The son of jailed Hong Kong media mogul and prominent pro-democracy activist Jimmy Lai says he doesn't want to see his father die in detention, as his lawyers raised the prospect that his …
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9/20/23
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At the United Nations, “multilateralism” is always the goal, however fragmented and complex. Yet so is the quest for a coherent storyline that unites all 193 member states and their ideas. Those …
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By TED ANTHONY
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9/20/23
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South Korea’s president sounded a warning to fellow world leaders about the recent communication and possible cooperation between North Korea and Russia. He said that any action by a permanent U.N. …
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By TED ANTHONY
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9/20/23
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A day-long communication outage in a flood-stricken city in eastern Libya has further complicated the work of teams searching for bodies under the rubble and at sea. Libya’s state-owned …
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By SAMY MAGDY
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9/20/23
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Several Catholic priests have held a ceremony blessing same-sex couples outside Cologne cathedral in a protest against the city’s conservative archbishop Cardinal Rainer Maria Woelki. Their protest …
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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
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9/20/23
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It was a moment the diplomatic world was watching for — but didn’t get. In the end, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov avoided staring each other …
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By JENNIFER PELTZ
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9/20/23
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Iran’s supplying of bomb-carrying drones to Russia could see Moscow help Tehran’s program become more lethal, raising risks across the wider Middle East. That's according to the top U.S. Air …
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By JON GAMBRELL
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9/20/23
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India’s Parliament has taken a major step toward reserving 33% of the seats in its powerful lower house and in state legislatures for women to ensure more equal representation, an issue that …
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By ASHOK SHARMA
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9/20/23
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Forecasters in Bermuda are warning of dangerous swells and rip currents as Hurricane Nigel spun through open waters in the northern Atlantic. The Category 1 hurricane was located about 650 miles …
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9/20/23
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All eyes will be on Ukraine’s president and Russia’s top diplomat at a U.N. Security Council meeting Wednesday on the 19-month war in Ukraine: Will they clash? Will they speak? Will they avoid …
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By EDITH M. LEDERER and JENNIFER PELTZ
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9/20/23
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United Nations human rights experts are criticizing Venezuela’s government for stepping up efforts to curtail democratic freedoms. A report issued by the Human Rights Council Wednesday said the …
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9/20/23
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Canada-India relations have sunk to their lowest point in years as the two countries swap allegations after the killing of a Sikh activist, but experts said it remains to be seen if it will create a …
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By KRUTIKA PATHI and SHEIKH SAALIQ
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9/20/23
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Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is preparing to water down some of Britain’s climate commitments, saying the country must fight climate change without penalizing workers and consumers. Sunak says he'll …
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By JILL LAWLESS
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9/20/23
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Explosions rocked parts of Nagorno-Karabakh early Wednesday, a day after Azerbaijani forces launched heavy artillery fire on Armenian positions in the separatist region that local officials said …
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By AVET DEMOURIAN
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9/20/23
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The United Nations says it has documented more than 1,600 cases of human rights violations committed by Afghanistan's Taliban authorities during arrests and detentions of people. It urged the Taliban …
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By RAHIM FAIEZ
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9/20/23
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Pope Francis is travelling to the French port city of Marseille to join Catholic bishops in a meeting focusing on the Mediterranean and migration. The visit was planned months ago but it comes amid a …
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By NICOLE WINFIELD, TRISHA THOMAS and SYLVIE CORBET
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9/20/23
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Palestinian health officials say the death toll over a day of fighting between Israel and the Palestinians in the occupied West Bank and the Gaza Strip has risen to six. Officials said on Wednesday …
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By TIA GOLDENBERG
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9/20/23
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Thousands of Libyans have lost family members, friends and neighbors in the devastating floods that engulfed the country's east. Many survivors are still sheltering inside the wrecked city of Derna, …
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By SAMY MAGDY and YOUSEF MURAD
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9/20/23
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Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi says that his country will never give up its right “to have peaceful nuclear energy” and urged the United States “to demonstrate in a verifiable fashion” that …
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By EDITH M. LEDERER
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9/20/23
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A clergy sex abuse scandal involving Chile’s most notorious pedophile, the priest Fernando Karadima, shook the South American country in 2010 in a way never seen in Latin America. The case prompted …
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By MARÍA TERESA HERNÁNDEZ
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9/20/23
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