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How to sell a massacre: NRA’s playbook revealed
Sydney, Australia - How do you respond to a deadly mass shooting if you are a gun rights advocate? First, "Say nothing." If media queries persist, go on the "offence, offence, offence". Smear gun-control
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Australian PM denounces foreign vote meddling after NRA report
Australia's prime minister on Tuesday expressed concern over an Al Jazeera report that an influential minor political party had asked the US gun lobby for donations to help undermine Australian gun laws. A three-year
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Thailand parties manoeuvre for position amid election confusion
Bangkok, Thailand - Political parties jostled for position on Tuesday amid confusion about the winner of a weekend poll that was fought under a complicated new voting system including elements of proportional representation. The
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Canada takes refugees who sheltered NSA whistle-blower Snowden
A Philippine woman who helped shelter former NSA contractor Edward Snowden when he fled to Hong Kong has been granted refugee status in Canada. Vanessa Rodel and her seven-year-old daughter Keana arrived in Toronto
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Mexican writers, journalists, actors denounce abuse against women
What started as one woman in Mexico's literary world sharing experiences of sexual abuse, has since grown into a online campaign against sexual harassment and other forms of assault in several industries in the
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Syria’s Kurds hand three Russian orphans to Moscow
JEDDAH: Arab states on Monday condemned US President Donald Trump’s recognition of the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory. The decision “does not change the area’s status” as illegally occupied territory, Arab League Secretary-General
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Erdogan: Istanbul’s Hagia Sophia could be turned into mosque
JEDDAH: Arab states on Monday condemned US President Donald Trump’s recognition of the occupied Golan Heights as Israeli territory. The decision “does not change the area’s status” as illegally occupied territory, Arab League Secretary-General
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President Donald Trump officially recognizes Israeli sovereignty of Golan Heights
President Donald Trump officially recognizes Israeli sovereignty of Golan Heights WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump officially recognized Israel's sovereignty of the Golan Heights in Washington on Monday. The document reverses more than a half-century of US policy
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Thailand parties manoeuvre for position amid election confusion
Bangkok, Thailand - Political parties jostled for position on Tuesday amid confusion about the winner of a weekend poll that was fought under a complicated new voting system including elements of proportional representation. The
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UK lawmakers seize Brexit agenda in bid to break deadlock
British lawmakers seized a measure of control over the stalled Brexit process from Prime Minister Theresa May's foundering government, setting up a series of votes that could dramatically alter the course of the UK's


