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- Sudan generals, protesters split on who will lead transition
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 12:47 PMSudan’s ruling generals, protesters divided over who will lead the country during its transition after al-Bashir’s overthrow
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dutch minister quits over asylum seeker crime statistics
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 01:05 PMA Dutch junior justice minister has quit after his department published statistics about criminality among asylum seekers that categorized hundreds of serious offenses including attempted murder and sexual assaults under the heading “others.”
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ukraine’s leader disbands parliament, calls snap election
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 11:37 AMUkraine’s newly-sworn president orders to dissolve the nation’s legislature and call snap elections within two months, hoping to ride the wave of his electoral success to get his supporters into parliament
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - AP Explains: How Yemen’s rebels increasingly deploy drones
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 09:39 AMAP Explains: US once owned Yemen skies with its drones, now Iran-backed rebels increasingly use drones in civil war
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Why we Google moving to other countries when the party we don’t like wins
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 06:58 AMAfter the surprise victory of Australia's conservatives on Saturday, liberals rushed to check how to migrate abroad.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Vatican financial watchdog boasts steady progress on reform
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 09:12 AMThe Vatican’s financial watchdog says that after nearly 10 years of reforms, the Holy See has a “fully functioning” system of financial regulation and intelligence that is increasingly integrated into the global financial system
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - China’s Huawei says it has long prepared for America’s assault
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 09:32 AMThe battle was “inevitable,” Huawei founder tells Chinese media.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Frenchman in vegetative state kept alive after appeal to UN
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 08:16 AMA last-ditch appeal to the United Nations has forced French doctors to resume life support for a man who has been in a vegetative state for years and whose case has drawn attention across Europe
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Spain: Jailed Catalans, far right deputies in new Parliament
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 06:57 AMA fragmented Spanish Parliament has convened for the first time, including five Catalan politicians released from prison for the occasion and escorted there by police
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Ex-Philippine judge says she was held at Hong Kong airport
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 07:21 AMA former Philippine Supreme Court justice who once accused Chinese President Xi Jinping of crimes against humanity before the International Criminal Court says she was barred for hours from entering Hong Kong for unspecified reasons
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- Mexicans buy fake cellphones to hand over in muggings
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 01:00 PMArmed robberies have gotten so common aboard buses in Mexico City that commuters have come up with a clever if disheartening solution: Many are buying fake cellphones, to hand over to thieves instead of their real smartphones
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Mueller and House Democrats at impasse over how much of his testimony would be public
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 12:37 PMThe special counsel’s office has been seeking to appear in closed session for at least part of his testimony; Democrats want a full public hearing.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Japan to the world: Call him Abe Shinzo, not Shinzo Abe
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 11:50 AMThe remarks come ahead of President Trump's visit to Japan this weekend.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Argentina: Fernández in court for first corruption trial
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 10:45 AMArgentina’s Fernández appears in court for first in a series of corruption trials
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Official: Poland entitled to seek German WWII reparations
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 09:09 AMA Polish official says there exist no documents or records to show that Poland ever renounced its right to seek World War II reparations from Germany
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Iraqi PM says he wants to end tensions between Iran and US
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 09:17 AMState-run Iraqi media is quoting Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi as saying that Baghdad will send delegations to the U.S. and Iran to help end tensions between the two countries
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Indian state lawmaker killed in suspected rebel ambush
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 08:15 AMPolice say an Indian lawmaker in the northeastern state of Arunachal Pradesh has been killed in an ambush by suspected rebels
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Can the U.S. fully defeat the Islamic State? Here’s what can help.
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 07:45 AMFour lessons on how civilian stabilization programs can help.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Austrian chancellor set to face confidence vote next week
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 07:08 AMAustrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz is expected to face a no-confidence vote in parliament next week after his governing coalition collapsed over a corruption scandal
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Bahrain defends decision to host White House Mideast meeting
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 07:25 AMBahrain is defending its decision to host a White House-engineered conference to address the Israeli-Palestinian crisis, saying its only objective is to support the “brotherly Palestinian people.”
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- Ken Cuccinelli joining Trump administration
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 12:55 PMKen Cuccinelli tapped for immigration job in Trump administration
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Austria’s political crisis refocus attention on the far right’s ties to Russia
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 12:45 PMThe resignation of the vice chancellor and Freedom Party leader opens a period of political chaos.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Death penalty possible in Myanmar cannabis farm case
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 11:52 AMA court in Myanmar has formally charged an American man and two local co-workers with violating drug laws concerning marijuana, with potential penalties ranging from five years’ imprisonment to death
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Under threat of indictment, Netanyahu’s supporters are pushing bill to give him immunity
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 10:11 AMKnesset members could not be charged with a criminal offense committed during or before being voted in, unless immunity is waived by the parliament, a draft of the measure said.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Greece: Supreme Court hears appeal for far-left killer
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 09:06 AMGreece’s Supreme Court is hearing an appeal by an extremist serving multiple life sentences for the killings of 11 people against the denial of a temporary leave of absence from prison, which led him to launch a hunger strike.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Dutch police arrest Syrian suspected of war crimes, terror
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 09:39 AMDutch prosecutors say police have arrested a Syrian on suspicion of war crimes and terrorism in his home country where he allegedly was a commander in the former al-Qaida affiliate the Nusra Front
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Egypt to hike electricity prices in July
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 08:05 AMEgypt says it will raise electricity prices for households and businesses by an average of 15 percent, the latest in a series of austerity measures aimed at boosting the economy
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Trump officials to brief Congress on escalating tensions with Iran
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 08:00 AMThe secretaries of state and defense and the chairman of the Joint Chiefs will meet behind closed doors with House members and Senators on Tuesday.
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - Syrian government documents show reach of Assad’s agencies
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 07:06 AMDocuments found in abandoned Syrian government offices reveal reach of Assad’s macabre security agencies
More | Talk | Read It Later | Share - EU’s Frontex deploys border guard teams in Albania
Tuesday - 05/21/2019 - 07:31 AMTeams of the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, or Frontex, will join Albania’s police patrolling land border and coast to better cope with possible migrants’ moves and fight crime
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