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Burberry shedding real fur from its fashion line

Elisa Sednaoui attends the Burberry show during London Fashion Week Autumn/Winter 2016/17 at Kensington Gardens, Feb. 22, 2016 in London, England. Getty LONDON -- The British luxury fashion brand Burberry will stop using real fur in its products. The company…

Far-right poised for big gains in Swedish election

STOCKHOLM -- Sweden is holding a general election Sunday, the first since the country took in a record number of migrants from the Middle East and Africa in 2015 on top of the hundreds of thousands admitted before. While the…

French rebel priest takes on church hierarchy over sex abuse

SAINT-MARTIN-EN-VERCORS, France -- When a lowly Roman Catholic father rebels against the church hierarchy, publicly castigating a prominent cardinal's handling of child sex-abuse cases, is that an act of backstabbing against the institution he serves or a brave solo effort…

Landmark ruling decriminalizes homosexual acts in India

Indian members and supporters of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender (LGBT) community celebrate the Supreme Court decision to strike down a colonial-era ban on gay sex, in Mumbai, Sept. 6, 2018. Getty NEW DELHI -- India's top court on Thursday…

Deadly suicide blast tears through Afghan sports hall

Afghan security forces stand guard near the main gate of Paghman district compound after a suicide bomb attack, north of Kabul, Afghanistan, in a 2015 file photo. REUTERS A deadly suicide bombing hit a sports club in western Kabul on…

Trump to chair UN Security Council meeting on Iran

United Nations Security Council, FILE photo Neptuul, via Wikimedia Commons The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations says President Donald Trump will chair a Security Council meeting on Iran during the annual gathering of world leaders in New York this…

22 people missing as boat sinks in northeast India

A passenger ferry crosses as rescuers search in the Brahmaputra River after a boat capsized on the outskirts of Gauhati, India, Sept. 5, 2018. AP GAUHATI, India -- Police were searching Wednesday for 22 people who were missing after a…

U.K. charges 2 Russians in nerve agent attack on ex-spy

A photo provided by the London Metropolitan Police on Sept. 5, 2018, shows two Russian nationals, Alexander Petrov and Ruslan Boshirov, who are charged with the attempted murder of ex-spy Sergei Skripal using the deadly nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury,…

Pompeo has tough task to "reset" ties in Pakistan

In this photo released by the Press Information Department, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan, center, attends a briefing at the Foreign Ministry in Islamabad, Pakistan, Aug. 24, 2018. AP ISLAMABAD -- U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo arrived in Pakistan…

Russians blame Soyuz leak on human error

Ruling out a strike by space debris or a micrometeoroid, Russian engineers say a small leak in a Soyuz crew ferry ship docked to the International Space Station was the result of a hole drilled into the wall of the…

French navy ready to intervene in "scallop wars"

PARIS -- The French agriculture minister says the country's navy is ready to intervene to prevent further clashes between French and British fishermen who angrily bumped boats over access to scallop fisheries off the French coast last week. The minister,…

French navy ready to intervene in "scallop wars"

PARIS -- The French agriculture minister says the country's navy is ready to intervene to prevent further clashes between French and British fishermen who angrily bumped boats over access to scallop fisheries off the French coast last week. The minister,…

Security incident at U.S. Embassy in Cairo

The U.S. Embassy complex in Cairo, Egypt, is seen in a 2013 file photo. State Department The U.S. Embassy in Cairo warned American nationals to avoid the compound in Egypt's capital city on Tuesday after a security incident outside. Local…

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