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France, the United Kingdom and Germany have activated a sanction mechanism in the nuclear deal with Iran. That brings the end of the 2015 agreement a step closer, although the three countries say they are not after it. After the US…
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Libyan warlord Khalifa Haftar has requested an extension of the ceasefire agreement with the UN-recognized Libyan government. Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says that no deal has been reached as a result. The peace talks…
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Two American soldiers were killed on Saturday by a roadside bomb in southern Afghanistan. Two others were injured in the attack on a US Army vehicle near Kandahar. That has been publicised by a spokesperson for the NATO mission in…
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A security firm from Tel Aviv, Israel, was offered two jewels through a hidden side of the internet that was stolen at the end of November from the Grünes Gewölbe museum in the German city of Dresden, in Saxony. It was there that…
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Turkey is committed to reducing tensions between Iran and the United States. Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu has called with his colleagues in Washington and Tehran. "We will endure working with other countries over the coming…
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Thousands of Iraqis scanned "death to America" on Saturday at the funeral of Iranian General Qassem Soleimani and Abou Mehdi al-Mouhandis, his chief lieutenant in Iraq, who died in an American attack. Among other things, a…
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The Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg celebrated her seventeenth birthday on Friday not with cake, but with an hour-long protest at the parliament in Stockholm. "I'm not the kind of person who celebrates birthdays," the…
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A Cypriot court ruled Monday that a British woman lied about a group rape six months ago by Israeli youth. The woman, then 19 years old, claimed that twelve Israeli teenagers had sexually abused her. The case, before the district…
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China denies that it has secretly sentenced to death the Uighur academic Tashpolat Tiyip. Human rights organisation Amnesty International already suspected a "secret and unjust conviction" in September. The United Nations,…
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The stock market in Japan is closed somewhat lower on Wednesday. The trading session was tranquil due to the holidays. Many international financial markets are closed for Christmas. The Nikkei index finished 0.2 percent in the…
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