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A 17-year-old Turkish teenager has been found alive underneath the rubble Friday in Turkey, four days after a 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck the country and Syria, killing more than 22,000.  Adnan Muhammed Korkut was able to move just a bit in an apartment building’s collapsed basement until he was rescued Friday …

A EU lawmaker linked to a corruption scandal that rocked the bloc’s Parliament in December was detained for questioning as police conducted further raids, Belgium’s federal prosecutor’s office said Friday. The office said police searched a banking safe in the city of Liege belonging to Belgian lawmaker Marc Tarabella. Offices …

Israel has reportedly taken a preemptive tone this week and warned Iran that it will strike any arms shipment traveling to Syria under the guise of international aid after a catastrophic earthquake hit Turkey and Syria this week.  Rescue workers are still pulling people trapped under rubble as international aid …

Iran nuclear deal standoff Fox News correspondent Amy Kellogg interviews a former State department official and an advisor to Iran’s nuclear negotiating team on the latest news surrounding the JCPOA. Iran sent a stark message to Israel in an arms exhibit Wednesday by displaying a missile that had “death to …

The People’s Republic of China accused the U.S. House of Representatives of “scoring political points” by passing a resolution Thursday condemning the Chinese use of a surveillance aircraft shot down last week. Chinese Ministry of Foreign Affairs spokeswoman Mao Ning addressed the resolution Friday during a press conference. US AND …

JOHANNESBURG – An adoption nightmare, or human trafficking? In Zambia in Southern Africa, eight Croatians have been arrested twice on the same human trafficking charge. The eight are accused of child trafficking in general, and in particular of having forged adoption papers for four children from the Democratic Republic of the …

A shallow earthquake shook Indonesia’s easternmost province of Papua on Thursday, killing four people who were unable to escape when a floating restaurant collapsed into the sea. The U.S. Geological Survey said the magnitude 5.1 earthquake hit residential areas in Jayapura, near Papua’s northern coast and was centered at a …

A Russian plot to overthrow the Moldovan government has been thwarted by Kyiv, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy told European Union leaders Thursday.  While it is unclear if the Kremlin ordered the scheme, Zelenskyy said Russian secret services were the masterminds behind the intercepted plans.  “I have informed [Moldovan President Maia …

Police in the Netherlands say they have found narcotics in a truck Thursday that was part of a convoy carrying aid to victims of the earthquake that rocked Turkey and Syria.  Authorities did not give details of what kind of drugs or the quantity, but said they were hidden among emergency …

Israeli security forces killed a Palestinian who allegedly tried to stab a soldier in the West Bank on Thursday, authorities said, the latest violence in a period of heightened tensions in the occupied territory. The Israeli army said it fired at a suspected Palestinian stabber who lunged toward a group …