Foreign Affairs

October 19, 2020
Ghislaine Maxwell loses fight to keep her Jeffrey Epstein testimony sealed

A federal appeals court dealt Ghislaine Maxwell, the alleged madam to disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, twin blows late Monday by declining to consolidate her appeals in numerous overlapping cases and...

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October 19, 2020
Guinea’s opposition leader claims election victory

Guinea's opposition candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo has declared himself the winner of the West African country's presidential election before the official results have been announced. “Despite all the anomalies of...

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October 19, 2020
Guinea’s opposition leader claims election victory

Guinea's opposition candidate Cellou Dalein Diallo has declared himself the winner of the West African country's presidential election before the official results have been announced. “Despite all the anomalies of...

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October 19, 2020
Nagorno-Karabakh truce frays amid new shelling reports

More reports of shelling on Monday challenged the new cease-fire in the conflict over the separatist territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, where heavy fighting between Armenian and Azerbaijani forces has raged for...

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October 19, 2020
Wales locks down as COVID-19 cases spike; Manchester resists

Wales on Monday became the second nation in the United Kingdom to lock down large swathes of its economy to combat rising coronavirus infections, but British Prime Minister Boris Johnson...

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October 19, 2020
World struggles as confirmed COVID-19 cases pass 40 million

The number of confirmed cases of COVID-19 across the planet has passed 40 million. The milestone was passed early Monday according to Johns Hopkins University, which collates reporting from around...

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October 19, 2020
ETA’s bloody history: 853 killings in 60 years of violence

The now-defunct Basque separatist militant group ETA was formed more than six decades ago to try to form an independent state in parts of northern Spain and southern France. A...

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October 19, 2020
Facing terror charges, ETA’s last boss apologizes for deaths

The last known chief of ETA, the now-extinct Basque separatist militant group, goes on trial Monday in Paris for terrorism charges that he deems “absurd” because of his role in...

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October 19, 2020
Facing terror charges, ETA’s last boss apologizes for deaths

The last known chief of ETA, the now-extinct Basque separatist militant group, goes on trial Monday in Paris for terrorism charges that he deems “absurd” because of his role in...

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October 19, 2020
Bolivia tense awaiting results of presidential election redo

Bolivians waited nervously for the results of Sunday's high-stakes presidential election even as Evo Morales pre-empted authorities' slow vote count and declared his hand-picked candidate the victor in a high-stakes...

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October 18, 2020
Puerto Rico, unable to vote, becomes crucial to US election

The campaigns of President Donald Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden are rallying people in a place where U.S. citizens cannot cast ballots but have the ear of hundreds...

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October 18, 2020
Israel, Bahrain sign deal establishing formal ties

Israel and Bahrain on Sunday agreed to establish formal diplomatic relations, making the small Gulf country the fourth Arab state to normalize ties with Israel. The U.S.-brokered agreement capped a...

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October 18, 2020
Hardliner leads leftist in Turkish Cypriot leadership poll

A hardliner who favors even closer ties with Turkey is leading by a narrow margin against the leftist incumbent in the Turkish Cypriot leadership runoff Sunday, according to unofficial results....

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October 18, 2020
Guinea votes to see if president can extend decade in power

Guinean President Alpha Conde sought to extend his decade in power in Sunday's election, after the country's constitution was changed earlier this year to allow the 82-year-old leader to run...

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October 18, 2020
UK festival curator accuses UAE minister of sex assault

The chair of Britain's Hay literary festival said Sunday the event will not return to Abu Dhabi after one of the festival's curators alleged that she was sexually assaulted by...

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October 18, 2020
Demonstrations in France will pay tribute to slain teacher

Demonstrations around France have been called in support of freedom of speech and to pay tribute to a French history teacher who was beheaded near Paris after discussing caricatures of...

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October 18, 2020
UN arms embargoes on Iran expire despite US objections

A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers,...

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October 18, 2020
Armenia, Azerbaijan report violations of new cease-fire

Despite a second attempt at a cease-fire, Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations Sunday of violating the new truce in their destructive conflict over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The latest...

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October 18, 2020
Turkish Cypriots pick leader as stakes soar in Mediterranean

Turkish Cypriots began voting Sunday in a leadership runoff to choose between an incumbent who pledges a course less bound by Turkey's dictates and a challenger who favors even closer...

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October 18, 2020
Romania’s Jewish State Theater explores work on Holocaust

The latest première at the Jewish State Theater in the Romanian capital, Bucharest, explores the horrors of the Holocaust via a survivor's memories of the Auschwitz and Plaszow concentration camps....

