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Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi pardoned 100 prisoners including three Al Jazeera television journalists on Wednesday, a day before he plans to head to the annual United Nations summit of world leaders. Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, Egyptian Baher Mohamed and Australian Peter Greste were sentenced to three years in prison in a retrial last month for operating without a press license and broadcasting material harmful to Egypt. A spokesperson for the
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia may deploy Iskander ballistic missiles to its enclave of Kaliningrad if the United States upgrades its nuclear weapons in Germany, the Interfax news agency cited a military source as saying on Wednesday. “A final decision well be taken after detailed analysis of the potential threat,” the agency cited the source as saying. (Reporting by Lidia Kelly; Editing by Andrew Osborn)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The number of people applying for or receiving security clearances whose fingerprint images were stolen in one of the worst U.S. government data breaches is now believed to be 5.6 million, not 1.1 million as first thought, the Office of Personnel Management announced Wednesday.
Burundi’s government ruled out Wednesday talks with key opposition groups, rejecting calls by the influential Catholic Church for all sides to negotiate to ensure no return to civil war. While the government “totally agrees” with the Church’s call earlier this week for dialogue, “there will never be any negotiations with those who are charged with insurrection, and want to bring our country into chaos and war,” presidential communications chief Willy
BRUSSELS (AP) — The latest developments as European governments struggle to cope with the huge number of people moving across Europe. All times local:
ZURICH (AP) — The president of the Japanese football association says he still expects FIFA’s next executive committee meeting to take place in Japan, despite a decision by soccer’s ruling body to reconsider its original plan during this week’s session in Zurich.
By Richard Cowan and Susan Cornwell WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Plans to avert a U.S. government shutdown began taking shape in the Senate on Tuesday, but it was still far from certain whether a dispute over funding for women’s healthcare group Planned Parenthood could be overcome. With only days remaining before an Oct. 1 deadline, Senate leaders said they were pursuing a stop-gap funding bill to extend the present federal budget
The pontiff begins his six-day trip in D.C. after touring Communist-led Cuba.
The CEO of a pharmaceutical company, which increased the price of a drug used for parasite infections by more than 4,000 percent, said the company would substantially lower the price. Martin Shkreli, the CEO of Turing Pharmaceuticals, told ABC News they will lower the price days after making headlines and getting complaints from medical groups and others online. The drug called Daraprim is used to treat parasitic infections that most
Just as angels are depicted with a halo that encircles them, each of us mortals has an invisible halo — consisting of millions of bacteria — that surrounds us day and night, according to a new study. What’s more, this “microbial halo” that follows us is unique to everyone, just like a fingerprint, according to the study, which was published in the journal Peer J. “We expected that we would
