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EU announces legal entity to maintain business with Iran

The European Union said Monday it would set up a legal entity to preserve oil and other business with Iran, in a bid to evade US sanctions after President Donald Trump withdrew from a nuclear agreeme...

Sept 25, 2018
International
Two confirmed deaths in Philippines super typhoon: police

MANILA (AFP) -- Two women were killed Saturday in a landslide set off by Super Typhoon Mangkhut, Philippine police said, the first reported deaths in the massive storm. A man is hit by a wave while ...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Scientists: World’s warming; expect more intense hurricanes

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A warmer world makes for nastier hurricanes. Scientists say they are wetter, possess more energy and intensify faster. Their storm surges are more destructive because climate chan...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Pope in Sicily to honour priest killed by mafia

PALERMO, Italy (AFP) -- Pope Francis visits the Italian island of Sicily on Saturday to pay homage to a priest murdered by the mafia 25 years ago after trying to save youngsters in poor neighbourhood...

Sept 15, 2018
International
US calls UN meeting on undermining North Korea sanctions

The United States has called an urgent meeting of the U.N. Security Council for Monday in response to what it says are efforts by some countries “to undermine and obstruct” sanctions against North Ko...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Ex-UN climate chief faces trial in India for sexual offenses

An Indian court ruled there is enough evidence to send India‘s former U.N. climate chief Rajendra Pachauri to trial on charges of stalking and sexual harassment in a case filed by a former female col...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Ferocious typhoon plows through rain-soaked Philippines

Typhoon Mangkhut slammed into the Philippines‘ northeastern coast early Saturday, its ferocious winds and blinding rain ripping off tin roof sheets and knocking out power, and plowed through the agri...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Hundreds of firefighters to head to Utah to fight wildfire

PANISH FORK, Utah (AP) -- A raging Utah wildfire driven by high winds in dry terrain has the potential to decimate hundreds of homes if firefighters cannot get a handle on it in the next couple of da...

Sept 15, 2018
International
Korean tourist found dead on Indonesian island

A South Korean tourist who had went snorkeling near Indonesia’s Lombok Island was found dead on the beach of the outlying Gili Trawangan Island. Another Korean tourist is missing. According to local...

Sept 13, 2018
International
Cheong Wa Dae downplays new book’s claims on FTA friction

Seoul’s presidential office on Wednesday declined to comment on claims regarding the Korea-US Free Trade Agreement and US military presence here, made in Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear: Trump in the ...

Sept 12, 2018
International
Iran summit holds key to looming battle in Syria‘s Idlib

TEHRAN -- The presidents of Iran, Russia and Turkey met Friday to discuss the future of Syria as a bloody military operation looms in the last rebel-held area of the war-ravaged nation, urging milita...

Sept 7, 2018
International
[Newsmaker] India's Supreme Court strikes down law that punished gay sex

NEW DELHI -- India's Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a colonial-era law that made gay sex punishable by up to 10 years in prison, a landmark victory for gay rights that one judge said would "pa...

Sept 7, 2018
International
Trump lashes out at Omarosa, calls her ‘that dog’

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Donald Trump escalated his messy clash with former aide Omarosa Manigault Newman on Tuesday, referring to the longtime colleague, who had been the top African-American in...

Aug 14, 2018
International
Bridge collapses in Italy during heavy storm, crushing cars

MILAN (AP) -- A bridge over an industrial area in the Italian city of Genova partially collapsed during a sudden and violent storm on Tuesday, leaving vehicles crushed in the rubble below. Italian ...

Aug 14, 2018
International
Suspected terror attack injures pedestrians outside UK parliament

LONDON, (AFP) -- A car crashed into barriers outside Britain‘s Houses of Parliament in a suspected terror attack on Tuesday, injuring a “number of pedestrians” yards from where five people were kille...

Aug 14, 2018
International

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