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Gotabaya Rajapaksa claims victory in Sri Lanka election

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Sri Lanka's former wartime defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa has been elected president, his spokesman said Sunday following a fiercely fought election seven months after Islamist attacks killed 269 people. Election Commission chairman Mahinda Deshapriya said at least 80 per cent of the 15.99 million eligible voters participated in Saturday's poll...

Democrats hold on to Louisiana governor's seat despite Trump

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In the heart of Trump country, the moderate Edwards cobbled together enough cross-party support with his focus on bipartisan, state-specific issues to defeat Republican businessman Eddie Rispone...

Hong Kong protests see renewed clashes at university

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A large group of people arrived Sunday to try to clean up a debris-strewn roadway. Riot police appeared after the cleaners were warned away by the protesters. The police shot volleys of tear gas toward the protesters, who sheltered behind a wall of umbrellas across an entire street...

Sri Lanka election: Rajapaksa in close fight for president, early count shows

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Millions of Sri Lankans voted on Saturday to elect a new president to lead the country out of its deepest economic slump in over 15 years, following Easter Sunday suicide bombings that sapped investor confidence and hurt its tourism sector. Former wartime defence chief Gotabaya Rajapaksa is locked in a close fight with his main rival Sajith Premadasa, minister...

Car bomb kills 19 in northern Syria: Monitor

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A car bomb killed 19 people, 13 of them civilians, in the Turkish-controlled town of Al-Bab in northern Syria on Saturday, a war monitor said. The bomb, which struck a bus and taxi station in the town, also wounded 33 people, some of them seriously, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported...

British Muslim group aims to oust 14 Tories, including Boris Johnson and PIO Alok Sharma, in UK election

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Prince Andrew doesn’t recall Epstein accuser

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We expected India to be more resilient to US pressure, says Iran’s Zarif

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Sri Lanka votes for new president amid multiple poll-related incidents

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Pak court allows ailing former PM Sharif to travel abroad

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Voting concludes in Sri Lanka presidential polls

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Voting concluded at 5 pm in Saturday's presidential election in Sri Lanka, which is still reeling from the wounds of the nearly three-decade-long civil war and also the brutal Easter Sunday terror attack that took place just seven months ago. The voting, which began at 7 a.m., held across 12,845 voting centres...

China's PLA soldiers seen helping clean up streets after Hong Kong protests: RTHK

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Israel carries out fresh strikes on Gaza after rocket fire: Army

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Sri Lankans vote for a new president to heal divisions after Easter attack

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Sri Lankans trickled into polling centres early on Saturday to choose a new president for the island-nation still struggling to recover from Easter Sunday attacks which affected tourism badly. Former defence secretary Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who oversaw the military defeat of Tamil separatists 10 years ago, and minister Sajith Premadasa are locked in a close fight...

Uber fined $650m for saying drivers not staff

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Trump adviser Roger Stone, self-proclaimed 'dirty trickster,' guilty on all charges

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UK PM Boris Johnson bats for scientists from India in election campaign

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson on Friday made a specific plug for Indian scientists as part of what he says would be the Conservative Party's controlled immigration policy for the UK if voted to power in the December 12 election...

Ousted US envoy testifies at Trump impeachment hearing

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An ousted US envoy to Ukraine who said she felt threatened by Donald Trump testified Friday on Day Two of impeachment hearings looking into whether the president abused his office for personal political gain. Earlier witnesses in the inquiry said ambassador Marie Yovanovitch was removed after a smear campaign involving Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani, accused of helping to coordinate the president's effort to pressure Kiev into investigating his Democratic rival Joe Biden...

Iraq 'will never be the same' after protests: Top Shia cleric

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In his weekly sermon delivered by a representative in the Shia holy city of Karbala, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani piled pressure on authorities to enact sweeping reforms in response to the deadly demonstrations. "If those in power think that they can evade the benefits of real reform by stalling and procrastination, they are delusional," Sistani said...

Sri Lanka to elect new president on Saturday

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Thousands in Hong Kong defy Xi with pro-democracy rallies

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Hindu American Foundation writes to Tom Lantos panel on Kashmir

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The HAF, a non-profit advocacy organization for the Hindu American community, in a written statement to the Lantos Commission on Thursday also urged the US government to "fully support India's internal sovereign decisions"...

Chain of Christian pregnancy centers to offer contraceptives

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In Texas, a network of eight Christian pregnancy centers is jockeying for that Title X funding as it makes plans to take the unprecedented step of offering women contraceptives next year. The move by The Source marks a turning point for faith-based pregnancy centers that are opposed to abortions and typically do not provide birth control, while they instead preach abstinence before marriage...

