Britain warned Russia on Friday against playing "diplomatic chess games" after Paul Whelan, a Canadian-born former US Marine with triple UK, US and Irish citizenship, was charged with espionage. Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt said Britain

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held talks Friday with Russian President Vladimir Putin for the first time since the shock US military withdrawal from Syria was announced, the premier's office said. During the phone call

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Sudanese police fired tear gas at protesters on Friday as they took to the streets after midday prayers to chant anti-government slogans in the capital's twin city of Omdurman, witnesses said. Anti-government rallies have rocked

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Norwegian Air Shuttle said Friday one of its Boeing 737s has been stuck in Iran for three weeks after an unscheduled landing due to engine problems, as US restrictions reportedly create headaches for the airline

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President Donald Trump invited Democratic and Republican leaders at the White House on Friday in a new bid to end the two-week government shutdown over his demand for funding for a border wall with Mexico.

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A record 2.15 million people visited Nazi Germany's Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp in 2018, the museum at the site in southern Poland said Friday. Nazi Germany set up the death camp in occupied Poland during World

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Six women were killed in the Iraqi capital on Friday when clashes at a facility where they were housed led to a fire, the social affairs ministry said. A further "six women and one warden

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Indian police said Friday that a third woman has defied traditionalists to enter one of Hinduism's holiest temples, stoking tensions after two days of clashes that left some 275 people injured. The Sabarimala temple in

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Somalia's president told UN chief Antonio Guterres on Friday that he will not reverse a decision to expel a UN envoy who raised human rights concerns, diplomats said. Guterres spoke by phone with President Mohamed

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A patient in Sweden has been admitted to hospital with a suspected case of Ebola, a highly infectious and potentially fatal disease, health care officials said Friday. "Test results will probably be received sometime this

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