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- Indonesia angered after Malaysia shows its flag as Poland’s
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 10:37 PMIndonesia has accused the Malaysian organizers of the Southeast Asian Games of negligence after the Indonesian flag was printed upside down in a souvenir guidebook.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Where is Julian Cadman, the 7-year-old missing since the Barcelona attack?
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 04:00 PMRumors that he'd been found alive were quickly corrected by Spanish authorities.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - From age 3 to 80, Barcelona victims represent a wide world
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 02:43 PMAn Italian father who saved his children’s lives but lost his own. An American celebrating his first wedding anniversary. A Portuguese woman celebrating her birthday with her granddaughter.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Lebanon and Hezbollah launch simultaneous but separate battles against ISIS
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 02:43 PMThe fight in a remote corner of northeast Lebanon will be a test of the substantial U.S. military aid provided to the Lebanese army.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Report of Ukraine witness to DNC hacking stirs confusion
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 11:55 AMA report that a cooperating witness has emerged out of Ukraine to help the FBI’s inquiry into the 2016 hacking of the Democratic National Committee is drawing confusion and denials in Ukraine.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Finnish intelligence agency: Deadly stabbing in western city of Turku was “a likely terror act.”
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 09:19 AMFinnish intelligence agency: Deadly stabbing in western city of Turku was “a likely terror act.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Tropical Storm Harvey heads through Caribbean
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 09:19 AMTropical Storm Harvey is moving through the Caribbean Sea on a projected course that would have it approaching Central America and the Yucatan Peninsula next week.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Taliban kill 5 police in southern Afghanistan
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 08:00 AMTaliban insurgents attacked a police checkpoint in the southern Helmand province, killing five Afghan police, provincial police officials said Saturday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Russian officials say 8 wounded in Siberia stabbing attack
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 06:29 AMRussian officials say a knife-wielding man stabbed and wounded eight people on a central street in the Siberian city of Surgut before police shot and killed him.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Police separate some 500 neo-Nazis, opponents at Berlin demo
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 06:29 AMSome 500 far-right extremists are staging a march in Berlin in honor of the 30th anniversary of the death of top Nazi Rudolf Hess.
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- How a dozen young men from a small town secretly plotted the deadliest terrorist attack in Spain in more than a decade
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 07:57 PMParents fear their sons were radicalized by a visiting cleric who possibly brainwashed gullible youngsters who spoke better Spanish than Arabic.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Rewriting history or attending to the past? Monuments still confound Europe, too.
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 04:00 PMCold War-era tensions shaping de-Nazification resurface in debates over communist symbols.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - 'Donald Trump brought me here today': Counterprotesters rout neo-Nazi rally in Berlin
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 02:43 PMThe rally was heavily policed, with no swastikas or Nazi chants. That marked a major contrast with events in Charlottesville.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Liquor stores closed in Turkmenistan’s capital for a month
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 11:55 AMLiquor stores have been closed down and alcoholic products taken off the shelves of food stores in the capital of Turkmenistan ahead of a major international athletic completion next month.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - How Afghanistan is ramping up its fight against corruption — especially among the country’s elite
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 10:37 AMAn army general and a business leader were convicted of embezzlement and abuse of power.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Congo landslide death toll likely 200, governor says
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 09:19 AMAuthorities in northeastern Congo say a landslide earlier this week in Ituri province likely has killed at least 200 people.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - South Africa mulls fate of Mugabe’s wife after assault claim
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 08:00 AMSouth Africa has not decided whether to grant diplomatic immunity to Zimbabwe’s first lady after she was accused of assaulting a young model at a luxury hotel in Johannesburg, the government said Saturday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Latest: Zimbabwe blocks South African Airways flight
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 08:00 AMThe Latest on assault allegations against Zimbabwe’s first lady (all times local):
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - India wildlife reserve park devastated by monsoon floods
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 06:29 AMRising floodwaters have inundated large parts of a famous wildlife reserve park in northeastern India, killing more than 225 animals and forcing hundreds of other animals to flee, the park director said Saturday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Finnish police call fatal stabbing an act of terrorism
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 06:29 AMTwo people in Finland were killed and six others wounded Friday when an 18-year-old Moroccan man went on a stabbing rampage in the southwestern city of Turku, authorities said.
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- Iraqi forces launch fresh assault on one of the few remaining ISIS strongholds
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 10:37 PMThe fight for Tal Afar, one of three major towns in Iraq the Islamic State still controls, will be the first test of Iraq’s military since declaring victory in Mosul in July.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Sultry pop singer upstages Afghan Independence Day celebration
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 04:00 PMIn Kabul, the concert by Aryana Sayeed brought a tense mix of religious protesters and eager fans.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Far-right group sees anti-migrant sea mission as a success
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 02:43 PMA far-right European group has hailed as a success its bid to stop humanitarian organizations from rescuing migrants in the Mediterranean, but ended its trouble-plagued voyage stranded at sea.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Train derails in northern India, killing at least 5
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 11:55 AMOfficials say six coaches of a passenger train have derailed in northern India, killing five people and injuring at least 30.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Physicist Hawking criticizes UK health secretary on service
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 11:55 AMNoted physicist Stephen Hawking has criticized Britain’s health secretary for what he described as the selective use of scientific studies to support changes in the National Health Service.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - The Latest: Finland: Turku knife attack is likely terror act
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 09:19 AMThe Latest on the deadly stabbing attack in the western Finnish city of Turku (all times local):
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Liu Xiaobo’s widow in rare video amid fears for her safety
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 08:00 AMA video has surfaced online showing the wife of Liu Xiaobo for the first time since the funeral of the Nobel Peace Prize laureate who died in Chinese custody.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Questions abound as Spanish officials investigate terrorist attacks
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 08:00 AMCurrently, authorities believe that at least eight suspects were involved in the Barcelona and Cambrils incidents. At least one suspect remains at large, and the fate of the van driver in the Barcelona attack remains unknown.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Nigeria says ailing president to return today after 3 months
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 06:29 AMNigerian President Muhammadu Buhari will return to the country Saturday after more than three months in London for medical treatment, his office announced, while giving no details on what exactly has been ailing him.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Finnish police: stabbing investigated as possible terrorism
Saturday - 08/19/2017 - 05:03 AMFinnish police say a stabbing in the western Finland city of Turku that killed two people and wounded eight is being investigated as murder with possible terrorist intent.
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