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Iraqi army soldiers advance through rain towards Mosul, in the eastern Samah neighborhood, of Mosul, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 14, 2016.

2017-07-03
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At least 14 killed in Iraqi IDP camp suicide bomb

(CNN)At least 14 people were killed, among them four children and a captain in the Iraqi police, when a suicide bomber detonated a device in a camp for internally displaced people west of Ramadi in the Iraqi province of Anbar. The explosion Sunday also injured 19 others, Ramadi Mayor Ibrahim al-Owsag and two

Indian army soldiers shout pro India slogans as they return from the scene of a gun fight at Dialgam in Anantnag some 60 kilometers south of Srinagar, the summer capital of Indian Kashmir, 01 July 2017. A top commander of the militant outfit Laskhar-e-Toiba (LeT) Bashir Lashkari and his associate were killed during the gunfight with security forces in Anantnag. Two civilians were also killed and several others injured as government forces allegedly opened fire at protesters during clashes near the scene of the clash.

2017-07-03
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20 including journalists, retired HC judge paid through hawala to fuel Kashmir unrest

The security forces along with the Intelligence Bureau have prepared a list of 20 persons including journalists and a retired High Court judge who have been fueling unrest in the Valley. The list of 20 was prepared with the ...

Japanese Prime Minister Abe Shinzo 26th Tokyo International Film Festival 日本内閣総理大臣安倍晋三 26回東京国際映画祭 17 Octobre 2013

2017-07-03
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Japan's ruling party suffers big losses in local Tokyo elections

(CNN)Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's ruling Liberal Democratic Party was handed a bloody nose in Tokyo's metropolitan assembly election Sunday, securing a mere 23 seats from a possible 127 -- the party's worst ever return. The result, which saw Tokyo Governor Yuriko Koike's new Tomin First Party team up with a handful of independents to capture a total of 79 seats,

President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping walk together at Mar-a-Lago, Friday, April 7, 2017, in Palm Beach, Fla.

China's Xi Jinping says he hopes US handles Taiwan issue appropriately

BEIJING: China hopes the United States can handle the Taiwan issue appropriately, in accordance with the "one China" principle, President Xi Jinping told US President Donald Trump on Monday, state media said. "Negative factors" have affected Sino-US relations, and China has already expressed its position to the United States, Xi

France's President Emmanuel Macron observes the French Flag, during a military ceremony

2017-07-03
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Macron to make US-style State of the Union address

Paris (CNN)Emmanuel Macron will return to the birthplace of French democracy Monday in his latest attempt to reshape the nature of the French presidency Amid the spectacular beauty and opulence of the Palace of Versailles, the French president will address leaders of both houses of parliament in a US-style State of the Union address. The Palace has already played host to

View on Doha skyline, Buildings, Towers, Boats on river - Qatar.

2017-07-03
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Qatar crisis: Arab nations extend deadline by 48 hours to accept demands

Arab nations extended a deadline early on Monday for Qatar to respond to their list of demands in a diplomatic crisis roiling the Gulf, saying Kuwait’s

This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows damaged buildings at the scene of an explosion along the road to the airport in southeast Damascus, Syria, Sunday, July 2, 2017.

2017-07-02
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Syria conflict: Suicide car bomb chase in Damascus

Police were chasing three suspected suicide attackers - one blew himself up after being surrounded. ...

File - President Donald J. Trump salutes 195 cadets during the 136th U.S. Coast Guard Academy commencement in New London, Conn., May 17, 2017.

How Trump's foreign policy threatens to make America weak again

The president talks a tough game – but he has alienated allies. And the more he tries to assert US leadership, the less of a leadership role he plays

File - U.S., Georgian and Afghan army soldiers patrol outside of the Qaleh Musa Pain village in Helmand province, Afghanistan, March 12, 2015.

SAS soldiers 'suspected' of executing unarmed Afghans and covering up potential war crimes

A "rogue" Special Air Service (SAS) unit is suspected of executing unarmed civilians in Afghanistan and fabricating

French President Emmanuel Macron speaks with Malian President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita during the opening session of G5 Shel force summit in Bamako, Mali, Sunday, July 2, 2017.

2017-07-02
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France and Africans must eradicate 'terrorists, thugs and murderers': Macron

BAMAKO (Reuters) - France and its African partners must together eradicate "terrorists, thugs and murderers" in the volatile Sahel region, President Emmanuel Macron said at the opening of a summit in Mali's capital Bamako on Sunday. ...

