Foreign Affairs

October 25, 2020
Ukraine’s local elections test leader and his young party

Ukrainians were voting Sunday in local elections that are considered a test for President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, a former comedian who took office last year vowing to bring peace, uproot endemic...

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October 24, 2020
Opposition leader flees Venezuela, heads towards Spain and the United States

Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López escaped from the South American country and was traveling on Saturday to Spain, where he will spend time with his family before eventually heading towards...

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October 24, 2020
Opposition leader flees Venezuela, heads towards Spain and the United States

Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo López escaped from the South American country and was traveling on Saturday to Spain, where he will spend time with his family before eventually heading towards...

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October 24, 2020
Opposition activist leaves embassy haven to flee Venezuela

Prominent opposition activist Leopoldo López has abandoned the Spanish ambassador's residence in Caracas and left Venezuela after years of frustrated efforts to oust the nation's socialist president, his party said...

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October 24, 2020
Another famous piece damaged on Berlin’s Museum Island

A famous piece of art was vandalized at one of Berlin's most famous museums only days after authorities revealed that more than 60 other art works on the city's Museum...

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October 24, 2020
Amid turmoil, Kyrgyzstan sets presidential vote for Jan. 10

Authorities in Kyrgyzstan on Saturday called an early presidential election for January after the nation's previous president was driven from power by protests triggered by a disputed vote. The Oct....

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October 24, 2020
Thai PM repeats calls for calm ahead of protesters’ deadline

Thailand's government and the country's pro-democracy movement appeared no closer to resolving their differences Saturday, as the protesters' evening deadline for Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha to step down approached. Prayuth's...

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October 24, 2020
Fighting over Nagorno-Karabakh goes on despite US mediation

Rocket and artillery barrage hit residential areas in Nagorno-Karabakh on Saturday hours after the United States hosted top diplomats from Armenia and Azerbaijan for talks on settling their decades-long conflict...

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October 24, 2020
No escaping from Wales: UK police to enforce travel ban

A police force in England says it will try to stop people from leaving Wales, which has started a 17-day lockdown to slow a surging rate of coronavirus infections. The...

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October 24, 2020
No escaping from Wales: UK police to enforce travel ban

A police force in England says it will try to stop people from leaving Wales, which has started a 17-day lockdown to slow a surging rate of coronavirus infections. The...

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October 24, 2020
Ethiopia blasts Trump remark that Egypt will ‘blow up’ dam

Ethiopia on Saturday denounced “belligerent threats” over the huge dam it has nearly completed on the Blue Nile River, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said downstream Egypt will...

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October 24, 2020
Ethiopia blasts Trump remark that Egypt will ‘blow up’ dam

Ethiopia on Saturday denounced “belligerent threats” over the huge dam it has nearly completed on the Blue Nile River, a day after U.S. President Donald Trump said downstream Egypt will...

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October 24, 2020
Poland’s President Duda tests positive for coronavirus

Poland's President Andrzej Duda has tested positive for coronavirus, his spokesman said on Saturday. The spokesman, Blazej Spychalski, said on Twitter that the 48-year-old conservative leader was tested the day...

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October 24, 2020
Hungarians protest government control over top arts college

Thousands of Hungarians marched on the streets of the capital Friday to protest government actions they claim strips one of the country's most prestigious universities of its independence. The march,...

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October 24, 2020
Officials: ‘Minimal’ risk of sinking as inspections carried out on damaged Venezuelan oil tanker

Venezuelan authorities invited officials from the Office of the Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago for a tour of the damaged FSO Nabarima, which had prompted environmental concerns after tilting...

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October 24, 2020
Haiti president rebuffs elections calls by U.S. Instead, he announces constitution reform

Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, who has been under pressure by Washington to hold long-overdue elections in Haiti as soon as “it's technically feasible,”declared Friday that there will be no elections...

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October 24, 2020
Armenians protest on Miami Beach against the government of Azerbaijan

Armenian's protest on Miami Beach against the government of Azerbaijan, in favor of national independence for the Republic of Artsakh and against the war between the two countries on Friday,...

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October 24, 2020
Armenians protest on Miami Beach against the government of Azerbaijan

Armenian's protest on Miami Beach against the government of Azerbaijan, in favor of national independence for the Republic of Artsakh and against the war between the two countries on Friday,...

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October 23, 2020
The Trump administration will ban remittances to Cuba through military companies

The United States government will prohibit remittances to Cuba through companies controlled by the Cuban military, which would effectively cut money transfers to Cuba until companies like Western Union and...

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October 23, 2020
France surpasses 1 million confirmed virus cases amid spike

French health authorities say France has recorded over 1 million confirmed coronavirus cases since the start of the pandemic, becoming the second country in Western Europe after Spain to reach...

