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Pope defrocks Cardinal McCarrick over sex abuse allegations
In a first for the Roman Catholic Church, Pope Francis has defrocked a former cardinal over accusations American Theodore McCarrick…
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U.S-Syria forces drive Islamic State jihadists to the Corner
U.S.-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State’s last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the battle commander said…
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Embattled Venezuela president calls Trumps’s government a ”a gang of extremist”
Venezuela’s embattled President Nicolás Maduro has called Donald Trump’s government a “gang of extremists” and blamed the US for his…
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Post-Brexit: UK shifts attention to Gulf countries
Britain has approached the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and other Gulf ctoountries on a possible trade pact after Britain leaves…
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Jeff Bezos accuses tabloid National Enquirer of blackmail
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and world’s richest man, on Thursday accused the publisher of the National Enquirer of blackmail after…
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British PM May lands in Brussels over Brexit demand
British Prime Minister Theresa May was in Brussels, Belgium, on Thursday to plead with EU leaders to change the Brexit…
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Venezuela’s army general Yanez deserts President Maduro
A high-ranking Venezuelan general, Francisco Yanez has deserted the embattled President Nicolas Maduro and instead pledged allegiance to the opposition…
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Dietitian commits suicide, leaves farewell note
A young Manhattan dietitian Tara Condell hanged herself in her West Village apartment after posting a suicide note online in…
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UN raises alarm over increasing rate of “bigotry” on the Internet
The UN has raised an alarm over what it termed the “alarming increase”, through the internet, in bigotry – intolerance…
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13 die as overloaded boat capsizes in Indonesia
Rescuers have retrieved 13 corpses after an overloaded wooden boat capsized in a River in Central Indonesia, Senior Rescuer said…
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