In yet another sign of Turkmenistan’s economic plunge, the state is said to be removing money from the paychecks of at least some employees of state institutions. (The views expressed…
continue readingThe timing was uncomfortable. One of Africa’s best-performing economies on Wednesday launched its latest massive infrastructure project, a railway linking the landlocked country with a major port on the Gulf…
continue readingHurricane Matthew left a trail of death and destruction as it crossed over Haiti and Cuba and made its way towards the Bahamas Wednesday morning. The National Hurricane Center in…
continue readingRussia’s Supreme Court has annulled the records of the arrest, conviction, and sentence of two activists who demonstrated against President Vladimir Putin’s reelection on Moscow’s Bolotnaya Square in 2012. …
continue readingResidents in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz have fled or face deteriorating conditions as fighting between security forces and Taliban militants there entered its third day. …
continue readingThe Kremlin says it is unhappy with frequent references to Russia and President Vladimir Putin in the U.S. presidential campaign. …
continue readingThe Nobel jury awarded three scientists, Jean-Pierre Sauvage, James Fraser Stoddart and Bernard Feringa, with its Nobel Prize in chemistry Wednesday for the trio’s work developing molecular machines. The laureates…
continue readingU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has urged the Taliban to follow the recent example of an Afghan warlord and strike its own peace deal with the Kabul government. …
continue readingIn July 2016, the ancient Armenian city of Ani, now in eastern Turkey, was inscribed as a UNESCO World Heritage site. For Armenians, a people still living under the shadow…
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continue readingMusic blared from speakers everywhere inside and outside the auditorium where the church of Our Lady of La Vang in Houston held its annual fund drive last weekend. As thousands…
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continue readingEU ambassadors have given the green light to negotiations between the European Council and the European Parliament on visa liberalization for Georgia. …
continue readingBrazilian President Michel Temer’s government introduced to Congress on Tuesday a landmark constitutional amendment to cap public spending, pressing ahead with unpopular reforms in the wake of last weekend’s municipal…
continue readingWhile the nation watched two would-be U.S. vice presidents debate for the first and only time this election season, the setting was a small town and a small college campus.…
continue readingHundreds of South Koreans who live near the future deployment site of the U.S. THAAD missile defense system staged a protest in Seoul Wednesday. Gimcheon Mayor Park Bo-saeng told the…
continue readingA prominent Hong Kong democracy activist was reportedly detained in Thailand at the request of Chinese authorities before being sent back on a plane to Hong Kong. Joshua Wong, a…
continue readingAbout a dozen people were arrested in cities across the U.S. on Tuesday for running what authorities called a sophisticated sex trafficking operation in which hundreds of women were brought…
continue readingIn a stormy debate, the two main candidates for U.S. vice president clashed over relations to Russia. Democratic Tim Kaine accused Republican nominee Donald Trump of admiring Russian President Vladimir…
continue readingOfficials in Russia’s second largest city, St. Petersburg, are now required to report about their contacts with foreign entities every three months. …
continue readingColombian officials met Tuesday in Cuba with representatives from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia for talks to try and save a peace deal, but it is unclear how willing…
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continue readingAfghanistan’s leaders and officials from more than 70 states are gathering in Brussels on October 5, seeking to raise billions of dollars in funding for the conflict-ridden country. …
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