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Chirac Gets Full Military Honors as France Bids Him Farewell

Chirac Gets Full Military Honors as France Bids Him Farewell

Former French President Jacques Chirac was given full military honors on Monday as past and current world leaders gathered in...

Mass Protest in Moscow Demands Release of Political Prisoners

Mass Protest in Moscow Demands Release of Political Prisoners

Another mass demonstration took place Sunday in Moscow with protesters demanding the release of people who were jailed for participating...

Thousands of Anti-Kremlin Protesters Turn Out, Demanding End of Political Repression

Thousands of Anti-Kremlin Protesters Turn Out, Demanding End of Political Repression

The drizzle had stopped by the time anti-corruption crusader Alexei Navalny bounded to the stage to cheers in a packed...

Weakened, But Powerful Hurricane Lorenzo Heads for Azores

Weakened, But Powerful Hurricane Lorenzo Heads for Azores

Hurricane Lorenzo lost some force Sunday, weakening to a Category 4 storm after briefly escalating to Category 5 late Saturday.The...

UK’s Johnson Denies any Wrongdoing in Ties With US Tech Exec

UK’s Johnson Denies any Wrongdoing in Ties With US Tech Exec

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson denied wrongdoing Sunday over his links to an American businesswoman who allegedly received money and...

Mourners Say Goodbye to Late French President Jacques Chirac

Mourners Say Goodbye to Late French President Jacques Chirac

Thousands of mourners paid tribute Sunday to former French President Jacques Chirac, who died at 86.Chirac was lying in state...

Schiff: Intelligence Committee to Hear from ‘Whistleblower’

Schiff: Intelligence Committee to Hear from ‘Whistleblower’

The Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee says it has reached an agreement to hear from a whistleblower whose...

Royal Advisers: The Queen Isn’t Amused

Royal Advisers: The Queen Isn’t Amused

Despite a personal apology from beleaguered Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Buckingham Palace sources say Queen Elizabeth is deeply frustrated at...

Pope Decries World’s Indifference to Migrants, Refugees

Pope Decries World’s Indifference to Migrants, Refugees

Pope Francis on Sunday decried “the culture of comfort” that leads to indifference in the face of a global migration...

Russian Opposition Stages New Moscow Rally After Summer of Protests

Russian Opposition Stages New Moscow Rally After Summer of Protests

Tens of thousands of Russians braved a cold rain to jam a central Moscow square as opposition groups sought to...

Conservatives Lead as Austrians Vote, but Coalition Partner Less Clear

Conservatives Lead as Austrians Vote, but Coalition Partner Less Clear

Austrians began voting Sunday in snap elections, in which the conservatives look set to triumph but face difficulties finding a...

French Police Use Tear Gas to Break Up Yellow Vest Protest 

French Police Use Tear Gas to Break Up Yellow Vest Protest 

French police repeatedly used tear gas and water cannons to break up a protest Saturday by nearly a 1,000 yellow...

Keep Calm and Vape on: UK Embraces E-Cigarettes, US Cautious

Keep Calm and Vape on: UK Embraces E-Cigarettes, US Cautious

While the U.S. scrambles to crack down on vaping, Britain has embraced electronic cigarettes as a powerful tool to help...

British-Flagged Tanker Reaches Dubai Port After Departing Iran

British-Flagged Tanker Reaches Dubai Port After Departing Iran

The British-flagged oil tanker that was seized by Iran in July has docked in Dubai in the United Arab Emirates...

UN Decries Continuing Violations in East Ukraine, Russian-Occupied Crimea

UN Decries Continuing Violations in East Ukraine, Russian-Occupied Crimea

The United Nations reports human rights violations in both government and separatist-controlled areas of eastern Ukraine continue with impunity.  The...

Trump to Russians in 2017: Not Concerned About Election Meddling, Report Says

Trump to Russians in 2017: Not Concerned About Election Meddling, Report Says

President Donald Trump told two Russian officials in a 2017 meeting that he was not concerned about Moscow’s meddling in...

‘French Spiderman’ Climbs Frankfurt High-Rise, Faces Fine

‘French Spiderman’ Climbs Frankfurt High-Rise, Faces Fine

An urban climber known as the “French Spiderman” has climbed a high-rise building in the German city of Frankfurt and...

French Queue to Remember Chirac Ahead of National Mourning

French Queue to Remember Chirac Ahead of National Mourning

Mourners gathered at the Elysee Palace in Paris on Friday to pay their respects to former President Jacques Chirac, whose...

Erdogan Defies Trump Over Iran Sanctions

Erdogan Defies Trump Over Iran Sanctions

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday continued to chart a collision course with Washington over Iran. Erdogan is categorically...

North Macedonian PM: Extortion Probe Will Be Resolved Before EU Talks

North Macedonian PM: Extortion Probe Will Be Resolved Before EU Talks

Prime Minister of North Macedonia Zoran Zaev says he is optimistic that an extortion investigation of the country’s former chief...

Storms, Droughts, Disease Alarm Italy’s Olive Farmers

Storms, Droughts, Disease Alarm Italy’s Olive Farmers

After the 24-hour storm dumped more rain on his olive trees than 55-year-old Gianluca can recall having seen in a...

Disability Group President Resigns Over Thunberg Remark

Disability Group President Resigns Over Thunberg Remark

An elected official in central Illinois has resigned as president of a local nonprofit after a social media post about...