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The Clause Keeping Europe's Border Queues Down Expires on September 6

BRUSSELS, Aug. 29 -- For most of this summer, the thing standing between a Schengen arrivals hall and a four-hour queue has been a clause. Regulation (EU) 2025/1534 lets a border post stop capturing f... Read More


Lavrov Called Brazil. The Readout Is the Entire Content.

MOSCOW, Aug. 29 -- The statement runs to two sentences and manages to say nothing that could be checked. Sergey Lavrov spoke by telephone with Mauro Vieira, Brazil's foreign minister, the Russian for... Read More


Kremlin Aide Calls Upcoming SCO Summit Center of Emerging Multipolar World

BISHKEK, Aug. 29 -- The upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit in Bishkek is "a center of the emerging multipolar world," Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov said Friday, framing Russia's participati... Read More


Nepal Braces for Second Flood as Barrier Lake at China Border Begins to Overflow

KATHMANDU, Aug. 29 -- Rescue workers searching for more than 1,500 people still missing across Nepal's shattered northern valleys confronted a new emergency Friday: the debris lake that formed at the ... Read More


Trump Signs an Order Creating a Space Academy. Almost Everything Else Is Undecided.

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- HOUSTON - The United States has had a Space Force since 2019 and still has nowhere of its own to train the people who join it. On Friday, at NASA's Johnson Space Center, Presiden... Read More


Armenian Authorities Continue to Undermine Cooperation With Russia, Moscow Says

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Russia's Foreign Ministry accused the Armenian government on Friday of continuing to issue statements that damage bilateral relations between Yerevan and Moscow, singling out rem... Read More


Russia to Chair SCO in 2027-2028, Kremlin Aide Says Ahead of Bishkek Summit

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- Russia will assume the chairmanship of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization for the 2027-2028 cycle, Kremlin aide Yury Ushakov told Sputnik on Friday, as the Bishkek summit appr... Read More


German Cabinet Rejects Reports About Berlin's Plans to Finance UK Nuclear Weapons Program

Steffen Meyer, Aug. 29 -- The German government denied on Friday that Berlin was engaged in negotiations to help finance Britain's Trident nuclear weapons program, pushing back against a newspaper rep... Read More


Sunderland Drew AC Milan at the San Siro. Their Last European Trip Was 1973.

New Delhi, Aug. 29 -- NYON - Sunderland have not played European football since 1973. On Friday a draw in Switzerland sent them to the San Siro. That is the tie of the round, and it is not close. AC ... Read More


US Energy Companies Close to Sealing Deals to Invest in Venezuelan Oil Industry

CARACAS, Aug. 29 -- Multiple US energy companies are approaching the final stages of investment negotiations with Venezuela's government over development of the South American country's vast oil reser... Read More