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Poland's president announced Monday that he will veto two contentious bills seen as assaults on the independence of the judicial system by the ruling party and which have sparked days of nationwide protests.
The decision marks the first time that Andrzej Duda has broken openly with Jaroslaw Kaczynski, leader of the ruling Law and Justice party.
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In Saudi Arabia it's a miniskirt that will get you arrested; these days in Turkey, it is a not-so-basic white T-shirt bearing a particular four-letter word: H-E-R-O.
Wearing it, Turkish authorities believe, signals support for the people accused of plotting to overthrow this country's government.
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Languid indie rock on the sound system. A menu listing $12 cocktails. Patrons in distressed denim sipping craft beers.
What this Brooklyn bar probably didn't need was the iffy gun-crime backstory, not to mention the apparent allusions to cheap malt liquor.
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Congressional investigators probing Russia's meddling in the U.S. election will have their first opportunity this week to hear from someone in U.S. President Donald Trump's innermost circle: son-in-law Jared Kushner.
Kushner, who is a senior adviser to the president and is married to Trump's daughter, Ivanka, will talk to staff on the Senate intelligence committee Monday behind closed doors.
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Israel's Foreign Ministry said on Monday that a security guard at the country's embassy in Jordan opened fire, killing two Jordanians, after being attacked by one of them with a screwdriver.
The incident took place on Sunday evening, at a residential building used by embassy staff.
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AMMAN, Jordan — Three people, including an Israeli man, were wounded by gunfire Sunday in a residential building in the heavily fortified Israeli embassy compound in Jordan’s capital, the kingdom’s Public Security Directorate said.
Before the shooting, Jordanians had entered the apartment building for carpentry work, the statement said.
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A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in the western part of Kabul on Monday, killing at least 24 people and wounding 40, doubling earlier casualty estimates, an Interior Ministry spokesman in the Afghan capital said.
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A suicide attacker detonated a car bomb in the western part of Kabul on Monday, killing at least 35 people, more than doubling earlier casualty estimates, an Interior Ministry spokesman in the Afghan capital said.
Police cordoned off the area, located near the house of the deputy government Chief Executive Mohammad Mohaqiq in a part of the city where many of the mainly Shia Hazara community live, but they said the target of the attack was so far unclear.
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