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Moldova Backs Joining European Union

Moldovans have voted by the thinnest of margins in favor of joining the European Union, near-complete results showed Monday, as President Maia Sandu condemned an “unprecedented assault” by foreign actors on the country’s democracy. With…

US Based Turkish Cleric Gulen Dies

Turkish Muslim leader Fethullah Gulen, who Ankara says was behind a 2016 failed coup, has died at 83 years in the United States where he was based, Turkish media and a website associated with Gulen. Gulen built Hizmet, a powerful Islamic…

King Charles Heckled In Australia Visit

Britain’s King Charles III has been embarrassed by an Aboriginal lawmaker after he arrived in Australia for the first visit to the country by a reigning monarch in more than a decade. Charles, who is on his first royal tour since…

Russia, UAE Develop Strategic Partnership

President Vladimir Putin told the visiting president of the United Arab Emirates on Sunday that relations between the two states amounted to a "strategic partnership" and thanked him for mediation efforts in exchanging prisoners of war with…

Cuba Suffers Power Cut

Cuba's efforts to restore power to the island were derailed for a third time late on Saturday, Cuban authorities said shortly before midnight, leaving millions in the dark and raising fresh questions over the viability of the government's…

Iraqi Kurdistan Goes To Poll

Iraqi Kurds began voting in a parliamentary election in their semi-autonomous region in northern Iraq on Sunday, following repeated delays. The vote is to elect 100 lawmakers who will then pick a parliament speaker, a president, and a…