WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange appeared in a U.K. court Monday to fight extradition to the United States on espionage charges, and he lost a bid to delay proceedings so that his legal team would have more time to prepare his case.
Read moreNearly 20 pro-Pyongyang South Korean students broke into the U.S. ambassador’s residence in Seoul Friday, displaying banners demanding Harry Harris leave the country, in an embarrassing security breach.
Read moreFrom his post as a young SS private in a watchtower in Nazi Germany’s Stutthof concentration camp, Bruno Dey could hear the screams of Jews dying in the gas chamber. Dey told investigators the carting of their lifeless bodies to the camp’s crematorium was a daily sight.
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President Jovenel Moïse broke his silence Tuesday and said it would be irresponsible for him to resign amid Haiti’s unrest, which has entered a fifth week of deadly protests that have paralyzed the economy and shuttered schools.
Read moreA homemade, remote-controlled bomb intended to “kill or to harm” riot control officers was detonated as they deployed against renewed violence in Hong Kong over the weekend, police said Monday, in a further escalation of destructive street battles gripping the business hub.
Read morePrime Minister Viktor Orban’s dominant right-wing Fidesz party suffered large losses in Sunday’s local elections in Hungary.
Read moreIraqi government and security forces are “responsible for the bloodshed” during recent protests, top Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani said Friday.
Read moreHonduran police used tear gas against protesters demanding the resignation of President Juan Orlando Hernandez on Wednesday in Tegucigalpa, hours after a march by thousands of the leader’s supporters.
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The European Union has warned that next-generation telecommunication networks face a range of cyber threats, including from hostile countries.
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A left-wing party leader in Poland has rescued a 2-year-old boy and his father from a burning car, winning praise across the political spectrum days before a national election.
Read moreFacebook has agreed to pay $40 million to advertisers who said it inflated the amount of time its users watch videos.
Read moreNorth Korea’s chief negotiator said that nuclear talks with the United States had broken down, but Washington claimed the two sides had “good discussions” in Sweden that it intends to build on in two weeks.
Read moreClashes broke out between protesters and police in Ecuador after President Lenín Moreno declared a state of emergency Thursday after demonstrations against rising fuel prices, due to the government’s scrapping subsidies.
Read moreA group representing French-American taxpayers on Thursday said it has filed a lawsuit against France with the European Commission, hoping to avoid strict U.S. compliance rules that could see them blacklisted by French banks starting in January.
Read moreUkraine’s former president says he discussed investments with President Donald Trump’s attorney, Rudy Giuliani, in 2017, but that he never discussed Ukrainian companies with any U.S. official.
Read moreA senior North Korean diplomat on Tuesday said North Korea and the United States have agreed to resume nuclear negotiations on Oct. 5 after a months-long stalemate over withdrawal of sanctions in exchange for disarmament.
Read moreA man accused of driving an SUV through a suburban Chicago shopping mall was charged Sunday with a state terrorism and ordered held without bond.
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas took to the world stage Thursday to slam the United States for “depriving the peace process of any credibility” and undermining prospects for a two-state solution to the decades-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Read moreIsraeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday began trying to cobble together a coalition government amid political deadlock that emerged from this month’s repeat elections, which had no clear winner.
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Massachusetts on Tuesday officially became the first U.S. state to ban — if temporarily — the sale of all electronic cigarettes, going further than states that only prohibited flavored products.
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