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May 28, 2023
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan appeared to have won another five-year term Sunday, according to preliminary results, overcoming a weak economy and a united opposition.
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May 28, 2023
Turkish voters head to the polls Sunday for a landmark presidential runoff, with President Recep Tayyip Erdogan favored to cement his rule after 20 years in power.
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May 28, 2023
Polls ahead of Sunday's vote showed a tight race, but Erdogan ended election day ahead. Here's what will happen next.
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May 28, 2023
One person was killed after the attack on Ukraine's capital, its mayor said. Kyiv signaled that a counteroffensive aimed at taking back captured areas may be underway.
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May 28, 2023
Even as their country sinks deeper into authoritarianism, Turks love to vote — and now have a real chance of reshaping their country's politics.
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May 28, 2023
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is leading in most polls heading into Turkey's runoff election. During his tenure, he has moved toward autocracy.
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May 28, 2023
Scores of aides and supporters have abandoned the powerful former prime minister since his arrest May 9 and a broader military crackdown.
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May 28, 2023
On May 14, Turks headed to the polls in a pivotal election that could unseat President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after 20 years in power.
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May 28, 2023
At least one person was killed and another was hospitalized after attack drones swarmed the Ukrainian capital, Mayor Vitali Klitschko said.
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May 28, 2023
Russians have retreated, but unexploded munitions remain.
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May 28, 2023
Ukrainian soldiers say they see signs that Russia's Wagner mercenaries are pulling back and turning over defense of the recently captured city to regular Russian forces,
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May 28, 2023
Turkish voters head to the polls Sunday for a landmark presidential runoff, with President Recep Tayip Erdogan favored to cement his rule after 20 years in power.
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May 27, 2023
Sanda Dia died after the hazing. 18 members of the Reuzegom fraternity at the Catholic University of Leuven were sentenced to community service and a $420 fine.
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May 27, 2023
The city of Sivas in central Turkey is a bastion of Erdogan loyalists, but some here describe support for the president as tenuous despite his first-round victory.
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May 27, 2023
The recent warm, dry weather in southern Ukraine has raised expectations that the spring counteroffensive could begin soon — or may already quietly be underway.
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May 27, 2023
Two children and several health-care workers were injured in the attack, which destroyed a hospital and damaged a veterinary clinic, the Dnipro regional governor said.
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May 27, 2023
President Vladimir Putin urged Russians to purge traitors. Now, neighbors and coworkers are informing on each other, and thousands have been arrested.
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May 26, 2023
A 3D reconstruction by The Washington Post of a March 16 raid captures the increasingly deadly tactics used by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
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May 26, 2023
In footage that appeared to have been captured by a passenger, wind could be seen whipping into the plane's cabin, battering passengers.
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May 26, 2023
The 102 pages of FBI files reveal threats linked to Queen Elizabeth II's visits to the U.S., including the 1983 visit where she was hosted by Ronald Reagan.
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May 26, 2023
A game available on Google Play had users sell, buy and punish enslaved people. Now, it's at the center of a federal probe in Brazil.
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May 26, 2023
Russian Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin visited China promising increased trade, but beyond energy and machinery, the scope may be limited.
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May 26, 2023
A 3D reconstruction by The Washington Post captures the increasingly deadly tactics used by Israeli forces during raids in the occupied West Bank.
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May 26, 2023
A 3D reconstruction by The Washington Post of a March 16 raid captures the increasingly deadly tactics used by Israeli forces in the occupied West Bank.
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May 26, 2023
A Russian missile strike hit a hospital in the Ukrainian city of Dnipro Friday, President Zelensky said. At least two people were killed and 23 injured.
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May 26, 2023
At least one person was killed and 15 injured in a Russian rocket attack on a hospital in Dnipro, Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday.
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May 26, 2023
The flow of refugees from Myanmar after the coup has inflamed longstanding ethnic tensions in the Indian state of Manipur.
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May 26, 2023
The police arrested Masanori Aoki, 31, the son of the Nakano City assembly speaker. The armed and masked suspect allegedly killed two women and two police officers.
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May 26, 2023
After a campaign marked by anti-immigrant appeals, Syrian refugees worry their fate is on the ballot when Turks go the polls in Sunday's runoff election.
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May 26, 2023
Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said Denmark and the Netherlands will lead the European coalition providing Ukraine with F-16 pilot training and maintenance.
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May 26, 2023
With Ukrainian soldiers wearing warm-weather uniforms, a much-anticipated counterattack against occupying Russian forces seems imminent.
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May 26, 2023
While Russia wants to make good on its supposed "no limits" friendship with Beijing, Chinese officials and analysts describe the ties between the countries as not a full-fledged alliance.
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May 25, 2023
The 13th Amendment abolished slavery in the United States in 1865, with one exception: compulsory labor in prisons.
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May 25, 2023
The masked man wore sunglasses and camouflage and was armed with a knife and what appeared to be a hunting rifle.
