Foreign Affairs

September 30, 2020
Rape and killing of Dalit woman shocks India, draws outrage

The gang rape and death of a woman from the lowest rung of India's caste system sparked outrage across the country on Wednesday with several politicians and activists demanding justice...

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September 30, 2020
Accused of socialism and communism, Venezuelan-Americans say supporting Biden carries stigma

On their way to join a Mar-a-Lago-bound “Caravan for Racial Justice” event in June, the Vivas family decided to document their West Palm Beach outing with a selfie. The photo...

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September 30, 2020
Haitian-American voters targeted in new ad highlighting Trump’s attacks on community

A pro-immigrant group that is lambasting President Donald Trump in battleground states for what it says is racist anti-Asian rhetoric is now turning its attention to the Haitian-American community in...

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September 30, 2020
Pompeo urges Vatican to condemn human rights abuses in China

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo urged the Vatican on Wednesday to join the U.S. in denouncing violations of religious freedom in China, saying the Catholic Church should be at...

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September 30, 2020
Sweden won’t reopen probe into 1986 slaying of PM Palme

The unsolved slaying of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme 34 years ago won't be reopened, a Swedish prosecutor said Wednesday, adding that those who have requested a review have...

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September 30, 2020
32 acquitted in razing of India mosque that set off violence

An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 people who had been accused of crimes in a 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th century mosque that sparked Hindu-Muslim violence...

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September 30, 2020
32 acquitted in razing of India mosque that set off violence

An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 people who had been accused of crimes in a 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th century mosque that sparked Hindu-Muslim violence...

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September 30, 2020
32 acquitted in razing of India mosque that set off violence

An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 people who had been accused of crimes in a 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th century mosque that sparked Hindu-Muslim violence...

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September 30, 2020
Trial in France over artwork seized in anti-colonial protest

A Congolese activist and four others are going on trial Wednesday on theft charges for trying to remove a 19th-century African funeral pole from a Paris museum, as part of...

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September 30, 2020
32 acquitted in razing of mosque that set off India violence

An Indian court on Wednesday acquitted all 32 people who had been accused of crimes in a 1992 attack and demolition of a 16th century mosque that sparked Hindu-Muslim violence...

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September 29, 2020
Trump’s silence continues on how many refugees can enter the U.S. this fiscal year

The Trump administration has yet to announce how many refugees will be admitted into the United States during the upcoming fiscal year, which starts Thursday. Without a “presidential determination,” which...

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September 29, 2020
Ukraine marks 79th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre

Ukraine on Tuesday marked the 79th anniversary of the Babi Yar massacre, one of the most infamous mass slaughters of World War II. Babi Yar, a ravine in the Ukrainian...

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September 29, 2020
Assange may end up at Colorado Supermax jail, UK court told

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange would have to be “almost dying” to get out of arguably the most notorious prison in the United States if convicted of espionage charges and sent...

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September 29, 2020
State television: Kuwaiti ruler Sheikh Sabah has died at 91

Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation's top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the...

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September 29, 2020
No more UK soldiers to be charged over Bloody Sunday deaths

No more British Army veterans will be charged over the 1972 “Bloody Sunday” killings of 13 civil rights protesters in Londonderry, prosecutors in Northern Ireland said Tuesday. Northern Ireland's Public...

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September 29, 2020
Tensions mount as Armenia, Azerbaijan continue fighting

Armenian and Azerbaijani forces accused each other of attacks on their territory on Tuesday, as fighting over the separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh continued for a third straight day after a...

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September 29, 2020
Dutch students work hard to keep virus out of shared houses

This is not the student life Iris Raats had hoped for when she was accepted at Leiden University to study law. With the coronavirus pandemic casting its long shadow over...

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September 29, 2020
AP PHOTOS: Remnants of East Germany, 30 years after its end

Thirty years after Germany was reunited, many once-decrepit city centers in the formerly communist east have been painstakingly restored and new factories have sprung up. But many companies and facilities...

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September 29, 2020
AP PHOTOS: Remnants of East Germany, 30 years after its end

Thirty years after Germany was reunited, many once-decrepit city centers in the formerly communist east have been painstakingly restored and new factories have sprung up. But many companies and facilities...

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September 29, 2020
Amnesty Int’l halts India operations, citing gov’t reprisals

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International said Tuesday that it was halting its operation in India, citing reprisals from the government and the freezing of its bank accounts by Indian authorities....

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September 29, 2020
Amnesty Int’l halts India operations, citing gov’t reprisals

Human rights watchdog Amnesty International said Tuesday that it was halting its operation in India, citing reprisals from the government and the freezing of its bank accounts by Indian authorities....

