Foreign Affairs

November 22, 2020
Putin holding off on US presidential congratulations

President Vladimir Putin says Russia is willing to work with whomever is officially declared the next president of the United States, but that he won't offer congratulations until the winner...

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November 22, 2020
Couple spots ‘thrashing’ in surf, tries to save man attacked by shark in Australia

A couple who spotted “thrashing” in the surf Sunday off a popular Australia beach tried to pull a man attacked by a shark to safety, officials say. But the 55-year-old...

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November 22, 2020
Couple spots ‘thrashing’ in surf, tries to save man attacked by shark in Australia

A couple who spotted “thrashing” in the surf Sunday off a popular Australia beach tried to pull a man attacked by a shark to safety, officials say. But the 55-year-old...

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November 22, 2020
Pompeo touts Iran policy in Gulf ahead of Biden presidency

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Sunday defended his tour of Gulf Arab states and the Trump administration's continued efforts to squeeze Iran, even as a new U.S. administration...

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November 22, 2020
In Lebanon, army courts target anti-government protesters

Khaldoun Jaber was taking part in an anti-government protest near the presidential palace outside Beirut last November when several Lebanese intelligence officers in plainclothes approached and forcibly took him away....

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November 22, 2020
Äzerbaijanis who fled war look to return home, if it exists

As Azerbaijan regains control of land it lost to Armenian forces a quarter-century ago, civilians who fled the fighting decades ago wonder if they can go back home now —...

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November 22, 2020
Äzerbaijanis who fled war look to return home, if it exists

As Azerbaijan regains control of land it lost to Armenian forces a quarter-century ago, civilians who fled the fighting decades ago wonder if they can go back home now —...

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November 22, 2020
Äzerbaijanis who fled war look to return home, if it exists

As Azerbaijan regains control of land it lost to Armenian forces a quarter-century ago, civilians who fled the fighting decades ago wonder if they can go back home now —...

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November 21, 2020
Bodies of man and his slave unearthed from ashes at Pompeii

Skeletal remains of what are believed to have been a rich man and his male slave attempting to escape death from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius nearly 2,000 years ago...

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November 21, 2020
She fled Ethiopia’s fighting. Now she warns of ‘catastrophe’

Shaken by the gunfire erupting around her town in Ethiopia's northern Tigray region, the woman decided to get out. She joined a long line at the local government office for...

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November 21, 2020
‘My Missing Valentine’ headlines Golden Horse Awards

Taiwan has kicked off its annual Golden Horse Awards, a prestigious ceremony considered Asia's equivalent of the Academy Awards for Chinese-language films. Even as the pandemic shut cinemas around the...

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November 21, 2020
Mortar shells hit Kabul residential areas; at least 8 dead

About 23 mortar shells slammed into different parts of the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing at least eight people and wounding 31 others, an official said. The shells were fired...

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November 21, 2020
Mortar shells hit Kabul residential areas; at least 8 dead

About 23 mortar shells slammed into different parts of the Afghan capital on Saturday, killing at least eight people and wounding 31 others, an official said. The shells were fired...

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November 21, 2020
Miami Republicans won’t criticize baseless Trump claims of Venezuelan election rigging

Miami's Republican leaders say they have no evidence to back up the Trump campaign's baseless allegation that widespread voter fraud in the November election involved Venezuela, Cuba and potentially China...

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November 21, 2020
Miami Republicans won’t criticize baseless Trump claims of Venezuelan election rigging

Miami's Republican leaders say they have no evidence to back up the Trump campaign's baseless allegation that widespread voter fraud in the November election involved Venezuela, Cuba and potentially China...

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November 21, 2020
Miami Republicans won’t criticize baseless Trump claims of Venezuelan election rigging

Miami's Republican leaders say they have no evidence to back up the Trump campaign's baseless allegation that widespread voter fraud in the November election involved Venezuela, Cuba and potentially China...

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November 20, 2020
Bosnia marks 25 years since inking of US-brokered peace deal

As their ethnic leaders gathered around a table outside Dayton, Ohio, to initial a U.S.-brokered peace deal a quarter-century ago, Edisa Sehic and Janko Samoukovic still were enemies in a...

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November 20, 2020
Raptors denied permission to play in Canada, head to Tampa

The Toronto Raptors will start the NBA season next month in Tampa, Florida, because of travel restrictions by the Canadian government stemming from the pandemic. The Raptors had been looking...

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November 20, 2020
Iran’s allies on high alert in Trump’s final weeks in office

Iran has instructed allies across the Middle East to be on high alert and avoid provoking tensions with the U.S. that could give an outgoing Trump administration cause to launch...

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November 20, 2020
Malaysia group teaches refugee women how to read and write

In a bare room, students seated on the floor recite the alphabet. But these are not children. The students are refugee women in Malaysia, some in their late 50s, who...

