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US sending mixed signals on Venezuela military action American officials and military commanders are sending mixed messages about a possible US military intervention in Venezuela as the ongoing turmoil in the Latin American country approaches a critical stage following the recent military coup attempt by the opposition.
Venezuelan army forces loyal... |
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Police clash with protesters on May Day march in French capital French police have fired tear gas to disperse protesters who took to the streets of the capital Paris to mark May Day rallies and protest against President Emmanuel Macrons policies.
Tens of thousands of protesters, including labor unionists, "yellow vest" anti-government demonstrators and... |
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UK court gives Assange 50-week jail term for breaching bail A court in Britain has handed down a 50-week jail sentence to Australian whistleblower and press freedom activist Julian Assange, saying he disrespected the UK judicial system and escaped his bail conditions by taking refuge in the Ecuadorian embassy for almost seven years.
The Southwark Crown... |
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Iran: US power doesnt match its bluster Iranian President Hassan Rouhani says the United States government is not as long on actual power as it is on threatening language.
President Rouhani said during an event in the western province of Kermanshah on Wednesday that US officials’ threatening rhetoric against Iran did not match... |
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Daesh remains potent threat worldwide despite reduced capabilities, Iraqi PM warns Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has warned that even though the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group has been militarily weakened, it has not been defeated and remains a potent threat around the world.
“Daesh is not just a small organization, its widespread and will try to put confidence... |
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Zarif: US unilateralism existential threat to entire world Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif says American unilateralism poses an “existential threat” to the whole world.
Addressing the 16th ministerial meeting of the Asia Cooperation Dialog (ACD) in the Qatari capital, Doha, on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Zarif said all nations... |
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Rouhani: Iran to Bring US to Its Knees The US plot to push Irans oil exports down to zero will never be realized, Iranian President Hassan Rouhani underscored, saying the Iranian nation will "bring America to its knees."
In a speech at a Tuesday event held in Tehran to commemorate Iranian workers, Rouhani said Iran will continue to export... |
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F-35 jet program doomed to failure if Turkey excluded, Erdogan says Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has criticized the United States for threatening to stall the delivery of F-35 fighter jets to his country over the purchase of Russian-built advanced S-400 air defense missile systems, complaining that Ankara is being subjected to “an imposition”... |
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Venezuelan govt. confronting small group of coup-seeking military traitors: Minister Venezuela’s Information Minister Jorge Rodriguez says the government is confronting a small group of “military traitors” that are seeking to promote a coup against President Nicolas Maduro.
“We are currently facing and deactivating a small group of treacherous military personnel... |
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President Rouhani signs off on US CENTOM terrorist designation law President Hassan Rouhani has signed off on the law recently approved by Majlis (the Iranian Parliament), which designated the American forces based in West Asia — known as the United States Central Command (CENTCOM) — as a terrorist organization.
The chief executive put his signature... |
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UK may defy US warnings on Huawei cooperation: UN envoy UK Ambassador to the United Nations Karen Pierce says her country may continue cooperation with Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei despite security warnings by the United States.
Speaking at Bloomberg’s headquarters in New York on Monday, Pierce said while London understood Washington’s... |
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Video purportedly shows Daesh ringleader after 5 years The Takfiri terror group of Daesh has released a propaganda video purporting to show its ringleader Ibrahim al-Samarrai, aka Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi, for the first time in five years.
The group released the 18-minute footage via one of its media networks on Monday allegedly showing him addressing... |
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Trump lashes out at Democratic Party, presidential opponents at Wisconsin rally US President Donald Trump has used a massive rally in the Midwestern state of Wisconsin to brag about a strong US economy and lash out at his Democratic presidential opponents who have pledged to prevent his re-election next year.
Trump claimed in the Green Bay rally on Saturday night that... |
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China says UK should resist pressures in Huawei case China’s ambassador to the UK has urged London to observe its national interests and resist external pressure while dealing with a case related to the involvement of Chinese telecommunication company Huawei in Britain’s future internet network.
Liu Xiaoming said on Sunday that Beijing... |
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France seeks source of damaging leak on Yemen war French authorities have been searching for a government employee who they believe has leaked damaging information about France’s role in the Saudi-led war on Yemen to the media, a report says.
