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Trump’s embrace of Russia: The evidence on public display already paints a jarring picture

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Trump’s embrace of Russia: The evidence on public display already paints a jarring picture

US President Donald Trump and Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the APECleaders’ summit on November 11, 2017.| AFP | As Robert Mueller accumulates guilty pleas and cooperating witnesses, President Donald Trump stands behind a final redoubt: Nobody has shown he conspired with Russia in 2016. Whether Mueller ultimately alleges such a crime remains unknown. He now has help from […]

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Breaking News: Four skiers die in French Alps avalanche

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Breaking News: Four skiers die in French Alps avalanche

Archive Photo: AFP At least four skiers died in an avalanche in the southern French Alps on Friday, authorities have said. The avalanche occurred at the ski resort of Entraunes, on the edge of the Mercantour National Park in the Alpes-Maritimes department. The local gendarmes said that as well as the four fatalities there was […]

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Eight Turkish soldiers killed in Syria, 13 wounded

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Eight Turkish soldiers killed in Syria, 13 wounded

eight soldiers were killed and 13 more wounded in nourthwst syria.(File photo: Reuters) Turkey suffered heavy losses on Thursday during its offensive against a Kurdish militia in northwest Syria, with the military announcing that eight soldiers were killed and 13 more wounded. The death toll, released by the Turkish military staff in two separate statements, […]

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Trump steel tariffs: Trade wars are good, says Trump

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Trump steel tariffs: Trade wars are good, says Trump

Trump on new tariffs: ‘We haven’t been treated fairly’ US President Donald Trump has said “trade wars are good”, amid controversy over his decision to impose tariffs on steel and aluminium imports. He tweeted that the US was “losing billions of dollars on trade” and would find a trade war “easy to win”. On Thursday […]

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Eastern Ghouta bombardment: 674 Syria civilians killed in 13 days(Aljazeera)

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Eastern Ghouta bombardment: 674 Syria civilians killed in 13 days(Aljazeera)

The Syrian government began bombing Eastern Ghouta, hometo almost400,000 people, on February 18 [AFP] The White Helmets group says 674 civilians killed in past 13 days as Syrian regime continues to pound rebel-held area As many as 674 civilians have been killed in the last 12 days by the continuous air attacks on the Damascus suburb […]

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Trump ridicules lawmakers for fearing NRA, failing to act on guns

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Trump ridicules lawmakers for fearing NRA, failing to act on guns

mStudents rally in solidarity with victims of the Florida high school shooting in Washington, DC, last month [J Scott Applewhite/AP] US president also raises eyebrows by suggesting police should be able to confiscate firearms without a court order. US President Donald Trump has called for immediate and significant changes to the nation’s gun laws while criticising American […]

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Nuclear Weapons and Economic Woes: The Highlights of Putin’s Federal Assembly Address

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Nuclear Weapons and Economic Woes: The Highlights of Putin’s Federal Assembly Address

Kremlin Press Service With presidential elections just weeks away, Vladimir Putin’s annual address to the Federal Assembly on Thursday was widely expected to be a campaign speech, rather than the traditional roadmap for the year ahead. Speaking from Moscow’s Manege exhibition hall, Putin set out Russia’s goals for the next six years and beyond with the help […]

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Egypt’s President Sisi inaugurates first phase of New Alamein City

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Egypt’s President Sisi inaugurates first phase of New Alamein City

Egypt’s President Sisi at inauguration of New Alamein City (Photo: Al-Ahram) Egypt’s President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi inaugurated via video conference on Thursday the first phase of New Alamein City in Marsa Matrouh governorate and other national projects. The first phase of the city includes 5,000 housing units to be available for reservation in April, according to […]

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Aid convoy arrives in Syria’s Afrin

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Aid convoy arrives in Syria’s Afrin

MAn aid convoy carrying humanitarian supplies for 50,000 displaced people has arrived in Afrin in Syria. (File photo: Reuters) An aid convoy carrying humanitarian supplies for 50,000 displaced people has arrived in Afrin in Syria, a spokeswoman for the International Committee of the Red Cross said on Thursday, as Turkey wages an offensive in the […]

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US can’t dictate which terror groups Turkey should fight, Deputy PM Bozdağ says

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US can’t dictate which terror groups Turkey should fight, Deputy PM Bozdağ says

AA Photo Turkey on Thursday accused the U.S. of a double standard in trying to dictate which terrorist groups can be fought or not. Speaking to reporters in Ankara, Deputy Prime Minister and government spokesman Bekir Bozdağ said Turkey is fighting Daesh terrorists in Syria like the U.S. “Turkey is also focusing on Daesh. We […]

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