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Man who never left India is latest Dubai millionaire

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Man who never left India is latest Dubai millionaire

The IT professional runs a reasonably successful business in Kerala. An Indian who has never left his country has struck a million dollars in Dubai. The 40-year-old from the south Indian state of Kerala decided to try his luck and bought a Dubai Duty Free Millennium Millionaire promotion online. Prabin Thomas struck the million dollars […]

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Italy elects its first black senator: Toni Iwobi of the League

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Italy elects its first black senator: Toni Iwobi of the League

One of Toni Iwobi’s campaign protraits. Photo: Tony Iwobi/Facebook Italy has elected the first black senator in its history, it was announced on Tuesday, and he belongs to the anti-immigration League. Toni Iwobi, of Spirano in Lombardy, announced “with great emotion” on his Facebook page that he had been elected to the senate in Italy’s […]

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Russian transport plane crashes upon landing in Syria, all 39 on board dead

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Russian transport plane crashes upon landing in Syria, all 39 on board dead

© Sergey Pivovarov / Sputnik A Russian military transport airplane has crashed during landing at Khmeimim Airbase in Syria. Six crew members as well as 33 passengers, all of them military personnel, were killed in the crash. According to preliminary information, the incident could have been caused by a technical malfunction, the Russian defense ministry […]

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North Korea open to freezing nuclear weapons tests amid talks

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North Korea open to freezing nuclear weapons tests amid talks

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un agrees to meet South Korea’s president and impose a moratorium on nuclear tests. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has agreed to meet South Korea’s president next month and impose a moratorium on nuclear and missile tests if his country holds talks with the United States, a senior South Korean official said on […]

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Islamophobia is on the rise in Spain

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Islamophobia is on the rise in Spain

Men pray at a mosque in Madrid. Photo: AFP There were 546 reported incidents of Islamophobia in Spain in 2017, according to a report released Friday by the Citizens’ Platform Against Islamophobia (PCI). The Local breaks down the most important information from the annual report here: What types of incidents were reported? The most frequent type of […]

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Woman Hospitalized With Former Russian Spy Skripal Identified as His Daughter

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Woman Hospitalized With Former Russian Spy Skripal Identified as His Daughter

Toby Melville / Reuters A 33-year-old woman discovered next to a former Russian double agent has been identified as his daughter. Sergei Skripal, a 66-year-old former spy and his 33-year-old daughter, Yulia, were found on Sunday unconscious on a bench outside a shopping center in the English city of Salisbury, after exposure to what police […]

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Pentagon says some SDF forces quit anti-ISIS operations to fight Turks

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Pentagon says some SDF forces quit anti-ISIS operations to fight Turks

Kurdish fighters of SDF ride in a truck passing damaged buildings in Raqqa on October 20, 2017. (AFP) US-backed Kurdish fighters in northern Syria are heading to the Turkish-assaulted Kurdish enclave of Afrin, leading to an “operational pause” in their operations against ISIS, the Pentagon said Monday. The Syrian Democratic Alliance, made up mainly of […]

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What the election result tells us about Italy’s north-south divide

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What the election result tells us about Italy’s north-south divide

Five Star Movement leader Luigi Di Maio speaking after the election. Photo: Filippo Monteforte/AFP The Italian election was a rejection of traditional left and right parties in both the north and south of the country — but for different reasons, experts said. The far-right League party conquered the north, worried about the rise in immigration, while the […]

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Kim Jong-un ‘wants closer North-South Korea ties’

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Kim Jong-un ‘wants closer North-South Korea ties’

Kim Jong-un was pictured welcoming delegates to the dinner North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has said he wants to “vigorously advance” closer ties with South Korea, according to state media. The report follows a rare visit to Pyongyang by senior South Korean officials, who had dinner with the normally reclusive leader. They are the first […]

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What’s next for Italy? The post-election scenarios

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What’s next for Italy? The post-election scenarios

Election posters in Rome. Photo: Alberto Pizzoli/AFP Italy’s general election has resulted in a hung parliament in which no single party or coalition commands an overall majority, leaving few options for any new government. The prospect of a grand coalition between Silvio Berlusconi’s Forza Italia (Go Italy) party and the ruling centre-left Democratic Party, envisaged before […]

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