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The widely shared photo captured Juli Briskman giving the middle finger to the presidential motorcade in Virginia in October 2017.   (BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) The woman says her employer violated state employment law because the government contractor feared retaliation. The widely shared photo captured Juli Briskman giving the middle finger to the presidential motorcade in Virginia in […]

Iranian President Hassan Rouhani, (L), Russian President Vladimir Putin (R) and President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan reaffirmed their commitment to Syria’s territorial integrity during a summit in Ankara yesterday. The Turkish, Russian and Iranian leaders said the aim of their joint efforts is to establish peace in Syria and maintain the country’s territorial integrity, while vowing […]

Opposition candidate Julius Maada Bio has won a narrow victory in a run-off election to become Sierra Leone’s next president, according to official results by the country’s electoral body. The National Electoral Commission announced at 10:00pm local time that Maada Bio of the Sierra Leone People’s Party (SLPP) won 51.8 percent of a total of […]

In this April 18, 2017 file photo, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg speaks at his company’s annual F8 developer conference in San Jose, Calif. (AP Photo Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg will testify in Congress next week over the hijacking of users’ personal data by political consultancy Cambridge Analytica, a House committee announced Wednesday. The hearing, […]

© Sergey Guneev / Sputnik As the case for Moscow’s involvement in the poisoning of Sergei Skripal is weakened by new revelations, Russian President Vladimir Putin says he simply wants the diplomatic fallout over the incident to end. “We are not waiting for anything,” the Russian president said at a joint press conference with his Turkish and […]

NAIROBI, Kenya — A police contingent loyal to a top opposition leader in Somalia took over Parliament for several hours on Wednesday, pushing a growing political rift to the brink of armed confrontation. Parliamentary police officers loyal to Mohamed Osman Jawari, the Parliament speaker, disrupted a no-confidence vote against him early Wednesday. The police lined […]

US President Donald Trump’s remarks appeared to contradict the rhetoric on Syria from other top US officials [REUTERS/Carlos Barria [Daylife] Trump reiterates necessity for US troops to leave Syria unless Riyadh pays for continuation of US presence there. US President Donald Trump has said that Saudi Arabia might have to pay if it wants continuing US […]

Italy’s political parties are meeting the country’s president to talk about forming a government on Wednesday and Thursday, after a general election left Italy with a hung parliament. Here’s a reminder of what’s at stake, and what to expect over the next few days and weeks. The story so far The general election on March 4th left […]

Security forces discovered a huge sum of cash, gold and silver in the office of two Daesh-linked terrorist suspects detained in an anti-terror operation in Istanbul, reports said Wednesday. The suspects were reportedly nabbed in simultaneous anti-terror operations in Istanbul’s Fatih, Avcılar, Ümraniye, Kadıköy and Çatalca districts on March 16. Police discovered 8.5 kilograms of […]

Police officers congregate in a parking lot near YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif. on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, after a shooting took place. (Randy Vazquez/Bay Area News Group) Police officers congregate in a parking lot near YouTube headquarters in San Bruno, Calif. on Tuesday, April 3, 2018, after a shooting took place. (Randy Vazquez/Bay […]