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Explosions hit two large oil tankers in Sea of Oman: Reports Media reports say two large oil tankers have been hit by explosions in the Sea of Oman.
Irans Al-Alam television network cited local sources in Oman as saying that two successive explosions were heard in the Sea of Oman - also called the Gulf of Oman - on Thursday morning.
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Saudi crown princes sister to go on trial in France in July Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salmans sister will be tried at a criminal court in France for ordering her bodyguard to beat up a workman in the capital, Paris, according to a legal source.
The source, who was not named, told AFP on Wednesday that Princess Hassa bint Salman was to be put on trial... |
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Catalan separatists rebellion trial closes The four-month trial of Catalan separatist leaders accused of rebellion or disobedience for trying to make their region independent from Spain ended on Wednesday.
The 12 defendants have been in the dock in Madrid every week since February, in a case that rattled the Spanish state and laid bare bitter... |
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Trump says US sending 1,000 troops to join the 4,000 already in Poland US President Donald Trump says the country is sending an additional 1,000 American soldiers to Poland to join the 4,000 already there.
Speaking at a joint press conference with visiting Polish President Andrzej Duda Wednesday, Trump made the announcement, further hailing the Warsaw government for... |
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UK parliament rejects move to block no-deal Brexit Members of the British parliament have rejected a key move by the opposition Labour Party meant to block a potential disorderly withdrawal from the European Union.
In a Wednesday session of the House of Commons, lawmakers voted 309 to 298 against Labours measure which sought to seize control of the... |
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Oil prices jump following suspected attacks on two oil tankers in Sea of Oman Crude oil futures have jumped on Thursday following reports of explosions targeting two oil tankers in the Sea of Oman.
Benchmark Brent crude oil rises 4% in trading to over $62 a barrel after the incident, Bloomberg reported.
Reuters, citing four shipping and trade sources, said two tankers —... |
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Explosions hit two large oil tankers in Sea of Oman: Reports Media reports say two large oil tankers have been hit by explosions in the Sea of Oman.
Irans Al-Alam television network cited local sources in Oman as saying that two successive explosions were heard in the Sea of Oman - also called the Gulf of Oman - on Thursday morning.
The sources said the blasts... |
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PM Abe calls Iran significant country, voices Japans readiness to help ease tensions Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe says his country aims to play a role in easing tensions surrounding Iran, as he highlights peace and tranquility in the Middle East are very important for the entire world.
Abe said that stability and peace in the Middle East region would benefit not only the regional... |
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Daesh In Afghanistan Aims To Attack US: McKenzie The Daesh group in Afghanistan is a "very worrisome" threat to the United States, and US counterterrorism efforts have yet to shrink its extremist ambitions, Head of US Central Command Marine Gen. Frank McKenzie said Wednesday, according to Military Times report.
"ISIS (Daesh) in Afghanistan certainly... |
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Putin Hopes Efforts On Afghan Peace Will Product Positive Results Moscow cooperates with many other countries, including the United States, in efforts to resolve the Afghan issue, Russian President Vladimir Putin said in an interview with the Mir broadcaster on Thursday.
"We are certainly concerned about Middle East issues, as well as everything related to Irans... |
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Japans Prime Minister Abe in Tehran on historic visit Japans Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has arrived in Iran on a first visit by a Japanese premier to Tehran in more than 40 years, with a plan to help ease tensions between the Islamic Republic and the United States.
Prime Minister Abe arrived in Tehran on Wednesday morning.
During his two-day visit to... |
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Germany Mediates for Ending Afghan War: MoFA Germany is trying to help the Afghan peace process by providing the ground for the launch of an intra-Afghan dialogue, said Idrees Zaman the Afghan Deputy Foreign Minister for Political Affairs on Wednesday.
According to the Afghan official, Germany has taken the initiative upon the request of the... |
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Taliban Main Obstacle to Peace Process: Abdullah Abdullah Abdullah, the Chief Executive of the country, said on Wednesday that the recent efforts for holding the upcoming elections will not stop the ongoing dialogues for the peace process.
Abdullah is hopeful about the peace process and says that the Afghan people and government are committed to supporting... |
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China lashes out at US for irresponsible comments on Hong Kong China has denounced as "irresponsible and erroneous" the US comments about a proposed amendment to a Hong Kong law that would allow suspects to be sent to mainland China to face trial.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang made the remarks during a press briefing in Beijing on Tuesday and... |
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EU moves closer to disciplinary action over Italys rising debt The European Union has moved closer to the formal opening of disciplinary proceedings against Italy for consistently breaching the 28-member blocs political and economic debt rules, and failure to meet its debt reduction targets.