Trump says impeachment probe has been 'very hard' on family

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Speaking in friendly territory in a state he carried in 2016 by 20 percentage points, Trump lashed out at Democratic investigators and what he called a "deranged impeachment witch hunt.'' While arguing it was a political boon for his reelection, he acknowledged for the first time a personal toll from the impeachment process that stands to cloud his legacy...

Student opens fire in California high school, killing 2

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A student pulled a gun from his backpack and opened fire at a Southern California high school Thursday, killing two students and wounding three others before shooting himself in the head on his 16th birthday, authorities said...

Nancy Pelosi says US President Donald Trump has admitted to bribery

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US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said that President Donald Trump had admitted to bribery in the Ukraine scandal, accusing the Republican leader of an impeachable offence under the US Constitution. Pelosi, who launched the Democratic-led House impeachment inquiry on Sept. 24, spoke a day after the first public hearing in the investigation of Trump...

Impeachment witnesses can expect abuse, death threats, say survivors of past political scandals

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"You know that politics is a blood sport, but you can never quite be prepared for what is coming your way," Plame, who was at the center of a 2003 episode that rocked the presidency of George W Bush, said in a telephone interview. "They're going to be subjected to all kinds of abuse."..

UK's Conservatives promise to cut 'immigration overall'

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"We will reduce immigration overall while being more open and flexible to the highly skilled people we need, such as scientists and doctors," the BBC reported on Thursday citing Patel as saying in a party statement on Wednesday...

Teenager kills one, injures three in Russian college

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China tests Mars lander in international cooperation push

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Thursday's test was conducted at a site outside Beijing simulating conditions on the Red Planet, where the pull of gravity is about one-third that of Earth. China plans to launch a lander and rover to Mars next year to explore parts of the planet in detail...

Islamic Jihad says cease-fire reached to end Gaza fighting

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Al-Berim said the cease-fire was based on a list of demands presented by his group late Wednesday, including a halt to Israeli targeted killings of the group's leaders and an easing of Israel's 12-year blockade of Gaza...

History on live TV: Diplomats testify on Trump impeachment

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For the first time a top diplomat testified Wednesday that President Donald Trump was overheard asking about "the investigations" that he wanted Ukraine to pursue that are central to the impeachment inquiry...

Donald Trump raises stink, claiming garbage from India reaches Los Angeles

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US President Donald Trump claimed on Tuesday that garbage from India is floating all the way to Los Angeles. He was particularly agitated that the rest of the world had corralled Washington into the Paris Accord on climate change and put the onus on the US to clean up the planet while themselves not doing much...

Firebrand cleric calls off sit-in in Islamabad, to expand anti-govt protest across Pakistan

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Netanyahu tells Islamic Jihad 'stop these attacks or absorb more blows'

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday that Islamic Jihad militants in Gaza must stop rocket attacks or "absorb more and more blows" as an escalation of violence raged for a second day. He reiterated his warning that "this could take time" and said Israel would respond to attacks "without mercy."..

China, India, Russia doing 'absolutely nothing' to clean up their smokestacks, plants: Trump

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US President Donald Trump has said countries like China, India and Russia are doing "absolutely nothing" to clean up their smokestacks and industrial plants and the garbage that they drop in sea floats into Los Angeles. Terming climate change as a "very complex issue", Trump said he considers himself to be, “in many ways, an environmentalist, believe it or not"...

Uighur researchers say China running more camps than known

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The East Turkistan National Awakening Movement, a US-based group that seeks independence for the mostly Muslim region known to China as Xinjiang, gave the geographic coordinates of 182 suspected "concentration camps" where Uighurs are allegedly pressured to renounce their culture. The group said it also spotted 209 suspected prisons and 74 suspected labor camps...

Fireworks expected as televised Trump impeachment hearings open

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Democrats in the House of Representatives plan to prove over several weeks of hearings that US President Donald Trump abused his office by seeking Ukraine's help for his 2020 re-election campaign, and sought to extort his Kiev counterpart into finding dirt on Democratic rival Joe Biden. Both sides have spent the past several days rehearsing for the showdown...

Chaos in Hong Kong as pro-democracy protests 'blossom everywhere'

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Pro-democracy protesters stepped up Wednesday a "blossom everywhere" campaign of road blocks and vandalism across Hong Kong that has crippled the international financial hub this week and ignited some of the worst violence in five months of unrest...

US congressional caucus to hold hearing on situation in Kashmir on Nov 14

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Israel kills Islamic Jihad commander, rockets rain from Gaza

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Snow and cold records fall as Arctic air mass lingers in US

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Snow and cold records fell from the Plains to the Great Lakes and beyond as an arctic airmass that started in Siberia spilled over a big chunk of the eastern half of the US, including the normally mild South, on Tuesday. The mid-autumn taste of winter brought record single-digit temperatures to Chicago and environs; set snowfall records in Buffalo and Detroit...

