Foreign Affairs

October 30, 2020
New arrest after France church attack, security tightened

A new suspect is in custody Friday in the investigation into a gruesome attack by a Tunisian man who killed three people in a French church, as France heightened its...

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October 30, 2020
New Zealand votes to legalize euthanasia but not marijuana

New Zealanders voted to legalize euthanasia in a binding referendum, but preliminary results released Friday showed they likely would not legalize marijuana. With about 83% of votes counted, New Zealanders...

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October 29, 2020
Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence

It's been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won't stop poking fun...

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October 29, 2020
Charlie Hebdo: Proud to provoke Islamists, despite violence

It's been targeted again and again, threatened and firebombed and struck in an attack that killed a dozen staff members, but satirical French newspaper Charlie Hebdo won't stop poking fun...

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October 29, 2020
Cuban detainees: ICE forced us to sign forms saying we wanted to be go back, ‘visit’ family

When a guard approached his bunk-bed asking if he'd like to see his family after 18 months in detention, the 24-year-old Cuban detainee thought he was finally going to South...

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October 29, 2020
Cuban detainees: ICE forced us to sign forms saying we wanted to be go back, ‘visit’ family

When a guard approached his bunk-bed asking if he'd like to see his family after 18 months in detention, the 24-year-old Cuban detainee thought he was finally going to South...

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October 29, 2020
Cuban detainees: ICE forced us to sign forms saying we wanted to be go back, ‘visit’ family

When a guard approached his bunk-bed asking if he'd like to see his family after 18 months in detention, the 24-year-old Cuban detainee thought he was finally going to South...

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October 29, 2020
Pope ends public audiences, eyes Christmas as virus surges

Pope Francis is halting his public general audiences and will limit participation at Christmas and other upcoming Masses amid a surge of coronavirus cases in Italy and the Vatican, officials...

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October 29, 2020
Chile votes to rewrite constitution

Chileans overwhelmingly voted in favor of having a constitutional convention draft a new charter to replace guiding principles imposed four decades ago under the military dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet....

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October 29, 2020
Coronavirus dims Mexico’s bright Day of the Dead celebration

Mexico's Day of the Dead celebration this weekend won't be the same in a year so marked by death, in a country where more than 90,000 people have died of...

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October 29, 2020
UN weather agency: Moderate to strong La Nina this year

The La Nina climate phenomenon has developed and is expected to last into next year, affecting temperatures, precipitation and storm patterns across the world, the U.N. weather agency said Thursday....

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October 29, 2020
2 dead in knife attack in French church; terrorism suspected

French anti-terrorism prosecutors are investigating a knife attack at a church in the Mediterranean city of Nice that killed two people and wounded several others at a time when French...

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October 29, 2020
French police: 2 dead in knife attack near church in Nice

French police say two people have been killed and several others injured in a knife attack near a church in the Mediterranean city of Nice. The assailant was arrested after...

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October 29, 2020
Short of medics as virus surges, central Europe sounds alarm

Soldiers in Poland are giving coronavirus tests. American National Guard troops with medical training are headed to the Czech Republic to work alongside doctors there. A Czech university student is...

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October 29, 2020
Analysis: Iran frets over US vote it insists doesn’t matter

Top officials in Iran say the upcoming U.S. election doesn't matter, but nearly everyone else there seems to be holding their breath. The race for the White House could mean...

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October 29, 2020
Analysis: Iran frets over US vote it insists doesn’t matter

Top officials in Iran say the upcoming U.S. election doesn't matter, but nearly everyone else there seems to be holding their breath. The race for the White House could mean...

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October 29, 2020
Typhoon, landslides leave 19 dead, 64 missing in Vietnam

Typhoon Molave set off landslides that killed at least 15 people and left 38 missing in central Vietnam, where ferocious wind and rain blew away roofs and knocked out power...

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October 29, 2020
Typhoon, landslides leave 19 dead, 64 missing in Vietnam

Typhoon Molave set off landslides that killed at least 15 people and left 38 missing in central Vietnam, where ferocious wind and rain blew away roofs and knocked out power...

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October 29, 2020
India’s coronavirus cases cross 8 million, behind US

India's confirmed coronavirus toll has crossed 8 million with daily cases dipping to the lowest level this week. The Health Ministry reported another 49,881 infections in the past 24 hours....

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October 28, 2020
An asylum seeker is freed, then rearrested, as ICE makes Cubans languish in detention

When the news came that Dayron Naranjo-Alvarez would finally be a free man, his 60-plus fellow detainees broke out in cheers. Within minutes, the announcement that the Cuban asylum seeker...

