Foreign Affairs

December 19, 2020
‘Big win for democracy’: Bosnian city of Mostar gets a vote

Irma Baralija is looking forward to Sunday, when she intends to vote and hopes win her race in the first local election in 12 years held in her hometown —...

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December 19, 2020
Portugal’s armed forces help nursing homes battle the virus

Tears well up in Diana Correia's eyes as she recalls the October day that 24 of the 55 residents of her nursing home in Portugal tested positive for COVID-19. The...

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December 19, 2020
Portugal’s armed forces help nursing homes battle the virus

Tears well up in Diana Correia's eyes as she recalls the October day that 24 of the 55 residents of her nursing home in Portugal tested positive for COVID-19. The...

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December 19, 2020
Portugal’s armed forces help nursing homes battle the virus

Tears well up in Diana Correia's eyes as she recalls the October day that 24 of the 55 residents of her nursing home in Portugal tested positive for COVID-19. The...

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December 19, 2020
Portugal’s armed forces help nursing homes battle the virus

Tears well up in Diana Correia's eyes as she recalls the October day that 24 of the 55 residents of her nursing home in Portugal tested positive for COVID-19. The...

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December 19, 2020
Portugal’s armed forces help nursing homes battle the virus

Tears well up in Diana Correia's eyes as she recalls the October day that 24 of the 55 residents of her nursing home in Portugal tested positive for COVID-19. The...

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December 19, 2020
Emails: WHO was warned of fallout over yanked Italy report

An author of a withdrawn World Health Organization report into Italy's coronavirus response warned his bosses in May that people could die and the U.N. agency could suffer “catastrophic” reputational...

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December 19, 2020
Tokyo Olympics Q&A: Costs, IOC, COVID-19, and vaccinations

Much of the focus on the Tokyo Olympics has been on the unprecedented postponement because of the pandemic, and how the Olympics can be held in seven months. The focus...

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December 19, 2020
World looks to spring for pandemic relief as vaccinations start

The developed world could start to emerge from the deadly grip of the pandemic by late spring if the first wave of COVID-19 vaccines are deployed effectively, scientists say. Even...

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December 19, 2020
Epstein associate Brunel charged in France with rape, report says

PARIS — Jean-Luc Brunel, a longtime associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein and owner of a modeling agency, was charged with rape and sexual harassment in France after being questioned...

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December 19, 2020
Epstein associate Brunel charged in France with rape, report says

PARIS — Jean-Luc Brunel, a longtime associate of the late Jeffrey Epstein and owner of a modeling agency, was charged with rape and sexual harassment in France after being questioned...

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December 18, 2020
Criminal trial over MH17 shoot-down set to enter main phase in June

AMSTERDAM — The Dutch trial over the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 over eastern Ukraine six years ago is scheduled to begin in earnest next year on June...

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December 18, 2020
Soaring prices, frozen bank accounts: This is what currency unification looks like in Cuba

For Cubans who have managed to buy an air conditioner, with the help of a relative abroad, their earnings in the private sector or their years-long savings, December could be...

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December 18, 2020
Soaring prices, frozen bank accounts: This is what currency unification looks like in Cuba

For Cubans who have managed to buy an air conditioner, with the help of a relative abroad, their earnings in the private sector or their years-long savings, December could be...

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December 18, 2020
Soaring prices, frozen bank accounts: This is what currency unification looks like in Cuba

For Cubans who have managed to buy an air conditioner, with the help of a relative abroad, their earnings in the private sector or their years-long savings, December could be...

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December 18, 2020
French teens protest after transgender classmate’s suicide

About 100 teenagers rallied in northern France on Friday to pay homage to a transgender student who killed herself this week after facing tensions with school officials for wearing a...

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December 18, 2020
German confirms Navalny questioned as witness in poisoning

Germany confirmed Friday that Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny has been questioned as a witness by German investigators this week about his poisoning in Russia four months ago. Navalny fell...

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December 18, 2020
An emotional “au revoir” from France’s most famous presenter

Au revoir, Jean-Pierre. And merci. After nigh on 33 years of telling the stories of deepest France, making small-screen stars of its ordinary folk, the country's most famous and likely...

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December 18, 2020
Jeffrey Epstein associate was trailed by sordid allegations for decades. Cops ignored it

Then and now, Glaucia Fekete thought the proposition strange. Leave her home in the south of Brazil to participate in a modeling show in faraway Ecuador, and you'll be named...

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December 18, 2020
Kremlin happy Russians will be able to compete at Olympics

The Kremlin voiced regret Friday about the ruling that banned Russia from using its name, flag and anthem at the next two Olympics, but emphasized that the verdict would still...

