MADRID – Spanish police have arrested 16 people suspected of praising and encouraging terror acts by three radical Spanish groups. An Interior Ministry statement on Tuesday said the arrested used Internet social networks to praise past attacks against police and call for fresh ones against politicians, police and others. Other …
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Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday vowed that Taiwan will be reunited with the mainland, saying Beijing will “resolutely prevent anyone from splitting” the two sides in any way. The comments came during a symposium in Beijing commemorating the 130th anniversary of the birth of Mao Zedong, the founding father …
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UNITED NATIONS – Yemen’s ambassador to the United Nations says U.N.-led talks on the crisis in his country will begin June 14 in Geneva. Ambassador Khaled Alyemany tells The Associated Press that the United Nations is expected to officially announce the date shortly. A previous attempt to hold the talks …
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PARIS – French far right scion Jean-Marie Le Pen is taking the party that he helped create to court, protesting the National Front’s decision to suspend him. Le Pen, 86, is in an intense feud with his daughter Marine, who now leads the party and wants to distance herself from …
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BEIJING – China says it will make it even easier for Taiwanese to visit, in the latest appeal to voters ahead of crucial presidential elections on the island in January. State media reports Monday say Taiwanese visitors will no longer have to apply for entry permits and their travel passes …
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Archaeologists recently unearthed two churches in Egypt that are over 1,500 years old, offering rare evidence of Christianity’s rise in the country’s Western Desert. The Egyptian Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities announced the discovery in a press release in late July. The churches were found at Kharga Oasis, an ancient …
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A New York college student has been captured by Hamas after war broke out between Israel and Gaza last weekend, according to a statement from his family. Omer Neutra, an Israeli-American citizen born in New York, was captured by Hamas along the Israel-Gaza border on Oct. 10 while serving in …
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UNITED NATIONS – A new U.N. report says Libya’s ability to prevent the flow of weapons into the chaotic country is “almost nonexistent,” and it calls for the tightening of an arms embargo that the government says must be loosened so it can defend itself. The report by a panel …
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BEIJING – China’s Foreign Ministry said Wednesday that a Chinese cargo ship was carrying legitimate military items when it was stopped in Colombia on its way to Cuba. Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the items were part of “normal military trade” between China and Cuba and did not violate Chinese …
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PARIS – A Frenchman accused of helping a 14-year-old runaway try to join Islamic State by arranging her travel is on trial on terrorism charges. Friday’s trial of Riad Ben Cheikh sheds light on the shadowy networks that recruit European adolescent girls to join jihadi fighters in Syria. The girl …
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