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The Syrian army joins the Kurds in a major change of power. The Syrian army entered the city of Tel Tamer in northeast Syria, state media reported on Monday, shortly after President Bashar Assad's government forged an alliance. with the Kurdish forces controlling the region. The return of government forces to northeastern Syria not only strikes the US-backed Kurdish forces, …

HONG KONG – A home bomb was detonated in Hong Kong on Sunday amid violent protests, police said on Monday, showing an escalation in a gun battle on the street between police and protesters. The device was concealed in a bush and activated by a cellphone when a police vehicle passed nearby in Mong Kok District in Kowloon, Surianto Chin-chiu, …

Peter Summers / Getty Images Welcome to the most important week in modern British political history. By 11am on Saturday, Britain will finally receive some of the questions it asks after it voted to leave the EU three years ago. First, we will look at the grand spectacle of the State Opening of Parliament, where Queen Elizabeth II will read …

MADRID – The Spanish Supreme Court on Monday sentenced former Catalan leaders for long prison terms after pleading guilty to inciting them to attempt to break away from Spain in 2017. Former deputy leader of Catalonia, Oriol Junqueras received the heaviest sentence: 13 years in prison. Carles Puigdemont, the former leader of Catalonia, lives in self-imposed exile in Belgium and …

Late Sunday, John Oliver launches the latest episode of Last Week Tonight reworking all the drama about President Trump's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani, who is under federal criminal investigation for his double-blinded ties "It is true that Giuliani may eventually be under federal investigation, which means that the events have finally caught up with his face, which is constantly resembling …

US President Donald Trump shows a letter from Chinese President Xi Jinping as he announces an initial trade deal with China at the White House Oval Office in Washington, DC on October 11, 2019. Nicholas Cam | AFP | Getty Images USA. President Donald Trump called the first-phase trade deal with China "very substantial" – but analysts say it looks …

The President of Ecuador, Lenin Moreno, and the leaders of the country's indigenous population have concluded an agreement to cancel the controversial austerity package and end nearly two weeks of protests that have paralyzed the economy and left seven people dead. Under the deal just announced before 10:00 PM on Sunday (03:00 GMT on Monday), Moreno will withdraw the International …

A Chinese flag is seen in the front of containers at the Yangshan Deep-Water Port, an automated cargo wharf, in Shanghai on April 9, 2018. Johannes Eisele | AFP | Getty Images China's import and export data for September came in worse than expected amid the country's ongoing trade friction with the U.S., Reuters reported on Monday, citing the Chinese …

An elderly woman is one of more than 30 who died in Japan of devastating typhoon Hagibis, officials said. According to local reports, a woman of her 70s died after falling more than 131 feet until she told the Tokyo Fire Department that the woman was not tied up properly while being transferred to the city Iwaki in Fukushima Prefecture, …