MOSCOW – Chechnya’s leader says he is ready to give evidence in the investigation into the murder of Russian opposition leader Boris Nemtsov. The main suspect in the Feb. 27 killing is an officer in Ramzan Kadyrov’s security force, and Nemtsov’s children have asked for Kadyrov to be questioned. Speaking …
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MINSK, Belarus – Under a new measure in Belarus, people who work less than half the year will have to pay the government for their idleness. The parliament on Wednesday passed the proposal by authoritarian President Alexander Lukashenko, which requires work-capable people who work less than 183 days a year …
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BEIRUT – Syria has been so contaminated with weapons and bombs that the lives of 5.1 million people, including 2 million children, are at constant risk, an international aid group warned in a report released on Tuesday. Handicap International, which helps the disabled during conflicts, called on all parties in …
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BUENOS AIRES – Two Argentine judges are under fire for cutting the sentence of a convicted child abuser on the grounds that his 6-year-old victim had suffered earlier abuse and therefore had already been traumatized. In the newly publicized 2014 ruling, the judges cut the child abuser’s sentence from six …
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JAKARTA, Indonesia – Indonesian authorities blew up and sank 41 foreign fishing vessels Wednesday as a warning against poaching in the country’s waters. The vessels from a variety of countries were blown up in several ports across the archipelago, which has some of the world’s richest fishing grounds. Navy spokesman …
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KAMPALA, Uganda – South Sudan’s military is accusing the government of Sudan of aiding a new rebel offensive against South Sudanese government forces in the state of Upper Nile, where oil fields are now threatened by fresh fighting. South Sudanese military spokesman Col. Philip Aguer told The Associated Press on …
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MEXICO CITY – Hundreds of taxi drivers marched through Mexico City chanting “Uber Out!” and demanding city authorities ban the online ride service. Some drove their pink-and-white cabs in ranks, snarling traffic along the city’s main boulevard. The drivers say that Uber and other ride-sharing services evade the tax, registration …
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ZURICH – FIFA has suspended 11 people, including two of its vice presidents, from all football-related activities following a U.S. criminal investigation into corruption in world soccer. The vice presidents — Jeffrey Webb of the Cayman Islands and Eugenio Figueredo of Uruguay — were arrested in Zurich early Wednesday after …
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MEXICO CITY – A protest movement organized over social media in Honduras has led to large demonstrations in cities around the Central American country. The protesters are upset over a scandal involving a purported multimillion-dollar embezzlement of Social Security funds, with some of the money allegedly going to finance the …
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Israeli forces killed the local commander of the Al Aqsa Martyrs’ Brigade and arrested suspected Palestinian militants during a raid on the West Bank on Friday, officials said. The Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, formed in late 2000, is recognized as a foreign terrorist organization by the United States. Israeli undercover forces …
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