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Chinese censors briefly took Wednesday’s vice presidential debate off the air while Vice President Mike Pence criticized Beijing’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Nathan VanderKlippe, a Beijing correspondent for Canada’s Globe and Mail newspaper, reported Wednesday night that the debate cut out for nearly three minutes on CNN …
NICOSIA, Cyprus (AP) – The pristine, azure waters lapping at the skirts of uninhabited Varosha contrast sharply with the dilapidated, crumbling buildings lining the beachfront of this abandoned suburb of Famagusta.
For the first time in 46 years, members of the public were permitted on Thursday to access the beach …
WASHINGTON (AP) – The Trump administration has blacklisted virtually all of Iran’s financial sector, dealing another blow to an economy that is already reeling under U.S. sanctions. The move will deepen tensions with European nations and others over Iran.
Thursday’s move hits 18 Iranian banks that had thus far escaped …
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A cold, uneasy peace flared into a hot war when Azerbaijani and Armenian forces clashed once again late last month over the status of Nagorno-Karabakh, an ethnic Armenian enclave within Azerbaijani territory that has been a source of constant tension since the two countries were formed …
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. Security Council met in its chamber at U.N. headquarters in New York for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic hit New York in March on Thursday, and despite wearing masks and being separated by plexiglass dividers, U.S. Ambassador Kelly Craft said “It was …
President Trump announced via Twitter a sharply accelerated schedule for the withdrawal of all U.S. troops from the 19-year conflict in Afghanistan by Christmas, even as peace talks with the Taliban have barely gotten off the ground and Pentagon officials scrambled in the face of the surprise new timeline.
Mr. …
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) – China, which has at least four coronavirus vaccine candidates in the last stage of clinical trials, said Friday it is joining the COVID-19 vaccine alliance known as COVAX.
The country signed an agreement with Gavi, the co-leader of the alliance, on Thursday, China’s foreign ministry …
The Trump administration on Thursday announced a sweeping new round of sanctions on Iran, a financial blockade that cuts off virtually all of the few remaining Iranian lenders able to work with international banks to finance deals.
The move comes less than a month after U.S. allies and adversaries alike …
UNITED NATIONS (AP) – The U.N. envoy for Mali urged people in the West African nation, who just lived through another military coup, to use a recently agreed to 18-month transition “to pull their country out of the hellish cycle” of coups that has left the country in crisis.
Mahamat …
BEIJING (AP) – China says Iran’s foreign minister will visit the country from Friday to Saturday, a day after the Trump administration blacklisted virtually all of Iran’s financial sector in the latest step aimed at the oil-rich country’s economy.
In a brief announcement, China’s foreign ministry said only that …