President Donald Trump arrives to speak during the Celebrate Freedom event at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, Saturday, July 1, 2017.

2017-07-02
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Trump tweets video of him attacking CNN logo

President Donald Trump took his feud with the media to a new level Sunday morning, tweeting out an edited video that shows the him body-slamming a person with

Chinese President Xi Jinping speaks after administered the oath for the Hong Kong's new Chief Executive Carrie Lam at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Saturday, July 1, 2017. (AP Photo/Kin Cheung)

Xi Jinping: any challenge to China's power in Hong Kong 'crosses a red line'

President warns against any attempt to ‘sabotage’ the mainland via Hong Kong, as scuffles break out between rival protest groups

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan addresses village administrators in Ankara, Turkey, Thursday, Jan. 12, 2017.

Trump discusses Gulf-Qatar dispute with Erdogan

Washington: United States President Donald Trump spoke with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday to discuss the dispute between Qatar and

President Donald Trump speaks before signing an executive order to establish a National Space Council, Friday, June 30, 2017, in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington.

2017-07-01
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Bernstein: We are in the midst of a 'malignant presidency'

(CNN)Journalism legend Carl Bernstein called on the US press Friday to rise to the challenge of the Donald Trump presidency, which he characterized as "malignant." "We're in foreign territory," Bernstein said, speaking on CNN's "New Day." "We have never been in a malignant presidency like this before. It calls on our leaders, it calls on our journalists to do a different kind

The President, Shri Pranab Mukherjee and the Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi pressing the buzzer to launch the Goods & Service Tax (GST), in Central Hall of Parliament, in New Delhi on June 30, 2017.

GST will tranform country into ‘New India’, say ministers

New Delhi: All praise for the GST, Union Ministers tonight said the tax reform measure will transform the country into a “New India” with uniform tax regime. Petroleum Minister Dharmendra Pradhan said the new transparent, effective and progressive indirect tax regime will fulfill the dream of “New

Former U.S. President Barack Obama delivers his speech during the 4th Congress of the Indonesian Diasporas in Jakarta, Indonesia, Saturday, July 1, 2017.

Obama calls for 'liberal solutions' to globalisation problems

Former US president tells crowd in Indonesia the world ‘is at a crossroads’ and it has to stand up for moderation during speech in country facing rising intolerance

Expedition 52 Flight Engineer Jack Fischer of NASA photographed the glowing nighttime lights of an aurora from his vantage point in the International Space Station's cupola module on June 19, 2017. Part of the station's solar array is also visible.

US planning to create 'Space Corps' as sixth branch of armed forces

The House Armed Services Committee has voted to create a US "Space Corps", which would become a new branch of the armed

Pope Francis arrives for his weekly general audience, in St.Peter's Square, at the Vatican, Wednesday, June 28, 2017.

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Pope replaces Vatican's conservative doctrinal watchdog

Rome (CNN)Pope Francis is replacing the Catholic Church's conservative chief of doctrine, Cardinal Gerhard Muller, amid apparent tensions over the Pope's efforts to open up church teaching and tackle a series of sex abuse scandals. A Vatican statement released Saturday said the Pope thanked Muller at the conclusion of his five-year appointment as head of the Congregation for

File - Demonstrators hold a banner as they protest near parliament in London Wednesday June 21, 2017. The mass 'Day of Rage' demonstration is timed to coincide with the state opening of parliament Wednesday.

Tens of thousands march in London to demand Theresa May's resignation

Tens of thousands of protesters have marched through central London to campaign against the Conservative government as part of a “Not One

One of the lowest apartments which is gutted by fire in the burnt Grenfell Tower apartment building standing testament to the recent fire in London, Friday, June 23, 2017.

2017-06-30
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Grenfell Tower fire: Downing Street criticises council over aborted meeting

Angry protests followed after the abandoned meeting, which Labour councillor Robert Atkinson, whose ward includes Grenfell Tower, braded a "fiasco". He shouted: "An absolute fiasco, this is why I am calling for your resignation." Mr

Thirty-one injured and 17 unaccounted for after coach crash in Germany

U.S. and Japan 'Ready to respond' to North Korea Threat, White House Says

Skills shortage costs British businesses £2bn a year, survey finds