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February 03, 2021

4 Tunisian soldiers die as mine hits vehicle in terror sweep

Four Tunisian soldiers were killed when a land mine hit their vehicle while carrying out a sweep for Islamist extremists in ...

February 03, 2021

Turkey's Erdogan describes student protesters as terrorists

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has denounced student protesters as “terrorists" and vowed to crackdown on ...

February 03, 2021

Tigray opposition parties assert 50,000-plus civilian deaths

A trio of opposition parties in Ethiopia’s embattled Tigray region estimates that more than 50,000 civilians have been killed ...

February 03, 2021

Pentagon chief purges defense boards; Trump loyalists out

Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has ordered hundreds of Pentagon advisory board members to resign this month as part of a ...

February 03, 2021

Myanmar's Suu Kyi detained again — without her old support

A day after Myanmar’s military pulled off a well-choreographed coup, the country’s civilian leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, finds ...

February 03, 2021

Rohingya refugees fear returning to Myanmar after coup

Rohingya refugees from Myanmar living in camps in Bangladesh condemned the military coup in their homeland and said it makes ...

February 02, 2021

Moscow court orders Kremlin foe Navalny to prison

A Moscow court on Tuesday ordered Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny to prison for more than 2 1/2 years, finding that ...

February 02, 2021

Litigants take more cooperative approach in census lawsuit

Attorneys for a coalition of municipalities and advocacy groups that had sued the Trump administration over accuracy concerns ...

February 02, 2021

59 homes lost, more threatened in Australian wildfire

An out-of-control wildfire burning northeast of the Australian west coast city of Perth has destroyed at least 59 homes and ...

February 02, 2021

GOP's McConnell blasts 'loony lies' by Ga. Rep. Greene

Republican Senate leader Mitch McConnell denounced newly elected Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Monday, calling the far-right ...

February 02, 2021

A decade after junta's end, Myanmar military back in control

The man installed by army leaders as Myanmar’s president after Monday's military coup is best known abroad for his role in ...

February 02, 2021

Deposed Myanmar leader warned of possible army obstruction

Aung San Suu Kyi, the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who became Myanmar's leader in 2016 following five decades of military rule, ...

February 01, 2021

Pope denounces violence against women, demands protection

Pope Francis is denouncing the verbal, physical, psychological and sexual violence that women endure and is demanding greater ...

February 01, 2021

Myanmar's military takes power in coup, detains Suu Kyi

Myanmar’s military staged a coup Monday and detained senior politicians including Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi — a sharp ...

February 01, 2021

Iran state TV airs launch of new satellite-carrying rocket

Iranian state TV on Monday aired the launch of the country's newest satellite-carrying rocket, which it said was able to ...

February 01, 2021

Libya's future in balance in UN-backed leadership vote

Delegates from Libya’s opposing sides kicked off a five-day meeting on Monday to choose an interim prime minister and a ...

February 01, 2021

Somali forces end jihadist siege of Mogadishu hotel, 5 dead

At least five people have died in the attack on a Mogadishu hotel by Somalia's al-Shabab rebels that was ended early Monday ...

January 31, 2021

Young men accuse Lincoln Project co-founder of harassment

The influential anti-Donald Trump group Lincoln Project is denouncing one of its co-founders after multiple reports that over ...

January 31, 2021

13 killed in car bombs, shooting in northern Syria

One Syrian was killed on Sunday and four injured after Kurdish security forces opened fire at pro-government demonstrators ...