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Iran launches domestically made destroyer: State media

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Israel, Palestinians jockey over Jerusalem in Trump era

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In recent weeks, Israel has arrested dozens of Palestinian activists for alleged illegal political activity. It demolished Palestinian shops for failing to have permits, a court has cleared the way for settlers to move in to an Arab neighborhood and the city's outgoing mayor is trying to close the east Jerusalem operations of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2RxZEA4

1991 Gulf War looms large over Bush's Mideast legacy

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That son being Bush al-Widhan, born in the aftermath of the 1991 Gulf War that saw US-led forces expel the occupying Iraqi troops of dictator Saddam Hussein. "He was a real man, a lion," said Mubarak al-Widhan, the father of the Kuwaiti Bush, of the American president. "He stood for our right for freedom, and he gave us back our country." from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2E5C0bp

Things to know about George HW Bush

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JD.com founder's rape accuser says she was lured to Liu dinner

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It was a Thursday evening in late August and a crowd had gathered at the Origami sushi restaurant in Minneapolis. One guest, a 21-year-old female Chinese undergraduate at the University of Minnesota, was initially expecting a dinner in honor of volunteers like herself. ​ from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2FSLR5X

US seen blocking G20 progress on trade, climate

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Beijing lashes out at US for South China Sea sail-by

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Six new antibodies developed to combat Zika

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The antibodies "may have the dual utility as diagnostics capable of recognising Zika virus subtypes and may be further developed to treat Zika virus infection," said Ravi Durvasula from Loyola University in the US. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Q5LYQ8

Five dead, 32 injured in Hong Kong coach crash

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Five people were killed and 32 injured when a coach carrying Cathay Pacific staff to Hong Kong's airport collided with a taxi on Friday, police said, with passengers thrown from the coach's windows on impact. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2P8y8Hv

Ebola outbreak in east Congo now world's second biggest

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The epidemic in a volatile part of Democratic Republic of Congo is now only surpassed by the 2013-2016 outbreak in West Africa, where more than 28,000 cases where confirmed, and is bigger than an outbreak in 2000 in Uganda involving 425 cases. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Azd5sA

Facebook says COO Sandberg asked for information on Soros

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Facebook on Thursday said that chief operating officer Sheryl Sandberg asked staff to look into whether billionaire critic George Soros had a financial interest in tarnishing the social network. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2TZ69xy

Bangladesh arrests 10 Rohingya bound for Malaysia

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Southeast Bangladesh is home to around a million Rohingya, most of whom fled Myanmar last year following a military crackdown and are now in vast camps. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2FPmEte

Another Canadian diplomat diagnosed with mysterious Cuba brain injury

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Another Canadian diplomat in Havana has been diagnosed with a mysterious brain trauma that in 2016 started afflicting Canadian and US officials in the Cuban capital, a senior official said Thursday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Qvi33i

Ex-Interpol chief ousted from China top advisory body

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The National Committee for the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) agreed to revoke Meng Hongwei's membership following a meeting, Xinhua news agency reported. The CPPCC is a 2,000-strong assembly of delegates whose role is supposedly to "advise" the government by putting forth policy suggestions. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2SfsBRw

Trump says close to doing something with China on trade

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The US is very close to a trade deal with China, President Donald Trump has said, but remained noncommittal to its final outcome ahead of his meeting with Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Argentina on the sidelines of the G-20 Summit. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2PaCcXP

Two Koreas start landmark journey for railway reconnection

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Linking up the railway systems was one of the agreements made earlier this year in a key meeting between North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and the South's President Moon Jae-in. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2DSU8V2

Search for remains in California's deadliest wildfire officially ends

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Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said he was optimistic that some who remain unaccounted for will turn up alive, but he also left open the possibility that "bones or bone fragments" of additional victims could turn up as evacuation zones are reopened to civilians. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2QtA95P

UK PM May says focused on December 11 parliament Brexit vote

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​May secured an agreement with European Union leaders on Sunday that will see Britain leave the bloc in March next year with continued close trade ties, but the odds look stacked against her getting it through a deeply divided British parliament. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2FP0VRY

Moon rocks sell for $855,000 in New York: Sotheby's

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The rocks, collected by an unmanned Soviet Luna-16 Mission in 1970, went for nearly double the $442,500 last paid for them by the present-day US sellers in a Sotheby's Russian space history sale in 1993. They were originally the property of Nina Ivanovna Koroleva, widow of Sergei Pavlovich Korolev — the former director of the Soviet space program — who was given them by the Soviet Union in honor of her husband's work. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2rbbCEp

Side issues loom over G-20 summit as world leaders arrive

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The two-day summit beginning Friday is supposed to focus on development, infrastructure and food security, but those seemed largely an afterthought amid soured US-European relations and as the United States, Mexico and Canada hammered out the final language of a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement expected to be signed Friday. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2zzdRGl

Merkel warns 'no military solution' to Ukraine conflict

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UK govt to face votes on Brexit alternatives before final approval ballot

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UK security firm G4S says five employees killed in Kabul attack

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Turkey to pay for Russian S-400s in rubles or lira: Erdogan

