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Germany’s top soldier says authorities are contemplating allowing the country’s military to recruit citizens of other European Union countries in some areas, including as doctors and information technology specialists. After dropping military conscription for young adults, the German armed forces, or

Saudi Arabia’s King Salman ordered Thursday a large-scale government reshuffle replacing Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir with former longtime Finance Minister Ibrahim al-Assaf. A royal decree called for the restructuring of the Political and Security Affairs Council — under the chairmanship of

The United States and the United Nations on Thursday raised concerns over the looming general election in Bangladesh as the opposition said hundreds more activists had been arrested and attacked. The South Asian nation’s Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina used the last

More Americans blame President Donald Trump than congressional Democrats for the partial U.S. government shutdown, a Reuters/Ipsos poll released on Thursday found, as lawmakers returned to Washington with no quick end to the shutdown in sight. Forty-seven percent of adults hold

Japan announced Wednesday it is leaving the International Whaling Commission to resume hunting the animals for commercial use but said it will no longer go to the Antarctic for its much-criticized annual killings of hundreds of whales. Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide