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US officials say lethal weapons headed to Ukraine

Saturday, 23 December 2017, 09:56 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Ukraine will soon have more lethal American-made weapons to help it fight Russian-backed separatists. U.S. officials said Friday that the Trump administration approved a plan to provide lethal...

Russian hackers targeted more than 200 journalists globally

Friday, 22 December 2017, 16:43 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Russian television anchor Pavel Lobkov was in the studio getting ready for his show when jarring news flashed across his phone: Some of his most intimate messages had just been published to the...

Girl gets 25 years in mental hospital in Slender Man case

Friday, 22 December 2017, 13:43 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

One of two Wisconsin girls who tried to kill a classmate to win favor with a fictional horror character named Slender Man has been sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital, the maximum punishment...

Catalan separatists regain majority in regional election

Friday, 22 December 2017, 08:16 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Catalonia's secessionist parties won enough votes Thursday to regain a slim majority in the regional parliament and give new momentum to their political struggle for independence from Spain. It...

UN vote calls US move on Jerusalem 'null, void'

Thursday, 21 December 2017, 18:48 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

The U.N. General Assembly has voted 128-9 with 35 abstentions to declare President Donald Trump's declaration of Jerusalem as Israel's capital "null and void." Thursday's vote, while a victory...

Cardinal Law, central figure in church abuse scandal, dies

Wednesday, 20 December 2017, 08:30 Last update: about 10 years ago Associated Press

Cardinal Bernard Law, the disgraced former archbishop of Boston whose failures to stop child molesters in the priesthood sparked what would become the worst crisis in American Catholicism, died early...

Why justice is more important than the rule of law

Tuesday, 19 December 2017, 14:06 Last update: about 10 years ago The Conversation

The 2017 Stress in America survey has confirmed it: Americans are officially freaking out. The survey, conducted by the Harris Poll, reports that what keeps many Americans up at night is genuine...

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