Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev was among the early voters in a referendum on constitutional changes expected to strengthen his grip on power. Voters are being asked to decide on 29…
continue readingOn September 15, one day after he accused Georgia’s former ruling United National Movement (EMN) of seeking to “radicalize” the situation in the run-up to the October 8 parliamentary elections,…
continue readingTensions were high in Charlotte, North Carolina this past week after police fatally shot a man there. There were accusations of the killing being another example of police using excessive…
continue readingThe Vladimir Monomakh, Russia’s newest nuclear-armed submarine, has reached its permanent base at Viluchinsk on the Far Eastern Kamchatka Peninsula. …
continue readingFrench President Francois Hollande has vowed to shut down a migrant camp in Calais by the end of the year. During a visit to the port of Calais Monday, Hollande…
continue readingBosnian Serbs have voted overwhelmingly in favor of keeping a disputed holiday that a constitutional court had said discriminates against non-Serbs. The referendum organized by the local government in the…
continue readingAt a heated UN Security Council session, the United States and Russia gave opposing interpretations of recent events in the Syrian conflict. The U.S. accused Russia of “barbarism” by bombing…
continue readingThe attorney general of the central-western Mexican state of Michoacan said a priest was found shot dead Sunday, becoming the third cleric to be kidnapped and killed in the country…
continue readingSome Muslim clerics in Uzbekistan’s mosques have called participation in the country’s cotton harvest an “obligation of Uzbek Muslims.” …
continue readingThe city of Dnipro in eastern Ukraine is observing a day of mourning on September 26 to honor two traffic police officers killed in the line of duty in the…
continue readingThe United States and South Korea conducted naval exercises Monday as the potential for regional conflict is incrementally growing over North Korea’s advancing nuclear threat. The USS Spruance, an American…
continue readingChinese authorities are investigating a North Korean bank suspected of financing its government’s imports of goods that might be used by the North’s nuclear weapons program, a South Korean newspaper…
continue readingPeople were free to move about the eastern U.S. city of Charlotte, North Carolina, Monday after three days of overnight curfews meant to control protests over a deadly shooting by…
continue readingAzerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev and his family have cast their ballots in a controversial referendum on constitutional amendments that are expected to strengthen the grip on power of Aliyev and…
continue readingMany people still don’t know who they want as U.S. president. And there are new tech tools to help. Startups are creating products that try to change behavior and increase…
continue readingA final peace agreement between Colombia’s government and a national guerrilla movement is to be signed Monday, bringing to an end the longest-running insurgency in the Western hemisphere. “It’s the…
continue readingAs most big-city dwellers know, parking in public garages during a busy weekday can be very frustrating. It often seems to take forever to find an empty space… and even…
continue readingBritain, France, and the United States have lashed out at Russia for its actions in Syria, amid an intensification of the bombing campaign over the northern city of Aleppo. …
continue readingU.S. presidential candidates were meeting separately with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Sunday, on the eve of their first presidential debate. Netanyahu met privately with Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump…
continue readingA 20-year-old suspect arrested in connection with the shooting spree at a mall in the northwestern U.S. state of Washington is being held without bond Sunday and faces five counts…
continue readingBosnian Serbs have voted overwhelmingly to maintain a “statehood day” holiday on January 9 in a controversial referendum held in defiance of a high-court ruling from Sarajevo. …
continue readingJean Shepard, “the grand lady of the Grand Ole Opry” who had a long recording career as an influential female in country music, died Sunday, according to an Opry spokeswoman.…
continue readingU.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx said Sunday that his counterparts in the Group of Seven nations welcomed U.S. guidelines on regulating self-driving cars and have agreed to work together on…
continue readingTime is running out for Congress to keep the U.S. government open and fully functioning. Federal spending authority expires at midnight Friday and, so far, Democrats and Republicans have been…
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