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UN arms embargoes on Iran expire despite US objections

TEHRAN, Iran - A decade-long U.N. arms embargo on Iran that barred it from purchasing foreign weapons like tanks and fighter jets expired Sunday as planned under its nuclear deal with world powers, de...

Oct 18, 2020

Afghans say preventing next war as vital as ending this one

KABUL - At a Kabul museum honouring Afghanistan's war victims, talking to visitors reveals just how many layers and generations of pain and grief have piled up during four decades of unrelenting confl...

Oct 18, 2020

Car bombing in western Afghanistan kills 13, wounds 120

KABUL - A suicide car bombing on Sunday killed at least 13 people and wounded around 120 others in Afghanistan's western Ghor province, officials said. The head of a hospital in Ghor, Mohammad Omer La...

Oct 18, 2020

Guinea votes to see if president can extend decade in power

CONAKRY, Guinea - Guinean President Alpha Conde is seeking to extend his decade in power in Sunday's election, after the country's constitution was changed earlier this year to allow the 82-year-old l...

Oct 18, 2020

Uganda's 'taxi divas' rise from COVID-19's economic gloom

KAMPALA, Uganda - The women grappled with each other inside the vehicle. The driver jerked to ease the grip around her neck, then turned to elbow her attacker in the back seat. She flung the door open...

Oct 18, 2020

US, Israeli envoys fly to Bahrain to advance nascent ties

JERUSALEM - A joint American-Israeli delegation headed Sunday for Bahrain, where officials will be signing a number of bilateral agreements following an announcement last month to normalize relations....

Oct 18, 2020

Armenia, Azerbaijan report violations of new cease-fire

YEREVAN, Armenia - Despite a second attempt at a cease-fire, Armenia and Azerbaijan traded accusations Sunday of violating the new truce in their destructive conflict over the separatist region of Nag...

Oct 18, 2020

Turkish Cypriots pick leader as stakes soar in Mediterranean

NICOSIA, Cyprus - Turkish Cypriots began voting Sunday in a leadership runoff to choose between an incumbent who pledges a course less bound by Turkey's dictates and a challenger who favours even clos...

Oct 18, 2020

Vietnam landslide hits army camp, buries 22 personnel

HANOI, Vietnam - A landslide in central Vietnam on Sunday buried at least 22 army personnel, just a week after another landslide killed 13 as heavy rains continued to pound the region, state media rep...

Oct 18, 2020

At least 5 injured in blast, fire at Virginia strip mall

HARRISONBURG, Va. - An investigation was underway into the cause of an explosion and large fire at a shopping centre in Harrisonburg, Virginia, that injured at least five people Saturday morning. Thre...

Oct 17, 2020