Archive for the January 30, 2019
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Iran is still abiding by the terms of the 2015 nuclear deal despite the US pullout from the multinational agreement, Central Intelligence chief Gina Haspel said Tuesday. "At the moment technically they are in compliance"
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The Palestinian government submitted its resignation Tuesday, a statement said, a move seen as a bid by president Mahmud Abbas to strengthen his position as a decade-old political split deepens. Analysts view replacing prime minister
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Three militia leaders, including a man accused of murdering 39 police officers, surrendered on Tuesday in a show of support for DR Congo's new President Felix Tshisekedi, local officials said Tuesday. All three, who belong
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Alexander Tizyakov, one of the hardliners behind an attempted coup in 1991 against Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev, has died aged 92, authorities said on Tuesday. "We are in mourning. The former director of ZiK plant
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French President Emmanuel Macron on Tuesday held a surprise second meeting with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel Fattah al-Sisi after talks with the country's top clerics, ending a three-day visit aimed at boosting ties while raising
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US intelligence chiefs on Tuesday contradicted President Donald Trump's statements that the Islamic State group has been defeated and that North Korea can be convinced to forego its nuclear weapons. In their annual report on
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Saudi Arabia's stock market fell on Tuesday as most of its bank shares dropped while Egypt's blue-chip index gained, partly helped by Global Telecom on the prospect of it going private. Market sentiment was also
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Saudi Arabia's stock market fell on Tuesday as most of its bank shares dropped while Egypt's blue-chip index gained, partly helped by Global Telecom on the prospect of it going private. Market sentiment was also
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Japan's Nikkei inched up on Tuesday, led by gains in defensive shares such as utilities, after the index spent much of the day in the red after warnings from US industry bellwethers Caterpillar and Nvidia
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The S&P 500 and Nasdaq fell on Tuesday, as technology stocks pulled back, while concerns about the upcoming US-China trade talks and mixed earnings reports gave little impetus for markets to recover from a slide
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