Russian President Vladimir Putin has opened up about who he envisions succeeding him, saying that whoever leads the country after him must be “young enough but mature,” in a rare insight into Kremlin succession plans. Putin was appointed acting president in 1999 and has been the most influential Russian politician since, serving as president for […]
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InternationalSydney (dpa) – A Melbourne teen who allegedly plotted to run over and behead a police officer during a national military day parade was sentenced to 10 years in jail on Monday. Sevdet Ramadan Besim, 19, pleaded guilty to a single terror-related charge over the 2015 plan to behead an officer during Anzac Day that
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InternationalBerlin (dpa) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Party (CDU) has lost its position as second-strongest party in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern to the anti-immigration Alternative for Germany (AfD), according to official preliminary results. The AfD won 20.8 per cent, meaning it will enter the north-eastern state’s parliament for the first time. It already has deputies in
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InternationalTel Aviv (dpa) – At least two people were killed and more than 20 injured after an under-construction car park collapsed Monday in northern Tel Aviv, according to local emergency services. Rescuers were attempting to extract seven people from the rubble on Monday evening, according to a police spokeswoman. Emergency services reported treating 25 people
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Middle EastFor half a century the Giant Panda has been a symbol of global attempts to preserve wildlife. Now there are signs that efforts to protect the iconic bears are showing some rewards. The International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) has reported that the species is no longer “Endangered” – although the
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International, The World We ShareHugh O’Brian, the star of TV’s “The Life and Legend of Wyatt Earp,” died Monday. He was 91. O’Brian died in Beverly Hills, Calif., according to a statement on the Hugh O’Brian Youth Leadership Foundation website. Handsome, square-jawed and athletically fit, the dark-haired O’Brian appeared in a string of movies and TV anthology series in
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Theatre, Film & Broadcast, USABarack Obama becomes the first US president to visit Laos this week, half a century after America’s “secret war” left this long-isolated nation with the unfortunate distinction of being the most heavily bombed country in history. The US president arrives in the landlocked Southeast Asian nation on Monday to attend a regional summit, marking the
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International, USACLEVELAND — Hillary Clinton opened her sprint to Election Day with a lancing denunciation of Donald Trump, her Republican opponent, who was also campaigning in the key state of Ohio. In a speech in Cleveland that was interrupted by a coughing fit that left her voice raw, Clinton spent the majority of her time castigating
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USAPresident Obama defended 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick’s protest against the national anthem Monday, saying he has a constitutional right not to show respect for “The Star-Spangled Banner” at the start of games. “My understanding is he’s exercising his constitutional right to make a statement,” Mr. Obama said at a press conference in Hangzhou, China, in
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International, Sports & Competitions, USADespite evidence of Russia hacking into U.S. election systems, President Obama said Monday that he doesn’t want to escalate into a “wild, wild West” cyberwar with Moscow. Emerging from a 90-minute meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in China, Mr. Obama acknowledged that the Russians have been attacking U.S. institutions on the Internet. “We’ve had
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International, USAPARIS — In France, where women rabbis are far from the norm, one can see today’s troubling climate as an opportunity to awaken Jewish creativity. One of the direct effects of anti-Semitism and threats, suggests Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, is an increasing insularity and traditionalism of the Jewish community. “I’m not denying there are emergent issues
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InternationalChinese President Xi Jinping made it clear his opposition to the U.S. deployment of THAAD anti-missile system in South Korea during a summit with President Park Geun-hye in Hangzhou, Monday. “Mishandling the issue is not conducive to strategic stability in the region, and could intensify disputes,” Xi said during his summit with President Park on
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InternationalLANSDALE, Pa. — Marie Jeffries has a very firm view of Donald Trump, and she says it won’t change in the nine weeks before Election Day. “He’s a wild man. I think he might put us into a war,” said Jeffries, who was among hundreds sauntering down Main Street in this southeastern Pennsylvania town on
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USAHANGZHOU, China – Prime Minister Justin Trudeau was silent Monday after reports that Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan used the G20 to pointedly criticize U.S. president Barack Obama over his support for Kurdish troops fighting ISIL in Syria. Trudeau didn’t respond to a question about whether similar concerns had been raised in his “pull aside”
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