A furious Iran warned on Tuesday that America’s move to impose hard-hitting sanctions against its Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei marks a “permanent closure” of diplomacy between Tehran and Washington.
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Dead trees on forsaken farmlands are the ugly, scary face of climate change.
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That automation runs on an army of underpaid, sub-contracted workers.
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The "stunt" aimed at highlighting the government's environmental apathy.
The number of people killed in a brutal offensive launched by the Sudanese military in the capital Khartoum on Monday has crossed 60 according to the figures shared by an opposition doctors’ group.
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Sudan’s Transitional Military Council (TMC) has announced that it is scrapping all agreements with the principal opposition coalition amid mounting condemnation over its brutal crackdown on protesters.
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Cyclone Idai, the worst ever disaster to hit the southern hemisphere, has ravaged almost everything that crossed its path, as it ripped through Mozambique, Malawi and Zimbabwe, affecting millions of people.
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The Zimbabwe Human Rights Commission accused the country's troops of using “systematic torture” against the protesters, who took to streets in the capital, Harare, last week after a sharp hike in fuel prices.
American plane-maker Boeing has grounded its entire fleet of 737 Max aircraft amid bans by scores of nations in the wake of fatal Ethiopian Airlines crash that killed 157 people on board.
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Addressing a rally in the capital Caracas, Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó said he would ensure new collection points and routes are set up to let in humanitarian aid blocked by President Nicolás Maduro.
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The International Contact Group on Venezuela has presented a plan that proposes a "political and peaceful process" to resolve Venezuelan crisis instead of a direct international intervention.
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Venezuela’s embattled President Nicolás Maduro said that he won’t quit under U.S. pressure, warning that his American counterpart Donald Trump will leave the White House “stained with blood.”
Activist Joshua Wong, who became the face of the 2014 pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong, has called on the city’s leader Carrie Lam to step down as he vowed to join the fight against her “evil” extradition bill.
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Hong Kong leader Carrie Lam vowed to press ahead with a controversial extradition bill, which would allow suspects to be transferred to mainland China, even as an estimated one million people marched in protests.
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China’s President Xi Jinping, who is on a three-day visit to Russia, lauded his “best friend” Vladimir Putin, as he seeks to forge stronger trade and bilateral ties with Moscow amid an ongoing trade war with the U.S.
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Fierce sectarian violence killed one person in Sri Lanka on Monday as rioters vandalized mosques and Muslim-owned shops, three weeks after the deadly Easter Sunday bombings that left more than 250 people dead.
Swedish prosecutors have re-opened a preliminary investigation into a rape allegation against WikiLeaks co-founder Julian Assange, who was abruptly evicted from the Ecuadorean embassy in London last month.
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The fresh impasse over Brexit deal alternatives is embarrassing for the British parliament that has long sought to seize control of the Brexit process but failed to deliver a solution when the moment came.
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British MPs torpedoed PM Theresa May’s Brexit deal for the second time on Wednesday, putting the U.K. on course to either delay its divorce from the EU or crash out of the bloc without a deal.
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The freshly negotiated legal add-on to the Brexit deal could, however, do little to sway the Labors, as indicated by their leader Jeremy Corbyn, who described the changes as far short of what British PM had pledged.
Without naming Iran, the United Arab Emirates on Friday told the UN Security Council that the “sophisticated and coordinated” attack on four tankers off its coast last month is likely a work of a state actor.
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Israel’s parliament voted 74-45 in favour of dissolving itself after a military conscription bill proved to be a sticking point in the formation of a right-wing coalition despite weeks of negotiations.
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U.S. National Security Adviser John Bolton accused Iran of orchestrating the attacks on oil tankers off the coast of the U.A.E. earlier this month, adding that the naval mines involved were “almost certainly from Iran.”
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The offensive, targeting the elite Quds Force of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, killed 11 pro-government fighters while the Syrian media claimed that several “hostile targets” were shot down by the country’s air defenses.
U.S. President Donald Trump announced that a 5% tariff would be imposed on all Mexican goods from June 10 and would be raised gradually until the heavy influx of illegal immigrants on the southern border recedes.
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Alabama’s Republican-controlled state Senate has passed a bill placing the strictest-in-the-nation ban on abortion and outlawing the procedure at any stage of pregnancy with no exception for rape or incest.
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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s 22-month probe into alleged collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign found no evidence of links between Moscow and President Donald Trump or any of his aides.
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A U.S. court sentenced President Donald Trump's ex-campaign manager Paul Manafort to 47 months in prison for financial crimes that involved tax fraud, bank fraud and hiding income from political consultation to Ukraine.