KABUL, Afghanistan – An Afghan official says the second round of official talks between representatives of the Kabul government and the Taliban, aimed at ending the 14-year war, will take place next week in China. Mohammad Ismail Qasimyar of the Afghan High Peace Council, said Friday that the two sides …
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BEIRUT – Syrian activists say the Islamic State group has released four more Christian hostages from dozens who were abducted by the extremists last week. The four hostages — a married couple, a woman and a 6-year-old girl — were released on Tuesday evening in northeastern Syria. The Assyrian rights …
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BRUSSELS – Belgian authorities are looking for a man who was seen together with the chief suspect after the May terror attack at the Jewish Museum in Brussels that left four people dead. A Belgian judicial official said Friday they were looking to question a bald-headed man with a sporting …
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CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuelan officials are denouncing a report that links the head of the socialist South American country’s parliament to the drug trade. Two Spanish-language newspapers reported Monday that the chief bodyguard of National Assembly President Diosdado Cabello has gone to the United States with information implicating him. The …
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BANGKOK – The United Nations human rights office has called on Thailand to speed up an investigation into the disappearance of an ethnic minority environmental activist. Pholachi “Billy” Rakchongcharoen was detained in Thailand’s Kaeng Krachan National Park last April for allegedly possessing illegal wild honey but officials say he was …
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SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador – Authorities in El Salvador say 14 people were killed dead and 10 others injured when a cargo truck loaded with heavy machinery crashed into a pickup full of people returning from a funeral. Police say five children and nine adults died in the accident Friday …
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JOHANNESBURG – The remains of an American pilot who died in a plane crash in Cameroon last year are still in the cockpit even though villagers discovered the wreckage of his anti-poaching aircraft more than a month ago, officials and the pilot’s family said. The discovery of pilot Bill Fitzpatrick …
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MOSCOW – Russian President Vladimir Putin has praised a deal between Iran and world powers in a conversation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Putin told Netanyahu in Thursday’s phone conversation that the agreement “provided reliable guarantees” that Iran’s nuclear program is exclusively peaceful, according to the Kremlin. The deal …
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As skirmishes broke out between Israeli forces and Hezbollah militants along Israel’s northern border on Sunday, the United Nations mission said a rocket struck its headquarters in southern Lebanon. The U.N. mission said none of its peacekeepers were hurt despite not being in shelters at the time when the rocket …
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CAIRO – An Egyptian court on Sunday ruled as unconstitutional a clause in the election law that draws voting districts, a verdict that is almost certain to delay parliamentary elections scheduled to start later this month. President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi said in a statement that he has ordered the government to …
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