Farmers are holding protests across Europe, clogging the streets with their tractors, blocking ports and pelting the European Parliament with eggs over a long list of complaints from environmental regulation to excessive red tape. While some …
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The United States on Friday conducted major airstrikes on dozens of targets across Iraq and Syria in retaliation for a drone attack in Jordan last month that killed three US troops. The strikes were larger …
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Historic day in Northern Ireland as Michelle O’Neill becomes first nationalist leader
by adminIn a historic moment, a nationalist politician has become First Minister of Northern Ireland as power-sharing resumed after a two-year break. Michelle O’Neill of the pro-united Ireland party Sinn Féin, once the political arm of …
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A number of people, including journalists from foreign press organizations, have been detained in Moscow after authorities cracked down on protesters at Russian President Vladimir Putin’s election headquarters, independent outlets reported Saturday. The protest was organized by the wives of mobilized …
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Analysis: What to make of the US retaliation strikes against pro-Iranian militias in Iraq and Syria
by adminIt was meant to sound devastating, and likely felt so to the pro-Iranian militias on the receiving end. But Friday night’s airstrikes against over 80 targets inside Iraq and Syria were — so far — a comparatively limited response to the worst loss …
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Jailed Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan and wife convicted for “fraudulent marriage”
by adminJailed Pakistani former Prime Minister Imran Khan and his wife Bushra Bibi have been sentenced to seven years in prison after a district court ruled their 2018 marriage violated the law. This is the third sentence …
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A gas explosion at an unlicensed cooking gas filling plant in Kenya’s capital on Thursday night killed at least three people and injured 280 others, according to authorities in the East African country. The blaze started …
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New-wave reactor technology could kick-start a nuclear renaissance — and the US is banking on it
by adminOff the Siberian coast, not far from Alaska, a Russian ship has been docked at port for four years. The Akademik Lomonosov, the world’s first floating nuclear power plant, sends energy to around 200,000 people …
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About six million people in more than 200 towns, villages and cities in the northeastern Spanish region of Catalonia will be banned from washing their cars or filling swimming pools as the regional government on …