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Kremlin: Putin, Zelenskiy Set for Paris One-on-One Meeting

Kremlin: Putin, Zelenskiy Set for Paris One-on-One Meeting

Russian President Vladimir Putin and Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelenskiy are likely to have a one-on-one meeting during four-way summit talks in Paris...

US Teen’s TikTok Video on Xinjiang Goes Viral

US Teen’s TikTok Video on Xinjiang Goes Viral

A TikTok post by a young woman, pretending to give eyelash curling advice while actually condemning China’s crackdown on Muslims...

Two Better Than One: Upcoming Mobile Devices Have Dual Screens

Two Better Than One: Upcoming Mobile Devices Have Dual Screens

Mobile device makers are constantly reinventing their products to keep consumers coming back, and paying, for more. The race to...

Quake Kills at Least 27 in Albania, State of Emergency Declared

Quake Kills at Least 27 in Albania, State of Emergency Declared

The death toll from the strongest earthquake to hit Albania in more than three decades rose to at least 27...

US Military Aid Life or Death’ for Kyiv

US Military Aid Life or Death’ for Kyiv

The House impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump is focused on whether the White House delayed promised U.S. military aid...

French Farmers Protest Stagnant Revenues, Unfair Competition

French Farmers Protest Stagnant Revenues, Unfair Competition

Rumbling two by two down the ring road, disgruntled French farmers drove their tractors toward Paris Wednesday to protest stagnant...

Possible New Doping Sanctions Loom for Russia

Possible New Doping Sanctions Loom for Russia

Top Russian officials decried the recommendations by a World Anti-Doping Agency committee to suspend Russia from international competition over tainted...

Rescuers Scramble to Save Lives After 6.4-Magnitude Quake in Albania

Rescuers Scramble to Save Lives After 6.4-Magnitude Quake in Albania

Rescuers were pulling survivors and dead bodies from piles of rubble in Albania on Tuesday after a 6.4-magnitude earthquake struck...

France Mourns Soldiers Killed in Mali

France Mourns Soldiers Killed in Mali

France said Tuesday it is determined to continue fighting terrorism, despite losing 13 of its soldiers during a counterinsurgency operation...

Top Maltese Officials Quit amid Probe into Reporter’s Murder

Top Maltese Officials Quit amid Probe into Reporter’s Murder

There senior officials in Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat’s government stepped down Tuesday in connection with a probe into the...

US Military Base in Turkey Has Uncertain Future

US Military Base in Turkey Has Uncertain Future

With U.S.-Turkish relations at their lowest ebb in decades, the future of a critical American air base in Turkey is...

Dresden Officials: Jewel Thieves Stole Less Than Feared

Dresden Officials: Jewel Thieves Stole Less Than Feared

Dresden museum officials say thieves got away with less than initially thought in their robbery of the Green Vault’s collection...

Americans, Germans Far Apart in Views of Bilateral Relations

Americans, Germans Far Apart in Views of Bilateral Relations

Almost three years into the U.S. presidency of Donald Trump, Germans and Americans continue to have notably different perspectives on...

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Says He Discussed Gas Contract With Putin

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Says He Discussed Gas Contract With Putin

Ukraine’s president says he has discussed a new contract for natural gas supplies from Russia during a conversation with Russian...

Russia Warns Syria’s Kurds Against Relying on US Support

Russia Warns Syria’s Kurds Against Relying on US Support

Russia’s foreign minister is warning Syria’s Kurds that relying on U.S. support “won’t bring them any good.”Sergey Lavrov on Tuesday...

Anti-Doping Investigators Recommend Four-Year Ban on Russia

Anti-Doping Investigators Recommend Four-Year Ban on Russia

Russia faces a four-year ban from global sporting events, including next year’s Tokyo Olympics, because of a continued failure to...

Deadly Earthquake Hits Albania

Deadly Earthquake Hits Albania

A strong earthquake struck the area of Albania’s capital early Tuesday, killing at least six people and injuring hundreds.The U.S....

Women Worldwide Demand Government Action to End Abuse of Women, Girls

Women Worldwide Demand Government Action to End Abuse of Women, Girls

Women across Europe and elsewhere demonstrated on Monday to demand government action against widespread abuse of women and girls. The...

Turkish Riot Police Break Up Women’s Protest

Turkish Riot Police Break Up Women’s Protest

Turkish riot police used force to break up a march by thousands of women calling for what they call an...

Lebanese Millionaire Donates Hitler’s Hat to Israeli Group

Lebanese Millionaire Donates Hitler’s Hat to Israeli Group

A Lebanese-born business tycoon says he is donating Hitler’s top hat and other Nazi memorabilia he won at an auction...

Doctors: Ailing Assange Needs Medical Care in Hospital

Doctors: Ailing Assange Needs Medical Care in Hospital

More than 60 doctors have written to British authorities asserting that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange urgently needs medical treatment at...

A Royal Mess: Britain’s Monarchy Facing Biggest Crisis Since 1990s

A Royal Mess: Britain’s Monarchy Facing Biggest Crisis Since 1990s

Britain’s Royal Family is facing its biggest crisis since the 1990s, a decade that was marked by divorce and the...