepping back from a request made by the Obama administration in an ongoing lawsuit over bathroom rights for transgender students in public schools. The Department of Justice on Friday withdrew a motion asking that a temporary injunction blocking Obama administration guidance on the issue only apply to the states suing …
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An exhibition of Russian revolutionary art objects has opened in London’s Royal Academy of Arts, part of events to mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution …
Iran’s supreme leader has told Sweden’s Prime Minister Stefan Lofven that Sweden has a good reputation among Iranians and is seen by Tehran as a reliable economic partner. …
The Iraqi Interior Ministry says an Iraqi policeman was killed and seven other wounded during clashes in Baghdad with protesters loyal to the prominent Shi’ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr. …