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Spain's Prime Minister Sánchez says he'll continue in office after days of reflection.
MADRID (AP) — Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez said Monday he will continue in office “even with more strength” after days of reflection. Sánchez shocked the country on Wednesday, announcing he was taking five days off to think about his future after a court opened preliminary proceedings...
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Azerbaijan’s president says Baku to spare no efforts to advance peace agenda
During a phone conversation with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev said that Baku will persist in “sparing no efforts” to advance the peace agenda between his country and neighboring Armenia. “Recalling that the Republic of Azerbaijan was the...
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Haiti’s deadly gangs forced the government out. Now they want a seat at the table
Vitel’homme Innocent’s picture on the FBI’s “Ten Most Wanted” list of fugitives suggests a crazed man – eyes wide and wild, teeth bared. It’s the photo you might expect for a gang leader accused of destabilizing a nation, who claims to be under divine protection and who has a $2 million bounty on...
photo: AP / Odelyn Joseph, File
At least 20 Palestinians killed in Israeli airstrikes on Rafah
CAIRO - Israeli airstrikes on three houses in the southern Gaza city of Rafah killed at least 20 Palestinians and wounded many others, medics said on Monday, as Egyptian and Qatari mediators were expected to hold a new round of ceasefire talks with Hamas leaders in Cairo. In Gaza City, in the north...
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Togo’s parliamentary election: Why all eyes are on President Gnassingbe
Some 4.2 million eligible Togolese voters are heading to the polls on Monday to vote in delayed and controversial parliamentary elections that are causing tensions in a West African region already plagued by instability. Unlike in previous elections in which voters in the country of eight million...
photo: European Community / Claudio Centonze
China set to launch high-stakes mission to moon’s ‘hidden’ side
China will send a robotic spacecraft in the coming days on a round trip to the moon’s far side in the first of three technically demanding missions that will pave the way for an inaugural Chinese crewed landing and a base on the lunar south pole. Since the first Chang’e mission in 2007, named after...
photo: Creative Commons / Koichi Oda
Blinken arrives in Saudi Arabia to discuss Israel normalisation, post-war Gaza
RIYADH - US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Saudi Arabia on Monday, the first stop in a broader trip to the Middle East to discuss issues including the governance of Gaza once the war with Israel ends. The top US diplomat heads to Israel later this week, where he is expected to press...
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Biden is up against nostalgia for Trump’s first term
CNNPresident Joe Biden is casting the 2024 election partly as a referendum on Donald Trump, but it’s a harder card to play now that he’s in office and some voters have warming memories of the former president’s chaotic term. The presumptive GOP nominee is showing progress in gathering the...
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Dozens of tornadoes plow central US, at least 5 killed
An exceptional number of tornadoes have ravaged parts of Oklahoma and nearby Great Plains states, leaving at least five dead, authorities and local media said Sunday. After 78 tornadoes were reported Friday, mostly in Nebraska and Iowa, a separate weather system Saturday brought 35 tornado reports...
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Russia makes more gains around Avdiivka as Ukraine awaits US aid
Russia has consolidated recent battlefield gains in the east of Ukraine, and is attempting to break through Ukrainian defensive lines before a long-awaited package of US military assistance arrives at the frontline. On Sunday Russian troops advanced near the city of Avdiivka. They seized two...
photo: AP / Efrem Lukatsky, File

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