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Trump-Kim summit 2.0: What you need to know
Hanoi, Vietnam - Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un are due to meet in Hanoi in Vietnam this week, more than eight months after their landmark first summit in Singapore. Heading into the talks on Wednesday
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Nigeria elections: Main opposition rejects initial vote results
Abuja, Nigeria - The main opposition in Nigeria on Monday rejected provisional presidential election results declared by the electoral commission showing the ruling party in the lead, accusing the two of being in "collusion".
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UK opposition Labour Party moves to back second Brexit vote
Britain's main opposition Labour Party has said it will back a second referendum on Brexit if parliament rejects its alternative plan for leaving the European Union. Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will on Monday evening tell his MPs
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Harry and Meghan meet horses that heal in Morocco
RABAT: Britain’s Prince Harry and his wife Meghan on Monday visited a stables in Morocco where horses provide a source of therapy for disabled youths, before sampling local cuisine at a project for underprivileged
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Khartoum protesters rally against Sudan emergency laws banning protests and regulating foreign currency
DUBAI: A UK ban on Hezbollah, outlawing the entire Lebanon-based group as a terrorist organization, can’t come soon enough for regional political analysts. “It is better late than never,” said Dr. Abdulkhaleq Abdulla, a
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Syrian president visits Iran in rare trip abroad
Khartoum protesters rally against Sudan emergency laws banning protests and regulating foreign currency KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas Monday at hundreds protesting in the capital Khartoum against a state of emergency imposed by
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Cubans approve new constitution affirming role of socialism
Nearly 87 percent of Cuban voters approved a new constitution that preserves the island's single-party socialist system and centrally planned economy while updating some financial, electoral and criminal laws, authorities said Monday. The margin
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US ramps up pressure on Maduro with fresh sanctions
Bogota, Colombia - US Vice President Mike Pence announced fresh US sanctions against allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Monday, after meeting with Latin American leaders including Venezuela's self-declared interim president Juan Guaido
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Guatemala war survivors demand justice, not amnesty for military
Guatemala City - Cristina Yaqui was 19 years old when her husband Simon Saq'boch was abducted by the Guatemalan military from the municipality of Patzun in the Guatemalan Department of Chimaltenango in 1984. Yaqui,
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Syria’s Assad visits Iran in rare trip abroad
Syrian President Bashar al-Assad met Iranian officials in his first visit to the Islamic Republic since the start of the Syrian conflict, Syrian state media reported. Assad met Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and


