Government News
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The U.N. secretary-general says international donors at a Geneva aid conference have pledged $1.1 billion to help beleaguered, war-torn Yemen this year
April 25, 2017 -
An Afghan official says the Taliban have killed eight policemen and overrun three security checkpoints in the northern province of Takhar
April 25, 2017 -
European parliamentarians are trying to mediate between Albania's political groupings in an effort to end an impasse following the opposition's boycott of parliament and June 18 parliamentary election
April 25, 2017 -
Voices from Pyongyang, Damascus, Tehran, Mogadishu, Moscow, Tel Aviv, the West Bank, Berlin and Mexico City consider Trump's first 100 days
April 25, 2017 -
Most immigrants entering the U.S. illegally are simply deported without prosecution
April 25, 2017 -
A unanimous Supreme Court says that Indian tribes' immunity from lawsuits does not always extend to their employees in incidents that occur far from Indian reservations
April 25, 2017 -
Head of beleaguered Hungary university appeals for EU help, says new law aims to shut it down
April 25, 2017 -
A Maryland lawmaker has been sentenced to two days in jail for driving while impaired
April 25, 2017 -
Russia's justice ministry has restored public access to the financial reports of charities linked to the prime minister after taking them off its website following claims of corruption
April 25, 2017 -
President Donald Trump says that he hasn't changed his position on building a border wall between the U.S. and Mexico
April 25, 2017 -
Prosecutors in Hungary say they have indicted a lawmaker from the ruling Fidesz party and six others for attempting to embezzle public funds
April 25, 2017 -
The opposition Labour Party pledges a new Brexit strategy if it wins Britain's general election
April 25, 2017 -
The number of New York City public school students who lived in homeless shelters for at least part of the last school year rose by more than 4,000 from the previous year
April 25, 2017 -
Thailand's top defense official says the government has approved the purchase of its first submarine in more than half a century, calling the $393 million deal with China necessary and a bargain
April 25, 2017 -
Former US Ambassador Samantha Power is writing a memoir about her transition from Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of foreign policy to a leading government official
April 25, 2017