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Intel said Wednesday it would become a major sponsor of the International Olympic Committee, making the computer chipmaker the latest technology company to put marketing dollars behind the global sporting event. The new deal, which goes until 2024, comes a week after longtime Olympics sponsor McDonald’s Corp bowed out of its sponsorship deal three years …
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The silver medalist at the Beijing Olympics Anastasia Kapachinskaya and two other Russian athletes were banned for four years on June 21 for doping. …
Russia’s defense minister said on June 21 that the security situation near the nation’s western borders has worsened and Russia will beef up forces there. …
Yury Drozdov, the Soviet spymaster who oversaw a sprawling network of KGB agents living clandestinely abroad, died on June 21. He was 91. …
Travis Kalanick, the combative and troubled CEO of ride-hailing giant Uber, resigned Tuesday under pressure from investors. The company’s board confirmed the move early Tuesday, saying in a statement that Kalanick is taking time to heal from the death of his mother in a boating accident -while giving the company room to fully embrace this …
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Saudi Arabia’s King Salman has promoted his 31-year-old son Mohammed bin Salman to crown prince, making him next in line to the throne while also serving as defense minister and overseeing an effort to overhaul the country’s economy. The move was announced Wednesday through decrees issued by the state-run SPA news agency. The former crown …
Young Muslim women joined with women’s rights advocates in Washington, D.C. Tuesday evening to mourn a 17-year-old killed in nearby Sterling, Virginia over the weekend. As traffic swirled around DuPont Circle, a small circular park nestled in the center of one of Washington’s major boulevards, the diverse crowd listened to activists, poets, and an imam …
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The U.S. military says it has shot down an armed, Iranian-made drone that was bearing down on its forces near a garrison in Syria’s southeast. …
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has denounced new sanctions the United States announced against 38 people fighting with and supporting Russia-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine. …
Afghan security forces have recaptured Tora Bora, a former fortress of Al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, from Islamic State (IS) militants, officials confirmed. …
Saudi Arabia says that it captured three members of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) aboard a boat approaching the kingdom’s offshore Marjan oil field. …
Cameroon has detained 30 of its soldiers fighting Boko Haram in the northern part of the country. The Defense Ministry says the soldiers abandoned their positions in a protest over pay and working conditions. Military officials in Cameroon say the incident happened earlier this month. Several dozen Cameroonian soldiers erected barricades near the country’s border …
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Qatar says it will not negotiate with neighboring countries unless they cease their economic and travel “blockade” of the Gulf state. The countries have accused Qatar of supporting terrorism, a charge that Doha strongly denies. “We have to make it very clear for everyone, negotiations must be done in a civilized way and should have …
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Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko may have pulled off a small coup in winning an audience with U.S. President Donald Trump before Russian leader Vladimir Putin could. …
Cuban Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez called U.S. President Donald Trump’s recent speech on Cuba a “grotesque spectacle” that will only serve to strengthen the revolution, and criticized the Trump administration’s decision to roll back some Obama-era policies toward the island nation. “Cuba will make no concessions on its sovereignty and its independence,” Rodriguez told reporters …
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Ground staff in Kabul loaded a cargo plane for what officials said would be the first of many flights allowing Afghan and Indian companies to bypass Pakistan and its strict overland transit restrictions. (RFE/RL’s Radio Free Afghanistan) …
Brexit Secretary David Davis starts negotiations in Brussels on Monday that will set the terms on which Britain leaves the European Union and determine its relationship with the continent for generations to come. Almost a year to the day since Britons shocked themselves and their neighbors by voting on June 23 to cut loose from …
Police in London say a vehicle, possibly a van, has collided with pedestrians on a busy road in the northern part of the city, injuring several people early Monday. One person has been arrested after the incident near Finsbury Park in north London. Authorities were called to the scene shortly after midnight local time. An …
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s centrist party has won a clear majority in the lower house of parliament after the second round of voting on June 18, official results show. …
North Korea claimed Sunday that U.S. officials forcibly seized a diplomatic package from one of their delegations at John F. Kennedy Airport, calling it an “illegal and heinous act of provocation.” The official Korean Central News Agency said officials were returning from a U.N. conference on rights of persons with disabilities Friday when they …
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Cricket fans in Pakistan celebrated their team’s victory over archrival India in the Champions Trophy final, one of the country’s biggest wins ever in the sport. …
A U.S. jet shot down a Syrian government warplane after it attacked forces fighting against the Islamic State (IS) militant group, the U.S.-led coalition in Syria says. …
Two Pakistani diplomats based in a consulate office in the eastern Afghan city of Jalalabad have been missing since Friday, when they set off by road back to their homeland, Pakistan’s foreign office said Sunday. Islamabad did not speculate who may be behind the disappearances, but various Afghanistan-based Islamist groups have targeted diplomats in the …
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Taliban fighters stormed a police headquarters in eastern Afghanistan on June 18 after striking it with two suicide car bombs, killing at least five police officers, officials said. …