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Gina Haspel’s CIA looks to recruit more foreign spies
Gina Haspel, the first female director of the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), has made recruiting more foreign spies one of her main priorities in order to align intelligence collection with the US foreign policy. Delivering
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Philippines: The trouble with the second landslide
Perhaps the most painful thing about the killer landslide in Naga City in the central Philippines was it appears the human death toll could have been prevented. Mayor Kristine Chiong told Al Jazeera she
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Refugees on Aegean islands live in squalid conditions
Aid organisations are attempting to help, but asylum seekers in Greece are being forced to wait in squalid conditions, without proper sanitation or even shelter, for months - if not years - waiting for
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Corbyn promises ‘radical plan’ at Liverpool Labour conference
Britain's opposition leader says his party will vote against the prime minister's proposed Brexit deal. Addressing members on the final day of the Labour Party conference, Jeremy Corbyn set out details of what he
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Bahrain arrests 15 Iran-backed vandals for trying to spread Ashura ‘chaos’
JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia has strongly criticized the report of the UN High Commissioner of Human Rights for Yemen, saying it had fallen away from objectivity, rushed to conclusions and made several errors in its
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Guatemala: Indigenous survivors await genocide trial verdict
Guatemala City - Ana de Leon lost everything when Guatemalan military forces arrived in the Maya Ixil region during the country's decades-long civil war. More than 200,000 people, including de Leon's brother and three
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Brazil: Extreme poverty on the rise as elections loom
Sao Paulo, Brazil - Marcos Alves da Silva stands in the kitchen of his home where he lives with his wife Maria de Lourdes, their seven children and four grandchildren. They live on Morro
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Maldives security forces vow to uphold presidential vote results
Male, Maldives - Security forces in the Maldives have promised to uphold results of a contentious presidential election amid opposition fears that defeated President Abdulla Yameen was seeking to extend his rule. "The beloved people
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Will Donald Trump’s ‘America First’ policy lead to isolation?
US President Donald Trump's speech at the United Nations was at sharp odds with other world leaders. From Iran to Palestine, from trade wars to the price of oil, Trump's campaign-style address on Tuesday pitched for
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Family of comatose Senegalese ask France for medical treatment
Dakar, Senegal - A French soldier has been arrested and indicted for an assault that left a Senegalese man in a coma. The accused is alleged to have attacked restaurant owner Oumar Watt, 31,


