Senator Seeks to Bar Chinese Bid for U.S. Chip Maker
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China’s efforts to expand its reach into advanced semiconductors in the U.S. drew fire on Capitol Hill as Sen. Chuck Schumer called on officials to block Tsinghua Unigroup’s effort to buy Micron Technology.
A massive truck bomb ripped through a popular Baghdad food market in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood, killing at least 62 people, police officials said.
For more than two decades, Sudan was the Iranian regime’s best friend in the Sunni Arab world, but the friendship has unraveled.
Swedish prosecutors have run out of time to pursue two of four probes into allegations of sexual assault against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.
Finally, something Democrats and Republicans agree on in the 2016 election cycle: China's economic foul play.A day after Beijing slashed the value of its currency, U.S. politicians were united in their outrage. Donald Trump, the GOP presidential hopeful, used a campaign stop in Michigan to accuse China of trying to "suck the blood out of the U.S." Rep. Debbie Dingell (D-Mich.) praised his comments as "spot on."Read full article >>
TOKYO — North Korea has been stepping up its capacity to mine and mill uranium, new satellite imagery shows, raising fears that Kim Jong Un’s regime is trying to expand its stockpile of nuclear weapons.Read full article >>
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Jose Melena was cooked alive after a co-worker loaded six tons of canned tuna into an oven he had stepped inside.
At least 13 killed and hundreds injured in Tianjin as shipment of explosives erupts
Two men plead guilty to using unmanned aerial vehicle in attempt to transport almost 30lb of heroin from Mexico to USA
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Raymond Odierno, American army chief of staff, says proposal should be put to Barack Obama if progress is not made soon
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Jose Melena died in 2012 when giant cooker was loaded with fish and turned on by workers who did not realise he had climbed inside to clean it
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British troops sent to train Ukrainian forces fighting battling Russian-backed separatists are also learning from their pupils
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Chinese state broadcaster has released footage showing the warehouse where the explosive blasts came from
Colleen Hughes and Linda Ridgeway Whitedeer say Cosby, 78, sexually assaulted them in the early 1970s, while Eden Tirl said he sexually harassed her on "The Cosby Show" set
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A wedge-tailed eagle, also known as an eaglehawk, takes down a drone as it is flown over grassland in Victoria, Australia. Melbourne Aerial Video, the company which captured the footage, says the eagle – Australia’s largest bird of prey, highly-territorial and known to fly at 6,000ft – escaped unharmed
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Maj. Gen. Qassim Suleimani, the head of Iran’s paramilitary Quds force, has been subject to a travel ban since 2007. The visit may provide fuel to opponents of a nuclear agreement with Iran.
The Ukrainian government and pro-Russian separatists on Wednesday accused each other of attempting to break a six-month-old peace agreement.
Sunbathers at Gurovskiye Kamni beach on the Black Sea in Gurzuf, on the southern coast of Crimea. Access to the beach has become a matter of dispute, with the nearby Kremlin-backed children's camp of Artek seeking to take the beach for its visitors and local residents fighting to keep it open to the public.
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ISIS Enshrines a Theology of Rape by RUKMINI CALLIMACHI
Claiming the Quran’s support, the Islamic State codifies sex slavery in conquered regions of Iraq and Syria and uses the practice as a recruiting tool.
Kevin Lau Chun-to sustained severe cuts in the attack, which heightened concerns about threats to press freedom in the semiautonomous Chinese territory.
Abadi Seeks To Seal Sweeping Reforms With Constitutional Change by support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
Iraqi Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, after winning quick approval of his sweeping government reform legislation in Parliament, said he wants to correct what he called "mistakes" in the country's constitution.
Iran Deal Has Fallen Victim To Washington Politics, Expert Saysby support@pangea-cms.com (RFE/RL)
The Iran nuclear deal has fallen victim to a long-running political war between the White House and Republican-led Congress, a former top White House aide and nuclear expert says.
Iraqi officials say a massive truck bomb has ripped through a crowded Baghdad food market shortly after dawn, killing at least 62 people.
The leader of a political coalition of moderate Syrian opposition forces has told Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov that a Russian-Iranian proposal to end Syria's four-year-old civil war is unworkable.
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The United States says it will raise the issue at the United Nations of a recent visit to Moscow by a senior Iranian general who is targeted by a UN travel ban.
For almost a year, areas of eastern Ukraine under the control of Russia-backed separatists have been cut off from the rest of the country. The economic price is enormous. Much of Ukraine's 17 percent fall in GDP is due to the collapse in economic activity in these areas. At the market in Luhansk, money is scarce and prices are soaring. The common refrain: ''Somehow, we're surviving." (RFE/RL's Ukrainian Service)
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The United States launched its first manned air strikes against Islamic State targets from the Incirlik Air Base in Turkey on Wednesday, the U.S. military said.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's presidential front-runner wants to settle a financially hobbling suit with bondholders, woo new investors, cut inflation and could revise energy subsidies to put the country's fiscal house in order, his economic advisor said.
BEIJING (Reuters) - A lone attacker stabbed a French man and a Chinese woman in a popular Beijing shopping complex on Thursday, killing the woman, the city's public security department said.
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Two men charged with attacking a former chief editor of a major Hong Kong newspaper with a meat cleaver last year were found guilty by a jury on Thursday.
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ISTANBUL (Reuters) - Turkey does not expect to deploy ground forces in Syria to fight Islamic State, although that option should remain on the table, Foreign Minister Mevult Cavusoglu said in a television interview on Thursday.
CAIRO (Reuters) - The militant group Islamic State said in an audio broadcast on Thursday that its Egyptian affiliate had killed a Croatian hostage, a day after a photograph of a beheaded corpse purported to be that of the Croat was circulated by the group's supporters.
DIYARBAKIR, Turkey (Reuters) - Kurdish militants launched attacks on military outposts in eastern Turkey overnight and seven of their fighters were killed in ensuing clashes with security forces, the Turkish armed forces said on Thursday.
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Swedish prosecutors said on Thursday they had dropped investigations into allegations of sexual assault made in 2010 against WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange because they had run out of time to bring charges.
MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia has added Albania, Montenegro, Liechtenstein and Iceland to a list of countries from which it has banned most food imports in retaliation for Western sanctions over the Ukraine crisis, Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev said.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning could be placed in solitary confinement indefinitely for allegedly violating prison rules by having a copy of Vanity Fair with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover and an expired tube of toothpaste, among other things, her lawyer said Wednesday....
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TIANJIN, China (AP) -- The latest on the explosions in China's port city of Tianjin (all times local):...
Bills claim Enemkpali, day after he punched Jets QB Smithby By JOHN WAWROW and DENNIS WASZAK Jr.
PITTSFORD, N.Y. (AP) -- Rex Ryan won't excuse linebacker Ikemefuna Enemkpali for a sucker punch that broke quarterback Geno Smith's jaw in the New York Jets' locker room....
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The U.S. on Wednesday launched its first airstrikes by Turkey-based F-16 fighter jets against Islamic State targets in Syria, marking a limited escalation of a yearlong air campaign that critics have called excessively cautious....
US culture already widespread in Cuba as ties resumeby By ANDREA RODRIGUEZ and MICHAEL WEISSENSTEIN
HAVANA (AP) -- Even Cubans who don't speak a word of English eat "un cake" on their birthdays....
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