Some frightened residents were forced to abandon their cars and flee on foot from rapidly growing conflagration. Tens of thousands of people have been forced to flee parts of Los Angeles as strong winds drove the rapid growth of wildfires around the western United States city. More than 30,000 people were evacuated on Tuesday as […]
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President-elect Donald J. Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal that America built more than a century ago and to push Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States. In a rambling, hourlong news conference, Mr. Trump repeatedly
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Herbert Kickle first far-right leader since World War II to be invited to form a government. Austria could soon join a growing number of European Union countries led by the far right. Months of negotiation led by the conservative Austrian People’s Party ended with no coalition and the president, a left-wing former Greens leader, has
Workers had found the bodies during a routine inspection after the flight landed in Florida from New York, marking the second such incident in a month. Authorities in the United States have been working to identify two bodies discovered in the wheel well of a JetBlue plane shortly after it landed in the southern state
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“Over the course of six decades of active political combat, he proved to be a visionary, forcing into the public debate the major issues that structure political life today, such as demographics and its corollary immigration, globalization and France’s decline, national sovereignty and the risk of dilution in the European Union,” the party he founded,
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Rescue operations still under way as nine others remain trapped in flooded Assam coal mine. Three miners are feared dead inside a flooded coal mine in the northeastern Indian state of Assam, with rescue efforts ongoing to save nine others. Rescue teams have spotted three bodies but have not been able to recover them yet,
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Security in the region that the Kurds dominate is overseen by the armed Syrian Democratic Forces, which include the People’s Protection Units (YPG). Turkey classifies the YPG as a terrorist organization and says the group is tied to the Kurdistan Workers Party, which has been fighting an insurgency in Turkey since the 1980s. “The only
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M23 rebel fighters have taken control of two towns in North Kivu province. The eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) has been in conflict for more than 30 years. The lives of millions of people have been affected because of the dozens of armed groups active in the area. The most
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Police said eight policemen and a driver were killed in bomb blast set off by Maoist rebels in Chhattisgarh. At least eight policemen and a driver have been killed in central India when a bomb blast set off by Maoist rebels tossed their vehicle into the air, police have said. The police vehicle in which
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In a chilly auditorium in Afghanistan, heaps of freshly mined green emeralds glowed under bright table lamps as bearded gemstone dealers inspected them for purity and quality. An auctioneer asked for bids on the first lot, which weighed 256 carats. With that, the Taliban’s weekly gemstone auction was underway. These sales, in the emerald-rich Panjshir
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