TEHRAN, Iran – Iran’s official IRNA news agency is reporting around 50 hard-line students and activists have staged a rally, calling on the parliament to reject the landmark nuclear deal reached with world powers last month. The Sunday report said the protesters carried signs outside the parliament building decrying the …
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MILAN – An Italian prosecutor says authorities have detained eight suspected smugglers in the deaths of 49 migrants trapped inside the hold of an overcrowded fishing vessel over the weekend. Prosecutor Michelangelo Patane said in Catania on Tuesday that a Moroccan was the captain of the ship while the other …
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PARIS – French President Francois Hollande expressed his solidarity with victims’ families Tuesday after a police officer and three other people were killed in a shootout at a Gypsy camp in northern France. French police were called to a camp in the Somme department earlier in the day, where they …
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BOGOTA, Colombia – The U.S. Treasury Department is levying financial sanctions on four Colombians accused of laundering money for leftist rebels through a speciality grocer and money transfer shop in Switzerland. The four individuals targeted Thursday as foreign narcotics kingpins ran a Zurich-based bodega called the Colombiano Latin Shop that …
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KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says at least eight police officers have been killed in separate attacks by Taliban insurgents in eastern Afghanistan. Col. Asadullah Ensafi, the deputy police chief in Ghazni province, said Saturday another 15 police officers were wounded in the attacks on police checkpoints in the …
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SEOUL, South Korea – North Korea on Tuesday denied Seoul’s claim that Pyongyang’s recent expression of “regret” after a marathon negotiating session is an apology for a mine explosion that maimed two South Korean soldiers. The statement by Pyongyang’s powerful National Defense Commission, the first explicit denial of the key …
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JERUSALEM – The Israeli parliament has passed a law banning journalists working for the country’s public broadcast authority from expressing their opinions on air. The law, passed early Thursday in the middle of the night, drew criticism from journalists, who accused the government of trying to stifle dissent. The law …
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BEIJING – A Chinese high court has issued an extremely rare public apology to 19 people wrongfully convicted of financial crimes. The apology from the People’s High Court for the eastern province of Anhui appeared in a local newspaper on Monday. The court said it wished to help restore the …
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VIENNA – The U.S. is urging continued worldwide pressure on North Korea to force it to renounce its nuclear arms. The demand at the 35-nation board meeting of the International Atomic Energy Agency comes after the agency cited satellite imagery indicating that Pyongyang is “further developing its nuclear capabilities.” Chief …
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House Democratsare urgingthe Trump administration to allow children injured in Gaza during the Israel-Hamas war to enter the U.S. for emergency medical care. Inan Aug. 25 letterto Secretary of State Marco Rubio, more than 140 lawmakers asked for the reversal of a recent move to halt the approval of all …
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