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May 25, 2023
Yevgeniy Prigozhin said his Wagner forces would be replaced by Russian troops in Bakhmut. The F-16 is not a "magic weapon," Gen. Mark A. Milley told reporters.
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May 25, 2023
The masked man wore sunglasses and camouflage and was armed with a knife and what appeared to be a hunting rifle.
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May 25, 2023
Konstantin Dolgov, a pro-Kremlin blogger, interviewed the head of the Wagner mercenary group, who said Russia's war had backfired and who warned of revolution.
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May 25, 2023
Attitudes about migration levels have changed dramatically since the 2016 Brexit vote. It is no longer the salient issue that it once was.
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May 25, 2023
Attitudes about migration levels have changed dramatically since the 2016 Brexit vote. It is no longer the salient issue that it once was.
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May 25, 2023
Fans chanted racist abuse at Vinícius Júnior during a Real Madrid match in Spain, prompting arrests. It is the latest scandal in a sport long plagued by racism.
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May 25, 2023
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky addressed Johns Hopkins University graduates during a surprise commencement speech. He also was awarded an honorary degree.
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May 25, 2023
The G-20 meeting in Kashmir shows how India's crackdown has brought stability and new shopping malls, but residents maintain the development does not include them.
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May 25, 2023
Turner, who eventually relinquished U.S. citizenship, found new levels of fame and happiness in Europe, living in England, France, Germany and Switzerland.
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May 25, 2023
Yevgeniy Prigozhin said his Wagner forces would be replaced by Russian troops in Bakhmut. The deal allows Russia to store tactical nuclear weapons in Belarus.
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May 25, 2023
The masked man wore sunglasses and camouflage and was armed with a knife and what appeared to be a hunting rifle.
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May 25, 2023
Ukraine said its defense system will be complete only with the powerful F-16 fighter jets and is working to deploy them as soon as possible.
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May 25, 2023
With the budget passed, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appears to have gained a measure of control of his fractious right-wing coalition.
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May 25, 2023
The sudden cancelation of comedy gigs, including after audience members report jokes to authorities, has some in China worrying about a "Cultural Revolution 2.0."
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May 25, 2023
Ukraine says its defense system will only be complete with the powerful fighter jets and is working to deploy them as soon as possible.
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May 25, 2023
"This is about as bad as it gets," the National Weather Service said as the Pacific U.S. territory faced one of its worst storms in decades.
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May 25, 2023
Boris Akimov, Russia's leading locavore, now runs an inn and restaurant in a village and hopes his country might find redemption in farming, foraging and, especially, homemade food.
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May 24, 2023
She turned 10 years old the day of her arrest and was subjected to the medical experiments of Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
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May 24, 2023
The Pentagon said it did not approve any transfers of equipment to paramilitary organizations outside the Ukrainian military.
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May 24, 2023
Fresh off his victory in Bakhmut, the Wagner mercenary group leader told an interviewer that Russia's war had strengthened Ukraine's military and could spur violent unrest against Russia's elite.
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May 24, 2023
The officer who allegedly used the Taser has been charged with recklessly causing grievous bodily harm, assault occasioning actual bodily harm and common assault.
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May 24, 2023
The leaders of OpenAI behind ChatGPT called for regulating artificial intelligence, suggesting an equivalent to the world's nuclear watchdog.
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May 24, 2023
The Last Generation, known for throwing food at art and gluing themselves to roads to protest lack of action of climate change, may be treated as a criminal enterprise.
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May 24, 2023
Chinese leader Xi Jinping said during a meeting in Beijing with Russia's prime minister that he intends to elevate cooperation with Moscow "to a higher level."
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May 24, 2023
Former British prime minister Boris Johnson faces yet more allegations that he broke his government's own coronavirus rules during the pandemic.
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May 24, 2023
"This is about as bad as it gets," the National Weather Service said Wednesday as the Pacific U.S. territory faced one of its worst storms in decades.
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May 24, 2023
As immunity from the last big wave of infections wanes with the new XBB coronavirus variants, China braces for a new surge of covid cases.
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May 24, 2023
The surveillance technology was found on the cellphones of officials investigating the 2014 disappearance of 43 college students and victims of the 20th-century "Dirty War" against a left-wing insurgency.
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May 24, 2023
Heavy winds battered Guam on Wednesday, with intense rainfall expected through Thursday, as the U.S. Pacific territory readies for one of its worst storms in decades.
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May 24, 2023
A petition to "help save" Paora garnered more than 10,000 signatures after a video showed visitors petting the flightless, nocturnal bird.
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May 24, 2023
Damaged U.S.-made Humvees were seen in a video on the Russian side of the border near Belgorod, which Russia says was attacked by pro-Ukrainian fighters.
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May 24, 2023
Intense rainfall is expected through Thursday as the U.S. Pacific territory readies for one of the worst storms it has faced in decades.
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May 24, 2023
Even after a brutal invasion and tens of thousands of war dead, Ukraine insists it must maintain some commercial ties with Russia because European neighbors need the energy supplies.
