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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi got a personal tour of a museum with President Xi Jinping on Friday as he began an ice-breaking visit to China in which the giant neighbors seek to re-set…
InternationalNewly minted US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo hit the ground running on Friday at NATO headquarters on his first trip abroad as America’s top diplomat.
Just hours after being sworn in,…
InternationalThe Taliban announced the start of their annual spring offensive on Wednesday, dismissing an offer for peace talks by President Ashraf Ghani but pledging to focus on US forces in Afghanistan.
InternationalPhilippine police preparing to shut down the Boracay resort island staged drills in riot gear on Wednesday, startling the laid-back beach community as workers mounted a last-ditch effort to halt…
InternationalA greeting message of Russian President Vladimir Putin to the participants of the 9th International Meeting of High Representatives for Security Issues in Sochi was delivered by Russian Security…
InternationalA third federal judge on Tuesday ruled against the Donald Trump administration’s campaign to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program for undocumented immigrants, ordering the…
InternationalArmenian protest leader Nikol Pashinyan has launched a fresh demonstration on the streets of Yerevan, leading thousands of supporters on a march after negotiations he was to hold with the ruling…
InternationalHealth experts have warned that malaria cases in Venezuela jumped by an estimated 69% last year, expressing concern over the spread of the disease in the country and other parts of Latin America…
InternationalA series of Chinese military drills near Taiwan were designed to send a clear message to the self-ruled island and China will take further steps if Taiwan independence forces persist in doing as…
InternationalNicaraguan police have released dozens of students and lecturers arrested in protests triggered by planned changes to the social security system.
Some students said they had been beaten…
InternationalA Canadian man who apparently had a grudge against women was charged with murder on Tuesday after allegedly plowing a rented van onto a crowded Toronto sidewalk, killing 10 people—an incident…
InternationalRussian President Vladimir Putin is planning a roughly 10 trillion-ruble ($162 billion) increase in spending on healthcare, education and infrastructure, hoping to kick-start sputtering economic…
InternationalA US Senate committee approved the nomination of President Donald Trump’s choice for secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, on Monday after a Republican senator who had been opposed threw his support…
InternationalPolice in central India killed at least 34 Maoist militants, with more bodies pulled out of a river on Tuesday, two days after security forces ambushed a band of fighters in a forest deep in the…
InternationalA magnitude 5.1 earthquake struck Samsat district in Turkey’s southeastern Adiyaman province early Tuesday, injuring 19 people, according to a regional governor. The Turkish Prime Ministry’s…
InternationalDespite Donald Trump’s claims, the US is actively digging in the area of the eastern bank of the Euphrates River in Syria and has no intention of leaving, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov…
InternationalThousands of demonstrators took to the streets in the capital of Nicaragua on Monday to demand the resignation of the country’s president after a violent crackdown by police on protests that…
InternationalThe gunman accused of killing four people at a Nashville-area Waffle House was arrested on Monday after a frantic manhunt, police said.
InternationalAt least 10 people died after a man plowed a rental van into a crowd of pedestrians in Canada's biggest city Toronto on Monday, in what police dubbed a deliberate attack.
The incident…
InternationalArmenian Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan said he was resigning on Monday to help maintain civic peace following almost two weeks of mass street protests that have plunged the ex-Soviet republic…
InternationalThe first big showdown at the US Supreme Court over President Donald Trump’s immigration policies is set for Wednesday when the justices hear a challenge to the lawfulness of his travel ban…
InternationalThirty-two Chinese tourists and four North Koreans have died in a major bus accident in North Korea, China’s foreign ministry says, with two Chinese nationals seriously injured.
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InternationalA Belgian judge on Monday sentenced Salah Abdeslam, the prime surviving suspect in the 2015 terrorist attacks on Paris, to 20 years in prison over a shootout with police in Brussels in 2016.…
InternationalSouth Korea on Monday silenced its battery of giant loudspeakers that blast messages at the North’s border soldiers, in a conciliatory gesture before Friday’s historic inter-Korean summit.
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