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[ad_1] BELGRADE, Serbia — Several thousand people gathered in front of the central election commission building in Belgrade on Monday to protest over an election earlier this month that international monitors said was unfair. The protesters marched to the main police station where they believed those detained by police were being held. Earlier in the…
[ad_1] Officials familiar with the conversation between Biden and Xi described the Chinese leader as blunt and candid, but not confrontational. “His language was no different than what he has always said. He is always tough on Taiwan. He’s always had a tough line,” said a U.S. official with knowledge of the conversation. Xi’s saber-rattling…
[ad_1] LONDON — King Charles III reflected his coronation theme of public service Monday in a Christmas message that he connected to the health of the planet and wars that are raging. In a prerecorded video shot with him standing beside a Christmas tree in Buckingham Palace, the king spoke of the message of Jesus’ life in serving those…
[ad_1] BETHLEHEM — The mood was somber, streets were deserted and stores were shuttered on Christmas Eve in Bethlehem, the Israeli-occupied West Bank city where Christian tradition says Jesus was born in a stable 2,000 years ago. Set amid rubble and barbed wire, a striking Nativity scene was placed in the city’s central Manger Square,…
[ad_1] VATRY, France — A charter plane grounded in France for a human trafficking investigation departed Monday for India with 276 Indians aboard, authorities said. The passengers had been heading to Nicaragua but were instead blocked inside a rural French airport for four days in an exceptional holiday ordeal. Associated Press reporters outside Vatry Airport in Champagne…
[ad_1] Associates of imprisoned Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny said Monday that he has been located at a prison colony above the Arctic Circle nearly three weeks after contact with him was lost. Navalny, the most prominent foe of Russian President Vladimir Putin, is serving a combined prison term of more than 30 years. Months ago, an…
[ad_1] The three Israeli hostages had been in captivity for 65 days when they received a glimmer of hope. A group of Israeli soldiers arrived at the building in Gaza where they were holed up with their captors. The soldiers released a combat dog into the building equipped with a GoPro camera. The Hamas militants…
[ad_1] The primary target of China’s fishing industry is the giant squid, also known as the Humboldt squid, which is among the species managed by SPRFMO. Global demand for giant squid, the most abundant marine invertebrate in the southeastern Pacific, is increasing because of its high nutritional value and because 75 percent of the animal…
[ad_1] He blamed Washington for throwing billions of taxpayer dollars “into the wind” by providing military and financial aid to Kyiv — something that, he said, has failed to achieve much on the battlefield. “You have to understand your responsibility for this,” Peskov said, speaking in English. “You are making this conflict longer.” Russia, which…
[ad_1] U.S. officials have reportedly raised concerns with Peru that Chinese investment in the port could have national security implications, given Xi’s oft-mentioned ambition of turning China into a “maritime superpower.” The port’s builder says it is for commercial use only. Miriam Arce, a community leader whose father was a fisherman, has a different concern:…