Over 20,000 rally in Moscow as election anger boils over
AFP, Moscow :More than 22,000 people packed a Moscow square Saturday to demand free and fair local polls, incensed by the authorities’ refusal to put...
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Houston celebrates exact moment Neil Armstrong set foot on Moon
AFP, Houston :Houston’s Space Center counted down Saturday night to the exact moment 50 years ago that Neil Armstrong became the first person to set...
Johnson is almost certain to become Britain’s next PM
Supporters of Boris Johnson, who looks certain to become the next British prime minister, hail his optimistic vision for post-Brexit Britain, but insist he will...
Abe on course to retain majority in upper house election
AFP, Tokyo :Japanese voters cast ballots Sunday in an upper house election, with Shinzo Abe’s ruling bloc looking to protect its majority and keep on...
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More than 1,000 firefighters battle Portugal wildfiresAFP, AmendoaMore than a thousand firefighters battled Sunday to control wildfires in central Portugal that have forced village evacuations,...
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Germany marks 75th anniv of plot to kill HitlerAP, Berlin Germany is marking the 75th anniversary of the most famous plot to kill Adolf Hitler,...
Boris Johnson ‘will do a great job as PM’: Trump
AP, Washington :US President Donald Trump has said Boris Johnson would do “a great job” as UK prime minister and they would have “a very...
Pentagon intelligence chief says Iran does not want war
AP, Aspen :As tensions in the Persian Gulf continued to ramp up on Friday afternoon amid news that Iran had seized a British oil tanker...
US offers $7m to find Hezbollah agent as Pompeo visits Argentina
AFP, Buenos Aires :The United States on Friday offered a $7 million reward to find a Hezbollah operative accused of masterminding a deadly 1994 attack...
Mueller probe witness now faces child sex trafficking charge
AP, Alexandria :A businessman who served as a key witness in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation now faces a charge of child sex trafficking in...
Thousands rally in support of Hong Kong police
AP, Hong Kong :Tens of thousands of people rallied in support of Hong Kong’s police and pro-Beijing leadership on Saturday, a vivid illustration of the...
Merkel criticises Trump comments on congresswomen
AP, Berlin :German Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday criticized U.S. President Donald Trump’s comments about Democratic lawmakers of color, saying they run counter to what...