German prosecutors say they are investigating a case in which a 12-year-old boy allegedly tried to set off a home-made nail bomb at a Christmas market. Officials said Friday that…
continue readingOutgoing U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on Friday referred to Aleppo, Syria, as a “synonym for hell” during his final news conference before stepping down at the end of the year.…
continue readingHaving the world at your fingertips through the Internet was touted as a revolution in education, but a new study suggests Internet in the classroom is linked to poorer test…
continue readingPresident Barack Obama says that after government officials realized Russia had hacked the Democratic National Committee email system, he told Russian President Vladimir Putin to “cut it out” during a…
continue readingParents of Pakistani children killed in the 2014 attack on a Peshawar school gathered on December 16 to mark the second anniversary of the massacre. …
continue readingThis holiday season has a lot of offerings for moviegoers who may feel like celebrating with a film full of special effects, nods to Hollywood classics, A-list actors, thrills, action…
continue readingThe Pentagon says a Chinese warship has seized an unmanned U.S. Navy underwater glider that was collecting unclassified scientific data in the South China Sea. …
continue readingRafia Qaseem Baig’s special kind of courage and steady nerves are helping her to break down another gender barrier in Pakistan. She’s set to become the country’s first female bomb…
continue readingMoscow city authorities have refused to allow human rights activists to stage a protest in front of Turkmenistan’s embassy on December 19 in support of jailed Turkmen journalists. …
continue readingDivers searching for nine Azerbaijani oil workers missing after the partial collapse of a Caspian Sea oil platform have found a cabin used by workers during resting shifts. …
continue readingRussian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny has followed his declaration of intent to run in Russia’s next presidential election by saying one of his top priorities if elected would be to…
continue readingProminent Russian opposition leader Aleksei Navalny says he will finance his bid for the Russian presidency by collecting small donations from ordinary voters, in an interview with Timur Olyevsky of…
continue readingWhen I look at photos of Aleppo now, I am carried back to that time — one when there were no safe places and it was hard not to feel…
continue readingDutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte says he is confident parliament will approve a compromise he secured from other European Union leaders on an EU-Ukraine pact. …
continue readingMembers of Pakistan’s Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa assembly held a memorial on the second anniversary of a deadly militant attack on a school in Peshawar. They lit candles and said prayers on December…
continue readingCan the populist antiestablishment tsunami that has engulfed the West also strike Russia? Listen to this week’s Power Vertical Podcast. …
continue readingThe groups aligned in the Bloc of Opposition Forces in Georgia’s breakaway Republic of Abkhazia failed yet again on December 15 in their latest bid to force de facto President…
continue readingThe leader of a shadowy Russian private mercenary corps has been spotted at a lavish Kremlin reception for holders of military honors, in the strongest indication yet of the key…
continue readingThe European Union (EU) condemned Russia’s controversial “foreign agent” law after a Moscow court upheld the Justice Ministry’s decision to designate a prominent human rights organization as a foreign agent.…
continue readingChina has expressed “serious concerns” about President-elect Donald Trump’s decision to call into question the United States’ continued adherence to the “one China” policy. Since 1979, no United States president…
continue readingAn influential official who had been seen as the late President Islam Karimov’s possible successor has lost his job as finance minister as the Central Asian country’s new government takes…
continue readingSupporters of Macedonia’s ruling party held a rally at the state electoral commission, claiming the opposition was trying to steal their victory in this week’s election. They chanted patriotic slogans…
continue readingKyrgyzstan is preparing to issue updated bank notes, and one of the bills has some citizens seeing red. They think there’s something very odd about the portrait of a renowned…
continue readingAzerbaijani authorities say a Russian blogger who is wanted in Baku on separatism charges has been detained in Belarus. …
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