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Trump names Heather Nauert as US ambassador to UN
President Donald Trump has announced he is nominating State Department spokeswoman and former Fox TV news anchor Heather Nauert to be the United States's ambassador to the United Nations. "Heather Nauert will be nominated," Trump said
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Untreated diseases, health conditions plague Venezuelan migrants
Riohacha, Colombia - Six-year-old Wilmer Valero has slept on the streets of Colombia's Riohacha with rotting teeth for four months. He brought the problem from Venezuela, where a molar operation in a country without
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Jordanian in Ohio convicted of trying to join Daesh
CINCINNATI: A Jordanian citizen who was living in Ohio has been convicted of attempting to join the Daesh to fight against the Syrian leadership.The Cincinnati Enquirer reports the US Justice Department announced 28-year-old Laith
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German CDU elects Kramp-Karrenbauer as new party leader
Chancellor Angela Merkel will be replaced by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the leader of the centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. The choice was made by 999 voting delegates at a party congress in German
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Trump picks William Barr as next US attorney general
President Donald Trump said on Friday he had chosen former US Attorney General William Barr to once again lead the Justice Department, a role that would put him in charge of the federal probe
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Hostages, robbers killed in foiled bank heists in Brazil
At least a dozen people, including six bank robbers and a child, have been killed during an attempted robbery of two banks in northeast Brazil, authorities have said. The violence erupted on Friday in
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Mexico offers asylum to thousands in the migrant caravan
Tijuana was supposed to be a transit point for the Central American migrant caravan. But, as access to the US is becoming more difficult, many of these asylum seekers are opting to start a
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Philippines journalist charged with tax evasion
A senior journalist in the Philippines has appeared in court over multiple tax evasion charges. Maria Ressa says the case is politically motivated. Her news agency, Rappler, has been called "fake" by the government
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Netanyahu hails UN Hamas vote despite defeat
MARIB: Farouk Baakar was on duty as a medic at Al-Rashid hospital the day a bleeding man was brought into the emergency room with gunshot wounds and signs of torture. He’d been whipped across
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Ex-captives describe horrific torture by Houthi militia
MARIB: Farouk Baakar was on duty as a medic at Al-Rashid hospital the day a bleeding man was brought into the emergency room with gunshot wounds and signs of torture. He’d been whipped across


