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Ecuador: UK gave enough guarantees for Assange to leave embassy
Ecuadorean President Lenin Moreno said on Thursday that there was a "path" for WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to leave the South American country's London embassy, where he has lived for six years under asylum, if
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World markets down after arrest of Huawei executive
US stocks fell sharply on Thursday joining a global rout after the arrest of a key Chinese Huawei executive at Washington's request revived worries over trade tensions. The detention of Meng Wanzhou, 46, Huawei
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From posting bail to legal aid: NGOs go into overdrive at border
San Diego, California - Victor* first came to the United States in 2006. He left his village in the mountains of Peru during the country's civil war in the 1990s after his family's cow
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Suicide bomb attack kills 4 in Iran’s southern port city of Chabahar, shots fired
Suicide bomb attack kills 4 in Iran’s southern port city of Chabahar, shots fired DUBAI: Iranian state TV has reported a suicide bomb attack killing at least four people - including two police -
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British ambassador to Yemen posts video in Arabic giving updates on Stockholm talks
British ambassador to Yemen posts video in Arabic giving updates on Stockholm talks DUBAI: The British ambassador to Yemen posted a video speaking in Arabic and giving updates on the peace talks taking place
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Thurrock chose to leave the EU. Are voters there still happy?
Essex, United Kingdom - Few places in Britain were as certain as the borough of Thurrock when asked to weigh up the UK's membership of the European Union in a June 2016 referendum. More than 72
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American women’s right to choose is in danger
Ohio's state legislature recently passed a bill that criminalised the abortion of a fetus at six weeks, with no exception for rape or incest. So, how can this be legal given the fact that
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Italy pressures Egypt over Giulio Regeni torture, murder
Italy is ramping up pressure on Egypt over the torture and killing of a 28-year-old Italian student in Cairo nearly three years ago. The lawyer representing Giulio Regeni's family says five Egyptian policemen and
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The Khashoggi skeletons in America’s closet
Donald Trump's commitment to "remain a steadfast partner of Saudi Arabia," despite the regime's gruesome torture and murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Turkey, is clearly symptomatic of the malignantly self-serving nature of US foreign policy, which has
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Yemen’s warring sides gather in Sweden for peace talks
Rimbo, Sweden - The UN's Special Envoy has appealed to Yemen's warring sides to "act now" for the future of the country, as representatives from the government and Houthi rebels gathered for UN-sponsored peace talks in


