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Slovakia's populist prime minister shot in assassination attempt, shocking Europe before elections
Slovakia’s populist prime minister, Robert Fico, was shot multiple times and gravely wounded after a political event in an attempted assassination that shocked the small country and reverberated across Europe More »
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Who is Robert Fico, the populist Slovak prime minister wounded in a shooting?
Prime Minister Robert Fico returned to power in Slovakia last year More »
Xi welcomes Russia's Putin on a state visit to China that's a show of unity between the allies
China’s leader Xi Jinping has welcomed Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at an official ceremony Thursday on his state visit to China More »
Netanyahu fends off criticism at home and abroad over his lack of a postwar plan for Gaza
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is fending off criticism that he is not planning for a postwar reality in the Gaza Strip, saying it's impossible to prepare for any scenario in the embattled Palestinian enclave until Hamas is defeated More »
Will jurors believe Michael Cohen? Defense keys on witness' credibility at Trump hush money trial
Prosecutors' star witness will be back in the hot seat in Donald Trump's hush money trial as defense lawyers try to chip away at Michael Cohen’s crucial testimony implicating the former president More »
The Commission on Presidential Debates faces an uncertain future after Biden and Trump bypassed it
Joe Biden and Donald Trump’s whirlwind agreement to meet for two presidential debates has upended the way the forums have been organized for nearly four decades More »
Florida deputy's killing of Black airman renews debate on police killings and race
A Florida deputy's fatal shooting of a U.S. service member has jarred the former top enlisted officer of the Air Force More »
As countries tighten anti-gay laws, more and more LGBTQ+ migrants seek safety and asylum in Europe
While many of the migrants who reach Europe are escaping war, conflict and poverty, an increasing number are fleeing possible prison terms and death sentences because they are gay More »
Venezuela's barred opposition candidate is now the fiery surrogate of her lesser-known replacement
At an intersection packed in four directions, rally-goers scream and light up cellphones in the evening as Venezuelan opposition figure María Corina Machado climbs onto a flatbed truck like a presidential candidate More »
All eyes are on Coppola in Cannes. Sound familiar?
Francis Ford Coppola will soon premiere at the Cannes Film Festival a film on which he has risked everything that’s arriving clouded by rumors of production turmoil More »