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Erdogan said the final currency composition had yet to be agreed but confirmed he expected the deliveries of the systems to take place in 2019. His comments came a day after Putin said that Russia was cutting its dependency on dollars in international trade due to increasingly tough US sanctions. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2SdJcVC

Putin, Trump will meet at G20 summit as planned: Kremlin

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A meeting between US President Donald Trump and Russia's Vladimir Putin will take place at this week's G20 summit as planned, the Kremlin said Thursday, despite US threats to cancel over Moscow's tensions with Ukraine. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2E5XR2v

China expresses concerns over US warships in Taiwan Strait

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Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang told reporters Thursday that Taiwan was the ``most important and sensitive issue'' in relations between the sides. China's defense ministry also said it had closely followed the warships' passage. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2FOpdvy

Despite sanctions South Sudan stays armed for war: Report

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A four-year investigation, by London-based Conflict Armament Research (CAR), into the supply of weapons that have helped keep South Sudan's civil war alive since December 2013, has revealed the important role played by neighbouring countries, particularly Uganda, in circumventing arms embargoes. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Skv8Kd

Sri Lanka parliament to cut PM's budget

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Thursday's vote comes more than a month after President Maithripala Sirisena triggered the crisis by ousting former prime minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replacing him with Rajapaksa, who was then in turn sacked by Parliament. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Sgn50Q

Ukraine's Poroshenko: Putin wants my whole country

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Russia seized three Ukrainian navy ships and their crews on Sunday near the Crimean peninsula, which Moscow annexed in 2014, over what it said was their illegal entry into Russian waters - a charge Ukraine strongly refutes. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2rdjFR8

US puts on hold discussions over Lanka's participation in MCC amidst political crisis

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The US has put on hold its discussions with Sri Lanka on its potential participation in an American aid initiative on poverty reduction due to the disruption in the country's democratic process following the ouster of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe, a senior official has said. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2E3iiNs

Trump heads to G20 primed for new conflicts

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US President Donald Trump jets to Argentina Thursday for a G20 summit, keen to do battle with China on trade and sharpening his rhetoric against Russia over Ukraine. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2QpCIWF

Pompeo says no hard evidence Saudi prince ordered Khashoggi killing

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Pompeo spoke to reporters after he and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis told the Senate behind closed doors that weakening U.S.-Saudi ties over the killing would hurt national security. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2P8Vc8W

US seeks transparency on Chinese debt on Pakistan

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"The IMF team just came back from Pakistan. One of the things we're pushing hard for is full transparency of the debt," Under Secretary of Treasury for International Affairs David Malpass told lawmakers during a Congressional hearing. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2AuVi5N

There’s no attempt to hide: Ivanka says her private emails not like Hillary’s

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Ivanka Trump, US President Donald Trump’s oldest daughter and a White House adviser, dismissed comparisons of her use of private email for government work and that of Hillary Clinton, her father’s Democratic rival in the 2016 election. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Q10Hfl

Trump endorses treason charges against Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton

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UN chief says ready to meet Saudi prince to discuss Yemen

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Sri Lanka's top military official detained over mass murder cover-up

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Putin blames Ukraine for standoff, boosts defenses in Crimea

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Ukraine, for its part, released what it said was the exact location where its ships were fired on Sunday by Russia, showing that they were in international waters approaching Kerch Strait from the west, not from the east, as Putin suggested. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Sj7QEj

No-deal Brexit could cost UK economy 9.3 per cent of GDP over 15 years: Govt

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Given this range of options, the economic analysis offered two different models on what the final deal could look like, and assessed how they could affect the economy when combined with the government's hopes of ending free moment of EU workers into Britain. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2RpqQkR

Will Saudi crown prince be a pariah at G20?

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All eyes will be on Saudi Arabia's embattled Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman later this week when he heads to Buenos Aires for the Group of 20 summit. At issue is the gruesome slaying of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi and allegations that the crown prince ordered his killing. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2FIfI0V

Lion Air jet should have been grounded before fatal flight: Safety agency

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Pilots struggled to control plane that crashed in Indonesia: Report

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Trump says he may cancel Putin meeting, White House warns Xi

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Blast kills 22 near north China chemical plant: Official

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Ex-Trump campaign chairman met WikiLeaks founder: Report

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Manafort went to the Ecuadorian embassy in London in 2013, 2015 and then "around March 2016" to meet Assange, whose organization is accused of leaking thousands of emails allegedly stolen by Russian hackers from Hillary Clinton's rival campaign, the newspaper said, citing unnamed sources. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2Q21ZXH

China's Xi to send special envoy to Mexican presidential inauguration

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Chinese president Xi Jinping will send a special envoy to attend Mexico's presidential inauguration, following the Chinese leader's talks with Donald Trump at the G20 summit. from World News Headlines, Latest International News, World Breaking News - Times of India https://ift.tt/2DMJtLj

UN chief urges 'maximum restraint' from Russia, Ukraine

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Roadside bomb kills 3 US soldiers in eastern Afghanistan

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Dortmund team-bus bomber gets 14-year jail sentence

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Bangladeshi court bars Khaleda Zia from contesting next month's polls

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Responding to Trump, UK's May says will be free to strike US trade deals

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