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Dusting Off Its Forever Wars, Australia Names US Its ‘Forever Partner’ In Indo-Pacific

Dusting Off Its Forever Wars, Australia Names US Its ‘Forever Partner’ In Indo-Pacific

This week’s nuclear submarine deal between the United States and Australia threatens to become divisive in Australia, where some critics...

British Food Industry Demands Government Action Over CO2 Shortage

British Food Industry Demands Government Action Over CO2 Shortage

Britain’s food industry called on the government to subsidize carbon dioxide (CO2) production during a spike in gas prices or...

Hungary Opposition Goes to Primary Polls in Hope to Oust Orban

Hungary Opposition Goes to Primary Polls in Hope to Oust Orban

Hungary’s newly united opposition politicians started going to the polls Saturday in the country’s first-ever primary elections that they hope...

‘Devious Licks’ Videos of Damage, Thefts Bedevil US Schools 

‘Devious Licks’ Videos of Damage, Thefts Bedevil US Schools 

Kids across the U.S. are posting TikTok videos of themselves vandalizing school bathrooms and stealing soap dispensers and even turf...

France Recalls US, Australian Ambassadors Over Submarine Deal 

France Recalls US, Australian Ambassadors Over Submarine Deal 

France has recalled its ambassadors to the United States and Australia after Australia ended a deal to buy French submarines...

Two Charged With Murdering Irish Journalist Lyra McKee at Riot

Two Charged With Murdering Irish Journalist Lyra McKee at Riot

Two men appeared in court Friday in connection with the murder of Lyra McKee, an influential Northern Irish journalist shot...

French President Unveils New High-Speed Train

French President Unveils New High-Speed Train

French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday celebrated the 40th anniversary of France’s Train a Grande Vitesse (TGV) — “high-speed train”...

Will Russia’s Young People Vote in Parliamentary Elections?

Will Russia’s Young People Vote in Parliamentary Elections?

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin provoked chuckles earlier this month from school kids in the Russian city of Vladivostok when a...

Navalny App Gone from Google, Apple Stores on Russia Vote Day

Navalny App Gone from Google, Apple Stores on Russia Vote Day

Jailed Kremlin critic Alexey Navalny’s Smart Voting app disappeared from Apple and Google stores Friday as Russians began voting in a three-day...

Waterfall in Eastern Turkey Sees More Visitors

Waterfall in Eastern Turkey Sees More Visitors

The tourism industry in Turkey has been hit hard by the coronavirus pandemic, and until recently several wildfires. Several sites,...

China Gets Serious About Cracking Down on Youth Online Gaming

China Gets Serious About Cracking Down on Youth Online Gaming

With China’s new restrictions on minors playing online games, the global gaming industry wonders what’s next. Michelle Quinn reports. …

France Suspends 3,000 Unvaccinated Health Care Workers

France Suspends 3,000 Unvaccinated Health Care Workers

France has suspended 3,000 health care workers who were not inoculated with a COVID-19 vaccine by a government-mandated Sept. 15...

Taiwan Calls for Quick Start to Trade Talks with EU

Taiwan Calls for Quick Start to Trade Talks with EU

Taiwan’s government called on the European Union to quickly begin trade talks after the bloc pledged to seek a trade...

Ukraine, US to Hold Joint Military Drills 

Ukraine, US to Hold Joint Military Drills 

Ukraine and the United States will start joint military exercises in western Ukraine next week, the Ukrainian General Staff said...

Russians Start Voting in Parliamentary Polls After Historic Crackdown

Russians Start Voting in Parliamentary Polls After Historic Crackdown

Russians in the Far East began voting in a three-day parliamentary election in which vocal Kremlin critics have been barred...

Clive Sinclair, Computing Pioneer, Dies at 81

Clive Sinclair, Computing Pioneer, Dies at 81

Sir Clive Sinclair, the British inventor who pioneered the pocket calculator and affordable home computers, died Thursday at age 81....

EU Designates $35 Billion for New Health Crisis Agency

EU Designates $35 Billion for New Health Crisis Agency

A European Union official said Thursday that the union is designating $35 billion to a new Health and Emergency Response...

US Sanctions al-Qaida Supporters Working From Turkey

US Sanctions al-Qaida Supporters Working From Turkey

The U.S. Treasury Department sanctioned five al-Qaida supporters for allegedly helping the militant group with financial assistance. The department said...

Deadly Floods, Dirty Coal: Germany’s Climate Dilemma as Election Looms

Deadly Floods, Dirty Coal: Germany’s Climate Dilemma as Election Looms

As Germany prepares to elect a new leader, climate change is high on the agenda. Floods blamed on global warming...

Turkey Cracks Down on Afghan Refugees

Turkey Cracks Down on Afghan Refugees

Security forces in Istanbul detain unregistered Afghans as Turkey’s government faces growing public pressure to not accept any more refugees …

Who Will Succeed Angela Merkel as Germany’s Chancellor?

Who Will Succeed Angela Merkel as Germany’s Chancellor?

On September 26 Germans will go to the polls in a federal election to apportion seats in the Bundestag and...

‘No Journalist Should Die’ – EU Calls for Better Media Safety

‘No Journalist Should Die’ – EU Calls for Better Media Safety

The European Union’s executive arm asked its member countries Thursday to better protect journalists amid a rise of physical attacks...