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  • German police sealed off a major shopping center in the central city of Essen on Saturday, citing the threat of a terror attack, with media reports suggesting a link to the self-styled Islamic…

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  • The Netherlands barred Turkey's Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu from flying to Rotterdam on Saturday and President Recep Tayyip Erdogan responded by calling his NATO partner a "Nazi remnant" as…

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  • Twin bombs targeting Shia pilgrims on Saturday killed 46 people in Damascus, most of them Iraqis, a monitoring group said, in one of the bloodiest attacks in the Syrian capital.

    There have…

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  • French Socialist candidate Benoit Hamon is struggling to get his presidential campaign back on track, as a growing number of party bigwigs publicly consider voting instead for centrist Emmanuel…

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  • All eyes were on Seoul’s presidential Blue House on Saturday as South Koreans awaited ex-president Park Geun-hye’s reaction to her impeachment and preparations to move into her private residence…

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  • US President Donald Trump’s revised travel ban executive order suffered its first legal setback on Friday as a federal judge blocked the directive’s potential impact on the family of a Syrian…

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  • At least 22 civilians were killed on Friday and dozens wounded when a Saudi airstrike hit a market in western Yemen causing a fire to break out, a local official said.

    Missiles launched by…

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  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel suffered a setback on Friday when the upper house of parliament rejected a proposal to declare three North African states “safe countries of origin” in refugee law…

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  • Just back from Kenya, Yemen, South Sudan and Somalia—countries that are facing or are at risk of famine—the top United Nations humanitarian official urged the international community for…

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  • European heavyweights Germany and France backed a “multi-speed” Europe after Britain’s divorce with the union, but Polish Prime Minister Beata Szydlo said she would never back such a plan, which…

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  • Russia’s President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday announced the “normalization” of ties between their nations, damaged by Ankara downing one of Moscow’s…

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  • One of the most anticipated tourism exhibitions, ITB Berlin kicked off on March 8 in the German capital at a time when the sector is facing challenges ranging from terrorism threats to travel bans…

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  • The Syrian government has called on the United Nations to force Turkey to pull its forces out of Syria, state media said on Friday.

    Turkey's military shelled Syrian government forces and…

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  • US President Donald Trump was granted initial approval on dozens of new trademarks in China because they met legal standards, a senior Chinese commercial official said on Friday.

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  • EU leaders have reelected Donald Tusk as president of the European Council despite a bid to oust him by his home country, Poland. The leaders voted 27 to one to give him another two-and-a-half-…

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  • Thousands of Berliners are facing travel misery after ground crews at both the German capital’s airports started striking early on Friday morning, leading to hundreds of flight cancellations.

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  • Indonesian politicians, including the justice minister and ex-interior minister, and officials were implicated on Thursday in a major corruption scandal estimated to have sucked about $170 million…

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  • An axe-wielding attacker suffering from mental health problems injured seven people at the main train station in the German city of Dusseldorf late Thursday.

    Previously, police had said…

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  • A Moroccan appeals court has sentenced a Frenchman to four years in prison after he was convicted of financially supporting a “terrorist” cell, a case that has alarmed rights groups. Thomas Gallay…

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  • WikiLeaks has offered to help the likes of Google and Apple identify the software holes used by purported CIA hacking tools, which puts the tech industry in something of a bind.

    While…

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  • South Korean President Park Geun-hye was fired on Friday as a court upheld her impeachment over a corruption scandal that has paralyzed the nation at a time of mounting tensions in East Asia.

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  • At least 20,000 people from Myanmar have fled across the border to China after violence erupted between ethnic rebels and security forces.

    Thousands entered border camps and are receiving…

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  • Syrian government forces have reached the bank of Euphrates River east of Khafsah for the first time in four years, maintaining control of a nine-mile coastline, the Russian General Staff said on…

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  • Scandal-plagued French presidential hopeful, Francois Fillon, was hit by a new revelation on Tuesday, this time over an interest-free, undeclared loan he received from a billionaire friend.

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  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel faces on Wednesday questioning by lawmakers investigating if her government shielded Volkswagen from regulators, despite knowing the auto giant was carrying out…

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