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Putin says grandfather cooked for Stalin and Lenin

MOSCOW: Vladimir Putin's paternal grandfather worked as a cook for both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the president said in a film posted on the internet Sunday. In the two-hour documentary, called Putin, the president said Spiridon Putin was a valued member of Stalin's staff. The...

Colombia's former guerrillas face first electoral test

BOGOTA (AP)- Colombia's former leftist guerrillas face their first electoral test as a political party Sunday in congressional voting also seen as a measure of the strength of the country's factions two months before presidential elections. Analysts see the balloting for the Senate and...

Japan tsunami, nuclear tragedy remembered seven years on

TOKYO (AFP)-  Prime Minister Shinzo Abe led a sombre ceremony Sunday as Japan marked the seventh anniversary of a deadly earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster that devastated its northeastern coast and left around 18,500 people dead or missing. The magnitude 9.0 quake - which...

France: Le Pen set to field new name for far-right party

PARIS: French far-right leader Marine Le Pen is set to propose a name change for the National Front, part of a makeover designed to make the anti-immigration party relevant again after she was defeated by Emmanuel Macron in the presidential race. Le Pen is expected to make the proposal...