If expected military offensives rout the Islamic State group from the cities that are its strongholds in Syria and Iraq, military analysts and Kurdish commanders say the extremists would establish…
continue readingThe United Nations is appealing to the international community to pay more attention to Yemen, which it considers one of the worst humanitarian crises in the world. Most media attention…
continue readingRecent contacts made by the national security advisors of Pakistan and India should help de-escalate tensions between the nuclear-armed rivals over the disputed Himalayan region of Kashmir, a prominent Pakistani…
continue readingStop reading the news and take up yoga. That’s what some therapists in the United States are telling patients stressed out by a nasty presidential campaign in which two unpopular…
continue readingThe late Arnold Palmer was given a moving, highly emotional and often humorous tribute by leading figures from the golf world on Tuesday during a lengthy memorial service in his…
continue readingHungary’s parliament could change the constitution to reject the EU’s mandatory migrant resettlement on November 8, with the ban taking force by mid-November, the ruling Fidesz party said on Tuesday,…
continue readingFirms from Kazakhstan and Russia have signed a deal on uranium-enrichment services. …
continue readingA court in Russia has sentenced a Turkish citizen to four years in jail after finding him guilty of being an active member of the Islamic State (IS) extremist organization…
continue readingA Georgian opposition lawmaker’s car has exploded in a suspected bombing in Tbilisi that injured five passersby. …
continue readingGunmen on the outskirts of Quetta, Pakistan have killed four Shi’ite women from the ethnic Hazara minority after stopping a passenger bus that they were traveling on. …
continue readingThe European Parliament has approved the landmark Paris climate change pact, putting the accord over the threshold needed for the global deal to come into force in November. …
continue readingRussia’s Defense Ministry has confirmed that it has deployed an S-300 missile system to its Mediterranean naval base at Tartus, Syria. …
continue readingUzbekistan’s new leader is already making a difference in regional politics in Central Asia. In less than a month, Shavkat Mirziyaev has moved to improve ties with Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and…
continue readingAn aide to Vladimir Putin says the Russian president will visit Turkey on October 10 for talks with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. …
continue readingThe 2000 agreement — intended to make arms reductions irreversible by committing Russia and the United States to convert parts of their stockpiles of weapons-grade plutonium into fuel for nuclear…
continue readingU.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says Washington won’t abandon its attempts to bring peace to Syria, despite a break in direct talks with Russia on a cease-fire. …
continue readingThe doping ban imposed against Russian tennis star Maria Sharapova has been reduced from two years to 15 months. …
continue readingEthiopian police have arrested a blogger who criticized the government, especially its handling of the ongoing protests in the Oromia and Amhara regions. Seyoum Teshome, an outspoken university lecturer who…
continue readingRussia says its embassy compound in the Syrian capital has come under shelling from rebels. …
continue readingThe European Parliament has overwhelmingly endorsed the ratification of the Paris climate agreement, in the presence of U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. With 610 votes for, 38 against and 31 abstentions,…
continue readingTurkey has suspended some 12,800 police officers over their alleged links to U.S.-based Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen. …
continue readingIran’s state oil producer, National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC), has signed a new model investment contract with an Iranian firm. …
continue readingThe pangolin is an unlikely candidate for the spotlight. For starters, the scaly, anteater-like creature is shy, smelly and mostly nocturnal. Yet the humble pangolin has had a star turn…
continue readingThe OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has expressed concern over the “harsh sentences” handed down to two prominent media personalities in Kazakhstan. …
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