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European Parliament elects new president

European Parliament elects new president

  • 2019-07-03

Strasbourg - European parliamentarians elected in May will elect a new speaker on Wednesday after a deal is reached on the distribution of senior posts among leaders of the 28 EU member states. The n...

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126 Lebanese workers returning from Kazakhstan after being attacked

126 Lebanese workers returning from Kazakhstan after being attacked

  • 2019-07-02

126 Lebanese workers from Kazakhstan returned to their country after media reports said they were at risk from riots and attacks by local workers who broke out at their workplace against Arab and fore...

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14 sailors killed in fire in Russian submarine

14 sailors killed in fire in Russian submarine

  • 2019-07-02

Fourteen sailors died in a fire aboard a small Russian submarine designed for research on the marine environment and deep water at a military base in the northern city of Severomorsk, the defense mini...

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China "regrets" that Iran has exceeded the limit of its stockpile of enriched uranium

China "regrets" that Iran has exceeded the limit of its stockpile of enriched uranium

  • 2019-07-02

 China expressed regret over Iran´s decision to overstep its uranium enrichment portfolio under the 2015 nuclear deal, but said the US "maximum pressure" was the "main reason...

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Sixteen people were killed by Israeli shelling of Damascus and Homs

Sixteen people were killed by Israeli shelling of Damascus and Homs

  • 2019-07-01

The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Monday that 10 pro-Syrian forces were killed in the Israeli strikes near Damascus and the countryside of Homs. The Observatory said in a press statemen...

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Tramb is the first US president to set foot in North Korea

Tramb is the first US president to set foot in North Korea

  • 2019-06-30

US President Donald Trump arrived in South Korea on Sunday, just after the end of the Group of Twenty (G20) summit in Japan, and met with the leader of its northern neighbor on the dividing line.&nbsp...

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Huawei crisis after the 80-minute meeting between Trump and Shi

Huawei crisis after the 80-minute meeting between Trump and Shi

  • 2019-06-29

US president Donald Trump and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping have agreed to a truce from their year-long business battle that the cost of the companies billions of dollars, led by Huawei Technolog...

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45 degrees Celsius in France, fires in Spain and deaths from a heat wave in Europe

45 degrees Celsius in France, fires in Spain and deaths from a heat wave in Europe

  • 2019-06-28

 France´s heat exceeded 45 degrees Celsius on Friday, the fifth day of an extraordinary heatwave in Europe that has left four deaths so far, while Catalonia continues to fight a fire that h...

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What are the implications of the deteriorating health of the Tunisian president on the government?

What are the implications of the deteriorating health of the Tunisian president on the government?

  • 2019-06-28

The health situation of President Béji Kaid al-Sibsi, 92, is improving on the day of his transfer to hospital after suffering a stroke and "no constitutional vacuum", the Tunisian pre...

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China will continue to import Iranian oil, official says

China will continue to import Iranian oil, official says

  • 2019-06-28

 China will continue to import Iranian oil permanently sanctions imposed by the United States after it dropped out of an agreement on Tehran´s nuclear program in 2015, a Chinese official sa...

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