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Sudan protests one month on: ‘This time it’s different’
Burri, Sudan - It's been a month since a wave of anti-government protests began in Sudan. I'll admit, at first, I didn't expect it to last this long. Similar protests happened in January 2018
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Yemen’s warring sides fail to reach agreement on prisoner swap
Yemen's warring sides have failed to reach an agreement on swapping thousands of prisoners of war, with both sides accusing each other of lying. Negotiations between the Yemeni government and Houthi rebel representatives broke down
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Pawel Adamowicz: Thousands turn out for funeral of Polish mayor
The funeral of Pawel Adamowicz, the murdered Gdansk mayor, has drawn tens of thousands of people in the Polish Baltic coast city amid outrage over his killing six days ago. Banners with black and white pictures of
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US-Saudi ties can’t move forward until MBS ‘dealt with’: Graham
Senator Lindsey Graham has said the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia cannot move forward until Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) is "dealt with". Speaking in Ankara a day after meeting with Turkish
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Vanuatu trials vaccine drone deliveries
Life-saving vaccines by could soon be delivered by drone. On-demand drone deliveries of vaccines have several advantages over more traditional means of transport to remote locations and Vanuatu's government has commissioned two companies to
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Laquan McDonald: Ex-US police sentenced for black teen’s murder
Chicago, Illinois - A judge in the United States has sentenced former white police officer Jason Van Dyke to six years and nine months in prison, plus two years probation, for the 2014 murder
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Yemeni govt questions exclusion from meeting in Germany
BRUSSELS/PARIS: In Tehran on Jan. 8 during a meeting with European envoys, Iranian officials abruptly stood up, walked out and slammed the door in an extraordinary break with protocol. The French, British, German, Danish,
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Europe’s patience with Iran wears thin, tiptoes toward Trump
BRUSSELS/PARIS: In Tehran on Jan. 8 during a meeting with European envoys, Iranian officials abruptly stood up, walked out and slammed the door in an extraordinary break with protocol. The French, British, German, Danish,
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Arab coalition targets Yemen’s Houthi drone capabilities in Sanaa
BEIRUT: The plan was that heads of state from the Arab world would arrive in Beirut to discuss economic and social development. But like much in Lebanon at the moment, it did not go
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Women’s March 2019: Thousands across the US march for third year
Washington, DC - Sherry Cain, a 78-year-old Kentucky native, said she's lived a long time and has seen a lot of change in the world, "but never anything like this in our country". That's


