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BOSTON — She stood before Democratic activists Wednesday morning and minced no words. “This is a tribal and parochial place, and this hasn’t always been my home,” Ayanna Pressley said, explaining some of the hurdles she...

Jack Dorsey, Twitter’s chief executive, is testifying before the House Energy and Commerce Committee on the moderation of online content. The hearing has taken a more political tone than a Senate hearing earlier in the day,...

WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans and Democrats credited Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday for efforts they have taken to rid their sites offoreign meddling, in a stark shift from the harsh criticism that they have leveled at...

The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, MICT has agreed to remove three judges from the appellate procedure in the case of the former Bosnian Serb Army commander Ratko Mladic. The Mechanism for International Criminal Tribunals, MICT,...

A roundtable organised on Wednesday in Kosovo by BIRN Kosovo’s show “Jeta ne Kosove” heard local politicians warn that a territorial swap between Serbia and Kosovo could worsen regional instability. Albin Kurti, leader of the opposition...

German officials and members of Romania’s small ethnic German community have protested strongly after several ruling Social Democrat officials called the country’s ethnic German president ‘a Nazi’. Romania’s ruling Social Democrat Party have come under heavy...

Pressing their demands for bigger benefits, former Bosnian Army and Croatian Defence Council troops blocked the main street in Sarajevo and scuffled with the police. War veterans from the Bosnian Army and Croatian Defence Council protested...

WASHINGTON — President Trump on Monday attacked Jeff Sessions, his attorney general, over the Justice Department’s decision to bring criminal charges against two Republican congressmen ahead of the midterm elections, linking the department’s actions with his...

HOUSTON — Hurricane Harvey ruined the little house on Lufkin Street. And ruined it remains, one year later. Vertical wooden beams for walls. Hard concrete for floors. Lawn mowers where furniture used to be. Holes where...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — The prosperity is apparent on the way into town: the 21-floor casino resort and spa on one side of the interstate, and on the other a freshly built retail quarter of boutiques,...