Government News
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Neven Ilic of Chile has been elected president of the Pan American Sports Organization
April 26, 2017 -
South Korean presidential front-runner Moon Jae-in has outraged members of the country's persecuted sexual minority groups by saying during a television debate that he opposes homosexuality
April 26, 2017 -
Israel says it has repelled a large cyberattack on government offices and private citizens
April 26, 2017 -
Egypt's government and its top Muslim religious institution, Al-Azhar, are in an angry fight over how to modernize the faith to counter radicals like the Islamic State group
April 26, 2017 -
An author on innovation in business has entered the Maryland governor's race
April 26, 2017 -
Florida's highest court will wait to hear all arguments before deciding if Florida's governor had the right to take away cases from a prosecutor who says her office won't seek the death penalty
April 26, 2017 -
One person has died and another was injured in hotly contested primary elections in the capital Nairobi, a Kenyan police official said Wednesday
April 26, 2017 -
Hungary's prime minister is dismissing concerns about a new higher education law after the EU launched legal action amid fears it is aimed at shutting down a George Soros-backed university
April 26, 2017 -
A former health minister of Azerbaijan who has been imprisoned since 2005 has been sentenced to seven more years behind bars
April 26, 2017 -
West Virginia's Democratic U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin says the Senate will back permanently extending health benefits for more than 22,000 retired miners and widows whose medical coverage is set to expire after April
April 26, 2017 -
Historians say President Donald Trump's use of family members as advisers mirrors that of President John F. Kennedy
April 26, 2017 -
Montenegro's pro-Russia opposition has vowed to freeze the Balkan country's future membership in NATO if it wins the next parliamentary election, saying upcoming approval of the accession treaty is illegal
April 26, 2017 -
German Chancellor Angela Merkel's spokesman has backed the country's foreign minister in a spat over his meeting with a rights group in Israel, saying it must be possible to meet critical organizations in a democracy
April 26, 2017 -
The United Nations World Food Program says a convoy of food aid blocked from entering Burundi has returned to Rwanda
April 26, 2017 -
Prosecutors say a university student with an interest in weapons and extremism planted a homemade bomb on a London subway train with the intention of causing carnage
April 26, 2017