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October 18, 2020
Bolivia’s vote a high-stakes presidential redo amid pandemic

Bolivians vote Sunday in a high-stakes presidential election redo that could determine its democratic future and bring a return of socialism to the country as it struggles with a raging...

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October 18, 2020
Bolivia’s vote a high-stakes presidential redo amid pandemic

Bolivians vote Sunday in a high-stakes presidential election redo that could determine its democratic future and bring a return of socialism to the country as it struggles with a raging...

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October 18, 2020
Pandemic, politics lead to closure of storied Hong Kong bar

Nearly 15 years ago, Grace Ma decided to name her bar Club 71, in commemoration of a July 1, 2003 rally where hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers protested a...

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October 18, 2020
Pandemic, politics lead to closure of storied Hong Kong bar

Nearly 15 years ago, Grace Ma decided to name her bar Club 71, in commemoration of a July 1, 2003 rally where hundreds of thousands of Hong Kongers protested a...

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October 18, 2020
Afghans say preventing next war as vital as ending this one

At a Kabul museum honoring Afghanistan's war victims, talking to visitors reveals just how many layers and generations of pain and grief have piled up during four decades of unrelenting...

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October 18, 2020
New Zealand’s Ardern credits virus response for election win

A day after winning a second term in a landside victory, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Sunday she sees the election result as an endorsement of her government's...

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October 18, 2020
New Zealand’s Ardern credits virus response for election win

A day after winning a second term in a landside victory, New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern said Sunday she sees the election result as an endorsement of her government's...

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October 17, 2020
Armenia, Azerbaijan announce new attempt at cease-fire

Armenia and Azerbaijan have announced a new attempt to establish a cease-fire in their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh starting from midnight. It comes a week after a Russia-brokered truce frayed immediately...

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October 17, 2020
Armenia, Azerbaijan announce new attempt at cease-fire

Armenia and Azerbaijan have announced a new attempt to establish a cease-fire in their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh starting from midnight. It comes a week after a Russia-brokered truce frayed immediately...

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October 17, 2020
Armenia, Azerbaijan announce new attempt at cease-fire

Armenia and Azerbaijan have announced a new attempt to establish a cease-fire in their conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh starting from midnight. It comes a week after a Russia-brokered truce frayed immediately...

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October 17, 2020
New virus restrictions in Europe; Merkel warns of hard days

Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to come together like they did in the spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus as the country posted another daily record of new...

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October 17, 2020
Azerbaijan: Armenian missile killed 13, wounded over 50

Azerbaijan on Saturday accused Armenia of striking its second-largest city with a ballistic missile that killed at least 13 civilians and wounded 50 others in a new escalation of their...

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October 17, 2020
New virus restrictions in Europe; Merkel warns of hard days

Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to come together like they did in the spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus as the country posted another daily record of new...

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October 17, 2020
New virus restrictions in Europe; Merkel warns of hard days

Chancellor Angela Merkel urged Germans to come together like they did in the spring to slow the spread of the coronavirus as the country posted another daily record of new...

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October 17, 2020
Dutch king returns from vacation after lockdown uproar

The Dutch royal couple were back in the Netherlands Saturday after their vacation trip to Greece had to be abandoned because of an uproar back home, where people are urged...

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October 17, 2020
Iran announces its virus death toll passes 30,000 killed

Iran announced Saturday that its death toll from the coronavirus has passed the milestone of 30,000 killed. The announcement by Health Ministry spokeswoman Sima Sadat Lari saw Iran put its...

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October 17, 2020
After Lebanese revolt’s fury, waning protests face long road

A year ago, hundreds of thousands of Lebanese took to the streets protesting taxes and a rapidly deteriorating economic crisis. A spontaneous and hopeful nationwide movement was born, denouncing an...

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October 17, 2020
New Zealand’s Ardern appears headed for big win and 2nd term

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern appeared headed for a landslide win and a second term in office Saturday during early vote counting in New Zealand's election. With about one-third of votes...

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October 17, 2020
Suspect in teacher’s beheading in France was Chechen teen

A suspect shot dead by police after the gruesome beheading of a history teacher in an attack near Paris Friday was an 18-year-old Chechen, police said. France's anti-terrorism prosecutor's office...

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October 16, 2020
Plane passenger smuggles 2 pounds of gold in body to dodge taxes, India officials say

A passenger at an airport in India apparently was desperate to avoid paying taxes when flying in from Dubai on Tuesday:Authorities at Kannur Airport in Kerala said he was concealing...

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