Caracas, Venezuela (CNN)New protests broke out Wednesday in Venezuela in the wake of a move by the nation's highest court to freeze bank accounts and impose a travel ban on self-declared interim president Juan
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Caracas, Venezuela (CNN)Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro said he is willing to meet with opposition leaders and international mediators to bring about a solution to the country's ongoing political crisis, but ruled out holding any
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DEAD SEA, JORDAN: Top diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan concluded talks on Thursday aimed at coordinating policy on the multiple conflicts gripping the region. Jordanian Foreign Minister
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Lebanon announced the formation of a government on Thursday eight months after elections and amid heightened fears of a major economic collapse. The Western-backed Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri now faces a big challenge in
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In her first press conference since a record-long partial government shutdown ended, top Democrat Nancy Pelosi renewed her party's vow that Democrats will not allocate funding to build a wall on the US-Mexico border.
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A Kurdish asylum seeker has won one of the most important Australian literature prizes, the Victorian Prize for Literature. However, Iranian Kurd Behrouz Boochani was unable to accept the award personally in Melbourne because he is being
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US federal immigration officials are force-feeding six hunger-striking immigrants through plastic nasal tubes inside a Texas detention facility, The Associated Press news agency reported on Thursday. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) said 11 detainees at
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Preparations are under way in Iran to mark the 40th anniversary of the 1979 revolution on Friday. The Islamic Republic of Iran was created after Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini returned from exile. In the weeks
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(CNN)Rugby runs in Billy Vunipola's blood.His father Fe'ao captained Tonga in the 1990s when several uncles also represented the national side. His cousin Toby stars for Wales, while Vunipola and his brother Mako are
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said on Thursday that his country was reopening its border with Eritrea, which has been shut for about a year.Sudan closed the border in early January, 2018, after Bashir announced
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