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Terror Attack Has Britons Questioning De-Radicalization Effort

Terror Attack Has Britons Questioning De-Radicalization Effort

When Usman Khan left prison last December after serving half of a 16-year sentence for his part in a plot...

Putin and Xi Oversee Launch of Landmark Russian Gas Pipeline to China

Putin and Xi Oversee Launch of Landmark Russian Gas Pipeline to China

Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping on Monday oversaw the launch of a landmark pipeline that...

France Pays Homage to 13 Soldiers Killed in Mali Air Crash

France Pays Homage to 13 Soldiers Killed in Mali Air Crash

In its biggest military funeral in decades, France is honoring 13 soldiers killed when their helicopters collided over Mali while...

Guterres: Climate Crisis Is ‘In Sight And Hurtling Towards Us’

Guterres: Climate Crisis Is ‘In Sight And Hurtling Towards Us’

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has warned of a “point of no return” in climate change as a result of...

How Can Brexit Affect Vietnam? Let Us Count the Ways

How Can Brexit Affect Vietnam? Let Us Count the Ways

What does Brexit have to do with Vietnam? It seems a strange question, but there are several ways that Britain’s...

Former Irish Soldier Who Joined IS Arrested in Ireland

Former Irish Soldier Who Joined IS Arrested in Ireland

An Irish citizen, who converted to Islam, traveled to Syria to join Islamic State and ended up marrying a British...

Malta Leader to Resign Amid Protests Over Reporter’s Death

Malta Leader to Resign Amid Protests Over Reporter’s Death

Maltese Prime Minister Joseph Muscat told the nation Sunday night that he would resign in January, following pressure from angry...

Uzbekistan Faces Choice Between Closer Ties to US, Russia

Uzbekistan Faces Choice Between Closer Ties to US, Russia

After two decades of disengagement from international entanglements, a newly confident Uzbekistan is seeking a larger role in its Central...

19 Killed as Bus Plunges Onto Frozen River in Siberia

19 Killed as Bus Plunges Onto Frozen River in Siberia

A passenger bus plunged off a bridge onto a frozen river in Siberia on Sunday, killing 19 of the more...

Ahead of NATO Summit, European Leaders Brace for Trump

Ahead of NATO Summit, European Leaders Brace for Trump

President Donald Trump is heading to London this week to attend the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Leaders Meeting. Forged at...

Greece to Ask for NATO’s Support in Dispute with Turkey

Greece to Ask for NATO’s Support in Dispute with Turkey

Greece’s prime minister says he will ask other NATO members at the alliance’s London summit to support Greece in the...

UN Chief: Humanity’s ‘War against Nature’ Must Stop

UN Chief: Humanity’s ‘War against Nature’ Must Stop

The devastating impact of global warming that threatens humanity is a pushback from Nature under assault, U.N. chief Antonio Guterres...

Joyous Congolese Dances, Songs Enliven St. Peter’s Basilica

Joyous Congolese Dances, Songs Enliven St. Peter’s Basilica

Congolese dancing and singing enlivened St. Peter’s Basilica on Sunday, as Pope Francis celebrated a special mass for Catholics from...

Ahead of Summit, NATO Placates Trump, Plans for Reforms

Ahead of Summit, NATO Placates Trump, Plans for Reforms

As Britain prepares for the NATO leaders’ meeting outside London December 3-4, the alliance said Thursday it had agreed to...

Climate Talks Open in Madrid Amid Dire Warnings

Climate Talks Open in Madrid Amid Dire Warnings

Representatives of nearly 200 countries begin annual climate talks in Madrid Monday, shadowed by alarming evidence of a deepening climate...

195 Nations Meet in Madrid for Climate Talks

195 Nations Meet in Madrid for Climate Talks

Environment ministers and experts from nearly 200 countries meet in Madrid Monday for annual United Nations climate talks. Presided by...

Irish PM Suffers By-election Defeats Ahead of National Vote

Irish PM Suffers By-election Defeats Ahead of National Vote

Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar’s Fine Gael party failed to win any of the four by-elections held to fill parliamentary...

EU Antitrust Regulators Investigating Google’s Data Collection

EU Antitrust Regulators Investigating Google’s Data Collection

EU antitrust regulators are investigating Google’s collection of data, the European Commission told Reuters Saturday, suggesting the world’s most popular...

Apple to Reevaluate Policy on Mapping ‘Disputed Borders’ After Crimea Outcry 

Apple to Reevaluate Policy on Mapping ‘Disputed Borders’ After Crimea Outcry 

Apple says it will reevaluate how it identifies “disputed borders” after receiving criticism for displaying Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula as part...

Maltese Prosecutors Charge Businessman in Reporter’s Killing 

Maltese Prosecutors Charge Businessman in Reporter’s Killing 

Maltese prosecutors on Saturday charged a prominent local businessman as being an accomplice to the murder of anti-corruption journalist Daphne...

Climate Activists Invade East German Coal Mines in Protest

Climate Activists Invade East German Coal Mines in Protest

Climate activists protested at open-pit coal mines in eastern Germany, pouring onto the premises to urge the government to immediately...

Albania’s Earthquake Search, Rescue Operation Ends

Albania’s Earthquake Search, Rescue Operation Ends

The search and rescue operation for earthquake survivors in Albania has ended, Prime Minister Edi Rama said Saturday.The small town...