October 2019

The Kurds’ Prisons and Detention Camps for ISIS Members, Explained

WASHINGTON — The escalating chaos in northern Syria as Turkey presses forward with its attack on the United States’ erstwhile Kurdish allies is raising fears about the fate of thousands of Islamic State detainees that the Kurds have been holding in makeshift wartime prisons. When announcing that he had cleared the way for the Turkish

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U.K. Says Immunity of U.S. Diplomat’s Wife ‘No Longer Relevant’

LONDON — The diplomatic immunity of Anne Sacoolas, the American woman who is a suspect in a road crash that killed Harry Dunn, a British teenager, is “no longer relevant” in the case, Britain’s foreign secretary has said. Ms. Sacoolas, the 42-year-old wife of a diplomat, fled Britain using diplomatic immunity after the police in

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The Latest: Partial results see gains for Hungary opposition

The Latest on local elections in Hungary (all times local): 9:20 p.m. Partial results are showing significant gains for opposition candidates over Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party in nationwide local elections. The voting is projected to have one of the highest voter turnouts in local elections since Hungary’s 1990 return to democracy. In Budapest,

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U.S. Teen Coco Gauff Becomes Youngest Tennis Player To Win WTA Title In 15 Years

Oct 13 (Reuters) – American teenage sensation Coco Gauff became the youngest player to win a WTA title in 15 years as she beat former French Open champion Jelena Ostapenko in the Linz Open final on Sunday. The 15-year-old Gauff, who started the season ranked well outside the world’s top 600, beat Latvia’s Ostapenko 6-3

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We Surveyed the 2020 Democrats on Gun Control. Here Are the New Dividing Lines.

The 2020 Democratic presidential candidates are far more forceful and united on gun control than their predecessors, endorsing a wide range of policies that past nominees sidestepped or rejected, according to a New York Times survey of the 19 campaigns. The political terrain on guns has been shifting for several years in response to a

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Liam Hemsworth Is Officially Moving On From Miley Cyrus, Spotted Kissing Maddison Brown

It’s time to add another side to Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth’s ever-expanding love polygon.  After the couple called it quits two months ago following a decade of on-again, off-again dating and less than eight months of marriage, each have splintered off into new relationships, forcing us all to learn names like Kaitlynn Carter and Cody

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