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Trump says Iranian strike caused no American or Iraqi deaths
Date: 2020-01-08 23:41:16 GMT - USA - International - SN:4 - ID:8261900
No Americans were killed or wounded when Iranian forces launched more than a dozen ballistic missiles against two military bases in Iraq early Wednesday, US President Donald Trump said in an address to the nation from the White House. The ....
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Trump says US does not seek war, regime change in Iran
Date: 2020-01-03 23:00:29 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:8254886
US President Donald Trump said Friday his country does not seek "regime change" in Iran, less than a day after the US launched an airstrike that killed the country's top general, Qasem Soleimani, CNBC reported. But the US is "ready and prepared ....
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US deploys 3,500 more troops to Middle East
Date: 2020-01-03 22:57:37 GMT - USA - International - SN:3 - ID:8254884
The Pentagon is deploying roughly 3,500 more troops to the Middle East in response to rising tensions in the region with Iran and one day after a US airstrike killed a top Iranian military commander. The soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division ....
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Senior US official: Soleimani planned to attack US facilities in various countries
Date: 2020-01-03 22:55:48 GMT - USA - International - SN:2 - ID:8254882
Head of Iran's elite Quds Force Qassem Soleimani, killed in a US strike in Iraq on Friday, was planning an imminent attack on US facilities and workers in Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and other countries, a senior US official on Iran said. Brian Hook, ....
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Trump warns Erdogan against "foreign interference" in Libya
Date: 2020-01-02 23:41:44 GMT - USA - International - SN:6 - ID:8253756
US President Donald Trump on Thursday warned his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan against "foreign interference” in Libya. Trump spoke with Erdogan about the conflict in Libya and fighting in Syria’s Idlib province, The Hill ....
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Guinea-Bissau's Embalo wins presidential run-off
Date: 2020-01-01 23:06:10 GMT - Guinea-Bissau - International - SN:3 - ID:8252377
Guinea-Bissau's presidential candidate Umaro Cissoko Embalo won on Wednesday the country's presidential run-off with 53.55 % of the vote. His rival, Domingos Simoes Pereira, said he will contest the result with the Supreme Court, France 24 ....
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Hong Kong police, protesters clash in New Year's Day rally
Date: 2020-01-01 23:05:32 GMT - Hong Kong - International - SN:2 - ID:8252376
A police-approved march attended by tens of thousands in Hong Kong on New Year's Day escalated into violence with police firing several rounds of tear gas to disperse anti-government protests in the semi-autonomous city, Euro News reported. Hong ....
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US astronaut sets women's record for longest space mission
Date: 2019-12-31 06:45:18 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:8250141
NASA astronaut Christina Koch on Saturday set a new record for a woman’s longest time in space, The Hill reported Koch has been in space for 289 days and is expected to spend 328 consecutive days in orbit before she returns to Earth. She told ....
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2 Dead in shooting at Texas church
Date: 2019-12-30 00:29:03 GMT - USA - International - SN:8 - ID:8248814
A shooting at a church in Texas left at least two people dead and one person critically wounded, the US authorities said, the New York Times reported Sunday. An elder at the church, West Freeway Church of Christ in White Settlement, Texas, near ....
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Nearly 50 suspected migrants rescued from British Canal
Date: 2019-12-27 00:09:18 GMT - United Kingdom - International - SN:7 - ID:8245547
Nearly 50 suspected migrants have been rescued by UK Border Force and Coastguard officials, the UK Home Office has confirmed on Thursday. It comes after a coordinated search and rescue was carried out into a number of incidents off Kent, in a ....
