Recep Tayyip Erdogan has held plenty of grand opening ceremonies in his 15 years at Turkey’s helm. Today he will unveil one of his prized jewels —
Voters in Georgia are choosing a new president for the former Soviet republic on the Black Sea, the last time the president will be elected by direct
In the hours before his arrest, as federal authorities zeroed in and secretly accumulated evidence, Cesar Sayoc was in his element: spinning classic and Top 40
The International Monetary Fund’s executive board approved a USD56.3 billion credit line for Argentina, clearing the way for the embattled South American economy to receive a larger
France’s customs agency says it’s made an extremely surprising discovery in a garage in Marseille: a lion cub. Marseille’s customs brigade found a small female lioness
General Franco’s dictatorship has effectively ended with the announcement heir designate Prince Juan Carlos will take over as provisional head of state for Spain. The move
TAIWAN Tens of thousands of people gathered in Taiwan’s capital over the weekend for the city’s annual gay pride parade ahead of referendums next month that will determine
Brazil looks set to pivot sharply to the right with the election of a former Army captain who wants to privatize state companies in an ailing economy,
Pipe bombs packed with shards of glass were intercepted en route to several prominent Democrats, including former President Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, in an unnerving wave
Saudi prosecutors say the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi was planned, state-run media reported yesterday, reflecting yet another change in the shifting Saudi Arabian account of
Hawaii scientists found two tiny baby octopuses floating on plastic trash they were cleaning up as they monitored coral reefs. Marine ecologist Sallie Beavers of Kaloko-Honokohau
The President of South Korea, Park Chung Hee, has been “accidentally” shot dead by the chief of his intelligence service, Kim Jea Kyu. Five other people,
INDONESIA A High Court yesterday upheld an 18-month prison sentence for a woman convicted of blasphemy in Indonesia after complaining about the volume of a mosque’s loudspeakers.
The European court of human rights in Strasbourg has ruled that Italy violated the rights of the late Mafia “boss of bosses” Bernardo Provenzano by maintaining strict anti-
Like the location of Jimmy Hoffa’s body, the secret formula for Coca-Cola and whether there are aliens in outer space, the identity of the winner of the second-biggest
They rose to positions of unbridled power because of their bloodline, and those who fell, sometimes in a grisly manner, did so because of what they had
President Donald Trump says the killing of a Saudi journalist was a botched operation and a “bad original concept” as his administration has taken its first
Hawaii police are trying to find a rare bonsai tree that was stolen from a nursery owner who says he spent 56 years caring for it. The
The EEC is donating £1.8 million to help combat the famine in Ethiopia. Officials from Oxfam, Save the Children, Christian Aid and the Red Cross believe
MALAYSIA-THAILAND Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad met yesterday with Thailand’s leader and discussed peace talks in Thailand’s southern border provinces where a Muslim separatist insurgency has been raging
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