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With the fate of Ukraine and potentially broader post-Cold War European stability at stake, the United States and Russia are holding critical strategic talks that could shape the future of not only their relationship but the relationship between the US and its NATO allies. Prospects are bleak.Though...
Kazakhstan’s health ministry says 164 people have been killed in protests that have rocked the country over the past week.The figures reported Sunday on the state news channel Khabar-24 are a significant rise from previous tallies. It is not clear if the deaths refer only to civilians or if la...
Gunmen have released 30 Nigerian students who spent nearly seven months in captivity, a government official has said, the latest batch in the release of the dozens of Kebbi state students abducted in June.They arrived at the Kebbi state capital on Saturday along with one teacher, said a spokesperson...
Cambodia’s leader returned home Saturday from the first visit by a head of state to Myanmar since the military takeover last year plunged it into turmoil, with his foreign minister declaring the mission a success though there was little evidence of a breakthrough.Foreign Minister Prak Sokhonn ...
On the tennis court, Novak Djokovic’s timing is perfect. But when the No.1 player boarded a plane for Australia to play the first Grand Slam of the year with a Covid-19 vaccine exemption, his timing hardly could have been worse.While he was in the air, the game apparently shifted — and h...
Poland’s most powerful politician has acknowledged that the country bought advanced spyware from the Israeli surveillance software maker NSO Group, but denied that it was being used to target his political opponents.Jaroslaw Kaczynski, the leader of Poland’s ruling conservative party, La...
The United Nations refugee agency says an airstrike has killed three Eritrean refugees, two of them children, in Ethiopia’s Tigray region amid the country’s war.A statement the agency issued overnight did not say who carried out the airstrike that hit the Mai Aini camp on Wednesday. Ethi...
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen’s visit to Myanmar seeking to revive peace efforts after last year’s military takeover has provoked an angry backlash among critics, who say he is legitimizing the army’s seizure of power.Hun Sen is the first head of government to visit Myanmar sinc...
President Joe Biden is preparing to mark the first anniversary of the U.S. Capitol insurrection, gathering with lawmakers to remember the violent attack that has fundamentally changed the Congress and raised global concerns about the future of American democracy.Marking the one-year anniversary of t...
Two sisters and several of their children were among the 12 people killed when a fire tore through a Philadelphia rowhome that apparently had no working smoke detectors, fire officials said.Eight children lost their lives in the Wednesday morning blaze — the city's deadliest single fire in...
In a display of unity, the Biden administration and its European allies are beginning a series of meetings aimed at showing Russia that an invasion of Ukraine would be met with a forceful response.Using virtually identical language, the US and its European allies have several times in the past mont...
Federal and state investigators have interviewed dozens of people in their search for the cause of a destructive Colorado wildfire, but the results of that investigation — and even a progress report — could take days, if not weeks, the Boulder County sheriff warned.Declaring that ”...
President Joe Biden has gotten the same troubling questions from worried world leaders, ones that he never thought he would hear.“Is America going to be all right?” they ask. “What about democracy in America?”While Biden has tried to offer America’s allies assurances, h...
Sudan’s Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok announced his resignation Sunday amid political deadlock and widespread pro-democracy protests following a military coup that derailed the country’s fragile transition to democratic rule.Hamdok, a former UN official seen as the civilian face of Sudan...
A Hong Kong online news site said Sunday that it will cease operations in light of deteriorating press freedoms, days after police raided and arrested seven people for sedition at a separate pro-democracy news outlet.Citizen News announced its decision in a Facebook post Sunday. It said it would sto...
The winter grassland fire that blew up along Colorado’s Front Range was rare, experts say, but similar events will be more common in the coming years as climate change warms the planet — sucking the moisture out of plants — suburbs grow in fire-prone areas and people continue to sp...
Prince Andrew’s effort to immediately block the progression of a lawsuit by a woman who says he sexually assaulted her when she was 17 — on the grounds that she no longer lives in the US — was rejected by a federal judge as oral arguments were set to proceed Monday on the prince&rs...
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After tough talk between Presidents Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin over the Russian troop buildup on the Ukraine border, both sides insist they are hopeful that a pathway to easing tensions could open during diplomatic talks set for January.But with less than two weeks to go before senior US and Russi...
Pope Francis ushered in the New Year Saturday by praising the skills women bring to promoting peace in the world, and he equated violence against women to an offense against God.The Roman Catholic Church marks Jan. 1 as a day dedicated to world peace, and a late-morning Mass in Vatican City’s ...
Two people were shot and wounded Friday following an apparent altercation at the Mall of America, sending New Year’s Eve shoppers scrambling for safety and placing the Minneapolis mall on temporary lockdown, authorities said.One man suffered a gunshot wound to the leg during the shooting that ...
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