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October 23, 2020
Croatia accused of brutality, sexual abuse against migrants

Danish aid workers stationed in the Balkans say dozens of migrants have alleged they were brutalized by Croatian law-enforcement officers when they tried to cross into the European Union nation,...

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October 23, 2020
Nigeria says ‘many lives have been lost’ in days of unrest

“Many lives have been lost” in Nigeria's unrest, the president's office announced Friday, as the government said peaceful protests over police abuses and the military's reported killing of demonstrators were...

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October 23, 2020
Fiasco over pope’s cut civil union quote intensifies impact

The world premiere of a documentary on Pope Francis was supposed to have been a bright spot for a papacy locked down by pandemic and besieged by a corruption scandal,...

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October 23, 2020
UK police recover stolen Ming dynasty vase worth $3 million

British police say they have recovered a 15th-century Chinese vase valued at 2.5 million pounds ($3.3 million) that was stolen in Switzerland last year. The Metropolitan Police force said Friday...

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October 23, 2020
In hard-hit Peru, worry mounts over both COVID-19 and dengue

Two of Lidia Choque's close family members had already gotten sick with the new coronavirus when the mosquitos arrived. The 53-year-old woman lives in a wooden house near the airport...

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October 23, 2020
Final count gives leftist big victory in Bolivia election

A final official vote count released Friday gave leftist Luis Arce a smashing victory in Bolivia's presidential election, a vindication for the Movement Toward Socialism party of ousted President Evo...

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October 23, 2020
Final count gives leftist big victory in Bolivia election

A final official vote count released Friday gave leftist Luis Arce a smashing victory in Bolivia's presidential election, a vindication for the Movement Toward Socialism party of ousted President Evo...

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October 23, 2020
Resentment, smoke linger in Nigeria’s streets after unrest

Resentment lingered with the smell of charred tires Friday as Nigeria's streets were relatively calm after days of protests over police abuses, as authorities barely acknowledged reports of the military...

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October 23, 2020
Czech health minister breaks virus rules, asked to resign

The Czech Republic's prime minister called on his health minister to resign or be fired after he broke strict government restrictions to slow a record surge of coronavirus infections and...

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October 23, 2020
Czech health minister breaks virus rules, asked to resign

The Czech Republic's prime minister called on his health minister to resign or be fired after he broke strict government restrictions to slow a record surge of coronavirus infections and...

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October 22, 2020
Trinidad says idle Venezuela oil vessel not a threat. Environmentalists are not convinced

The government of Trinidad and Tobago said Thursday that a floating oil-storage vessel with nearly 55 million gallons of Venezuelan crude oil floating off its coast is not taking on...

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October 22, 2020
There were two winners for Canada lottery jackpot worth millions—they’re the same guy

A Canadian man experienced a once in a bluemoon win when he accidentally bought two tickets for the same lottery draw using the exact numbers he's been playing for years,...

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October 22, 2020
French PM says 2nd virus wave is here, vastly extends curfew

French Prime Minister Jean Castex announced on Thursday a vast extension of the nightly curfew that is intended to curb the spiraling spread of the coronavirus, saying “the second wave...

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October 22, 2020
Poland’s top court rules out abortions due to fetal defects

Poland's top court ruled Thursday that a law allowing abortion of fetuses with congenital defects is unconstitutional, shutting a major loophole in the predominantly Catholic country's abortion laws that are...

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October 22, 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell testimony: 465 pages of fury, denials, glimpses into Jeffrey Epstein’s life

No, Ghislaine Maxwell doesn't remember where she met Virginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who says she was recruited from a job at Mar-a-Lago as a teenager to become a Jeffrey...

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October 22, 2020
Plot thickens over origins of pope’s civil union endorsement

Question swirled Thursday about the origins of Pope Francis' bombshell comments endorsing same-sex civil unions, with all evidence suggesting he made them in a 2019 interview that was never broadcast...

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October 22, 2020
AP Photos: Spain reaches 1 million confirmed COVID-19 cases

Spain this week became the first country in western Europe to record more than 1 million confirmed infections, as it struggles to contain a resurgence of the new coronavirus. The...

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October 22, 2020
Vatican, China extend bishop agreement over US opposition

The Vatican and China extended a controversial accord on bishop nominations Thursday over strong opposition from the White House and conservative Catholics given Beijing's crackdown on religious believers. The Holy...

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October 22, 2020
Mixed Philippine reaction on pope nod on gay civil unions

Pope Francis' endorsement of same-sex civil unions drew mixed reactions Thursday in the Philippines, Asia's bastion of Catholicism, with a retired bishop saying he was scandalized by it while an...

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October 22, 2020
Thailand cancels emergency decree in bid to calm protests

Thailand's government on Thursday canceled a state of emergency it had declared last week for Bangkok in a gesture offered by the embattled prime minister to cool massive student-led protests...

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