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Nicaraguan forces violently retake symbolic area from protesters

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Nicaraguan police and armed pro-government civilians on Tuesday laid siege to and then retook a symbolically important neighborhood that had recently become a center of resistance to President Daniel Ortega's government. Government forces began advancing on Masaya's…

Lab-grown meat could be in restaurants by 2021

The world's first lab-grown beef burger is seen after it was cooked at a launch event in west London on Aug. 5, 2013. Reuters BERLIN -- A Dutch company that presented the world's first lab-grown beef burger five years ago said…

Former President Obama's full speech in South Africa

Former President Barack Obama weighed in with his perspective on the "strange and uncertain times that we are in" as he delivered a major address in South Africa Tuesday. Mr. Obama was invited to give the 2018 Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture…

Nicaraguan forces lay siege to symbolic city

Nicaraguan national police and armed pro-government civilians laid siege to a symbolically important neighborhood that has recently become a center of resistance to President Daniel Ortega's government. Government forces began advancing on the Monimbo neighborhood in the city of Masaya…

U.S., U.N. blast Nicaraguan gov't as protest deaths mounts

MANAGUA, Nicaragua -- Families began burying the dead Monday following a bloody weekend in Nicaragua as police and paramilitary groups attacked roadblocks set up by anti-government demonstrators demanding President Daniel Ortega's exit from office. The family and friends of 20-year-old…

U.K.'s pro-Brexit campaign broke election laws

Then-London Mayor Boris Johnson speaks at a Vote Leave rally in Newcastle, England, April 16, 2016. REUTERS LONDON -- The official campaign group that succeeded in convincing Britons to vote to leave the European Union has been fined and referred…

Kim Jong Un "enraged" by construction project delay

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un gives field guidance during his visit to the under construction Orangchon Power Station in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in Pyongyang, July 17, 2018. KCNA/REUTERS SEOUL, South…

Washington reacts to Trump-Putin press conference with dismay

Republicans and Democrats alike are dismayed by President Trump's comments at his joint press conference with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Monday. Mr. Trump stunned onlookers by repeatedly defending Putin during the press conference from allegations that Russia interfered in the…

U.S. still working to wean allies off Iranian oil

U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo addresses a news conference alongside South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha and Japan's Foreign Minister Taro Kono at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, South Korea June 14, 2018. REUTERS HELSINKI, Finland -- The Trump…

Student protesters say Nicaraguan forces "shooting to kill"

Mourners look into a coffin containing the body of Gerald Jose Vasquez,who died during clashes with riot police at the National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN), in Managua, Nicaragua, July 14, 2018. REUTERS Nicaraguan pro-government forces launched an operation in…

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