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France’s top envoy to hold key talks with Iran
PARIS: A French envoy was in Tehran on Tuesday to boost European efforts to save the 2015 nuclear deal, after Iran warned Europe against retaliatory measures for breaching a uranium enrichment cap. The accord between
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Iraqi PM warns disrupting Hormuz oil route would be ‘major obstacle’ to Iraq’s economy
Iraqi PM warns disrupting Hormuz oil route would be 'major obstacle' to Iraq's economy BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi said on Tuesday any disruption to oil exports through the Hormuz Strait will be
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Brazil: Amazon state’s new law enables land thieves, critics say
Sao Paulo, Brazil - Environmental groups have warned that new legislation passed by Para state government in Brazil's Amazon stands to benefit land thieves and could accelerate deforestation and rural conflicts. Signed by Para's
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How family and politics shaped new Greek PM Kyriakos Mitsotakis
Athens, Greece - When Kyriakos Mitsotakis assumed his first cabinet post in 2012, Greeks broadly agreed that he had been seated before the poisoned chalice. Under the terms of a freshly-signed 130 billion euros
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Former Minister Babacan quits ruling party in blow to Erdogan
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday felt the first major political aftershock of his ruling party’s defeat in last month’s Istanbul election re-run with the resignation of the former deputy prime minister, Ali
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Tunisia presidential candidate charged with money laundering
TUNIS: Tunisian media magnate and would-be presidential candidate Nabil Karoui has been charged with money laundering, had his assets frozen and slapped with a travel ban, a judicial source said Monday.Karoui and his brother,
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Iran: World powers won’t get a better nuclear deal
Iran warned world powers they will not be able to negotiate a better deal than the landmark 2015 nuclear agreement, as the United States vowed the Islamic Republic will never acquire an atomic weapon.
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Wimbledon: Simona Halep ends US teen Cori Gauff’s debut dream run
Former world number one Simona Halep has ended Cori Gauff's dream run at Wimbledon by beating the 15-year-old American tennis player in the fourth round. The seventh-seeded Romanian secured a convincing 6-3, 6-3 win
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Tunisia finds bodies of pregnant migrant, toddler after boat sinks
AMMAN: At least 544 civilians have been killed and over 2,000 people injured since a Russian-led assault on the last rebel bastion in northwestern Syria began two months ago, rights groups and rescuers said on
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Russian-led assault in Syria leaves over 500 civilians dead, say rights groups
ARSAL, LEBANON: Dima Al-Kanj's house is now a pile of rubble and twisted metal.It was just a concrete hut near the Lebanese border, but she had spent five years trying to make it cosy


