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17 killed in Philippine military plane crash At least 17 people were killed and 40 injured when a Philippine military aircraft carrying troops crashed after missing the runway in the countrys south, officials said.
92 people, most of them army personnel, were on board the C-130 Hercules transport aircraft when the accident happened as it tried... |
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Vaccine scandal: Thousands rally in Brazil to demand Bolsonaros ouster This image show protesters at a mass rally demanding the impeachment of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro for mishandling the COVID-19 pandemic which has killed 522,000 people in the country, Brasilia, on July 3, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
Thousands have taken to the streets in cities across Brazil, demanding... |
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Syria: US-led coalition claim of contributing to Daesh defeat far cry from reality Foreign ministers of member states of the US-led coalition formed purportedly to fight Daesh pose for a photo on the sidelines of a conference in Rome, Italy, June 28, 2021.
Syria has roundly dismissed recent claims by the US-led military coalition that the Western alliance played a role in efforts... |
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Ethiopia conflict: Rebels gain more ground as govt. declares ceasefire Ambulances arrive with victims injured during fighting at Mekelle General Hospital, in Mekele, Tigray, Ethiopia, on June 24, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
Rebels in Ethiopias conflict-hit Tigray region have reportedly seized control of more territory after retaking the local capital, Mekelle, vowing to drive... |
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Calls growing to cancel Canada Day amid grave discoveries People hug during a vigil in a field where human remains were found in unmarked graves at the site of the former Marieval Indian Residential School on the Cowessess First Nation in Saskatchewan on June 26, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
Canadian indigenous community leaders and rights activists have joined... |
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Russia scrambles fighter jets over Dutch vessel in Black Sea: Interfax A Russian fighter jet flying past the Royal Netherlands Navy frigate HNLMS Eversten in the Black Sea on June 24, 2021. (Photo by Dutch defense ministry)
Russia has reportedly intercepted a Dutch navy ship and prevented the frigate from entering the countrys territorial waters in the strategic Black... |
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Haniyeh, Nasrallah discuss ways to achieve final victory against Israel Ismail Haniyeh (L), head of the Politburo of the Palestinian Hamas resistance movement, meets with Hezbollah Secretary General Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah in Lebanon, June 29, 2021.
Top leaders of the Palestinian and Lebanese resistance movements have exchanged views on the latest Palestinian military... |
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Le Pens far-right party suffers setback in French regional vote French far-right Rassemblement National (RN) partys leader and member of parliament Marine Le Pen speaks to the press at the partys headquarters after the first results in the second round of the French regional elections in Nanterre on June 27, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
The French far right again has... |
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Yemeni forces launch retaliatory missile, drone attacks on Saudi Arabia Smoke billows following a Saudi airstrike in the Yemeni capital, Sanaa, on Nov. 27, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
Yemens army and Popular Committees have launched drone and missile attacks on several military positions in Saudi Arabia in retaliation for the kingdoms aggression on their country.
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US claims staging airstrikes against Iraqi resistance groups along Syria border Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby
The United States claims it has conducted airstrikes against three targets allegedly belonging to Iraqi resistance groups along Iraq and Syrias common border.
Pentagon Press Secretary John Kirby announced the attacks in a statement on Sunday, saying the "precision... |
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Senior NATO officer warns of shocking Chinese military clout amid tensions with Beijing Soldiers of Chinas Peoples Liberation Army (PLA) march during a military parade to commemorate the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the army at the Zhurihe military training base in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, China, July 30, 2017. (Photo by AFP)
A senior NATO officer has raised the alarm... |
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Official: US troops to stay in northeaster Syria to back anti-Damascus SDF In this file picture, US military vehicles patrol along the M4 highway near Tal Tamr, northeastern Syria, on May 20, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
The US says it will continue deployment of troops in energy-rich northeastern Syria and prop up allied Kurdish militants from the so-called Syrian Democratic Forces... |
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Helicopter carrying Colombias President Duque struck by bullets in attack The mark of a projectile impact is seen on a helicopter that Colombian President Ivan Duque was traveling in, after it suffered an attack during an overflight, according to authorities, in Cucuta, Colombia June 25, 2021. (Photo by Reuters)
A helicopter carrying Colombia’s President Ivan Duque... |
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UK, US tempting fate by sending warships to Black Sea, Russia says In this file photo taken on June 5, 2019, HMS Defender prepares to take part in a sail past to honor D-Day veterans on board the Royal British Legions ship MV Boudicca en route to Normandy, in the Solent off the coast of southern England. (By AFP)
Russia has warned the UK and the US against "tempting... |
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Hundreds of bodies found near another former residential school in Canada The file photo shows the Marieval Indian Residential School in Canada.
Hundreds of unmarked graves, many believed to be of children, have been found at the site of another former Church-run residential school in Canada.
