The Russian air force’s bombing campaign in Syria marked its first anniversary Friday, with Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov saying there was no “time frame” for the operation. The Kremlin has…
continue readingU.S. Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton attended two campaign events Friday in Florida as she tried to extend her newfound lead over opponent Donald Trump in a state that is…
continue readingPakistan announced Friday it would postpone a November meeting of the heads of South Asian countries, blaming arch-rival India for derailing the process of regional cooperation. The move comes…
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continue readingThe World Health Organization called Friday for the immediate evacuation of hundreds of sick and wounded people from eastern Aleppo, Syria. The WHO has estimated that children make up about…
continue readingBulgaria has banned face-covering Islamic veils in public, joining a small number of European countries that have done so as debate rages across Europe about religious freedoms and Islamic terrorism.…
continue readingPakistan has urged UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to personally intervene to help defuse rising tensions with India over the divided and disputed region of Kashmir. …
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continue readingRussia’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the Netherlands’ ambassador in Moscow over the Dutch-led international investigation which concluded that a Russian military missile fired from separatist-controlled territory in eastern Ukraine downed…
continue readingU.S. health authorities are urging men to wait six months before trying to conceive a baby with their partner if they have traveled to an area with the Zika virus,…
continue readingIn the basement office of his Southeast Asian Community Center in a gritty neighborhood of downtown San Francisco, Philip Nguyen runs down a list of issues he says matter to…
continue readingThe United Nations warns that conditions in Central Africa’s Lake Chad basin are threatening the lives of hundreds of thousands of people, among them many children. Food is short throughout the…
continue readingA popular refugee destination it is not, but South America may soon host a fresh wave of refugees under a U.S.-sponsored plan aimed at getting more countries to share in…
continue readingAzerbaijani’s parliament has passed a resolution on resuming relations with the European Parliament that have been suspended for more than a year. …
continue readingA former Ghanaian first lady and opposition National Democratic Party (NDP) presidential candidate has chosen Michael Kojo Mensah Sosu as her running mate ahead of the December 7 general election. Nana…
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continue readingIran opened a military theme park this week, designed to educate children as young as eight-years-old on how to fight in a war and fire weapons at its perceived Western…
continue readingRussian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has accused the United States of trying to protect a militant extremist group in Syria in its effort to overthrow the regime of Syrian President…
continue readingThe United States military says it is building a $100 million temporary base for surveillance drones in central Niger to help the West African country fight militant groups and protect…
continue readingPhotographer Alyaksandr Vasyukovich says the vandalism and subsequent raid this week on an exhibition of his and a colleague’s images of Ukrainian soldiers is a “sign of the times” in…
continue readingA Kazakh court has sentenced a former prison guard to nine years in jail for the rape of a female inmate. Ruslan Khakimov was found guilty on September 30 of…
continue readingIn terms of its reputation, Russia has had one of its worst weeks ever following the much-criticized bombing of Aleppo and an international investigation’s conclusion that a Russian missile brought…
continue readingWith most voters still undecided on the eve of Georgia’s parliamentary elections, a mysterious audio recording has surfaced that is apparently intended to smear former President Mikheil Saakashvili and his…
continue readingA strengthening Hurricane Matthew whipped at Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao early Friday as it passed north of the islands on a rare track through a part of the Caribbean that…
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