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October 28, 2020
Turkish leaders condemn Charlie Hebdo cartoon of Erdogan

Turkish officials on Wednesday railed against French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo over its cover-page cartoon mocking Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan and accused the publication of sowing “the seeds of...

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October 28, 2020
Hospital, residential areas hit in Nagorno-Karabakh fighting

Rockets hit a hospital and residential areas Wednesday amid deadly fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh that has raged for more than a month...

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October 28, 2020
Artist Tracey Emin reveals she had operation for cancer

British artist Tracey Emin says she was diagnosed with cancer earlier this year and is in remission after an operation. In an interview published Wednesday, Emin told the website Artnet...

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October 28, 2020
Meghan seeks to postpone trial in privacy suit against paper

The Duchess of Sussex is seeking to delay the start of the trial in her privacy lawsuit against a British newspaper over its publication of excerpts from a letter she...

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October 28, 2020
New deaths as fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh keeps flaring

Deadly fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh showed no signs of abating Wednesday despite a U.S.-brokered cease-fire that took force just two days ago...

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October 28, 2020
Strong typhoon slams Vietnam; at least 2 dead, 26 missing

Typhoon Molave slammed into Vietnam with destructive force Wednesday, killing at least two people and sinking two fishing boats with 26 crew members in what was feared to be the...

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October 28, 2020
Cake Lady helps wounded soldiers heal, one treat at a time

David Wiseman heard Kath Ryan before he met her. He was at the far end of Ward S-4 at Selly Oak Hospital in Birmingham when shouts of “Cake Lady's here!...

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October 28, 2020
Poles join nationwide strike in revolt over abortion ruling

People across Poland are vowing to stay off their jobs on Wednesday as part of a nationwide strike to protest a top court ruling that bans abortions in cases of...

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October 28, 2020
Divisions turn Belgium into Europe’s worst virus hot spot

Small, yet so divided, Belgium has been hit hard again by the pandemic, and now presents some of the most worrying statistics in a continent reeling under the virus' resurgence....

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October 28, 2020
Divisions turn Belgium into Europe’s worst virus hot spot

Small, yet so divided, Belgium has been hit hard again by the pandemic, and now presents some of the most worrying statistics in a continent reeling under the virus' resurgence....

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October 28, 2020
Strong typhoon leaves 1 dead, 12 missing as it nears Vietnam

Typhoon Molave roared closer to Vietnam with destructive force Wednesday, leaving one villager dead and causing two boats with 12 fishermen to sink as the country braced for the most...

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October 28, 2020
Tokyo festival opens with grueling boxing ‘Underdog’ film

Masaharu Take's films have always focused on painful stories about Japan's “under-class,” people who are often overlooked in a nation stereotyped as monolithically well-to-do. The heroes of his latest work,...

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October 28, 2020
Israel looks to far-right figure to head Holocaust memorial

Israel plans to nominate a far-right former general and Cabinet minister who once called for the expulsion of Palestinians from the West Bank to head the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial,...

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October 27, 2020
Cuban government announces closure of Western Union offices and suspension of remittances

More than 400 Western Union offices in Cuba will close their doors due to new embargo regulations imposed by the Trump administration, Fincimex, the Cuban military company that controls remittances...

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October 27, 2020
Trump administration wants Haiti to hold overdue legislative elections by January

If Haitian President Jovenel Moïse thought his good relations with Washington would allow him to achieve what all Haitian presidents have wanted— to delay elections and change the country's constitution...

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October 27, 2020
Trump administration wants Haiti to hold overdue legislative elections by January

If Haitian President Jovenel Moïse thought his good relations with Washington would allow him to achieve what all Haitian presidents have wanted— to delay elections and change the country's constitution...

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October 27, 2020
“He is no socialist:” Well-known Cuban-American writer defends Biden in new political ad

A well-known Cuban exile journalist and writer is the star of a new Spanish-language political ad refuting accusations that Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden is a socialist. The award-winning Cuban-born...

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October 27, 2020
4 dead, 15 rescued in English Channel migrant boat sinking

At least four people, including two young children, died Tuesday when a boat carrying at least 19 migrants capsized off France while trying to cross the English Channel to Britain,...

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October 27, 2020
Belarus leader seeks to punish striking workers, students

Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko urged authorities Tuesday to take action against plant workers and students who participate in a strike called by the opposition as the authoritarian leader made another...

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October 27, 2020
Thai students aim for ambitious political change

He was only 7 when he saw his first military coup. He was 15 during the second. Now 21, he is among those at the front of Thailand's growing pro-democracy...

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