US warns citizens against travel to Bolivia due to 'civil unrest'

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Tensions rise as Bolivia opposition leader claims presidency

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Clashes broke out in the streets of Bolivia's capital Tuesday evening when Jeanine Anez, an opposition leader in the Senate, declared herself the country's interim president after Evo Morales fled to Mexico following his surprise weekend resignation...

Mauritius PM Jugnauth takes oath after election win

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Three Taliban released for held US, Australian: Ghani

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51 children, 3 teachers hurt in chemical attack on China kindergarten

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The incident took place on Monday in the city of Kaiyuan, when the 23-year-old man, surnamed Kong, climbed into the kindergarten and sprayed caustic soda (sodium hydroxide), state-run Xinhua news agency quoted authorities of the city...

Turkey's Erdogan says talks with EU may end over Cyprus sanctions

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President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday the European Union's decision to sanction Turkey over drilling off the coast of Cyprus could disrupt talks with the bloc, and he warned that Turkey could send captured Islamic State fighters to Europe. EU foreign ministers on Monday agreed economic sanctions on Ankara for violating Cyprus' maritime economic zone by drilling off the divided island...

Israeli airstrike kills Islamic Jihad commander in Gaza home

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In eastern Gaza, the Israeli strike killed Bahaa Abu el-Atta and his wife, setting off a furious barrage of rocket attacks reaching as far as the Tel Aviv heartland as Islamic Jihad vowed further revenge. The Israeli military said Abu el-Atta was the mastermind of recent attacks against it...

'Shameful' for UK not to publish Russia meddling probe: Clinton

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British Prime Minister Boris Johnson's government has previously rejected claims it was suppressing the report to avoid a scandal ahead of next month's snap poll. "Every person who votes in this country deserves to see that report before your election happens," the defeated US presidential candidate told BBC Radio 4 during a book tour...

Belarus leader visits Austria, seeking closer EU ties

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Lukashenko will meet Austrian President Alexander Van der Bellen in his first official visit to the small Alpine nation following a trip of then Austrian chancellor Sebastian Kurz to Belarus in March. Often dubbed "Europe's last dictatorship", Belarus has been the target of Western sanctions over its poor rights record and lack of fair elections, and 65-year-old Lukashenko has rarely travelled to Europe...

China’s new investment hub: Sneaker exchanges

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Impeachment witness: Ukrainians asked about holdup of aid

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At issue is Trump's decision to tie military aid for Ukraine to investigations of Joe Biden and the Democrats. Allies of the president say he did nothing wrong because the Ukrainians never knew the aid was being delayed...

Uber chief walks back comment about murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi

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Fire & fury in Hong Kong as agitator shot, man set afire

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Bangladesh train collision kills 15, toll could rise

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A train heading for the southern port city of Chittagong and one bound for Dhaka collided at around 3 a.m. (2100 GMT) in Brahmanbaria, about 100 km (60 miles) east of the capital, crumpling three compartments of the Chittagong-bound train...

SpaceX launches 60 more mini satellites for global internet

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SpaceX launched 60 mini satellites Monday, the second batch of an orbiting network meant to provide global internet coverage. The Falcon rocket blasted into the morning sky, marking the unprecedented fourth flight of a booster for SpaceX. The compact flat-panel satellites — just 575 pounds (260 kilograms) each — will join 60 launched in May...

'Uranium particles' detected at undeclared site in Iran: IAEA

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The United Nations' nuclear watchdog said it had detected uranium particles at an undeclared site in Iran in its latest report on the country's nuclear programme issued on Monday. "The agency detected natural uranium particles of anthropogenic origin at a location in Iran not declared to the agency," the report said...

China to host rare meeting between Afghan govt, Taliban

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China, seeking to play a greater role in the Afghan peace process, on Monday said it is making efforts to host a rare meeting between the Afghanistan officials and the Taliban in the country to discuss reconciliation efforts. Taliban, whose talks with the US collapsed in September, has so far declined to hold direct talks with the Afghanistan government...

China accuses US of using UN to 'meddle' in Tibet

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EU labors to keep nuclear deal alive after new Iran moves

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Iran president's new atomic pitch: International arm sales

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Donald Trump Jr. talk marked by anger over no questions

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Members of the audience of about 450 people at the University of California, Los Angeles, were vocally angry that Trump Jr and his girlfriend, former Fox News personality Kimberly Guilfoyle, declined to take questions because of time constraints, the Guardian reported. Trump was at UCLA to promote his new book "Triggered: How The Left Thrives on Hate and Wants to Silence Us.''..

Trump to confront Turkey about buying Russian defense system

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President Donald Trump will confront Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan about his decision to buy a Russian air defense system when they meet this week at the White House amid strained relations between the two NATO allies. Trump's national security adviser said that the US is still "very upset" by the move to purchase the Russian S-400 system...

