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9/25/2022 7:02:48 PM
Iran's Foreign Ministry said Sunday it summoned Britain's ambassador to protest what it described as a hostile atmosphere created by London-based Farsi language media outlets. The move comes amid violent unrest in Iran triggered by the death of a young woman in police custody.
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9/25/2022 2:24:09 PM
Iran's ultra-conservative President Ebrahim Raisi has vowed "decisive action" against the wave of unrest that has rocked the country since the death of young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini in the custody of the morality police.
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9/23/2022 1:40:57 PM
​Protesters across Iran continued to clash violently with security forces early Friday following the death of a young woman in police custody, as Iranian state TV suggested the death toll from the unrest could be as high as 26, without offering details.
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Region
9/22/2022 12:41:27 PM
The death toll from Iran's wave of popular unrest shot up to at least 17 on Thursday as popular anger has flared over the death in custody of the young Kurdish woman Mahsa Amini.
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Africa
9/15/2022 8:43:22 PM
Ten people have been killed in two days of clashes between herders and farmers in southern Chad, a local governor said Thursday.
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International
9/6/2022 8:44:03 PM
Liz Truss became UK prime minister on Tuesday and immediately faced up to the enormous tasks ahead of her: curbing soaring prices, boosting the economy, easing labor unrest and fixing a national health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shortages.
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International
9/6/2022 2:12:19 PM
Liz Truss became U.K. prime minister on Tuesday and immediately confronted the enormous task ahead of her amid increasing pressure to curb soaring prices, ease labor unrest and fix a health care system burdened by long waiting lists and staff shortages.
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International
9/5/2022 8:21:10 PM
Serbian Prime Minister Ana Brnabic travelled to northern Kosovo Monday, marking the first trip by a senior official from Belgrade to the former breakaway province in years following a recent bout of unrest.
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World
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Region
8/31/2022 5:05:29 PM
Doctors in the occupied West Bank are struggling to save Palestinians from permanent disability after being shot in an upsurge of violence linked to Israeli raids targeting Palestinian militants.
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8/31/2022 1:40:10 PM
A months-long political crisis in Iraq showed little sign of abating Wednesday despite a fresh push for negotiations after nearly 24 hours of deadly violence between rival Shia factions ended.
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8/30/2022 11:21:04 AM
Iran closed its land borders to Iraq as flights to the country halted Tuesday amid violence in Baghdad following an influential Shia cleric's announcement he would resign from politics.
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8/27/2022 7:41:48 PM
Clashes between backers of rival governments killed at least 12 people and damaged six hospitals in Libya's capital Saturday, sparking fears that a political crisis could spiral into a major new conflict.
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Region
8/21/2022 2:15:41 PM
The International Criminal Court's chief prosecutor Karim Khan has arrived in Sudan, state media reported in the country still wracked by unrest since the 2019 ouster of its leader accused of genocide.
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Africa
8/6/2022 8:30:37 PM
Sudan's foreign ministry on Saturday condemned the killing of 18 Sudanese people during an attack by an armed group from Chad, state media reported.
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World
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Africa
8/3/2022 11:26:57 PM
Congo's government has requested that the spokesman for the United Nations mission in Congo leave the country, saying he has made inappropriate statements amid demonstrations against the presence of the UN peacekeepers.
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World
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Region
7/16/2022 8:57:07 PM
Dozens of families were Saturday fleeing violence in Sudan's Blue Nile State, where ongoing clashes between two tribes have killed at least 31 people, local officials said.
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Arts & Culture
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7/9/2022 3:04:03 PM
Iranian authorities arrested two film directors for "inciting unrest" following the deadly collapse of a building in the country's southwest in May, state media reported late Friday.
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World
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Africa
6/30/2022 9:49:11 PM
Gunmen in Burkina Faso have blown up a bridge on a main road connecting the capital to the north of the country, a security source said Thursday.
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World
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Africa
6/18/2022 8:46:18 PM
Gunmen suspected to be linked to the Islamic State on Saturday killed 10 people in the latest spate of violence in northeast Nigeria's Borno state, militia sources told AFP.
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Africa
6/7/2022 5:31:12 PM
Soldiers killed nine civilians including a baby in one of Cameroon's conflict-scarred anglophone regions last week in a "misunderstanding", the defence ministry said on Tuesday.
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