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Iranians voted Friday in a presidential election dominated by Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei's hard-line protege after the disqualification of his str...
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - June 19, 2021The Hong Kong pro-democracy newspaper Apple Daily increased its print run more than fivefold to 500,000 copies as residents lined up Friday to buy the paper ...
by ZEN SOO AND ALICE FUNG THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - June 19, 2021The U.N. General Assembly unanimously elected Antonio Guterres to a second term as secretary-general Friday, giving him another five years at the helm of the...
by EDITH M. LEDERER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - June 19, 2021In a rush of hope that Europe has turned the page on its pandemic ordeal, the European Union on Friday urged its member countries to open their doors to U.S....
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - June 19, 2021A Belgian court ruled Friday that AstraZeneca failed to make sufficient efforts to fulfill its contract to supply coronavirus vaccine to the European Union, ...
by LOVEDAY MORRIS AND QUENTIN ARIES THE WASHINGTON POST - June 19, 2021The Palestinian Authority called off an agreement whereby Israel would transfer 1 million doses of coronavirus vaccines to it in exchange for a similar numbe...
by JOSEPH KRAUSS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - June 19, 2021The Afghan government's chief peace envoy expressed fears Friday that the Taliban will have no interest in a political settlement with the U.S.-supported adm...
by SUZAN FRASER THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - June 19, 2021Singing and dancing at weddings used to earn Khushi Mir enough income to take care of her family. Until the pandemic.
by The Associated Press - June 19, 2021Troy Littleton, a biology lab professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who helped one of his graduate students balance caring for a newborn wit...
by Compiled Democrat-Gazette Staff From Wire Reports - June 19, 2021Three Chinese astronauts arrived at China's new space station Thursday for a three-month mission, marking another milestone in the country's ambitious space ...
by SAM MCNEIL THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - June 18, 2021A public inquiry into a bomb attack at a 2017 Ariana Grande concert in northwest England concluded Thursday that "serious shortcomings" by venue operators, s...
by JILL LAWLESS THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - June 18, 2021Authorities in four Russian regions have made coronavirus vaccines mandatory this week for workers in retail, education and other service sectors, part of an...
by The Associated Press - June 18, 2021Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday praised the outcome of his summit with President Joe Biden and called him an astute and shrewd negotiator.
by VLADIMIR ISACHENKOV THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - June 18, 2021Hong Kong police used a national security law Thursday to arrest five editors and executives of a pro-democracy newspaper on charges of colluding with foreig...
by ZEN SOO THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - June 18, 2021The U.S. Embassy in Afghanistan ordered a near-complete lockdown Thursday because of a spike in coronavirus cases among employees.
by MATTHEW LEE THE ASSOCIATED PRESS - June 18, 2021