World News
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Russian authorities have banned the British-based organization Open Russia, which is a strong critic of the Kremlin, but the group's Russia branch claims it is administratively separate and can continue to operate
April 26, 2017 -
Greek and Turkish Cypriot activists formed a human chain across Cyprus' ethnic divide to protest Turkey's planned nuclear power station that they say poses real dangers to the nearby east Mediterranean island
April 26, 2017 -
A German federal court has upheld a complaint by a teacher at a Greek school in Germany against a pay cut the Greek government imposed at the height of the country's financial crisis
April 26, 2017 -
Gaza's ruling Hamas movement says it will not be cowed by threatened funding cuts, signaling escalating tensions between the militant group and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas
April 26, 2017 -
United Airlines says a giant rabbit was alive when it arrived on a flight from London to Chicago, but died shortly after
April 26, 2017 -
An Iowa man getting a giant rabbit for his boss to show at the Iowa State Fair says "we're still in the mourning process" after hearing that the animal died en route
April 26, 2017 -
Turkey's main opposition party says it will challenge the outcome of the April 16 referendum on expanding the president's powers at the European Court of Human Rights
April 26, 2017 -
The soap opera saga at the ancient Knights of Malta religious order has taken on new drama on the eve of the election of a new leader
April 26, 2017 -
Switzerland's oldest art museum says it is expecting to receive within weeks about 200 works from a vast trove that a German collector had squirreled away for decades
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 -
Iraqi paramilitary forces say they have captured Hatra, a 2,000-year-old historical site near the northern city of Mosul, where U.S.-backed forces have been battling the Islamic State group for months
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 -
South African Airways on Wednesday cancelled nearly three dozen flights, most of them domestic, because of a strike by some cabin crew
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