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continue readingLithuania, Latvia and Estonia intend to triple their annual spending on arms and military equipment to $670 million by 2018 from 2014 thanks to fears of Russia after its annexation…
continue readingThe world should brace itself for more physically destructive hacks, two senior cybersecurity officials said Wednesday, warning that a more dangerous era of hacking was already upon us. Paul Chichester,…
continue readingSoon after Iraqi lawyer Khaleel Aldakhi and his wife heard the chilling news that Islamic State militants were enslaving Yazidi women and children in Iraq, they began plotting a rescue…
continue readingImages of drones are often associated with surveillance and military attacks. But a California-based technology startup is trying to change that image from one that causes fear to one that…
continue readingThe Palestinians are pushing for a U.N. Security Council resolution threatening “consequences” if Israel continues building Jewish settlements in lands the Palestinians want for a future state. Palestinan Ambassador Riyad…
continue readingThe mutilated bodies of Islamic State group fighters were still strewn on the ground of this northern Iraqi town Wednesday. One was burned. Another’s face was flattened. Iraqi troops on…
continue readingRussian warships off the coast of Norway are carrying fighter bombers that are likely to reinforce a final assault on the besieged Syrian city of Aleppo in two weeks, a…
continue readingThe final debate between presidential candidates Democrat Hillary Clinton and Republican Donald Trump is taking place after a particularly heated period in the 2016 campaign, with sexual assault allegations against…
continue readingFood outlets selling hot dogs in Malaysia have been asked to rename their products or risk being refused halal certification. The Malaysian Islamic Development Department, a religious governmental body, said…
continue readingEcuador’s decision to temporarily cut Julian Assange’s internet access is a sign that the WikiLeaks founder could be overstaying his welcome at the country’s London embassy — or so some…
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continue readingThe Croatian parliament approved on Wednesday a new government led by the conservative HDZ party leader Andrej Plenkovic, whose main task will be to boost growth and sort out fragile…
continue readingQuebec is moving ahead with a law to ban face coverings in the public sector in a move criticized as marginalizing Muslim women and potentially inflaming anti-immigrant tensions in the…
continue readingIslamic State commanders, including founder Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, are huddling in bunkers in Mosul, where they are directing the defense against an Iraqi-led offensive to retake the city, Iraqi military…
continue readingThe United States and South Korea on Wednesday announced a further strengthening of their security alliance with the start of talks on an “extended deterrence” against a nuclear North Korea.…
continue readingEduardo Cunha, the former head of Brazil’s lower house of Congress who led the impeachment drive against former President Dilma Rousseff, was arrested Wednesday on corruption charges. Cunha, one-time leader…
continue readingA southern California man convicted of trying to become a fighter for the Islamic State terrorist group was sentenced Monday to 30 years in prison. Muhanad Badawi, 25, was convicted…
continue readingThe Anti-Defamation League in the U.S. said Wednesday that thousands of anti-Semitic hate messages targeted Jewish journalists in the last year after many of them wrote articles that were perceived…
continue readingState media reports in Uzbekistan say nine people, including six soldiers, have been killed in the crash of a military helicopter in the eastern part of the country. …
continue readingThe European Space Agency (ESA) says a multibillion-dollar space lander has touched down on the surface of Mars as part of a search for traces of life on the red…
continue readingA grieving widower in Kyrgyzstan has been forced to bury his Christian wife three times amid religious tensions over her Baptist faith. Kanygul Satybaldieva passed away on October 13, but…
continue readingGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel was hosting late-night talks behind closed doors in Berlin with the presidents of Russia, France, and Ukraine in an attempt to resolve the ongoing conflict in…
continue readingOne of the leading pro-Western candidates in this month’s presidential election in Moldova has warned of “risks of massive fraud” in the vote, which has further divided the tiny post-Soviet…
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