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Web & Graphic Designer, Blogger, Musician, Evil Clown. I also code websites and promote people for a living. Still kind of a jerk, though. Approach with food.
Much of the Iberian Peninsula is experiencing the year’s first heatwave, with the mercury expected to soar before peaking at 47 degrees Celsius (116.6 Fahrenheit) in some areas of southern Portugal this weekend.
An Afghan official says three foreign workers were abducted in Kabul earlier in the day and their bodies were later found in one of the city’s more dangerous neighborhoods.
Triathlon events at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics will be staged on the large man-made island of Odaiba in Tokyo Bay and will start early in the morning to counter the heat that is expected in the Japanese capital.
China appealed to Washington on Thursday to stay calm and 'correct its attitude' following a U.S. threat to raise tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods in a dispute over technology policy.
The nationalist Alternative for Germany party is distancing itself from a member who reportedly described as a 'traitor' a leader of a failed 1944 attempt by officers to assassinate Adolf Hitler.
Posing as customers, the three men entered a little New Delhi workshop early one morning. Then one pulled out a gun, and the trio demanded the most valuable thing there: Hair.
Russia’s Foreign Ministry says there were no signs of torture on the bodies of three Russian journalists killed in the Central African Republic this week.
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Congo’s former Vice President Jean-Pierre Bemba has returned to the country to register as a presidential candidate in December’s long-delayed election, a decade after his arrest in Belgium led to a trial at the International Criminal Court.
Germany’s government has initiated legislation that would make online retailers liable for sales tax that isn’t paid by vendors based outside the country.
An Amnesty International employee has been targeted with Israeli-made surveillance software, the human rights group said Wednesday, adding to a growing number of examples of Israeli technology being used to spy on human rights workers and opposition figures in the Middle East and beyond.
Decades after the end of the Korean War in 1953, the remains of dozens of presumed U.S. war dead began their journey home following a repatriation ceremony in South Korea on Wednesday.
The start of the African track and field championships in Nigeria has been delayed after hundreds of athletes were stranded at an airport, some for three days when they were left to sleep on the floor as they waited for a connecting flight to the host city.
The U.N. children’s agency is warning of another cholera outbreak in war-torn Yemen after airstrikes hit water facilities and other civilian infrastructure in the port city of Hodeida.
Britain’s foreign secretary is visiting Austria, which holds the European Union’s rotating presidency, bringing his warnings about a 'messy divorce' with the EU that could poison future relations.
Police used helicopters to chase thieves who stole priceless treasures from the Swedish royal regalia displayed in a cathedral over the weekend, including a jeweled crown, but the bandits escaped by motorboat and remain at large.
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An Illinois man who worked as a spokesman for a 'darknet' marketplace used for illegal online sales is scheduled to be sentenced in federal court in Atlanta.
The U.S. military in Africa has taken steps to increase the security of troops on the ground, adding armed drones and armored vehicles and taking a harder look at when American forces go out with local troops, the head of the U.S. Africa Command says.
Swiss bank Credit Suisse is warning that trade tensions and rising interest rates 'are likely to trigger periods of heightened uncertainty through the remainder of 2018.'
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Greece’s prime minister has visited the site of Greece’s deadliest wildfire in decades, a week after the blaze swept through a seaside resort north of Athens, killing dozens.
Romanian traffic police say they are investigating a man who they say illegally drove a car with license plates featuring an obscene anti-government slogan.
A lawyer for two Italian artists says they have left Israel after being arrested for painting a large mural of a formerly imprisoned teenage Palestinian protester on the West Bank separation barrier.
Representatives of taxi driver unions and Spain’s government are meeting to find a way out of an indefinite strike protesting the proliferation of private ride-hailing services.
Thousands of immigrants in Germany have taken to Twitter to share their experiences of everyday racism under the hashtag #MeTwo, inspired by a Turkish-German soccer star who recently quit Germany’s national team citing racism.
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Zimbabwe votes Monday in an election that could, if deemed credible, tilt the country toward recovery after years of economic collapse and repression under former leader Robert Mugabe. If it is flawed and disputed, as some predict, the southern African nation could slide deeper into upheaval.
Fiat Chrysler’s late founding CEO Sergio Marchionne was a notorious workaholic who regularly slept on a corporate jet while landing in the headlines for his shrewd deal-making. Despite his very public profile, he kept a secret even from his board: he’d been seriously ill for more than a year.
Voting started slowly Sunday as people in Mali head to the polls to vote for a president amid increasing attacks by a number of extremist groups linked to al-Qaida and the Islamic State organization.
Iraq’s prime minister on Sunday suspended the country’s electricity minister over a power crisis amid mushrooming protests in the country’s Shiite heartland demanding better services and jobs.
An Israeli Arab lawmaker says he is resigning from parliament for 'ideological reasons' to protest the recent passage of a controversial law enshrining the state’s Jewish character.
A police officer who was among China’s top 100 international fugitives has returned from the United States to face charges of taking bribes, a state news agency said Sunday.
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