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United States faces ‘increasingly fragile world order,’ spy chiefs say
US intelligence agencies said on Monday the country faces an “increasingly fragile world order,” strained by great power competition, transnational challenges and regional conflicts, in a report released as agency leaders testified in…
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South Korea starts procedures to suspend licenses of 4,900 striking doctors
South Korea said Monday it had started procedures to suspend the medical licenses of 4,900 junior doctors who have resigned and stopped working to protest government medical training reforms, causing health care chaos.
The walkout, which…
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Female representation remains low in US statehouses, particularly Democrats in the South
Democrat Kayla Young and Republican Patricia Rucker frequently clash on abortion rights and just about everything else in West Virginia’s Legislature, but they agree on one thing: Too few of their colleagues are women, and it’s hurting the…
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Kyiv slams Pope’s ‘white flag’ call, vows no surrender to Russia
Ukraine on Sunday angrily rejected Pope Francis’s call to negotiate with Russia two years into its invasion, vowing “never” to surrender after the pontiff said Kyiv should “have the courage to raise the white flag.”
The row over his…
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Zelensky’s Turkiye visit sparks speculation over Ankara-Moscow ties
Turkish relations with Russia are in the spotlight following Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s visit to Istanbul on Friday.
Ukraine aims to bolster its defense capabilities using Turkish armament supplies. President Recep Tayyip…
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Frankfurt lights up for Ramadan in first for Germany
The German city of Frankfurt switched on festive lights Sunday to celebrate the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, in what local media said was a nationwide first.
A large sign reading “Happy Ramadan” and a display of lights in the shape of…
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Microsoft says it hasn’t been able to shake Russian state hackers
Microsoft said Friday it’s still trying to evict the elite Russian government hackers who broke into the email accounts of senior company executives in November and who it said have been trying to breach customer networks with stolen access…
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Former British leader Theresa May says she’ll quit Parliament before an election this year
Former British Prime Minister Theresa May announced Friday that she will quit as a lawmaker when an election is called this year, ending a 27-year parliamentary career that included three years as the nation’s leader during a period roiled…
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Two killed, 26 injured in Russian attack on Ukraine’s Sumy, officials say
Russian missile attack on Ukraine’s northern city of Sumy on Thursday killed two people and injured 26 more, the regional administration said on Friday.
“The premises of the school, the central city hospital, the regional emergency…
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Judge denies Trump relief from $83.3 million defamation judgment
The federal judge who oversaw a New York defamation trial that resulted in an $83.3 million award to a longtime magazine columnist who says Donald Trump raped her in the 1990s refused Thursday to relieve the ex-president from the verdict’s…
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