Italy’s center-right alliance is set to win elections in the southern region of Molise, as President Sergio Mattarella prepares to make his next attempt to break a seven-week paralysis in the…
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Conservative former senator Mario Abdo Benitez has been elected president of Paraguay. He beat his closest rival, Efraín Alegre from the liberal opposition alliance, by 4% points.
InternationalA suicide bomber blew himself up outside a voter registration center in the Afghan capital Kabul on Sunday, killing at least 31 people and wounding more than 50, most of them waiting in line to…
InternationalCuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel met his Venezuelan counterpart, Nicolas Maduro, on Saturday in his first official act as the country’s leader.
Maduro is the first president to visit…
InternationalOver the past two days, the tiny border town of Ostritz was turned into a heavily-securitized zone of compartments where different groups, under the watchful eye of police, descended to…
InternationalKuala Lumpur’s police chief says the killing of a Palestinian academic in the Malaysian capital is an “international issue” that is being investigated from all angles.
InternationalTens of thousands of Hungarians took to the streets in Budapest for a second consecutive Saturday to protest against newly reelected Prime Minister Viktor Orban. The crowd marched through the…
InternationalTalks between Armenia’s prime minister and an opposition leader aimed at ending anti-government protests have broken down.
Prime Minister Serzh Sargsyan walked out of a televised meeting…
InternationalNicaraguan President Daniel Ortega said on Saturday he was ready to consider changing an unpopular social security overhaul that has sparked days of deadly protests and one of the biggest…
InternationalZimbabwe’s parliament has summoned former president Robert Mugabe to give evidence about a claim he made about huge-scale diamond theft.
InternationalChinese naval forces have passed through waters south of Taiwan and carried out military exercises in the western Pacific, the latest in a series of military drills that self-ruled Taiwan has…
InternationalThe Democratic Party sued the Russian government, US President Donald Trump’s campaign and WikiLeaks on Friday, charging that they carried out a wide-ranging conspiracy to influence the 2016 US…
InternationalIsraeli forces have shot dead four Palestinians, including a 15-year-old boy, as more than 10,000 gathered in a mass demonstration in the besieged Gaza Strip demanding the right of return for…
InternationalNorth Korean leader Kim Jong-un said he would halt nuclear tests and intercontinental missile launches in a Saturday announcement welcomed by US President Donald Trump ahead of a much-…
InternationalTwenty people were killed in an airstrike by a Saudi-led military coalition in southwestern Yemen on Friday, residents said. The attack hit a car transporting 20 passengers south of Taiz…
InternationalAccording to lawyers of the Bundestag, the missile attack by the US-UK-France coalition, supported by the German government, violates international law.
The law experts of the…
InternationalTrading activity on cryptocurrency exchanges has halved from its December peak, industry data shows, as retail interest in the virtual coins declines and the prices of many remain far below…
InternationalUS President Donald Trump on Friday criticized OPEC for output reductions that have helped raise oil prices and said the action would not be tolerated, as oil prices appeared set for a second…
InternationalFormer first lady Barbara Bush, the second woman in US history to be a wife and mother of a US president, died at age 92. Her death was announced by the office of her husband. She had been in…
InternationalCIA Director Mike Pompeo visited North Korea more than two weeks ago for a secret meeting with leader Kim Jong-un in Pyongyang, sources have confirmed.
InternationalFrench President Emmanuel Macron’s vision for a stronger European Union may be in tatters as a growing rift emerges with Germany on everything from defense to his plans for deeper eurozone…
InternationalA new strike by Air France employees on Tuesday adds chaos in France, which is already reeling from strikes by rail workers and university students over proposed public sector reforms by…
InternationalSaudi Arabia is holding talks with the United States about sending troops into Syria as part of a wider international coalition, the kingdom’s foreign minister has said.
In his comments…
InternationalSouthwest Airlines Co will speed up inspections of all related engines out of extra caution, the airline said, after a passenger was killed when an engine on one of its planes exploded and broke…
InternationalRussia is losing the last remnants of trust with its US partners after unsubstantiated claims of a Syrian chemical attack and the Skripal poisoning case, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov…
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