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ANTWERP, Belgium (AP) – An Iranian diplomat suspected of masterminding a thwarted bomb attack against an exiled Iranian opposition group in France did not show up at a courthouse in Belgium on the opening day of his trial on terror charges Friday, invoking his diplomatic immunity.
More than two …
NAIROBI, Kenya (AP) – No country has been involved in Somalia’s future as much as the United States. Now the Trump administration is thinking of withdrawing the several hundred U.S. military troops from the Horn of Africa nation at what some experts call the worst possible time.
Three decades of …
WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) – Diplomats like to remain neutral but Nanaia Mahuta let the veil slip a little when a winner was declared in the U.S. election by tweeting a smiley-face emoji.
Mahuta, the first indigenous Maori woman to be appointed New Zealand’s foreign affairs minister, suppresses a real-life …
BRUSSELS (AP) – Four European Union countries that hundreds of thousands of unauthorized migrants have entered over the past five years have expressed concern that new proposals to revamp the EU’s asylum system will continue to leave them to cope with the challenge alone.
Greece, Italy, Malta and Spain said …
The United States should shift supervision of American military operations in Israel to U.S. Central Command rather than U.S. European Command where it currently rests, a leading pro-Israel lobby and think tank said in a just-released report.
The Jewish Institute for National Security of America (JINSA) says U.S. …
BRUSSELS (AP) – Thanksgiving just got a little bit better for the Maine lobster industry.
The European Union parliament on Thursday approved a mini trade deal with the United States, which includes the elimination of customs duties on U.S. lobster imports. The passage with 638 votes for, 45 against …
BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) – The leaders of Hungary and Poland vowed Thursday to uphold their veto of the European Union’s next budget – and its massive pandemic relief fund – saying a mechanism that ties payment of funds to rule of law principles risks derailing the bloc.
The EU …
ISLAMABAD (AP) – The chief executive of the Pakistan Cricket Board has warned players on tour in New Zealand to obey COVID-19 protocols or the whole team risks being sent home.
In a WhatsApp voice note sent to Pakistan players on Thursday, Wasim Khan said he was given a “final …
Russia is accusing the West of interfering in Belarus, which has been the scene of months of protests over the disputed reelection of Alexander Lukashenko, who has served as the country’s first and only president since the office was established almost three decades ago.
In a display of Moscow’s support …
In the wee hours of election night Nov. 3, the president’s son tweeted a screenshot of Michigan vote totals purporting to show a sudden jump in favor of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden.
“Strange,” he noted ironically.
But what may sound like Donald Trump Jr. in truth came from …