Kenyan police fire blanks to disperse protesters hours after parliament breached
NAIROBI, Kenya (news agencies) — Authorities fired blanks to disperse protesters in Nairobi suburb overnight Wednesday, hours after protestors stormed ...
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ICC issuing verdicts in trial of alleged Islamic extremist charged with atrocities in Mali
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (news agencies) — The International Criminal Court is delivering its verdict Wednesday in the trial of a ...
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As Iran’s presidential vote looms, tensions boil over renewed headscarf crackdown
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (news agencies) — Seemingly every afternoon in Iran’s capital, police vans rush to major Tehran squares ...
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US journalist’s closed trial for espionage set to begin in Russia, with a conviction all but certain
TALLINN, Estonia (news agencies) — Fifteen months after Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich was arrested in the Russian city ...
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Guatemalan appeals court revokes order to grant house arrest to journalist José Rubén Zamora
GUATEMALA CITY (news agencies) — A Guatemalan appeals court on Tuesday revoked a judge’s order to give house arrest to ...
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North Korea’s latest missile test likely ended in failure, South Korea’s military says
SEOUL, South Korea (news agencies) — A North Korean ballistic missile test Wednesday likely ended in failure, South Korea’s military ...
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Brazil’s Supreme Court decriminalizes possession of marijuana for personal use
RIO DE JANEIRO (news agencies) — Brazil’s Supreme Court on Tuesday voted to decriminalize possession of marijuana for personal use, ...
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Israel’s courts say the military must enlist the ultra-Orthodox. What could that mean for Netanyahu?
JERUSALEM (news agencies) — The Supreme Court unanimously ordered the government to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox Jewish men into the army ...
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Expanding extremist groups in Africa fuel worries that they could attack the US or Western allies
GABORONE, Botswana (news agencies) — Violent extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State group are growing in size ...
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International court seeks arrest of Russian officials over attacks on Ukrainian power plants
THE HAGUE, Netherlands (news agencies) — The International Criminal Court said Tuesday it issued arrest warrants for Russia’s former defense ...
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