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6/27/2021 10:01:35 AM
Saudi Arabia said it had thwarted an attempt to smuggle 14.4 million amphetamine pills from Lebanon, two months after it banned imports of Lebanese agricultural produce, citing an increase in drug smuggling
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6/27/2021 9:55:39 AM
In a side deal to opening relations with Israel, the UAE secured Washington's approval to purchase US made F-35 fighter jets. President Joe Biden has since proceeded with that deal following a review
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6/27/2021 9:50:15 AM
The COVID-19 death toll in the country rose by 1,258, including 511 deaths reported from the state of Maharashtra, the health ministry data showed
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6/26/2021 8:09:24 PM
Prime Minister Boris Johnson said on Friday he accepted an apology from the minister and considered the matter to be closed, but Hancock had faced rising pressure to quit
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6/26/2021 1:41:00 PM
The Tokyo 2020 organisers did not immediately respond to a request for comment
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6/26/2021 1:27:29 PM
Hancock apologised on Friday after The Sun newspaper showed him kissing and embracing a senior aide in his office last month, at a time when it was against the rules
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6/26/2021 1:26:50 PM
Russia is facing a surge in new cases that authorities blame on the highly infectious Delta variant and slow progress on vaccinating people, with deaths hitting a new record in the capital, Moscow, on Friday
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6/26/2021 12:23:20 PM
Tedros, who is an ethnic Tigrayan and former Ethiopian Cabinet minister, referred in his opening remarks at a WHO briefing to the air strike this week which hit a crowded market in his native region
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6/26/2021 11:45:13 AM
Biden, seated beside Ghani and Abdullah in the Oval Office, called them "two old friends" and said U.S. support for Afghanistan was not ending but would be sustained despite the U.S. pullout
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6/25/2021 7:04:07 PM
"An immediate response from Iran is needed in this regard," the IAEA said in a statement summarising a report by its chief Rafael Grossi to its 35-nation Board of Governors
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6/25/2021 6:55:07 PM
The survey by pollster Inteligencia em Pesquisa e Consultoria (IPEC), published on Friday in newspaper O Estado de S. Paulo, showed 49% of respondents backing Lula compared with just 23% for Bolsonaro
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6/25/2021 6:30:29 PM
A human rights group that attracted millions of views on YouTube to testimonies from people who say their families have disappeared in China's Xinjiang region is moving its videos to little-known service Odysee
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6/25/2021 4:32:14 PM
Hungary is now likely to face a legal challenge at the EU's highest court
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6/25/2021 3:17:33 PM
Her trip to El Paso, Texas, was announced on Wednesday and appeared to have been hastily put together days before a visit to the border by former President Donald Trump
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6/25/2021 12:55:08 PM
The virus that causes COVID-19 could have started spreading in China as early as October 2019, two months before the first case was identified in the central city of Wuhan, a new study showed on Friday
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Africa
6/23/2021 7:37:00 PM
The alleged airstrike comes amid some of the fiercest fighting in the Tigray region since the conflict began in November as Ethiopian forces supported by those from neighbouring Eritrea pursue Tigray's former leaders
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6/23/2021 5:43:00 PM
EU leaders will discuss a new strategy to manage worsening relations with Russia at their two-day summit in Brussels on Thursday
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6/23/2021 5:01:00 PM
The pardons are conditional, and a ban on the leaders holding public office remains in place, Sanchez said
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6/23/2021 4:19:00 PM
The same ship transited the strait a month ago, prompting China to accuse the United States of threatening peace and stability
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6/23/2021 1:39:21 PM
Eritrea sent troops to Tigray after the Ethiopian military launched an offensive in November in response to attacks on federal government bases by regional forces
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