Venezuela seizes GM plant as crisis escalates
General Motors halted operations in Venezuela, calling the move “illegal.”
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Paris cop dead, gunman killed in attack along Champs-Elysees
At least one other police officer reported injured in possible terror attack.
Russia denies gay men persecuted in Chechnya as rights groups predicated
For weeks, LGBT rights groups have sounded alarms that gay men are being persecuted in the Russian republic of Chechnya, but they predicted that a formal government investigation into their allegations of detention and torture would find no supporting evidence.
Do Chinese steel imports threaten national security? Trump wants to find out
Trump is launching an investigation into steel imports, in a move aimed at China’s growing dominance in steel production.
Mattis steers away from body counts as measure of battlefield effectiveness
TEL AVIV — The specter of body counts still haunts the U.S. military more than 50 years after they became a staple of the 5 o’clock Follies in the Vietnam War.
Russian court bans Jehovah’s Witnesses as extremist group
Supreme court orders the state to seize the property of the 175,000-member group.
IMF chief calls trade clampdowns ‘self-inflicting wounds’
Christine Lagarde called trade “one of the pillars of prosperity” and discouraged protectionist policies.