On Tuesday, representatives of EU governments agreed in the Belgian... |
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Key Taliban Member Among 52 Others Killed In Zabul: Governor The governor of Zabul, Rahmatullah Yarmal, on Wednesday said that at least 53 Taliban militants including a designated deputy governor of the group were killed in an operation by Afghan forces in the province late on Tuesday.
The governor said the operation was carried out in response to a Taliban... |
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Afghan Director Begins Filming New Movie In Iran Afghan filmmaker Ramin Rasuli has started filming his new movie "Dogs Did Not Sleep Last Night" in Iran, Tehran Times said in a report on Tuesday.
The film which is a joint production between Afghanistan and Iran, narrates the story of a remote Afghan village captured by the Taliban, and the exploits... |
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Italy determined to avoid EU debt procedure Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte said Tuesday his government is determined to avoid triggering an EU procedure for excessive debt levels.
The European Commission last week put Italy on notice about its snowballing debt, as well as its deteriorating deficit position, reopening a political battle... |
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US companies sued over Londons deadly Grenfell Tower fire American companies have been sued over the catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire in London in 2017 that left 72 people dead.
A lawsuit, which was lodged in Philadelphia on Tuesday on behalf of injured victims and families of those killed, alleges that defects in products made by some US companies ignited... |
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Turkey condemns US Congress resolution on purchase of Russian S-400 systems Turkey has condemned as “unacceptably threatening” a US House of Representatives resolution that slammed Ankara’s purchase of advanced Russian-built S-400 air defense missile systems and urged sanctions on Washington’s NATO ally over the acquisition of... |
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Collapse of Century: Hows US Hegemony Declining? Over the past few years, there has been a debate at the global research centers and media about the US power decline and the change of the world order from unipolar to multipolar. How serious is this decline? What are its signals? And what outcomes could it bring about?
The American hegemony
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Why is he so low-key? UK PM candidate Johnson bashed for avoiding scrutiny A contest to succeed British Prime Minister Theresa May is heating up as the frontrunner for the post is criticized by rivals for escaping public scrutiny.
Boris Johnson, a former foreign minister under May who resigned last summer, was target of growing criticism on Tuesday when rivals said... |
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EU cannot be blackmailed on Brexit: Germany Germany’s Europe Minister Michael Roth has warned Britain that a new prime minister in the country will not be allowed to pressure the European Union to change the terms of an existing withdrawal deal for the UK.
“The EU and its member states cannot be blackmailed,” Roth said... |
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US pressuring world into ignoring Security Council resolution on Iran: Russia FM Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says the United States’ actions against Iran constitute a blatant attempt to pressure the international community into overlooking a United Nations Security Council resolution in line with Washington’s agenda of “strangling” the Islamic... |
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UKs intelligence service broke laws on data storage, use: Watchdog Britain’s internal secret service MI5 has been criticized for breaching laws on a serious level when it comes to storage and handling of the data gathered from citizens with the purpose of fighting terrorism.
The Investigatory Powers Commissioner said during a hearing in UK’s High... |
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Unknown militants raid Burkina Faso town, kill 19 Unidentified assailants have killed at least 19 people and wounded 13 others in an attack on a town in Burkina Fasos troubled north.
The government said in a statement late on Monday that the attack had taken place around the town of Arbinda on Sunday evening.
Burkinabe armed forces launched a search... |
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Trump threatens Chinas President Xi: Meet me or else! US President Donald Trump has threatened to impose tariffs on another 300 billion dollars’ worth of Chinese goods if President Xi Jinping of China does not meet him at the G20 summit in Japan later this month.
“We’re expected to meet, and if we don’t, that’s fine,... |
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US mulls new sanctions to kill Iran-EU trade vehicle The Trump administration is now weighing sanctions on Iran’s counterpart to the European special-purpose vehicle for humanitarian trade, Bloomberg says.
The financial news provider quoted a senior administration official as saying that the latest measures will target the Special Trade and... |
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North Korea warns US to drop hostile policy North Korean state media have warned that an agreement reached at a 2018 summit between the leaders of North Korea and the United States in Singapore could become “a blank sheet of paper” if Washington did not “withdraw its hostile policy” toward Pyongyang.
“The... |
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Europe must resist US economic terrorism against Iran: President Rouhani Irans President Hassan Rouhani says European countries must resist the United States’ economic terrorism against the Iranian nation and live up to their obligations as per a nuclear deal signed between Tehran and six world powers in 2015.
Rouhani made the remarks in Tehran on Monday afternoon... |
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