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September 29, 2020
Bubble hockey champions: Tampa Bay Lightning win Stanley Cup

The joyful yells from the bench could be heard in the empty arena in the final seconds and the roar from players when Commissioner Gary Bettman called for Steven Stamkos...

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September 28, 2020
Malta seeks shark tooth fossil presented to Prince George

Malta says it will seek to retrieve a shark tooth that was presented to Britain's Prince George by veteran broadcaster and naturalist David Attenborough, who found the fossil during a...

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September 28, 2020
U.S. sanctions military-controlled company involved in dollar remittances to Cuba

The Trump administration continues its campaign to restrict remittances to Cuba by sanctioning American International Services, a company controlled by the Cuban military involved in dollar remittances, the State Department...

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September 28, 2020
American sued by a Thai resort after he left negative TripAdvisor review

An American was sued by a resort in Thailand after leaving a negative review on TripAdvisor — and could face two years in prison, police say. In July, Wesley Barnes...

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September 28, 2020
American sued by a Thai resort after he left negative TripAdvisor review

An American was sued by a resort in Thailand after leaving a negative review on TripAdvisor — and could face two years in prison, police say. In July, Wesley Barnes...

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September 28, 2020
Belarus detains 500 at weekend anti-government protests

Authorities in Belarus have detained about 500 people during weekend protests against the country's authoritarian president, who has claimed a sixth term in office in an election widely seen as...

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September 28, 2020
Dissident Ai Weiwei protests possible extradition of Assange

The dissident Chinese contemporary artist Ai Weiwei staged a silent protest outside London's Old Bailey court on Monday against the possible extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United...

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September 28, 2020
AP PHOTOS: Migrants face more misery in Bosnian crackdown

Remote woods, abandoned run-down buildings and roadsides in northwestern Bosnia are steadily filling with makeshift camps where migrants and refugees from the Mideast, Asia and North Africa are bracing for...

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September 28, 2020
Armenia, Azerbaijan keep up deadly fight for disputed region

Armenia and Azerbaijani forces kept fighting Monday over the disputed separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh after hostilities broke out the day before, with both sides blaming each other for resuming the...

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September 28, 2020
India’s confirmed coronavirus tally reaches 6 million cases

India's confirmed coronavirus tally reached 6 million cases on Monday, keeping the country second to the United States in number of reported cases since the pandemic began. The Health Ministry...

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September 27, 2020
100,000 march in Belarus capital on 50th day of protests

About 100,000 demonstrators marched in the Belarusian capital calling for the authoritarian president's ouster, some wearing cardboard crowns to ridicule him, on Sunday as the protests that have rocked the...

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September 27, 2020
UN failures on coronavirus underscore the need for reforms

The coronavirus that has claimed nearly 1 million lives has underscored the failure of the United Nations to bring countries together to defeat it, prompting renewed calls to reform the...

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September 27, 2020
Prince Charles warns virus may devastate students’ futures

Prince Charles has warned that up to 1 million young people in Britain may need “urgent help'' to protect their futures from the ravages of the COVID-19 pandemic, as politicians...

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September 27, 2020
Israelis mark Yom Kippur under ‘painful’ virus lockdown

The solemn Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which annually sees Israeli life grind to a halt, begins on Sunday in a nation already under a sweeping coronavirus lockdown. Every year,...

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September 27, 2020
Israelis mark Yom Kippur under ‘painful’ virus lockdown

The solemn Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, which annually sees Israeli life grind to a halt, begins on Sunday in a nation already under a sweeping coronavirus lockdown. Every year,...

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September 27, 2020
Facing IS, last embattled Sikhs, Hindus leave Afghanistan

Afghanistan's dwindling community of Sikhs and Hindus is shrinking to its lowest levels. With growing threats from the local Islamic State affiliate, many are choosing to leave the country of...

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September 27, 2020
Facing IS, last embattled Sikhs, Hindus leave Afghanistan

Afghanistan's dwindling community of Sikhs and Hindus is shrinking to its lowest levels. With growing threats from the local Islamic State affiliate, many are choosing to leave the country of...

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September 27, 2020
North Korea accuses South of intrusion to find dead official

North Korea accused South Korea of sending ships across the disputed sea boundary to find the body of a South Korean official recently killed by North Korean troops, warning Sunday...

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September 27, 2020
North Korea accuses South of intrusion to find dead official

North Korea accused South Korea of sending ships across the disputed sea boundary to find the body of a South Korean official recently killed by North Korean troops, warning Sunday...

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