Washington Post: World
- German leader Merkel to make 1st visit to Auschwitz
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 06:36 AMGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel is planning to visit the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz for the first time in her 14 years in office
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-Scottish leader Alex Salmond denies sex assault charges
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 06:59 AMFormer Scottish leader Alex Salmond, one of the country’s best-known politicians, has appeared in court accused of sex crimes including attempting to rape a woman at the leader’s official residence
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - In Ukraine, the impeachment hearings are met with a big yawn
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 07:01 AMUkrainians are much more concerned about war in the east, the economy and the anniversary of their revolution.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - ‘On whose authority?’: What to watch in impeachment hearings
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 12:50 PM“On whose authority?” What to watch in Trump impeachment hearings
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - US defense chief ends Asia tour with same troubles, risks
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 01:20 AMU.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper is ending an Asia tour with the same trio of troubles he found on arrival last week on the Korean peninsula
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - New acting Homeland Security secretary Chad Wolf visits border in El Paso
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 12:22 PMWolf said the Trump administration will continue to push Mexico to do more to stem the flow of migrants seeking to reach the U.S. border.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iran sentences six environmentalists to prison for ‘collaborating’ with U.S.
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 01:29 AMThe defendants are part of a group of eight environmentalists jailed last year for their work tracking the critically endangered Asiatic cheetah.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pence aide says conversation with Sondland about link between Ukraine military aid and investigations ‘never happened’
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 11:34 AMPence aide says conversation with Sondland about link between Ukraine military aid and investigations ‘never happened’
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Pence aide denies discussion of link in Ukraine aid holdup
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 12:10 PMA top aide to Vice President Mike Pence says a conversation described by EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland about a link between military aid for Ukraine and investigations ‘never happened’
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Britain’s Conservatives accused of misleading public with fake fact-checking account as election nears
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 07:21 AMIn a response, Twitter said it would take “decisive corrective action” against similar attempts in the future.
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- Former Israeli policewoman charged with shooting Palestinian
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 06:51 AMFormer policewoman in Israel charged for allegedly shooting unarmed Palestinian in the back at West Bank checkpoint
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Israel kicks off final 3-week window before elections called
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 07:00 AMFor first time in Israeli history, president says no candidate has been able to form a government
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why 26,000 students in India came together to brush their teeth — at the same time
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 10:45 AMBreaking world records has become something of an obsession for the world’s second most-populous country.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump’s ‘no quid pro quo’ call open to interpretation
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 12:51 PMCovering his bases? Trump’s ‘no quid pro quo’ call with diplomat open to interpretation
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Hong Kong moves to center stage of U.S.-China showdown
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 12:04 PMProtesters in the Asian financial center call for President Trump to sign a bill designed to safeguard the territory’s freedoms and human rights.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ukraine is an afterthought in Washington’s impeachment drama
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 12:59 PMFor Ukrainian officials, the best thing to do may be to stand back and try to avoid the cross-fire.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Brazil’s Bolsonaro says Amazon deforestation is a ‘cultural’ phenomenon that ‘will never end’
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 01:30 AMThe pro-development president shrugged off government data showing deforestation has reached an 11-year high on his watch.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Colombia ambassador criticizes State Department in recording
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 12:02 PMColombia’s ambassador in Washington is taking heat after a recording surfaced in which he criticizes the U.S. State Department as a feckless institution subjugated to the White House
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - What’s on the menu at the trendy Kyiv restaurant where Sondland is said to have phoned Trump
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 07:00 AMCaviar, a matcha latte or a $250 bottle of Grand Cru? All were on the menu at a key site referenced in the impeachment hearings.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The ‘Amazon of Africa’ shutters in Cameroon — just before Black Friday
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 11:20 AM“They’re afraid to deliver,” one customer said, amid a conflict that has claimed thousands of lives over two years.
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- The Latest: Spanish ship rescues 73 migrants
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 06:42 AMSpanish humanitarian ship Open Arms has rescued 73 migrants from a distressed boat off Libya’s coast
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Testimony ensnares Pompeo in Ukraine scandal as he mulls political future
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 06:01 AMEmails and conversations link secretary of state more closely to the effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate President Trump’s political rivals than previously known.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Islamic State claims massacre of troops in Mali, where it is gaining ground
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 07:09 AMTerrorists are plotting and launching attacks in Africa’s troubled Sahel region.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Southern Africa’s deadly drought leaving millions hungry
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 01:03 AMThe worst drought some farmers have seen in decades is affecting most of southern Africa
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - North Korean leader turns down visit to South Korea
Thursday - 11/21/2019 - 01:22 AMNorth Korea says leader Kim Jong Un turned down an invitation by South Korean President Moon Jae-in to participate in a regional summit next week and has blamed the South for a deep freeze in inter-Korean relations
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Britain’s Prince Andrew quits public duties after Epstein controversy
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 04:19 AMThe senior royal’s ties to the convicted sex offender have dominated news in Britain.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Israeli challenger Gantz fails to form government, deepening country’s political crisis
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 01:13 AMLawmakers have three weeks to craft a ruling coalition before a third election is called.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - French government to boost funding in public hospitals
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 12:04 PMThe French government is to boost funding into the country’s public hospitals over the next three years by 1.5 billion euros ($1.6 billion) after years of cost cuts
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Speedy Bloodhound car finishes testing in South Africa
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 12:17 PMSpeedy Bloodhound car finishes testing in South Africa as pursuit of world record continues
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Oxford Union president resigns after blind student was dragged from debate ‘by his ankles’
Wednesday - 11/20/2019 - 11:27 AMA video of blind student Ebenezer Azamati being dragged from his seat sparked fury in Britain.
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