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Pakistan diplomat: Attempt to add Islamabad to terrorist financing watch list delayed

WASHINGTON — Pakistan’s chief diplomat said Tuesday that a U.S.-led motion to put Pakistan on a global terrorist financing watch list has been deferred for three months. The final decision of the...

Israeli media: Netanyahu confidant turns state witness in corruption probe

JERUSALEM — Israeli media say a close associate of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has agreed to testify against him in a bribery scandal. Shlomo Filber was arrested on suspicion of promoting the...

Turkish Foreign Minister warns Syria about military intervention

ISTANBUL — With Turkish-led forces stepping up their military operations against the Syrian Kurdish militia, the YPG, in Syria's Kurdish-controlled Afrin enclave, Ankara has reacted cautiously to reports that Damascus is...

Trump: Russia has been hugely successful in disrupting US political landscape

WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump said Sunday he believes Russia has been wildly successful in disrupting the U.S. political landscape with its interference in the 2016 election because of the subsequent...

Israel, Iran clash over nuclear threat at Munich Conference

MUNICH — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has claimed that Iran is just years away from having a nuclear bomb. Under pressure back home and facing possible corruption charges, Netanyahu took to...

Macron’s ideas on reform of Islam draw fire

Six months ago after a string of jihadist-inspired attacks in London and Manchester, British Prime Minister Theresa May said the time had come to have “embarrassing conversations” about Islam’s place in...

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