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Trump says Daesh defeated in Syria
Date: 2018-12-19 17:57:26 GMT - USA - International - SN:5 - ID:7722509
US President Donald Trump on Wednesday announced the defeat of Daesh terrorist group in Syria. "We have defeated ISIS in Syria, my only reason for being there during the Trump Presidency," Trump said on his Twitter account. This came after a ....
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40 civilians killed in gunmen attack in Mali
Date: 2018-12-13 19:43:07 GMT - Mali - International - SN:9 - ID:7713901
Armed men on motorbikes killed more than 40 Tuareg civilians this week in northern Mali, where clashes over land and scarce water are common, the BBC reported quoting an official as saying on Thursday. The violence compounds an already dire ....
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May to hold talks with Merkel on Brexit deal
Date: 2018-12-11 09:24:20 GMT - Germany - International - SN:6 - ID:7709339
UK Prime Minister Theresa May will hold crisis Brexit talks with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in a bid to gain reassurances on her exit deal, the BBC reported. The move follows a day of high drama at Westminster which saw the Prime Minister ....
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'Yellow vests' denounce Macron speech as 'charade'
Date: 2018-12-11 08:27:40 GMT - France - International - SN:4 - ID:7709239
Groups of "yellow vest" protesters across France responded scathingly to the "crumbs" offered by President Emmanuel Macron in a speech intended to defuse their revolt, but others acknowledged his efforts, France 24 reported Tuesday. "Nonsense," ....
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Guterres: Human rights are under siege around the world
Date: 2018-12-09 21:53:58 GMT - Egypt - International - SN:9 - ID:7707378
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres said that human rights are under siege around the world. Delivering a message on the occasion of the 70th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Guterres underscored that the ....
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Blast wounds 6 at religious gathering in Pakistan's Karachi
Date: 2018-12-09 18:50:39 GMT - Pakistan - International - SN:5 - ID:7707238
Pakistani police say a blast targeting a religious gathering of an ethnic party has wounded six people in the southern port city of Karachi. The blast took place as hundreds of supporters of a faction of the Muttahida Qaumi Movement were present ....
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France yellow vest protesters set fire on cars in central Paris
Date: 2018-12-08 23:03:22 GMT - France - International - SN:7 - ID:7705737
Hundreds of yellow vest protesters in France on Saturday set on fire a number of cars in central Paris, ABC News reported. An estimated 31,000 people have joined "yellow vest" anti-government protests across France earlier in the day, in which ....
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Spain rescues 33 migrants while crossing the Strait of Gibraltar
Date: 2018-12-08 23:02:34 GMT - Spain - International - SN:6 - ID:7705736
Spanish authorities said they have rescued 33 migrants crossing the Strait of Gibraltar, including a pregnant woman on a small boat and four people paddling two kayaks across the busy shipping lane, ABC News reported. The country's Maritime ....
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Russia: Undeniable evidence of chemical shelling of Aleppo
Date: 2018-12-07 22:27:36 GMT - Russia - International - SN:11 - ID:7704370
The Russian Defense Ministry said in a statement on Friday that remarks made by the US State Department on Aleppo of Syria is an attempt to "whitewash actions of terrorists" in Idlib. The ministry said "the supply schedule of chemical weapons by ....
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17 people killed in two attacks in DR Congo
Date: 2018-12-07 16:35:55 GMT - Democratic Republic of Congo - International - SN:2 - ID:7704160
Seventeen people have been killed in two attacks by the Allied Democratic Forces (ADF) in the troubled Benin region of eastern DR Congo, a local mayor was quoted by Kenya's Daily Nation newspaper as saying on Friday. Twelve civilians died in ....