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Baffled Danes mock Trump after he scraps trip over Greenland
President Donald Trump's decision to call off a planned visit to Denmark after its refusal to sell Greenland to the United States has been met with condemnation and mockery by politicians and the public
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Jews tweet ‘disloyal to Trump’ after Trump calls them disloyal
Politicians, activists and other Americans are tweeting how they are proudly "disloyal to Trump" after the US president said on Tuesday that any Jewish person who votes for Democrats shows "either a total lack of
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US Secretary of State Pompeo says Daesh strong in some areas -CBS
BEIRUT: Russia has military servicemen stationed on the ground in Syria's region of Idlib and is following the situation there closely, Interfax news agency cited Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov as saying on Tuesday.Lavrov was
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Anti-Assad fighters withdraw from key area of northwest Syria
BEIRUT: Extremists and allied rebels withdrew from a key area of northwestern Syria Tuesday, a war monitor said, as President Bashar al-Assad's forces pressed an offensive against the militant-run Idlib region.Turkey warned Damascus "not to
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Explosion rocks arms depot north of Iraq’s Baghdad
A blast has hit an arms depot belonging to Iranian-backed paramilitaries north of Baghdad, according to media reports. The site struck on Tuesday is close to the Balad Air Base, which hosts US forces and
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More clashes between separatists, government in Yemeni south
UAE-backed separatist fighters have seized a number of military camps in Yemen's southern Abyan province, as fresh clashes with forces loyal to the country's internationally recognised government caused multiple deaths and injuries. The two sides
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Syria Kurds hand over four Daesh-linked children to Germany
ST. PAUL, Minnesota: Democratic US Reps. Ilhan Omar of Minnesota and Rashida Tlaib of Michigan plan to host a news conference Monday afternoon on travel restrictions to Israel and Palestine, after they were denied
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Omar, Tlaib host news conference on travel restrictions
Anger on both sides as Turkish army convoy in key Syria town hit by Syrian strike DAMASCUS: Damascus on Monday condemned the deployment of a Turkish military convoy toward a key town in northwestern
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Charity says refugees stranded off Italy should be flown to Spain
An offer by Madrid to allow a refugee rescue ship anchored off an Italian island to disembark at a Spanish port some 1,000km away is unfeasible, the charity running the vessel has said, calling,
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After INF treaty exit, US tests ground-launched cruise missile
The US Pentagon said on Monday that it had tested a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile with a range of more than 500 km (310 miles), the first such test since the United States


