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Russian forces block US convoy in northeast Syria as tensions rise This picture taken on March 9, 2020 in the city of Qamishli in Syrias northeastern Hasakah province, shows Russian military vehicles driving in a convoy from the town of Tal Tamr to Qamishli airport. (Photo by AFP)
Russian military police units in Syrias northeastern province of Hasakah have reportedly... |
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Business community calling on government to prepare for end of lockdown The gulf between the business community and the government over the management of the coronavirus crisis is widening by the day
With the deadline for reviewing the coronavirus lockdown fast approaching, the government is coming under increasing pressure from the business community to significantly ease... |
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Foreign direct investment to Iran down at $854 mln in year ending March: Report Iran says foreign direct investment shrank in year ending March by 22.5 percent at $854 million.
Foreign direct investment (FDI) to Iran declined over the past calendar year to stand at $854 million, says a new report.
Figures published on Sunday by the semi-official ISNA news agency showed that FDI... |
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Michael Gove continues anti-EU offensive in Northern Ireland Michael Gove is trying to play a central role in the British governments drive to sabotage the Irish Unity movement
Only days after he categorically vetoed a European Union (EU) request for a "mini embassy" in Belfast, Cabinet Office minister, Michael Gove, has tried to press home his advantage by... |
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235 New COVID-19 Cases Confirmed in Afghanistan The Ministry of Public Health spokesman Wahidullah Mayar said on Sunday that in the past 24 hours, 235 positive cases have been recorded across the country, and the country total is 2,704.
The 235 new cases were reported in Kabul(65), Kandahar (54), Herat (19), Panjshir (14), Takhar (13), Nangarhar... |
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Coronavirus update: Global cases pass 3.4mn, curve flattening in some countries Workers are seen on a production line manufacturing masks at a factory in Shanghai, China, January 31, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)
Worldwide, over 3,421,834 people have now been infected with the new coronavirus, which causes the respiratory disease COVID-19.
The pandemic has also killed more than 243,524... |
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May the 3rd World Press Freedom Day May the 3rd is celebrated in many countries around the world as the World Press Freedom Day.
Journalists and pro-media organizations, however, say freedom of expression in Afghanistan is still a problem.
That is to say, the government and non-government agencies do not make information decently available... |
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Afghan Govt Releases 100 Taliban Detainees in Kabul: Source At least 100 Taliban detainees were released on Saturday night from Pul-e-Charkhi Prison in Kabul, a source said.
Based on a presidential decree, at least 100 Taliban prisoners were expected to be released daily in accordance with the US-Taliban agreement signed in late February that called for a... |
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Afghan Peace Process Must Include Press Freedom: UN The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan (UNAMA) in a statement released on Sunday for World Press Freedom Day said that "Nothing should be allowed to threaten the critical advances in press freedoms in Afghanistan"
"Is a time to reflect on the enormous value free media contributes to... |
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Brazils Supreme Court blocks President Bolsonaros move to expel Venezuelan diplomats Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro gestures during an official event at Planalto Palace in Brasilia, on April 17, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
A Supreme Court judge in Brazil has suspended an order issued by the government of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to expel Venezuelan diplomats over the deterioration... |
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Mossad behind German blacklisting of Hezbollah: Israeli TV This file photo shows members of the Lebanese resistance movement Hezbollah marching in a ceremony.
Israels Mossad spy agency has reportedly been behind Germanys recent decision to blacklist Lebanons resistance movement Hezbollah.
Berlin on Thursday designated Hezbollah as a "terrorist organization,"... |
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Saudi Arabia mulling tight measures to curb coronavirus impact on economy Saudi women, wearing protective face masks, walk into the Tiba gold market in the capital Riyadh on April 30, 2020, after the partial lifting of the curfew. (Photo by AFP)
Saudi Arabia is planning to adopt what it calls strict measures in an effort to prevent the coronavirus pandemic from further... |
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Iran to reopen mosques in low-risk areas from Monday A man disinfects the shrine of Hazrat Masoumeh against the coronavirus in the holy city of Qom, February 25, 2020.
Irans President Hassan Rouhani says mosques will reopen in 132 regions designated as white under a color-coded system after being consistently free of the new coronavirus.
Irans Health... |
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Coronavirus taking heavy toll on US prison population A prison cell block at the El Reno federal correctional institution in El Reno, Oklahoma. (Photo by AFP)
The prison population in the United States, the largest in the world, is being badly affected by the coronavirus pandemic even as officials are saying the disease has plateaued.
