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Britons ‘don’t know what they want’: Spanish minister blasts Brexit amid Gibraltar row
SPAIN’S former foreign minister launched a scathing attack on the UK claiming Britons “don’t know what they want” over Brexit. Marcelino Oreja is renowned as being one of the most committed experts on the European Union, having been on one of the politicians who helped Spain gain entrance into the bloc. Claiming Spain has been…
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Permanent resettlement is the only way to resolve the refugee crisis
The trauma of conflict is so overpowering that people often do not wish to return home. They deserve a humane response. Two years ago this month, the image of Aylan, a Kurdish toddler washed up on one of Turkey’s sandy beaches, shocked the world. The Kurdi family were part of the large wave of Syrian…
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Magnitude 5.3 earthquake hits southeastern Idaho: USGS
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A magnitude 5.3 earthquake hit southeastern Idaho on Saturday about 63 miles (101 km) from the city of Pocatello, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The USGS reported the quake was relatively shallow at a depth of 6.2 miles (10 km). Kim Nate, a dispatcher at the Bear Lake County Sheriff’s Office near…
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Iran’s growing influence points to a bleak future for the Middle East
After six years of fierce fighting and with hundreds of thousands dead, the Syrian civil war finally appears to be settling down. The country is now divided into various pockets of influence, with Turkish-backed rebels in the north, US-backed Kurdish forces and their allies in the east and the Syrian regime and its Iranian-backed militias…
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Hariri rejects Israeli claims about ‘missile factories’ in Lebanon
Lebanon’s Prime Minister Saad Hariri has rejected Israel’s claims that Iran is building factories to produce missiles in Lebanese territory, accusing the Israeli regime of carrying out “deception campaigns.” In an interview with French daily Le Monde, which was published on Friday, Hariri said Israel “knows very well there are no missile factories in Lebanon.”…
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North Korea claims to have hydrogen bomb for long-range missile
North Korea claimed Sunday that it had developed a hydrogen bomb to use with a long-range intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The Korean Central News Agency, North Korea’s propaganda arm, said that that dictator Kim Jong-un inspected “an H-bomb to be loaded into [a] new ICBM” during a visit to the North’s Nuclear Weapons Institute. Photos…
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‘NO CASH!’ Merkel’s lawyers say Germany can REJECT Polish claim for WW2 reparations
GERMAN lawyers have concluded that there is no basis to Poland’s demands for billions of pounds in reparations to cover damage done to the country during World War Two, it was reported today. A legal team at the Bundestag scoured through an agreement signed by the two countries back in 1990, called the Two Plus…
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US-Russia ties battered by new row over diplomats
MOSCOW: Russia and the United States were locked in a fresh diplomatic slugging match today after Washington ordered the closure of Moscow’s San Francisco consulate and two other facilities. The retaliatory US move came as a September 1 deadline was reached for Washington to comply with a Kremlin demand to slash staff numbers at its…
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Japan requests record-high defense budget after North Korea fired missile
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