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US Arrests 1988 Lockerbie Passenger Jet Bombing Suspect 

US Arrests 1988 Lockerbie Passenger Jet Bombing Suspect 

A Libyan intelligence operative suspected of making the bomb that blew up a U.S. passenger jet over Lockerbie, Scotland in...

Germany to Tighten Gun Laws After Suspected Coup Plot

Germany to Tighten Gun Laws After Suspected Coup Plot

Germany plans to tighten its gun laws in the wake of a suspected plot by a far-right group to violently...

UK Defends Royals After Race Row and Harry Documentary

UK Defends Royals After Race Row and Harry Documentary

Britain’s government Sunday rallied to the defense of the beleaguered royal family after a new racism row and explosive Netflix...

French Sports Minister Wears Rainbow Pullover In Qatar

French Sports Minister Wears Rainbow Pullover In Qatar

France’s Sports Minister Amelie Oudea-Castera wore a sweater with rainbow-colored sleeves to France’s quarter-final game in Qatar on Saturday in...

Saudi Energy Minister Sees No Clear Results Yet From Russia Price Cap

Saudi Energy Minister Sees No Clear Results Yet From Russia Price Cap

Saudi energy minister Prince Abdulaziz bin Salman said Sunday the impact of European sanctions on Russian crude oil and price...

Free For a Month, Kherson Still Toils to Clear Russian Traps

Free For a Month, Kherson Still Toils to Clear Russian Traps

A hand grenade jerry-rigged into the detergent tray of a Kherson home’s washing machine. A street sign maliciously directing passers-by...

EU Parliament Official Suspended During Inquiry

EU Parliament Official Suspended During Inquiry

A vice president of the European Union’s parliament was suspended from her duties on Saturday after being caught up in...

Afghan Academic Rebuilds Her Life in Italy, Dreams of Returning

Afghan Academic Rebuilds Her Life in Italy, Dreams of Returning

Batool Haidari used to be a prominent professor of sexology at a Kabul university before the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan....

Russia Rains Dozens of Rockets, Airstrikes on Ukraine

Russia Rains Dozens of Rockets, Airstrikes on Ukraine

Russian drones attacked Ukraine’s southern port city of Odesa in the early hours of Saturday, leaving the city and the...

Russian Arms Dealer Wished Griner ‘Good Luck’ at Prisoner Exchange

Russian Arms Dealer Wished Griner ‘Good Luck’ at Prisoner Exchange

Viktor Bout, the arms dealer freed in a prisoner swap for U.S. basketball star Brittney Griner, said he wished her...

US Defense Secretary: Russia, China ‘Expanding’ Nuclear Arsenals

US Defense Secretary: Russia, China ‘Expanding’ Nuclear Arsenals

Russia and China are “modernizing and expanding” their nuclear weapons arsenals, Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin warned Friday, amid increasing...

German Hostage Released After More Than 4 Years of Detention in the Sahel

German Hostage Released After More Than 4 Years of Detention in the Sahel

After more than four years of detention in the Sahel, the 63-year-old German humanitarian Jörg Lange has been released, the...

Iran One of Russia’s Top Military Backers, UK Says

Iran One of Russia’s Top Military Backers, UK Says

Iran has become one of Russia’s top military backers since the invasion of Ukraine, according to the British Defense Ministry...

Facing Poverty and Hostility, Refugees in Turkey Mull Return to War-Torn Syria

Facing Poverty and Hostility, Refugees in Turkey Mull Return to War-Torn Syria

Amid rampant inflation and an economic crisis in Turkey, and with an election scheduled in 2023, political rhetoric is turning...

Brittney Griner Arrives in the US in ‘Very Good Spirits’

Brittney Griner Arrives in the US in ‘Very Good Spirits’

U.S. professional basketball star Brittney Griner has arrived in the southwestern U.S. state of Texas after a high-stakes prisoner swap...

US Sounds Alarm Over ‘Harmful’ Iran-Russia Military Partnership

US Sounds Alarm Over ‘Harmful’ Iran-Russia Military Partnership

The United States on Friday expressed alarm over a “full-scale defense partnership” between Russia and Iran, describing it as “harmful”...

Messi, Argentina Beat Netherlands on Penalties at World Cup

Messi, Argentina Beat Netherlands on Penalties at World Cup

Lionel Messi and his teammates hung around on the field for 20 minutes, taking turns dancing and jumping up and...

US Sends Fresh $275 Million Military Aid to Ukraine

US Sends Fresh $275 Million Military Aid to Ukraine

U.S. President Joe Biden authorized a fresh round of $275 million in military aid for Ukraine, offering new capabilities to...

UN Security Council Protects Humanitarian Aid from Sanctions

UN Security Council Protects Humanitarian Aid from Sanctions

The U.N. Security Council adopted a resolution Friday that will protect humanitarian assistance from unintended negative impacts across all regimes...

UN: Growing Disregard for Human Rights Threatens Global Peace and Development

UN: Growing Disregard for Human Rights Threatens Global Peace and Development

On the eve of Human Rights Day, the U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, Volker Tuerk, launched a yearlong campaign...

Apple Plans to Move Production Outside of China

Apple Plans to Move Production Outside of China

The Wall Street Journal reports U.S. smartphone giant Apple Inc. is accelerating plans to move some China-based production lines to...

Belgian  Court Halts Prisoner Exchange Treaty with Iran

Belgian Court Halts Prisoner Exchange Treaty with Iran

Belgium’s Supreme Court has prohibited the implementation of a prisoner exchange treaty with Iran. Opponents of the exchange were concerned...