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November 20, 2020
Death toll at 37 in Uganda unrest after Bobi Wine’s arrest

The death toll from protests over the arrest of Ugandan opposition presidential hopeful and musician Bobi Wine has risen to 37, police said Friday. This is the country's worst unrest...

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November 20, 2020
Death toll at 37 in Uganda unrest after Bobi Wine’s arrest

The death toll from protests over the arrest of Ugandan opposition presidential hopeful and musician Bobi Wine has risen to 37, police said Friday. This is the country's worst unrest...

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November 20, 2020
This prosecutor tried to put Epstein away for decades. Powerful men maneuvered to stop her

When Jeffrey Epstein pleaded guilty in state court in June 2008 to two sex solicitation charges, which came with an 18-month sentence but avoided tougher federal sex-crimes charges as part...

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November 20, 2020
BTS releases new album ‘BE,’ a ‘letter of hope’

K-pop band BTS on Friday released their highly anticipated new album, which they described as a “letter of hope.” The band held a socially distanced news conference in Seoul to...

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November 20, 2020
Court rejects McCann suspect’s appeal in separate rape case

A German federal court has dismissed an appeal against the rape conviction of a man who is currently also being investigated over the disappearance of British toddler Madeleine McCann. The...

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November 20, 2020
Azerbaijani army enters territory ceded by Armenian forces

Units of the Azerbaijani army have entered the Aghdam region, a territory ceded by Armenian forces in a cease-fire agreement that ended six weeks of heavy fighting over the separatist...

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November 20, 2020
Azerbaijani army enters territory ceded by Armenian forces

Units of the Azerbaijani army have entered the Aghdam region, a territory ceded by Armenian forces in a cease-fire agreement that ended six weeks of heavy fighting over the separatist...

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November 20, 2020
AP Photos: Spanish nurses witness grim solitude of COVID-19

For nurse Marta Fernández, the fall resurgence of COVID-19 in Spain has been less traumatic in medical terms than during the initial spring outbreak. But seeing her patients die in...

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November 20, 2020
AP Photos: Spanish nurses witness grim solitude of COVID-19

For nurse Marta Fernández, the fall resurgence of COVID-19 in Spain has been less traumatic in medical terms than during the initial spring outbreak. But seeing her patients die in...

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November 20, 2020
In multiple countries, alarm over hunger crisis rings louder

The twin baby boys lay on a bed of woven palm leaves in a remote camp for displaced people in Yemen's north, their collar bones and ribs visible. They cried...

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November 20, 2020
Mexico tops 100,000 COVID-19 deaths, 4th country to do so

Mexico passed the 100,000 mark in COVID-19 deaths, becoming only the fourth country to do so amid concerns about the lingering physical and psychological scars on survivors. José Luis Alomía...

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November 20, 2020
Australian minister says war crimes report made her ‘ill’

Australian Defense Minister Linda Reynolds said Friday that she was “physically ill” after reading a military report into war crimes that found evidence that elite Australian troops unlawfully killed 39...

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November 20, 2020
Mexico becomes 4th country to hit 100,000 COVID-19 deaths

Mexico passed the 100,000 mark in COVID-19 deaths Thursday, becoming only the fourth country — behind the United States, Brazil and India — to do so. José Luis Alomía Zegarra,...

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November 19, 2020
Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip celebrate 73rd anniversary

Britain's Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip will celebrate their 73rd wedding anniversary Friday, and for the occasion the royal couple have released a photograph of themselves opening a card...

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November 19, 2020
‘Shuggie Bain’ writer Douglas Stuart wins Booker Prize

Scottish writer Douglas Stuart won the Booker Prize for fiction Thursday for “Shuggie Bain,” the story of a boy's turbulent coming of age in hardscrabble 1980s Glasgow. Stuart, 44, won...

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November 19, 2020
Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope to close in blow to science

The National Science Foundation announced Thursday that it will close the huge telescope at the renowned Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in a blow to scientists worldwide who depend on...

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November 19, 2020
Mexico says no more US trials for corrupt officials

Mexico said Thursday it will no longer allow officials accused of corruption to be tried in the United States, a move that could end a decades-old tradition in which most...

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November 19, 2020
Germany marks 75th anniversary of landmark Nuremberg trials

Seventy-five years ago, the dock of Courtroom 600 of the Nuremberg Palace of Justice was packed with some of the most nefarious figures of the 20th Century: Hermann Goering, Rudolf...

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November 19, 2020
Ethiopia’s multiple crises: War, COVID-19, even locusts

Ethiopia could hardly bear another emergency, even before a deadly conflict exploded in its northern Tigray region this month. Now, tens of thousands of refugees are fleeing into Sudan, and...

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November 19, 2020
Huge Puerto Rico radio telescope to close in blow to science

The National Science Foundation announced Thursday that it will close the huge telescope at the renowned Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico in a blow to scientists worldwide who depend on...

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