Critics of a peace deal between the Afghan government and a militant group led by a notorious warlord accused of atrocities are protesting the agreement by changing their Facebook profile…
continue readingFormer U.S. President Bill Clinton joined thousands of Israeli mourners Thursday who paid their respects to the late Shimon Peres outside Israel’s parliament in Jerusalem, as the country somberly remembered…
continue readingThe Kyrgyz parliament has approved in the first reading a draft law on holding a referendum on constitutional amendments. …
continue readingRussia said Thursday it supports a 48-hour cease-fire in the northern Syrian city of Aleppo, but not a longer truce proposed by the United States. Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei…
continue readingA pro-democracy group founded by exiled Kremlin critic and former oligarch Mikhail Khodorkovsky has launched a project to fund online media startups. …
continue readingHuman rights groups have condemned a decision by an Iranian court to uphold a long-term prison sentence against human rights activist Narges Mohammadi. …
continue readingWhen Phyu Phyu Hlaing looks at Donald Trump, she sees more than just the man she won’t vote for in November. For the Burmese American mother of two, the Republican…
continue readingGoing door to door isn’t easy – and healthcare reform is hardly a quick sell especially in an election season when armies of volunteers spread out to pitch everything from…
continue readingAlmost 160,000 immigrants from Burma, also called Myanmar, have come to the United States over the past ten years. Thousands have settled around the San Francisco Bay, where Mike O’Sullivan…
continue readingVoters in the swing state of Colorado aren’t just going to the polls to pick a new president this November, they’ll also decide if they want to abandon the Obama…
continue readingAt an exhibition in Moscow, a Russian man has vandalized photos taken from a conflict zone in eastern Ukraine. …
continue readingNotorious Afghan warlord Gulbuddin Hekmatyar called for peace on September 29 as he appeared by video to sign an accord with President Ashraf Ghani. …
continue readingIndia’s army said Thursday that it launched “surgical strikes” against suspected militants along the border with Pakistan, but Islamabad rejected the claim, calling it an incident of cross-border firing. …
continue readingRussia says it views the latest U.S. statement on Syria as tantamount to supporting terrorism. …
continue readingA senior police official says gunmen have kidnapped the executive director of Pakistan’s main media group. …
continue readingA court in Kyrgyzstan’s southern city of Osh has jailed four men after convicting them of membership in the Islamic State (IS) extremist group. …
continue readingDonald Trump and Hillary Clinton are campaigning Thursday in the states where each won their first victory on the path to becoming the next U.S. president. Trump has an event…
continue readingPakistan says Indian troops have killed two of its soldiers on the Pakistani side of disputed Kashmir. …
continue readingBulgaria has nominated European Union Commissioner Kristalina Georgieva to be the next United Nations secretary-general in a bid to install the first eastern European in the post. …
continue readingU.S. President Obama has said Congress made a “mistake” by overriding his veto and pushing through a bill that allows legal action against Saudi Arabia over the September 11, 2001…
continue readingUkraine is marking the 75th anniversary of the World War II-era mass execution of 33,771 Jews at the Babi Yar ravine with official remembrances at the killing site on the outskirts…
continue readingYacouba Sawadogo, a farmer who turned an area of semi-desert into a forest in Burkina Faso, fears he will lose the land of his ancestors to developers who will tear…
continue readingUnder a newly-signed peace deal to end Colombia’s war, women who have been raped by military forces or rebel fighters may expect to have the crimes against them investigated by…
continue readingChechnya’s newly elected strongman leader, Ramzan Kadyrov, has sought to weed out challenges to his rule. Supporters say his iron fist approach is needed to maintain peace in Chechnya after…
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