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Turkey's Erdogan 'not welcome' to campaign in Austria

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is "not welcome" to hold campaign events in Austria ahead of April's referendum on strengthening his powers, the foreign minister in Vienna said Monday. Sebastian Kurz said that Erdogan campaigning over the controversial referendum would "increase...

South Korea's acting president draws opposition fury

Acting South Korean President Hwang Kyo-ahn officially ended hopes Monday of extending the country's presidential scandal investigation beyond the end of its current 70-day term on Feb. 28. Special prosecutors had asked for 30 more days to conclude unfinished business, including a plan to...

Refugees make up bulk of crossings from US to Canada

Most of the hundreds of people streaming over the US border into Canada in recent weeks are asylum-seekers, coming from Syria, Yemen, Turkey or Sudan, according to the United Nations' refugee point man in the country. In an interview, Jean-Nicolas Beuze, the representative in Canada of the...