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Congo To Withdraw UN Peacekeepers Accused of Misconduct

More than 600 troops from Congo Republic serving as UN peacekeepers in the Central African Republic will be returning...

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Cuba Denounces Trump’s Policy Rollback

Cuba’s government has denounced US President Donald Trump’s decision to roll back on policy changes towards the...

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Viewpoint: Africa-Cuba Solidarity Reaffirmed At Namibia Conference

Close bonds between the people of the African continent and the Caribbean island-nation of Cuba have been centuries in...

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Puerto Rico, A US Cousin, Mulls Its Status and Identity

"How pretty is the flag, is the flag of Puerto Rico!" The salsa lyric blasts out of a little ice cream stand outside...

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China Rights Lawyer Charged With Subversion

A prominent Chinese human rights lawyer who disappeared late last year has been officially charged with "subversion of...

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Who Carried It Out?

No militant group has so far claimed responsibility for Wednesday's powerful blast that ripped through Kabul's...

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A Prayer For the Victims of Turkey

God in heaven, I pray for the hundreds of thousands of Kurds, Alevis, Hizmet movement participants and minority...

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Five Questions On Trump’s Potential Move of US Israel Embassy

US President Donald Trump faces a Thursday deadline to decide whether to move the US embassy in Israel to the disputed...

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Hall of Fame Pitcher, Congressman Bunning Dies

Hall of Fame pitcher Jim Bunning, who went from baseball to serving in the US Congress, has died at the age of 85, the...

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Top Republican Demands Apology For Assault On Reporter

The top Republican in the US Congress demanded an apology Thursday from the party's candidate in a high-stakes election...

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Lawmakers Seek Details of Trump-Deutsche Bank-Russia Ties

US lawmakers have demanded documents from German banking giant Deutsche Bank detailing its ties with President Donald...

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Jailed Chinese Lawyer Force-Fed Medication, Wife Says

When human rights lawyer Li Heping returned to his home in Beijing after a two-year incarceration, his wife did not...

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Ex-CIA Chief Says He Warned Russia To Stay Out of Election

Former CIA director John Brennan said Tuesday that he warned Russia last summer against meddling in the US presidential...

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City of Prayer and Conflict

Donald Trump was on Monday to become the first serving US president to visit the Western Wall, the holiest site where...

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Putin Offers To Release Meeting Record

Vladimir Putin has waded into the growing row surrounding US President Donald Trump and his links to Russia. US media...

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Putin Wades Into Trump-Russia Row

Vladimir Putin has waded into the growing row surrounding US President Donald Trump and his links to Russia. US media...

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Trump Asked FBI Director Three Times If He Was Target Of…

Donald Trump said Thursday he asked his now-fired FBI director on three occasions whether he was the target of ongoing...

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Comey Firing Won’t Stop Russia Probe

The acting chief of the FBI told the US Congress Thursday that President Donald Trump's shock firing of James Comey...

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In US, Left and Right Go Along With Macron’s Win

The US political establishment gave a broad welcome Monday to France's election of Emmanuel Macron, taking a cue from...