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Hurricane Harvey video report
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Brexit Bill Bombshell: EU officials insist Britain will have to pay TWICE when it quits
In a move bound to further antagonise the UK side in the talks senior EU diplomats revealed they will demand ongoing budget payments linked to a transitional deal separately to the divorce payout. Such an arrangement would mean British taxpayers double-funding the bloc, as they would be covering its costs beyond Brexit through both the…
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The North Korean Axis of Middle East Proliferation
New evidence reveals that the relationship between Pyongyang, Tehran, and Damascus is more extensive and long-standing than we thought. Last week, Reuters revealed the existence of a confidential U.N. report claiming that two North Korean shipments bound for the government agency in charge of Syria’s chemical weapons were intercepted in the past six months. Put…
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Trump administration orders 3 Russian diplomatic facilities closed
The Trump administration retaliated Thursday against Russia’s expulsion of U.S. diplomats ordering closed the Russian consulate in San Francisco, a a chancery annex in Washington, D.C., embassy and consular annex in New York. The closures will need to happen by Saturday, the State Department said. Spokeswoman Heather Nauert said the move brings the U.S. and…
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Why the German elections matter to the rest of the world
(CNN) We’ve had our fair share of dramatic elections recently – the UK, France, the US. And let’s not forget Brexit. The German election on September 24 may be generating fewer headlines, but it’s no less important. Here’s why you should pay attention. Why should you care? If you’re in the US: Germany is one…
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Iranian Threat Moving Closer to Israel
JERUSALEM, Israel – The Islamic Republic of Iran seems to be working overtime to increase its influence in the Gaza Strip on Israel’s southern border and in Syria and Lebanon in the north. It’s not as if much has changed; rather the rabid hatred of the Jewish state by Islamists appears to be reshaping what…
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US gives $91 million in additional food aid to drought-hit Ethiopia
ADDIS ABABA, Aug 31 (Reuters) – USAID administrator Mark Green on Thursday said the United States would give an additional $91 million in emergency food assistance to help ward off starvation in areas in the south of the country teetering on the edge of famine. “I am announcing $91 million in additional humanitarian assistance for…
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Opinion: Angela Merkel’s ‘we can do this’ refugee mantra lives on
Two years ago, Chancellor Angela Merkel uttered her now famous refugee crisis mantra, “we can do this.” She no longer uses that phrase, but it still speaks volumes about Germany, says DW’s Christoph Strack. “A year like that cannot and should not ever happen again,” Angela Merkel tells her supporters at campaign appearances around the…
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