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SEOUL—South Korea’s new president Yoon Suk-yeol said on Tuesday that North Korea’s weapons programs pose a threat but that he is ready to provide an “audacious” ...
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MEXICO CITY—Mexicans voted Sunday on whether their president should end his six-year term barely midway through or continue to the end. Strangely, President Andrés Manuel López ...
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BELGRADE—Serbia’s incumbent President Aleksandar Vucic is set to win the presidential vote on Sunday with 59.8 percent of the votes, according to a projection by pollsters ...
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BRASILIA—Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was discharged from hospital on Tuesday morning after spending the night there for tests, the president’s office said. Bolsonaro was hospitalized in ...
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Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Thursday that Kyiv and Moscow were inching closer to putting an end to their armed conflict, with “almost a consensus” on ...
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Former top prosecutor Yoon Suk Yeol was elected South Korea’s new president on Thursday. He defeated his chief rival in one of the country’s most closely fought ...
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South Korea will elect a new president for a single, five-year term this Wednesday. The election comes amid growing tensions in the Indo-Pacific region. NTD took ...
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OUAGADOUGOU—Burkina Faso’s army said on Monday it had ousted President Roch Kabore, suspended the constitution, dissolved the government and the national assembly, and closed the country’s ...
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Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Tuesday said that booster shots would be provided free of charge to all citizens, with the elderly and vulnerable groups given ...
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The Russian-backed Collective Security Treaty Organisation (CSTO) has agreed to send in military forces to Kazakhstan to combat what has been called a “terrorist threat” after thousands ...
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SAO PAULO, Brazil—Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was taken to a Sao Paulo hospital for tests early Monday after experiencing abdominal discomfort, the government said. Bolsonaro is ...
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Tributes from fellow actors and comedians poured in on social media Friday in reaction to the death of Betty White. “The Golden Girls” star was 99. ...
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Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, who has been serving a 22-year prison term for corruption charges, was granted a special pardon by the government on ...
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Edward Durr, a commercial truck driver for 25 years, unseated in the Nov. 2 election the long-tenured New Jersey Senate president, according to unofficial election results ...
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A judge in Illinois on Friday ordered the head of the Chicago police union to stop encouraging members not to get a COVID-19 vaccine, just hours ...
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Former Philippines senator Ferdinand Marcos Jr. declared on Tuesday that he will run for president in next year’s elections, following weeks of speculation about his future in politics. Marcos Jr., ...
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Former Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, who fled the country allowing the Taliban to take the capital unopposed on Sunday, claimed in May that his government could ...
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Hundreds of thousands of Belarusians took to the streets one year ago in the biggest challenge to Alexander Lukashenko’s rule since he became president in 1994. With ...
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WASHINGTON—Jo Ann Hinckley, a constant companion to her son John Hinckley Jr. as the would-be assassin of President Ronald Reagan was gradually allowed to live outside ...
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TUNIS, Tunisia—Troops surrounded Tunisia’s parliament and blocked its speaker from entering Monday after the president suspended the legislature and fired the prime minister and other top ...
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ANTANANARIVO—Police in Madagascar this week arrested six people, including one foreign citizen, suspected of plotting to kill the president following what officials in the Indian Ocean ...
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Officials in Arizona’s largest county have repeatedly described firms conducting a forensic election audit there as uncertified, even promoting the idea that they lacked certification from ...
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Could the traveling pastor with a history of humanitarian work also have masterminded an intricate murder plot to seize power in Haiti? Christian Emmanuel Sanon, the ...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti—Haiti’s police chief on Wednesday accused a Venezuelan businessman who owns a security company in Florida of traveling to Haiti numerous times as part of ...
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PORT-AU-PRINCE—A power struggle is brewing in Haiti as the man appointed prime minister shortly before the assassination of Haiti’s president this week said he—not the acting ...
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JERUSALEM—Isaac Herzog, scion of a prominent Zionist family, took the oath of office on Wednesday and became Israel’s new president. With one hand on a Bible ...
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Haitian President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated in an attack on his private residence, according to a statement from the country’s interim prime minister
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Romania's President signed a Washington-backed bill that bars Huawei from taking part in the development of its 5G telecommunication networks, on security concerns
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Taiwan's people will never forget China's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy demonstrators in and around Tiananmen Square 32 years ago, Tsai Ing-wen said.
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The president of Portland, Oregon's police union said in a blistering new statement that the city is on the brink of war.