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May 24, 2023
Denmark is the only industrialized democracy other than the United States to have a debt limit set at a nominal value, but Danish debt is never the subject of complicated political wrangling.
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May 23, 2023
Russia's victory celebration may be brief, analysts said, with Bakhmut potentially following Kherson and other cities occupied by Russia only to be retaken by Ukraine.
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May 23, 2023
The decision angered people left stranded. France also destroyed passports, while staff at the Chinese Embassy moved to return them.
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May 23, 2023
The White House reiterated its call for Russia to release Evan Gershkovich and Paul Whelan, a former U.S. Marine convicted of espionage in Russia in 2020.
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May 23, 2023
Popocatépetl, Mexico's second largest volcano, has been spewing ash onto an area accustomed to such rumblings, but authorities are telling them to be cautions.
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May 23, 2023
Despite Russia's claim to have seized Bakhmut, Ukraine said the battle is not over. Before-and-after photos show flattened homes and scorched landscapes.
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May 23, 2023
A hearing revealed the details of the May 11 case that resulted in dozens of injured police and rescue workers in the German city of Ratingen.
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May 23, 2023
Ethiopian Prince Dejatch Alemayehu, a ward of Queen Victoria's, was buried at Windsor Castle after he died at 18. His descendants now want his remains back.
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May 23, 2023
In May 14 elections, across this devastated region — a traditional stronghold for Erdogan and his AKP party — voters stood firm in their support for him.
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May 23, 2023
He enjoyed a 60-year career as a television presenter, songwriter and artist before his reputation was shattered.
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May 23, 2023
Harry travels with his own security, but he wanted to pay for specially trained British police when in the country, which the Home Office denied.
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May 23, 2023
It's tough to steal secrets in your pajamas. Germany's spy chief said his agency's work-from-home policy, lower wages and ban on personal cellphones put off young workers.
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May 23, 2023
Despite Russia's claim to have seized Bakhmut, Ukraine said the battle is not over. Before-and-after photos show flattened homes and scorched landscapes.
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May 23, 2023
Despite Russia's claim to have seized Bakhmut, Ukraine said the battle is not over. Before-and-after photos show flattened homes and scorched landscapes.
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May 23, 2023
Ukraine denied any involvement in the attacks in Russia's Belgorod region, where the governor said one person was killed and eight were injured.
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May 23, 2023
Harry travels with his own security, but he wanted to pay for specially-trained British police when in the country, which the Home Office denied.
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May 23, 2023
China's commerce minister is expected to meet Biden administration officials and try to drum up business interest. That's a particularly hard sell right now.
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May 23, 2023
Despite Russia's claim to have seized Bakhmut, Ukraine said the battle was not over. Before-and-after photos show flattened homes and scorched landscapes.
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May 23, 2023
Hari Budha Magar, a Gurkha veteran in the British army who lost both legs in Afghanistan, is the first above-the-knee double amputee to summit the mountain.
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May 23, 2023
Despite Russia's claim to have seized Bakhmut, Ukraine said it was in control of some areas. Before-and-after photos show flattened homes and scorched landscapes.
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May 23, 2023
The leading voices on the continent expressing skepticism about China come from Europe's post-Soviet states.
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May 22, 2023
A fire that engulfed the dormitory of a girls' boarding school in Guyana killed at least 19 children.
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May 22, 2023
Bakhmut's leafy green streets are now scorched landscapes, as shown in before-and-after satellite images from Maxar.
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May 22, 2023
Guyanese President Irfaan Ali called the fire "tragic and painful" and "horrific." The cause remained undetermined.
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May 22, 2023
Protasevich's arrest and prosecution sparked major concern among human rights groups. In May 2021, Protasevich was en route from Athens to Vilnius on a Ryanair flight with his girlfriend when his flight was diverted and landed in Minsk. He was immediately arrested.
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May 22, 2023
Ukrainian forces have been reduced to small footholds in the devastated eastern city of Bakhmut but are making moves to encircle it.
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May 22, 2023
A week-long cease-fire signed by both warring parties is set to take hold Monday evening amid worrisome signs of a rise in ethnic fighting in the Darfur region.
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May 22, 2023
The shift in Duisburg mirrors a broader rethink in Europe on relations with Beijing.
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May 22, 2023
Ukraine and Russia have battled for months over Bakhmut, a small salt-mining city in the country's east. Zelensky said "there is nothing" left.
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May 22, 2023
The cause of the fire in the town of Mahdia remains unknown. Within hours, critically injured victims had been evacuated to the capital of Georgetown.
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May 22, 2023
Traveling in Biden's place, Blinken met with the Papua New Guinea leader and inked the deal, part of broader efforts to counter growing Chinese influence in the region.
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May 22, 2023
Exceptional rains in a drought-struck region of northern Italy swelled rivers over their banks, killing at least eight people, forcing the evacuation of thousands.
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May 22, 2023
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad has experienced a rehabilitation with regional powers that is jarring for his critics and opponents.
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