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Opposition leader: Kenya moving toward ‘outright dictatorship’

WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) -- Kenyan opposition leader Raila Odinga sharply criticized the role of Western diplomats and election observers in the…

Saudi, Kuwait call on citizens to leave Lebanon

RIYADH, Saudi Arabia (AFP) -- Saudi Arabia and Kuwait on Thursday urged their citizens to leave Lebanon immediately, days after Lebanese prime…

No decision on Trump, Putin meeting: Tillerson

BEIJING, China (AFP) - Russia and the US disagreed on Thursday over whether US President Donald Trump plans to meet…

NATO commander tells Russia: ‘stop meddling’

BRUSSELS, Belgium (AFP) - The commander of NATO forces in Europe, US General Curtis Scaparrotti, on Thursday demanded that Russia…

Chinese ‘love’ Trump’s Mandarin-speaking granddaughter

BEIJING, China (AFP) - While media coverage of Donald Trump's meeting with Chinese leader Xi Jinping Thursday focused on trade…

Delhi restricts vehicles as smog envelopes India and Pakistan

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) - New Delhi banned all construction, barred lorries from entering the city and announced stringent restrictions on…

29 civilians ‘will die’ if not evacuated from Syria’s Eastern Ghouta: UN

GENEVA, Switzerland (AFP) - Some 400 civilians are in urgent need of medical evacuation from Syria's Eastern Ghouta region, including…

Xi gives Trump a Chinese history lesson

BEIJING, China (AFP) - As President Xi Jinping led his US counterpart Donald Trump around Beijing's Forbidden City on Wednesday,…

Thousands of schools close as smog envelopes India, Pakistan

NEW DELHI, India (AFP) - Schools closed across large swathes of north India on Thursday as pollution hit hazardous levels…

Trump says trade surplus unfair, adds ‘I don’t blame China’

BEIJING, China (AFP) - US President Donald Trump decried his country's "one-sided and unfair" trade deficit with Beijing on Thursday,…

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