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Pope Gives West Virginia Diocese New Leader After Scandal

Pope Gives West Virginia Diocese New Leader After Scandal

Pope Francis named Baltimore Auxiliary Bishop Mark Brennan to lead West Virginia’s Catholics on Tuesday following a scandal over the...

Facebook-Style App Launches in Vietnam Amid Tightening Internet Rules

Facebook-Style App Launches in Vietnam Amid Tightening Internet Rules

A Facebook-style social network was launched in Vietnam on Tuesday, Gapo, a mobile app that lets users create personal profiles...

Boris Johnson to Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister

Boris Johnson to Be Britain’s Next Prime Minister

Britain’s Conservative Party announced Tuesday that Boris Johnson has won the election to be its new leader and become the...

Moroccan Lawmakers Vote to Bolster French in Education System

Moroccan Lawmakers Vote to Bolster French in Education System

Moroccan lawmakers passed a draft law on Monday evening that would pave the way for strengthening the place of French...

Johnson Expected to Become Next British Prime Minister

Johnson Expected to Become Next British Prime Minister

Britain’s Conservative Party is expected to announce Tuesday that Boris Johnson has won the election to be its new leader...

South Korea Says Russian Military Airplane Violated Its Airspace

South Korea Says Russian Military Airplane Violated Its Airspace

South Korea says it fired warning shots at a Russian military aircraft after the plane breached South Korea’s airspace.South Korea’s...

French Submarine Found 50 Years After Disappearance

French Submarine Found 50 Years After Disappearance

The wreckage of a French submarine that disappeared more than 50 years ago has been found almost 45 kilometers from...

Newly-Elected Greek Government Wins Confidence Vote on Economic Policy

Newly-Elected Greek Government Wins Confidence Vote on Economic Policy

Greece’s newly-elected conservative government won a confidence vote on Monday on its economic policy, which includes tax cuts and measures...

Villagers Angry as Portugal Wildfire Still Rages

Villagers Angry as Portugal Wildfire Still Rages

Updated at 7:30pm EDT.After more than 50 hours, firefighters were still battling a wildfire in central Portugal late on Monday,...

Knight Foundation Funding Studies on Media, Democracy

Knight Foundation Funding Studies on Media, Democracy

A foundation that specializes in journalism is pledging nearly $50 million for research in how social media and technology impacts...

German Ambassador Returns to Venezuela 

German Ambassador Returns to Venezuela 

The German government says the country’s ambassador to Venezuela has returned to Caracas, four months after Venezuelan authorities ordered him...

British-Iranian Woman Transferred Back to Tehran Prison

British-Iranian Woman Transferred Back to Tehran Prison

A British-Iranian mother jailed in Tehran since 2016 has been returned to prison after being held in the mental ward...

Could Being Distracted by Your Phone Cause Weight Gain?

Could Being Distracted by Your Phone Cause Weight Gain?

The size of a person’s waistline may be linked to mobile phones, tablets and laptops, according to a recent study...

UK Legislator Charged With 2 Sexual Assaults Against Women

UK Legislator Charged With 2 Sexual Assaults Against Women

A Conservative Party legislator in Britain has been charged with sexually assaulting two women.The Crown Prosecution Service said Monday that...

Equifax to Pay Up to $700M in Data Breach Settlement

Equifax to Pay Up to $700M in Data Breach Settlement

Equifax will pay up to $700 million to settle with the Federal Trade Commission and others over a 2017 data...

Poland’s Politicians Condemn Aggression Against LGBT March

Poland’s Politicians Condemn Aggression Against LGBT March

Poland’s politicians are condemning violence against the first LGBT rights parade through the eastern city of Bialystok.Police said Monday that...

Ukrainian President’s Party on Course  to Win Majority in Parliamentary Poll

Ukrainian President’s Party on Course to Win Majority in Parliamentary Poll

Servant of the People, the party of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, appears on course to win a parliamentary majority after...

Britain Considering Response to Iranian Seizure of Oil Tanker

Britain Considering Response to Iranian Seizure of Oil Tanker

British Prime Minister Theresa May is meeting Monday with security ministers and security officials for emergency talks about how to...

Zelenskiy’s Party Leads In Ukrainian Parliamentary Election

Zelenskiy’s Party Leads In Ukrainian Parliamentary Election

The party of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy won the most votes in Sunday’s parliamentary election giving the president a mandate...

Lufthansa Resumes Flights to Cairo, British Airways Stays Grounded

Lufthansa Resumes Flights to Cairo, British Airways Stays Grounded

The German airline Lufthansa resumed daily direct flights to Cairo on Sunday after a one-day suspension due to unspecified safety...

Irishman Shane Lowry Wins British Open

Irishman Shane Lowry Wins British Open

Ireland’s Shane Lowry won golf’s British Open on Sunday, his first career major championship, in front of thousands of cheering...

Britain Drafts Plans to Sanction Iran in Tanker-Quarrel

Britain Drafts Plans to Sanction Iran in Tanker-Quarrel

British officials are drawing up plans to target Iran with sanctions for its seizing of a British-flagged oil tanker in...