Trump wishes Macron a speedy recovery from COVID-19
President Trump wished Emmanuel Macron a speedy recovery from COVID-19 in a phone call with the French president, the White House said Friday.
President Trump wished Emmanuel Macron a speedy recovery from COVID-19 in a phone call with the French president, the White House said Friday.
SharesGerman Chancellor Angela Merkel on Friday thanked the husband-and-wife founders of BioNTech who are behind a first-in-the-west coronavirus vaccine developed with Pfizer.
SharesRussian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday expressed confidence that a massive natural gas pipeline to Germany will be completed despite the determined opposition of the Trump administration, telling a national audience in his annual holiday press conference that the Nord Stream 2 project is nearly completed.
SharesThe spirits of the season may soon be more affordable as U.S. and U.K. trade negotiators work toward a deal that would bring down tariffs on a range of goods, including prized Scottish whisky.
SharesYemen’s embattled president, in exile in Saudi Arabia, announced a Cabinet reshuffle Friday in a major step toward closing a dangerous rift between his internationally recognized government and southern separatists backed by the United Arab Emirates.
SharesA Chinese national employed by a U.S. telecommunications company was charged Friday with conspiracy for disrupting online protests marking the 1989 massacre of Chinese pro-democracy protesters, the FBI said in a statement.
SharesIdaho will pay more than $26,000 in lawyer fees to a former congressional candidate who successfully sued to extend a deadline to apply for primary election absentee ballots.
SharesPakistan’s information minister said Friday that Islamabad has started the legal process to reach an extradition treaty with Britain that would pave the way for the U.K. to hand over former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif.
SharesBulgaria's foreign ministry said on Friday that a Russian diplomat had 72 hours to leave the country after prosecutors accused him of spying and gathering military information including the number of U.S. troops deployed to Bulgaria for military drills.
SharesPakistan's foreign minister on Friday accused neighboring India of planning a “surgical strike" against his Islamic nation, the latest in a war of words between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
SharesSound Transit employees in 2021 will check with light rail and Sounder commuter train passengers to see if they’ve paid their fare, but they won’t penalize those who don’t.
SharesAll fingers are pointing to Russia as the source of the worst-ever hack of U.S. government agencies. But President Donald Trump, long wary of blaming Moscow for cyberattacks, has been silent.
SharesIndian and Chinese foreign ministry officials held another round of talks on Friday but didn’t report any breakthrough in ending a monthslong military standoff along their disputed border in eastern Ladakh.
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SharesThe deputy head of an association of Kosovo war veterans called prosecutors who have charged him with offenses including intimidating potential witnesses “selective, political and biased,” at a hearing Friday at a war crimes court.
SharesThe European Union and the United Kingdom are heading into the weekend on a “last attempt" to clinch a post-Brexit trade deal, with EU fishing rights in British waters the most notable remaining obstacle to avoid a chaotic and costly changeover in the new year.
SharesSatellite photos obtained by the AP show Iran building at its underground Fordo nuclear site amid tensions with the US.
SharesFederal authorities are expressing increased alarm about a long-undetected intrusion into U.S. and other computer systems around the globe that officials suspect was carried out by Russian hackers. The nation's cybersecurity agency warned of a “grave” risk to government and private networks.
SharesAmerican Catholics are critiquing the creche the Vatican has put on display in St. Peter's Square, with one commentator comparing the globular ceramics diorama to the cantina scene from "Star Wars."
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