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Venezuela blackout: ‘With the electricity out, I can’t get my chemo’
Caracas - I arrived to Venezuela on Thursday just a few hours after a massive power cut left most of the country in complete darkness. At the airport, long lines of passengers waited as immigration
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Guatemalan women protest against decades of state violence
Guatemala City - Marcia Mendez carried a photograph of her older sister Luz Hayde around with her all day. For Mendez and many others in Guatemala, Friday marked much more than International Women's Day. "My
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Chelsea Manning jailed for refusing to testify on Wikileaks
Former Army intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning, who served seven years in prison for leaking one of the largest troves of classified documents in US history, has been sent to jail for refusing to testify
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Erik Prince acknowledges 2016 Trump Tower meeting for first time
Erik Prince, founder of the private American security company Blackwater, has admitted to meeting with members of the Trump campaign in August 2016 after, according to a public transcript, apparently failing to disclose the
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Venezuela in crisis: All the latest updates
Venezuela has plunged into a major political crisis amid a growing row over President Nicolas Maduro's future as the country's leader. Maduro started a second term on January 10, following a widely boycotted election
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Defeated Daesh militants, women still defiant
KASSERINE/TUNISIA: Souad Gharsalli lives in a rented flat in the center of Kasserine, in western Tunisia, baking and selling artisanal bread to make money. But she should be growing olive trees for a living,
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Tunisia divided over equal inheritance for women
KASSERINE/TUNISIA: Souad Gharsalli lives in a rented flat in the center of Kasserine, in western Tunisia, baking and selling artisanal bread to make money. But she should be growing olive trees for a living,
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Car bomb blast kills 2 in Iraq’s Mosul
MOSUL: A car bomb blast in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul on Friday killed at least two people — a child and a member of the security forces — and wounded 10 others,
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Erik Prince acknowledges 2016 Trump Tower meeting for first time
Erik Prince, founder of the private American security company Blackwater, has admitted to meeting with members of the Trump campaign in August 2016 after, according to a public transcript, apparently failing to disclose the
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Istanbul police use tear gas to disperse Women’s Day marchers
Turkish police have fired tear gas at thousands of people who gathered in central Istanbul for a march to celebrate International Women's Day in defiance of a protest ban. Women made up the majority


