Archive for the January 2, 2019
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President Donald Trump's decision to pull American troops out of Syria "in no way changes anything" in terms of US support and protection of Israel, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said Tuesday. Pompeo gave
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Romania takes over the EU's rotating presidency on Tuesday at a tumultuous time for the bloc and just days after European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker voiced doubts about the country's ability to do the job.
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US Strategic Command, which oversees the country's nuclear arsenal, apologized for a Twitter message saying it was ready if necessary to drop something "much, much bigger" than the New Year's Eve ball in New York
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A man who said he is the brother of an American arrested in Moscow on espionage charges posted on Tuesday a statement from the family protesting his innocence. "We have read reports of the arrest
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Russian rescuers on Tuesday pulled a baby boy alive from the ruins of an apartment block that collapsed in a gas explosion more than a day earlier, killing at least eight people and leaving dozens
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Deutsche Telekom has filed a lawsuit against Germany's Federal Network Agency protesting the preconditions for participating in a next-generation mobile network frequency auction, Germany's Die Welt newspaper said on Tuesday. Germany stipulated that potential bidders
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South Africa introduced its first minimum wage on Tuesday, with President Cyril Ramaphosa saying millions of workers would be better paid as he readies for a tricky election in May with the national economy struggling
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Cuba will celebrate 60 years of revolution on Tuesday amidst economic crises and political reforms, the first time it will mark such an anniversary without a revolutionary fighter in power. The symbolic commemoration will take
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Oman's government released a 2019 state budget on Tuesday that slows spending growth but may not cut a big deficit that has caused international rating agencies to downgrade its debt to junk status. Spending this
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Dubai expects to almost halt the growth of state spending this year as revenues expand more slowly because of the emirate's efforts to stimulate business investment, according to the 2019 state budget released on Tuesday.
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