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December 18, 2020
UK agency agrees not to photograph Duchess of Sussex, family

A news and photography agency has agreed not to take pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their son, Archie, the High Court in London was told at...

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December 18, 2020
UK agency agrees not to photograph Duchess of Sussex, family

A news and photography agency has agreed not to take pictures of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex and their son, Archie, the High Court in London was told at...

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December 18, 2020
Freed Nigerian schoolboys welcomed after week of captivity

More than 300 Nigerian schoolboys, freed after being kidnapped last week in an attack on their school, have arrived in the capital of Katsina state to celebrations of their release....

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December 18, 2020
Virus-stricken Macron at presidential retreat with fever

As French President Emmanuel Macron rides out the coronavirus in a presidential retreat at Versailles, French doctors are warning families who are heading for the holidays to remain cautious because...

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December 18, 2020
Virus-stricken Macron at presidential retreat with fever

As French President Emmanuel Macron rides out the coronavirus in a presidential retreat at Versailles, French doctors are warning families who are heading for the holidays to remain cautious because...

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December 18, 2020
Shut down by corona, Berlin restaurant opens for homeless

The coronavirus pandemic hasn't made life on the streets of Berlin any easier for Kaspars Breidaks. For three months, the 43-year-old Latvian has faced homeless shelters operating at reduced capacity...

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December 18, 2020
AP PHOTOS: Italy ICU nurse couple bring family love to ward

The pandemic has posed unprecedented challenges for families around the world managing work and home life. For the Di Giacobbe family, the juggling is even trickier since mom and dad...

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December 18, 2020
Asian stocks mixed after Wall St record on stimulus hope

Asian stock markets were mixed Friday after Wall Street hit a new high on optimism about economic stimulus and coronavirus vaccine development despite a spike in U.S. unemployment claims. Tokyo,...

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December 18, 2020
Nigeria says 344 students kidnapped last week have been released

More than 300 students kidnapped in northwest Nigeria last week have been freed after being held captive for six days, according to government officials. In all, 344 students have been...

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December 17, 2020
Moms of Americans jailed in Italian police slaying testify

The mother of a young man from California on trial in Rome in the fatal stabbing of an Italian police office testified Thursday that her son had struggled with depression...

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December 17, 2020
Estonians erect statue and give home to beloved stray dog

Zorik was never the tail-wagging or hand-licking type. But that didn't stop the free-spirited vagabond dog from winning many hearts. When the black-and-white mutt, long a presence in a Tallinn...

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December 17, 2020
Yemen is collapsing. That may be its salvation

BIR ALI, Yemen — On the rare occasion Yemen shows up in the news, it's a land of famine and war, home to the world's worst humanitarian crisis. So it...

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December 17, 2020
EU top official sees ‘progress’ in post-Brexit talks

The European Union's top official said Thursday that “substantial progress on many issues” has been made in post-Brexit talks, yet big differences remain to be bridged. Speaking after a phone...

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December 17, 2020
EU top official sees ‘progress’ in post-Brexit talks

The European Union's top official said Thursday that “substantial progress on many issues” has been made in post-Brexit talks, yet big differences remain to be bridged. Speaking after a phone...

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December 17, 2020
Jean-Luc Brunel, model scout and friend of Jeffrey Epstein, arrested in France on rape and sexual trafficking charges: report

A French model scout accused of plying Jeffrey Epstein with new victims has reportedly been arrested by authorities in Paris on charges of rape and sexual trafficking. Jean-Luc Brunel was...

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December 17, 2020
Jean-Luc Brunel, modeling agent suspected of recruiting girls for Jeffrey Epstein, arrested

Modeling mogul Jean-Luc Brunel, a close associate and one-time business partner of disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein, has been arrested in France and is being held for questioning on numerous rape...

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December 17, 2020
Model’s ‘tears of joy’ as agent held over alleged sex crimes

A former model who testified to French police that she was drugged and raped as a teenager by an associate of disgraced late financier Jeffrey Epstein said she wept “tears...

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December 17, 2020
Nigeria’s Boko Haram rebels release video of abducted boys

Nigeria's Boko Haram jihadist rebels have released a video purportedly showing some of the more than 300 schoolboys abducted last week from a government boarding school in the northwestern town...

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December 17, 2020
Cayman Islands jails US college student in coronavirus case

A U.S. college student and her boyfriend have been sentenced to four months in prison in the Cayman Islands for violating strict COVID-19 measures following a recent ruling that will...

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December 17, 2020
Mexico City resists lockdown with hospital occupancy at 75%

Every day this week Mexico City has set a record for hospital beds occupied by COVID patients, driving numbers above those last spring. The mayor is urging people to stay...

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