More than 80 percent... |
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Thousands protest Netanyahu-Gantz alliance deal ahead of trial Israelis mainly dressed in black and keeping a safe distance amid the coronavirus pandemic take part in a demonstration in Tel Avivs Rabin Square on May 2, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
Thousands in Tel Aviv have protested a coalition deal between prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his rival Benny Gantz,... |
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Inter-Korean tensions: Cross-border fire exchanged a day after Kims reemergence A South Korean soldier stands guard near the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas in Paju, South Korea, August 10, 2017. (Photo by Reuters)
North and South Korea have exchanged gunfire on the border in a new wave of tensions that broke out shortly after North Korean leader Kim Jong-un showed... |
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US, Saudi Arabia trying to revive Daesh in Iraq: Badr organization In this January 25, 2018 photo, US troops coordinate launching airstrikes and artillery from a small complex in the town of Qaim, Iraq. (Photo by AP)
Iraqs Badr organization, which is part of the countrys Popular Mobilization Forces or Hashd al-Shaabi, says the US and Saudi Arabia are seeking to... |
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Saudi jets hit convoy of food, medicine in Yemen amid coronavirus A Yemeni man wearing a scarf over his face as a protective measure against the novel coronavirus, holds an umbrella to shield himself from sunlight, as he walks in the old city market of the capital Sanaa, on April 30, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
This is the aftermath of the latest Saudi airstrikes in al-Bayda... |
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US aviation sector cuts more jobs amid travel meltdown A worker walks past a Boeing 737 MAX jet at a Boeing airplane manufacturing plant Wednesday, April 29, 2020, in Renton, Washington. (AP photo)
The ongoing US travel crisis is causing thousands of job cuts as the aviation sector waits for passengers to return to the skies but braces for years of lower... |
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Chinas state news agency ridicules slow US response to outbreak in Lego-like animation Chinese and US national flags flutter at the entrance of a company office building in Beijing on January 19, 2020. (Photo by AFP)
Chinas official news agency has published a short animation that mocks the US response to the new coronavirus pandemic as the two countries remain locked in a dispute over... |
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US missed chances to slow coronavirus spread: Senior CDC official People in Hazmat suits transport a body on a stretcher outside a funeral home in Brooklyn, New York on April 30, 2020.(Photo by AFP)
A senior US health official says the United States missed chances to slow the spread of the coronavirus, noting the country "did not recognize" the scale of the pandemic... |
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Trump tells Netanyahu not to cherry-pick deal of century US President Donald Trump (R) shakes hands with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu during a joint news conference to announce a new Middle East plan in the East Room of the White House in Washington, Jan. 28, 2020. (Photo by Reuters)
US President Donald Trump has reportedly told Israeli prime minister Benjamin... |
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Irans warning: Nuclear deal will die forever if arms ban extended Irans Zolfaghar short-range missile is displayed during a military parade in Tehran.
Irans top security official has warned that the 2015 nuclear deal will "die forever" if Security Council Resolution 2231 that endorsed the accord is circumvented and a UN arms ban on Tehran is renewed.
In a post... |
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Kieran Trippier charged with breaching FA betting rules Atletico Madrids English defender Kieran Trippier attends a training session at Anfield stadium in Liverpool, north west England on FMarch 10, 2020, on the eve of their UEFA Champions League last 16 second leg football match against Liverpool. (Photo by AFP)
England international Kieran Trippier has... |
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US deploys 4 B-1 bombers, 200 troops to Guam for China deterrence File photo of B-1B Lancers from the 9th Bomb Squadron taxing before departure on a Bomber Task Force deployment at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas.
The US military has deployed four B-1B heavy bombers and hundreds of troops to its western pacific territory of Guam to carry out "deterrence missions" aimed... |
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Too risky to come home, crew of clean US warship in coronavirus limbo The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) transits the Pacific Ocean while conducting a tailored ships training availability off the coast of Southern California on April 30, 2017. (file photo)
On any given day, the US aircraft carrier Harry S. Truman can be found off the Atlantic coast... |
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Trump may rehire sacked ex-national security adviser Michael Flynn In this AFP file photo taken on December 21, 2016 US President-elect Donald Trump (L) stands with Trump National Security Adviser Lt. General Michael Flynn (R) at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida.
US President Donald Trump has reportedly asserted that he would consider hiring back his fired former... |
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European Road Cycling Championships postponed by year French rider Benoit Cosnefroy competes during the fourth stage of the 50th edition of the Etoile de Besseges cycling race, on February 8, 2020 in Mont Bouquet, southern France. (Photo by AFP)
The 2020 European Road Cycling Championships in Italy have been postponed by a year because of the coronavirus... |
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US using Daesh attacks as pretext to extend its Iraq presence: Asaib chief An Iraqi soldier stands guard in front of the shuttered 17 Ramadan mosque in the capital Baghdad on April 24, 2020, during the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, amid the novel coronavirus pandemic crisis. (AFP photo)
A senior commander of Iraqs Popular Mobilization Units says the recent... |
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Were modern slaves: US meat plant workers emerge in frontline of covid-19 war at Tysons Camilla, Georgia poultry processing plant. (Photo by AP)
News of the first covid-19 death at the Tyson Foods poultry plant in Camilla, south-west Georgia, spread slowly.
"It was like they were keeping a secret," said Tara Williams, a 47-year-old worker at the plant, as she described her... |
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