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IS leader al-Shishani dies of wounds from US strike in Syria

IS leader al-Shishani dies of wounds from US strike in Syria

BAGHDAD (AP) – Top Islamic State commander and feared ethnic Chechen jihadi fighter Omar al-Shishani has died of wounds suffered in a U.S. airstrike in Syria, a senior Iraqi intelligence official and the head of a Syrian activist group said Tuesday. Al-Shishani, who was wounded in a U.S. airstrike earlier …

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Moscow says Russian warplanes have started to leave Syria

Moscow says Russian warplanes have started to leave Syria

MOSCOW (AP) – Russian warplanes and troops stationed at Russia’s air base in Syria started leaving for home on Tuesday after a partial pullout order from President Vladimir Putin the previous day, a step that raises hopes for progress at the newly reconvened U.N.-brokered peace talks in Geneva. The U.N. …

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Suu Kyi loyalist and friend elected Myanmar’s president

Suu Kyi loyalist and friend elected Myanmar’s president

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s parliament elected Htin Kyaw as the country’s new president Tuesday in a watershed moment that ushers the longtime opposition party of Aung San Suu Kyi into government after 54 years of direct or indirect military rule. The joint session of the two houses of parliament …

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Is Myanmar’s new president just a puppet for Suu Kyi?

Is Myanmar’s new president just a puppet for Suu Kyi?

NAYPYITAW, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s parliament elects a new president on Tuesday to head the country’s first democratically elected government, but it won’t be Aung San Suu Kyi, the face of the nation’s decades-long struggle against military rule. Here’s why: WHAT PREVENTED SUU KYI? The military has been in power …

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Macedonia sends back refugees who pushed their way in

Macedonia sends back refugees who pushed their way in

SKOPJE, Macedonia (AP) – Macedonia sent back hundreds of refugees to Greece on Tuesday, a day after they bypassed a border fence in a mass push to continue their journey north to Europe’s prosperous heartland – a move Greece blamed on “criminal misinformation” possibly spread by volunteers working with them. …

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VW sued by big investors, including CalPERS pension fund

VW sued by big investors, including CalPERS pension fund

FRANKFURT, Germany (AP) – Institutional investors are suing automaker Volkswagen in a German court, seeking 3.25 billion euros ($3.57 billion) in damages over the company’s diesel emissions scandal. Attorney Andreas Tilp said Tuesday in a statement that the suit was joined by investors from 14 countries, including the U.S., Australia, …

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