In mid-April, the new investigative media outlet Disclose published a report that contained a... |
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US grants exemptions to new sanctions on Irans elite military force The United States has announced exemptions to new sanctions imposed on Iran’s Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), easing foreign dealings with the elite military force, which Washington blacklisted earlier this month.
Under the waivers outlined by US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo in... |
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World Slams Saudi Regime after Beheadings The Saudi regime has been condemned across the world after latest mass execution of its nationals.
On Tuesday, the Saudi Interior Ministry announced that it had executed 37 citizens for their alleged “adoption of extremist, terrorist ideology and forming terrorist cells to corrupt and disturb... |
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North Koreas Kim arrives in Russia for summit with Putin North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has arrived in Russia’s Far East for a first summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Governor of Primorsky Region Oleg Kozhemyako officially welcomed Kim at the railway station in the Russian city of Vladivostok on Wednesday.
Putin and Kim are scheduled... |
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Ayatollah Khamenei: Iran to Export Oil At Will Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei said the US attempts to block the export of Iranian oil will get nowhere as Tehran will be exporting any amount of crude it needs and wants.
In an address to a gathering of Iranian workers in Tehran on the occasion of the Labor Week, Ayatollah... |
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Saudi Arabia Puts 37 Nationals to Death in Shocking Execution Saudi Arabias interior ministry said it executed 37 people, mostly Shiites, in connection with "terrorism" crimes, a report said.
"The death penalty was implemented... on a number of culprits for adopting extremist terrorist ideologies and forming terrorist cells to corrupt and disrupt security as... |
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Who is new IRGC commander General Salami? Hossein Salami, appointed as the new commander of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC), was one of the key military commanders during the Iraqi war on Iran in the 1980s.
He was born in the city of Golpayegan in Irans central province of Isfahan in 1960.
In 1978, he enrolled in the mechanical... |
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Iran, Pakistan to form joint anti-terror force: Rouhani Iran and Pakistan have agreed to form a joint force to eliminate terrorist groups as Prime Minister Imran Khan began his first visit to Tehran with a pledge not to join any coalition against the Islamic Republic.
Rouhani announced the agreement on Monday after... |
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Tear gas canisters fly, but Yellow Vesters wont give up The 23rd straight weekend of the so-called Yellow Vest protests in Paris.
Police have clashed with the demonstrators who continue to take to the streets of the French capital.
On Saturday, law enforcement officers fired tear gas and stun grenades at protesters that had set fire to trash cans and... |
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EU, Canada vow to fight new US sanctions on Cuba The European Union and Canada have warned of reprisals after the United States for the first time allowed lawsuits against foreign companies operating in Cuba, including EU and Canadian firms.
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo announced on Wednesday that Washington will end routine... |
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Trumps so-called peace plan for Palestine dead on arrival US President Donald Trump’s so-called “peace plan” has been dismissed by Palestinian authorities before its unveiling at the end of the holy month of Ramadan.
US President Donald Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner said Wednesday that the plan would be... |
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Democratic small donors back Muslim lawmaker amid 9/11 fight with Trump Muslim American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar is gaining more support among Democratic small donors in the wake of her 9/11 fight with US President Donald Trump.
The Minnesota Democratic lawmaker in the US House of Representatives, who has been at the center of a controversy over her fight against... |
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Irans Zarif, Turkeys Erdogan slam US sanctions, IRGC blacklisting as they urge enhanced ties Tehran and Ankara have voiced opposition to the US sanctions against Iran as well as Washington’s terror blacklisting of the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps while reaffirming the need to bolster bilateral ties.
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Wednesday met with... |
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UK PM May faces Tory grassroots action to step down The grassroots members of Britain’s ruling Conservative Party are planning to campaign against Prime Minster Theresa May and force her to step down amid a failure to deliver on results of a 2016 referendum on leaving the European Union.
Reports in the British media, including one in the... |
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Climate-change protesters vow to disrupt London underground Environmental activists in the UK vowed to disrupt London underground train services in a third day of action on Wednesday in a bid to force the British government to take more radical measures to avert what they cast as an imminent global climate cataclysm.
Climate group Extinction Rebellion... |
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Trump vetoes resolution on ending US involvement in Yemen war US President Donald Trump has vetoed a congressional resolution to end American support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen, which has so far claimed thousands of innocent lives and left the impoverished nation struggling with the biggest humanitarian crisis in the world.
Trump on Tuesday vetoed... |
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