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5 Countries Demand Open Probe of Iran’s Downing of Ukrainian Airliner

5 Countries Demand Open Probe of Iran’s Downing of Ukrainian Airliner

Five countries that lost citizens in the downing of a Ukrainian airliner are calling on Iran to conduct an open...

European Unity On Iran Nuclear Deal May Be Cracking

European Unity On Iran Nuclear Deal May Be Cracking

Europe has so far remained united in its backing for the 2015 Iran nuclear deal or JCPOA, despite strong pressure...

Is European Unity on Iran Nuclear Deal Starting to Crack?

Is European Unity on Iran Nuclear Deal Starting to Crack?

There are signs that cracks are beginning to appear in European unity over its backing of the 2015 Iran nuclear...

Prince Harry Takes on First Duties Since Royal Crisis Talks

Prince Harry Takes on First Duties Since Royal Crisis Talks

Prince Harry went back to work Thursday, mixing with children playing rugby and offering no hint of the days of...

New Street Protests in France Amid Pension Strikes

New Street Protests in France Amid Pension Strikes

Opponents of President Emmanuel Macron’s proposed overhaul of France’s pension system marched in Paris and other French cities Thursday, the...

How Locals in Turkish City Help Stray Animals Survive Cold Winter

How Locals in Turkish City Help Stray Animals Survive Cold Winter

Winters are  always tough on stray animals in most parts of the world. In the eastern Turkish city of Van,...

Turkey Targets Kurdish Rebels in Iraq, Killing 4 Yazidi Fighters

Turkey Targets Kurdish Rebels in Iraq, Killing 4 Yazidi Fighters

Turkish airstrikes inside Iraq targeting members of an outlawed Kurdish rebel group have killed at least four minority Yazidi fighters...

Iran: Uranium Enrichment at Higher Level Than Before Nuclear Pact

Iran: Uranium Enrichment at Higher Level Than Before Nuclear Pact

President Hassan Rohani says Iran is now enriching more uranium than the country did before it agreed to a nuclear...

Russian Lawmakers Approve Putin’s PM Choice

Russian Lawmakers Approve Putin’s PM Choice

Russian lawmakers have given their approval Thursday to President Vladimir Putin’s choice of Mikhail Mishustin as the country’s new prime...

Analyst: Putin Proposes Changes that Could Help Keep Him in Power After 2024

Analyst: Putin Proposes Changes that Could Help Keep Him in Power After 2024

Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to shift some of the presidential powers to the parliament before he ends his fourth...

Parnas: Trump ‘Knew Exactly What Was Going On’ in Ukraine

Parnas: Trump ‘Knew Exactly What Was Going On’ in Ukraine

Lev Parnas, the indicted associate of U.S. President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer who worked to pressure Ukraine to investigate Joe...

Intellectual Property Theft a Growing Threat

Intellectual Property Theft a Growing Threat

The new U.S.-China trade agreement includes provisions that are aimed at curbing forced technology transfers, in which companies hand over technical...

Controversy Growing in Turkey Over Erdogan’s Massive Canal Project  

Controversy Growing in Turkey Over Erdogan’s Massive Canal Project  

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s project to provide an alternative route to the Bosporus waterway is becoming increasingly mired in...

Intellectual Property Theft a Growing Threat

Intellectual Property Theft a Growing Threat

Intellectual property theft is a growing concern, and it poses a real risk at large conferences where people from around...

Book by Pope Emeritus on Celibacy Gets Shrug in France

Book by Pope Emeritus on Celibacy Gets Shrug in France

The former pope Benedict XVI reportedly wants his name removed from a controversial book that appears to undermine his successor,...

Growing Controversy in Turkey Over Erdogan’s Massive Canal Project

Growing Controversy in Turkey Over Erdogan’s Massive Canal Project

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is planning what’s dubbed ‘the construction project of the decade’, a massive canal connecting Turkey’s...

Dogs Find Loving Families Abroad Thanks to Special Program

Dogs Find Loving Families Abroad Thanks to Special Program

In the U.S. more than 3 million shelter animals are adopted every year. But if you can’t find the animal...

Albania Expels Iranian Diplomats Amid Worsening Relations

Albania Expels Iranian Diplomats Amid Worsening Relations

Albania said Wednesday it has ordered the expulsion of two Iranian diplomats and declared them “persona non grata.”Acting Foreign Minister...

EU Legal Opinion: Mass Data Retention at Odds With EU Law

EU Legal Opinion: Mass Data Retention at Odds With EU Law

A legal adviser at the European Union’s highest court said Wednesday that the bloc’s data protection rules should prevent member...

Turkish News Agency Says Staff Members Detained in Cairo

Turkish News Agency Says Staff Members Detained in Cairo

Turkey’s state-run news agency said Wednesday that Egyptian police raided its office in Cairo and detained four of its staff...

Environmental Issues Top Worries for Those Heading to Davos

Environmental Issues Top Worries for Those Heading to Davos

Environmental issues make up the top five risks to the global economy for  the coming decade, organizers of next week’s...

Russian Prime Minister Resigns as Putin Hints at Constitutional Reforms

Russian Prime Minister Resigns as Putin Hints at Constitutional Reforms

Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev has submitted his cabinet’s resignation, shortly after President Vladimir Putin proposed a series of constitutional...