In the land of the baguette, local bakeries are vanishing

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Two years ago, the 650 residents of La Chapelle-en-Juger lost their bakery, where they could meet one another, chitchat and gossip while waiting in line for their daily baguette or their weekend éclairs. For the community, the closing of the bakery was “un drame,” as one newspaper put it, or a tragedy, one that is being repeated in countless French villages...

China opens new bridge near Indian border

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Israel court rejects Russian 'hacker' appeal against US extradition

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Iran finds new oil field with 53 billion barrels of crude: President Rouhani

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Iran has discovered a new oil field in the country's south with an estimated 50 billion barrels of crude oil, its president said Sunday, a find that could boost the country's proven reserves by a third as it struggles to sell energy abroad over US sanctions. That 50 billion barrels would be added to Iran's proven reserves of some 150 billion...

Protesters seize state-run media in Bolivia as tensions soar

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Opposition demonstrators in Bolivia overran two state-run media outlets and forced them off the air Saturday and some police stopped guarding the square where President Evo Morales' palace is located, as tensions remained high after a disputed election...

Donald Trump to host Nato chief as alliance faces strains

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The Chinese troops in Hong Kong and what they can do

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9-year-old set to graduate wants to work on artificial hearts, but without giving up Insta

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Why India is keeping a close watch on Sri Lanka elections

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UK's Labour Party hammering out election platform

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Former Hong Kong chief executive warns of 'lone wolf' attacks

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Muslim voters attacked as Sri Lanka votes for president

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A convoy of buses carrying Muslim voters in northern Sri Lanka has been attacked by gunfire and stones and blocked by burning tires hours before polls opened in presidential elections. There were no reported injuries in the convoy attack and police were investigating...

Rajapaksas eye comeback in tense Sri Lanka election

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Despite 85,000 police on duty in an island that emerged from civil war only a decade ago and in April suffered Islamist extremist bombings, gunmen attacked a convoy of 100 buses transporting minority Muslim voters in the northwest, police said. No casualties were reported. In the Tamil-dominated northern peninsula of Jaffna, police reported to the Election Commission that the army was illegally manning roadblocks that could inhibit voters reaching polling booths...

US Senate unanimously passes resolution honouring Sikh community

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Gunmen fire on buses carrying Muslim Sri Lankan voters

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Muslims from the coastal town of Puttalam were travelling to the neighbouring district of Mannar, where they were registered to vote, when gunmen opened fire on their convoy of buses. There were no immediate reports of casualties, but a police official said the attackers had burnt tyres and set up roadblocks to ambush the convoy of more than 100 vehicles...

Af-Taliban prisoner swap ‘postponed

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Pope compares politicians who rage against gays to Hitler

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Trump attacks US diplomat as she testifies in impeachment probe

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President Donald Trump on Friday tweeted an attack against the former US ambassador to Ukraine while she was in the middle of testifying in his impeachment probe, prompting her to complain she was being intimidated. The president's furious tweet came as Marie Yovanovitch testified in the House of Representatives about her abrupt firing from her post in Ukraine following an alleged smear campaign by Trump's allies...

Rough transcript of first Trump-Zelenskiy call released

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President Donald Trump released the summary transcript of an April congratulatory call with Ukrainian President-elect Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Friday. It is the latest salvo in the White House struggle to blunt Democrats' contention that Trump abused the power of the presidency...

Khamenei says Iran wants removal of Israel state not people

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Heavy snow leaves one dead, 300,000 homes without power in France

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Meghan Markle 'secretly' invited Hillary Clinton to UK

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Currently on a six-week 'sabbatical' from royal duties to spend time with her family, the Duchess and Clinton thugged during what was described as something of a "fan girl" meeting on Tuesday, The Daily Mail report said citing sources as saying...

Venice faces more floods as state of emergency declared

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MH17 calls 'show ties between Russian officials, rebels'

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The probe said the recordings raised questions about the possible involvement of key Kremlin officials -- including Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu and a top aide to President Vladimir Putin -- in the deployment of the missile that shot down the Malaysia Airlines plane in 2014...

North Korea calls US candidate Biden a 'rabid dog' nearing death

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North Korea's state media on Friday stepped up a personal attack on former US Vice President Joe Biden for slandering its leader Kim Jong Un, calling the Democratic presidential candidate "a rabid dog". Misspelling Biden's name, KCNA said Biden was showing signs of "the final stage of dementia", and the "time has come for him to depart his life"...

Mark Zuckerberg has a secret TikTok account: Report

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Govt set to declare emergency in Venice: Italian PM

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Italy's government is set to declare a state of emergency in flood-ravaged Venice, to swiftly secure the historic city funds to repair damage from the highest tide in 50 years. Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte described the flooding as "a blow to the heart of our country." Venice's mayor said the damage is estimated at "hundreds of millions of euros."..