ANKARA, Turkey – Turkey’s state-run news agency says Kurdish rebels have opened fire at a tea house in southeast Turkey, killing a police officer and a civilian, an attack that comes amid renewed violence between the government and the autonomy-seeking insurgents. Violence has flared in the past week, with Turkey …
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Russian officials said Ukrainian drones ignited an overnight fire at a nuclear plant in Russia’s Kursk region. The strikes coincided with Ukraine’s 34th Independence Day, marking its 1991 break from the Soviet Union. Russia said the strikes hit several power facilities. The plant fire was quickly extinguished, and although a …
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Journalist Bari Weiss called on Americans to pay attention and understand the magnitude of what’s happening in Israel as the death toll continues to rise after Hamas launched an unprecedented attack on Saturday. As more horrific details of the atrocities against Israelis continue to be exposed, the Free Press editor …
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With 10 Americans still unaccounted for more than two weeks after Hamas’ massacre in Israel, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Sunday said the terrorist group is believed to be holding at least some of them hostage in Gaza. Blinken addressed the missing Americans during an appearance on NBC’s …
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LONDON – Newly published emails suggest the man who became known as “Jihadi John” had suicidal thoughts before leaving Britain for Syria. In an email exchange with the Mail on Sunday five years ago, he talked of taking too many sleeping pills and sleeping forever as a way to get …
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ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia – A spokesman for South Sudanese rebel leader Riek Machar says peace talks are deadlocked over how to share power and that the only way forward is for the president to make concessions. Puoch Riek Deng, who is attending the South Sudan peace talks as a member …
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BEIJING – At least two assailants armed with knives attacked people at a train station in southern China on Friday, injuring nine, and police fatally shot one of the suspects, officials said. The second suspect was captured, police in the city of Guangzhou said in a statement. The incident was …
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ATHENS, Greece – The former finance minister who handled Greece’s first international bailout in 2010 has denied criminal charges of allegedly removing relatives’ names from a list of Greeks holding Swiss bank accounts with HSBC. Speaking in court Thursday, George Papaconstantinou claimed the three names were intentionally deleted to inculpate …
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BUCHAREST, Romania – Romania’s finance minister has resigned amid an investigation into suspicions that he took 2 million euros ($2.1 million) in bribes when he was a mayor. Darius Valcov handed in his resignation Sunday evening, hours after President Klaus Iohannis urged the prime minister to fire him as criticism …
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PARIS – A key international economic monitor has nudged up its forecast for global economic growth this year amid low interest rates, inflation and oil prices in some major countries. The Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, a grouping of the world’s richest countries that acts like a think tank, …
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