The graves are located near the former Marieval Indian Residential School in... |
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Putin blasts NATOs never-ending military build-ups near Russia Russian President Vladimir Putin addresses participants of the Moscow Conference on International Security (MCIS) via video link, at Novo-Ogaryovo state residence, outside Moscow, on June 23, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
Russian President Vladimir Putin has expressed exasperation at NATO for its "never-ending"... |
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Russian troops hold drills as US, NATO warships enter Black Sea The file photo shows NATO ships participating in a military exercise near Setubal, Portugal. (Photo by Reuters)
Russias Black Sea Fleet has launched naval exercises in the Crimean Peninsula, as US and NATO warships conduct joint drills in the strategic Black Sea, ratcheting up tensions in the region.
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Biden agrees with Putin on low point in US-Russia ties During their meeting in Moscow, March 10, 2011, Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin (R) shakes hands with US Vice President Joe Biden. (Reuters photo)
US President Joe Biden has admitted that ties with Russia is at a "low point" during his administration tenure.
Russian President Vladimir Putin... |
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4 killed as Turkey intensifies attacks on PKK targets in Iraqi Kurdistan File photo of Turkish helicopter gunships
Various areas across the northern Iraqi Kurdistan region have witnessed an escalation in Turkeys ongoing strikes against alleged targets belonging to the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) terrorist group.
On Sunday, four people were killed in "a Turkish airstrike... |
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Mysterious fire razes to rubble Rohingya refugees camp in New Delhi Ashes and rubble, there is nothing more left as despair has again taken over Rohingya refugees in New Delhi. A devastating fire has brought down the entire camp to ruins. Around 55 families were residing in the camp, most of the refugees have escaped unharmed but all they had has turned into ashes.... |
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Netanyahu shown the door, US pledges allegiance to new Israeli regime Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks on during a special session of the Knesset, the Israel regimes parliament, to approve and swear-in a new coalition, on June 13, 2021. (Photo by Reuters)
An Israeli political coalition narrowly wins a vote to oust Benjamin Netanyahu as the regimes prime... |
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Gas pipe explosion kills 11 in central Chinese city At least 11 people were killed and over 140 injured in a gas explosion in the Chinese province of Hubei, China Central Television reports.
The explosion occurred on the territory of a residential complex in the city of Shiyan at 6:30 a.m. local time on Sunday (22:30 GMT on Saturday).
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Islamic Jihad urges unity to confront Israeli checkpoints of death Israeli forces and emergency services gather around a womans body following an alleged attack at the Qalandia checkpoint between the occupied West Bank and Jerusalem al-Quds, on June 12, 2021. (Photo by AFP)
The Islamic Jihad Movement has warned Tel Aviv against fanning the flames of tensions after... |
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Beijing says small groups cant rule world as G7 adopts anti-China agenda (L to R) Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, European Council President Charles Michel, US President Joe Biden, Japans Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, British Prime Minister Boris Johnson, Italys Prime Minister Mario Draghi, French President Emmanuel Macron, European Commission President Ursula... |
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Public protests against police brutality grip Tunisia Protesters blocking a street gesture as Tunisian security forces fire tear gas in the Sidi Hassine suburb on the northwestern outskirts of Tunis on June 12, 2021, amid outrage against policing practices following the death of a youth. (Photo by AFP)
Violent protests have erupted in the Tunisian capital... |
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Azerbaijan swaps 15 Armenian prisoners for map of landmines Azerbaijani service members walk during mine lifting in Agdam in the region of Nagorno-Karabakh, November 24, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)
Azerbaijan says it has handed over 15 Armenian prisoners, detained during last years conflict over the disputed Nagorno-Karabakh region, in exchange for a map detailing... |
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Biden declines to hold joint news briefing after meeting Putin US President Joe Biden (Photo by AFP)
US President Joe Biden will not hold a joint press conference with his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin following their upcoming summit in Geneva in efforts to avoid the unfavorable impression his predecessor Donald Trump left after meeting Putin in 2018.
"We... |
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France marches for liberties Against the racist and Islamophobic far right, in defense of public and individual liberties; thats the main slogan of 140 marches that took place all over France organized by more than 100 organizations and associations.
The protesters say there is an urgency to stop the rise of far right militias... |
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N Koreas Kim calls for boosting military power: Report North Korean leader Kim Jong Un attends a plenary meeting of the Workers Party central committee in Pyongyang, North Korea in this photo supplied by North Koreas Central News Agency (KCNA) on February 10, 2021. (Photo by KCNA via Reuters)
North Koreas leader Kim Jong-un has said the countrys military... |
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Washington rattled at deepening ties between Iran, Cuba, and Venezuela? By John Wight
There is arrogance and there is American arrogance, rooted in a wildly misplaced sense of exceptionalism and ownership of a world which in the third decade of the 21st century, as it emerges from Covid, is aching for liberation from a hegemonic empire responsible for an ocean of suffering... |
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