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The road under construction (Reuters photo)
The road under construction (Reuters photo)

Chinese ‘highway to nowhere’ haunts Montenegro

PODGORICA, (Reuters) – Perched atop massive cement pillars that tower above Montene-gro’s picturesque Moraca river canyon, scores of Chinese workers are building a state-of-the-art highway through some of the roughest terrain in southern Europe.

From left: Pyotr Verzilov, Veronika Nikulshina, Olga Pakhtusova and Olga Kurachyova

World Cup Pussy Riot pitch intruders jailed for 15 days

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – A Moscow court yesterday handed down 15-day jail sentences on four members of the Pussy Riot protest group who interrupted Sunday’s World Cup final between France and Croatia when they ran onto the pitch wearing fake police uniforms.

World’s oldest bread found at prehistoric site in Jordan

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Charred remains of a flatbread baked about 14,500 years ago in a stone fireplace at a site in northeastern Jordan have given researchers a delectable surprise: people began making bread, a vital staple food, millennia before they developed agriculture.

Donald Trump

Trump plans to run again in 2020

LONDON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said in an interview that he intends to run for re-election in the 2020 election, The Mail on Sunday newspaper reported.

Cuba to recognize private property in new constitution

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba will officially recognize private property, something it has long rejected as a vestige of capitalism, under a new constitution that also creates the position of prime minister alongside the president, state media reported on Saturday.

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