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People in Burkina Faso awoke to a new military-led junta Tuesday, after mutinous soldiers ousted democratically elected President Roch Marc Christian Kabore and seized control of the country.Days of gunfire and uncertainty in the capital, Ouagadougou, ended Monday evening when more than a dozen sold...
A confidential European Union military report calls for continuing a controversial EU program to train and equip Libya’s coast guard and navy despite growing concerns about their treatment of migrants, a mounting death toll at sea, and the continued lack of any central authority in the North A...
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NATO said Monday that it’s putting extra forces on standby and sending more ships and fighter jets to Eastern Europe as Russia continues its troop build-up near Ukraine.It said that it’s beefing up its “deterrence” presence in the Baltic Sea area. A number of members of the 3...
The State Department on Sunday ordered the families of all American personnel at the US Embassy in Ukraine to leave the country amid heightened fears of a Russian invasion.The department told the dependents of staffers at the US Embassy in Kyiv that they must leave the country. It also said that non...
The Taliban and western diplomats have begun their first official talks in Europe since they took over control of Afghanistan in August.The closed-door meetings were taking place at a hotel in the snow-capped mountains above the Norwegian capital. Taliban representatives will be certain to press the...
People who aren’t vaccinated against Covid-19 are no longer allowed in France’s restaurants, bars, and tourist sites and sports venues unless they recently recovered from the virus.The new law came into effect Monday requiring a “vaccine pass” that is central to the governmen...
Russia’s Foreign Ministry on Sunday rejected a British claim that Russia was seeking to replace Ukraine’s government with a pro-Moscow administration, and that former Ukrainian lawmaker Yevheniy Murayev was being considered as a potential candidate.Britain’s Foreign Office on Satur...
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Interior ministers from European Union nations experiencing pressure from unauthorized migration asked Friday for more action to strengthen and protect the bloc’s external borders.Ministers from countries that included Greece, Poland, Italy, Austria and France, which currently holds the EU'...
The United States and Russia tried Friday to avert another devastating conflict in Europe, but the two powers’ top diplomats warned no breakthrough was imminent as fears rise that Moscow is planning to invade Ukraine.Armed with seemingly intractable and diametrically opposed demands, US Secret...
Peru declared an environmental emergency on Thursday after announcing that 21 beaches on the Pacific coast were contaminated by an oil spill at a refinery run by Spain-based Repsol, following surging waves caused by the eruption of an underwater volcano near Tonga.President Pedro Castillo said a com...
Yemen lost its connection to the internet nationwide early Friday after Saudi-led airstrikes targeted a site in the contested city of Hodeida, an advocacy group said, plunging the war-torn nation offline.NetBlocks said the disruption began around 1 a.m. local and affected TeleYemen, the state-owned ...
President Joe Biden said Wednesday he thinks Russia will invade Ukraine and warned President Vladimir Putin that his country would pay a “dear price” in lives lost and a possible cutoff from the global banking system if it does.Biden, speaking at a news conference to mark his one-year an...
The first flights carrying fresh water and other aid to Tonga were finally able to leave Thursday after the Pacific nation's main airport runway was cleared of ash left by a huge volcanic eruption.A C-130 Hercules military transport plane left New Zealand carrying water containers, kits for temp...
Russia is a sending an unspecified number of troops from the country’s Far East to Belarus for major war games, officials said Tuesday, a deployment that will further beef up Russian military presence near Ukraine amid Western fears of a planned invasion.Amid the soaring tensions, the White H...
President Joe Biden has rallied European allies to pledge as one that they will take tough measures against Russia if it rolls troops into Ukraine. But when it comes to what exactly the United States and Europe are willing to do, the allies don’t look as ringingly united.Militarily, for exampl...
Major international airlines canceled flights heading to the US or changed the planes they’re using Wednesday, the latest complication in a dispute over concerns that 5G mobile phone service could interfere with aircraft technology.Some airlines said they were warned that the Boeing 777, a pla...
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson faces a grilling from opponents in Parliament on Wednesday — and a more worrying threat from his own party’s restive lawmakers, dozens of whom are plotting to oust him over a string of lockdown-flouting government parties.Conservative legislators are ...
Three of Tonga’s smaller islands suffered serious damage from tsunami waves, officials and the Red Cross said Wednesday, as a wider picture begins to emerge of the destruction caused by the eruption of an undersea volcano near the Pacific archipelago nation.Communications have been down throug...
Grappling with pandemic difficulties and US-led sanctions over his nuclear ambitions, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un could be reviving his 2017 playbook of nuclear and missile brinkmanship to wrest concessions from Washington and his neighbors.North Korea’s short-range missile launches on Mon...
Thick ash on an airport runway was delaying aid deliveries to the Pacific island nation of Tonga, where significant damage was being reported days after a huge undersea volcanic eruption and tsunami.New Zealand’s military is sending much-needed drinking water and other supplies, but said the a...
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