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Cypriot president pledges 2% of GDP on defense spending

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus will earmark 2% of gross domestic product to defense spending in line with other European Union member states as a means to strengthen the east Mediterranean island nation’s foreign policy bargaining power, the new Cypriot president…

What the Red Carpet Used to Be

We are living in an age of red-carpet ubiquity. Lately, the question of who will wear what on which award show step-and-repeat has become nearly as common as the question of who will take home a trophy. (The sixty-year-old Michelle…

UK drops decade-long fraud case against security firm G4S

LONDON — U.K. authorities on Friday dropped fraud charges against three former executives of security firm G4S, saying it's “no longer in the public interest” to continue the decade-old case. The Serious Fraud Office opened an investigation in 2013 into…

Cypriot president pledges 2% of GDP on defense spending

NICOSIA, Cyprus — Cyprus will earmark 2% of gross domestic product to defense spending in line with other European Union member states as a means to strengthen the east Mediterranean island nation’s foreign policy bargaining power, the new Cypriot president…

Senegal’s ex-prime minister in custody after criticism

DAKAR, Senegal — Senegal's former prime minister has been taken into custody after he publicly suggested that the country's president had funded a French politician during a recent visit. Cheikh Haguibou Soumare was detained Thursday but he has not been…