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Donald Trump USA Politics Trump Election Vote
US President Donald Trump suggested on Tuesday Vice President JD Vance is "most likely" to secure the Republican Party nomination for president in 2028. Trump has avoided naming a preferred successor and said in February that, while Vance was "very capable," it was too soon to make such calls. Asked on Tuesday whether Vance ...
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The leaders of Armenia, Azerbaijan, and the United States will meet for a peace summit in Washington on August 7-8, the Armenian government's press office said Wednesday. Baku and Yerevan, sworn enemies for decades, went to war twice over the disputed Karabakh region, which Azerbaijan recaptured from Armenian forces in a lightning 2023 offensive, ...
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USA United Nations Donald Trump Israel Tehran
Iran said Monday it would hold the United States accountable for attacks on its nuclear sites in any future negotiations, while ruling out direct talks with Washington. The United States struck key Iranian nuclear facilities on June 22, briefly joining a war launched by Israel that had derailed talks on Tehran's atomic programme. "In any ...
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USA Donald Trump Russia Nuclear
Russia on Monday urged caution after US President Donald Trump said he would deploy two nuclear submarines following an online row with former Russian president Dmitry Medvedev. "Russia is very attentive to the topic of nuclear non-proliferation. And we believe that everyone should be very, very cautious with nuclear rhetoric," Kremlin spokesman ...
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USA Hiroshima Nagasaki Nuclear Hibakusha
Japan this week marks 80 years since the United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in World War II. The first on August 6, 1945 killed around 140,000 people in Hiroshima and three days later another 74,000 perished in Nagasaki. Here are some facts about the devastating attacks: The bombs The first atomic bomb was dropped ...
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United States USA Pollution Plastic
Plastic pollution is a "grave, growing and under-recognized danger" to health that is costing the world at least $1.5 trillion a year, experts warned in a report on Monday. The new review of the existing evidence, which was carried out by leading health researchers and doctors, was published one day ahead of fresh talks opening in Geneva aiming ...
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USA Drcongo Conflict Rwanda Diplomacy
The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and Rwanda have held their first talks after signing a peace deal aimed at ending a resurgent conflict in mineral-rich eastern Congo, the two countries said Friday. Eastern DRC, a region bordering Rwanda with abundant natural resources but plagued by non-state armed groups, has suffered extreme violence for ...
This is Beirut, 01/08 09:20 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Iran on Friday rejected accusations by the US and more than a dozen of its allies that Tehran had attempted to kill or kidnap dissidents, journalists and officials in Western countries. In a statement, Iranian foreign ministry spokesman Esmaeil Baqaei described the claims as "baseless", calling them "an attempt to divert public attention from the ...
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A range of new tariffs due to take effect in one week were announced Thursday on most US trading partners, with separate sector specific duties -- on copper -- also being implemented. President Donald Trump unveiled an array of import levies that ranged as high as 41 percent on Syria and included a hike on Canadian imports from the current 25 ...
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The head of Russia's space agency, Roscosmos, said Thursday that he had agreed with his NASA counterpart during talks in the United States to extend the International Space Station's (ISS) operation until 2028. Space is one of the final areas of US-Russia cooperation amid an almost complete breakdown in relations between Moscow and ...
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USA Benjamin Netanyahu Palestine Visa Donald Trump
The United States said Thursday it would deny visas to Palestinian Authority officials, accusing the body, which governs parts of the Israeli-occupied West Bank, of seeking to "internationalize" the situation. The organization is "taking actions to internationalize its conflict with Israel, such as through the International Criminal Court (ICC) ...
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Iran on Thursday described as "malicious" fresh US sanctions targeting a shipping empire controlled by the son of a top political advisor to the Islamic republic's supreme leader. The US Treasury Department on Wednesday imposed restrictions on more than 115 individuals, companies, and ships accused of facilitating the sale of Iranian and Russian ...