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After years of stagnation and high unemployment, the eurozone countries appear to be bouncing back with growth in the shared currency bloc, soaring higher than in the United States and Britain. The eurozone grew at an annual rate of 1.7 percent during the first three months of 2017, while the bloc’s trade surplus doubled in …
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A pair of Chinese fighter jets conducted an “unprofessional” intercept of an American radiation-sniffing surveillance plane over the East China Sea, the U.S. Air Force said Friday, the latest in a series of such incidents that have raised U.S. concerns in an already tense region. On Wednesday, the two Chinese SU-30 jets approached a …
U.S. President Donald Trump is heading on his first foreign trip since taking office, as the U.S. capital reels from the deepening crisis surrounding the investigation into Trump’s associates and their ties to Russian officials. …
Philippine authorities have arrested 25 South Koreans for alleged internet fraud and illegal online gambling. The Bureau of Immigration said Friday 12 of them are wanted back home for allegedly operating an online business scam duping their compatriots into investing money in bogus real estate projects in the Philippines. Their arrests Wednesday in a posh …
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U.S. forces have for the first time bombed a convoy of Syrian government and Iranian-backed militia forces after Russia was unable to keep them from entering an area where U.S. allies have been preparing to battle the Islamic State (IS) extremist group, the Pentagon says. …
The leaders of six Western Balkan countries are scheduled to meet with the European Union’s top diplomat on May 24 to discuss ways to overcome rising tensions and further their bids to join the EU. …
U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday disparaged the appointment of a special prosecutor to investigate his campaign’s links to Russian interests in last year’s presidential election, calling it “the single greatest witch hunt of a politician in American history!” In a pair of early morning comments on his Twitter account, Trump complained that a special …
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Somalia’s al-Shabab publicly cut off the right hands of two men on Thursday after a sharia court convicted them of breaking into a shop and stealing about $500, the al-Qaida-linked group said. The two men had confessed to the theft in Tiyeglow district of the southern Bakool region and were ordered to refund the money, …
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Ukraine is commemorating the victims of Soviet dictator Josef Stalin’s mass deportation of Tatars from Crimea in 1944. …
Older white Americans are nearly twice as likely as African-Americans to say they’ve saved enough for retirement, a new poll found. The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research survey also found that African- Americans and Latinos have less financial security than whites and will rely on fewer sources of income during retirement. The retirement …
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Elderly people in Vladivostok were pretty scathing when asked about their pensions, saying Russian leaders were only interested in lining their own pockets. (Current Time TV) …
An apparent Twitter hoax has duped major Russian and European media into falsely reporting the death of Belarusian author and Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich. …
On May 17, 1954, 63 years ago today, the social construct of the United States forever changed when the U.S. Supreme Court delivered its ruling in the case of Brown versus the Board of Education. “…we unanimously hold that separate but equal has no place in the U.S. Constitution.” Then chief Justice Earl Warren said that was …
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A court in Ethiopia has sentenced 23 people to up to 15 years in prison for establishing links to the al-Qaida and al-Shabab extremist groups. The Ethiopian Federal High Court says they had been accused of planning to carry out terror attacks inside the East African country. The state-affiliated Fana Broadcasting Corporate quotes the …
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Armenia’s Republican Party (HHK), which won last month’s parliamentary elections, has proposed former Health Minister Ara Babloyan for the position of parliament speaker. …
The Philippine government has told the European Union it will no longer accept development aid from the bloc, putting at risk programs to assist poor and conflict-hit regions in the country’s south, Europe’s ambassador said on Wednesday. Ambassador Franz Jessen said the decision to cut aid from the EU, a strong critic of President Rodrigo …
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Two key Senate committees have demanded information about U.S. President Donald Trump’s firing of the director of the FBI, suggesting deepening political problems for the White House. …
U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration is extending sanctions relief for Iran that was granted under the 2015 nuclear agreement, while imposing new economic penalties over Iranian ballistic-missile activity. …
Hundreds of Africans living in the northern U.S. state of Minnesota are about to lose their temporary immigrant status. As many as 5,000 people were granted the special protected status in 2014 when an Ebola epidemic hit three West African nations, allowing residents from the impacted countries to live and work in the U.S. legally …
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Supporters and protesters of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan demonstrated in Lafayette Park outside the White House as U.S. President Donald Trump hosted Erdogan, in Washington on Tuesday. …
A study by the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF shows that one in four children in the Middle East and North Africa lives in poverty and deprivation, lacking even the most basic necessities, such as proper housing and safe water. The study, released this week, covered 11 Arab countries and found that 29 million children …
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Countries must decide whether they support North Korea or those opposed to its nuclear and missile programs, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley has said, vowing to “call out” states backing Pyongyang. …
A Kazakh journalist and civic activist has accused authorities of involvement in his stabbing as he was traveling by train to meet European officials to discuss media freedoms in the Central Asian state. …
The U.S. Treasury says it has imposed sanctions against five people and five entities accused of providing support to Syria’s government or linked to those previously sanctioned over the Syrian government’s reprisals against its citizens. …