Archive for the February 22, 2019
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Thousands rallied in Tirana against Albania's Prime Minister Edi Rama on Thursday, as the EU condemned opposition mass resignations over alleged corruption by the premier. A heavy police presence was deployed around the parliament in
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Kazakhstan's long-ruling President Nursultan Nazarbayev dismissed the government on Thursday, citing a lack of economic development despite the Central Asian nation's vast energy resources. "In many areas of the economy, despite the adoption of many
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Two young Saudi sisters in Hong Kong said Thursday they had been intercepted by kingdom officials at the city's airport while attempting to escape to Australia, in the latest case of women fleeing the ultra-conservative
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The US military is conducting a surveillance flight over Russia as part of an international agreement, the Pentagon said Thursday. The flight falls under the Open Skies Treaty, an international accord aimed at promoting military
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A rocket will take off from Cape Canaveral in Florida on Thursday night carrying Israel's Beresheet spacecraft, which aims to make history twice: as the first private-sector landing on the Moon, and the first from
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A car bomb on Thursday killed 20 people including 14 oil workers near a base used by US-backed forces battling the Islamic State group in east Syria, a war monitor said. "The car bomb was
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A top French Islamic State jihadist who became notorious after voicing an audio recording claiming responsibility for the November 2015 attacks in Paris has been killed in an overnight airstrike, security sources told AFP. Fabien
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US-backed Syrian forces tried Thursday to negotiate the release of civilians still trapped in the Islamic State group's last redoubt, as a car bombing killed 20 people near their main base. The Syrian Democratic Forces
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Hundreds of workers in Port Sudan are continuing a days-long strike against the transfer of its vital container terminal to a Philippine company, a union leader said Thursday. "For four days now we are on
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A 5.5-magnitude earthquake jolted Japan's northern island of Hokkaido Thursday but there was no tsunami warning and no immediate reports of injuries or damage, authorities said. The quake struck at 9:22 pm local time (1222
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