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DUBAI – Iran’s Foreign Ministry has summoned the French charge d’affaires over alleged insults against Islam’s Prophet Mohammad, Iranian state broadcaster IRIB reported on Tuesday (Oct 27). A ministry official told the diplomat during their…
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MADRID – The Spanish government faced a backlash on Monday (Oct 26) over its plans to put the country, one of Europe’s worst Covid-19 hotspots, under a state of emergency for six months. Opposition parties said that was too long,…
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KUWAIT – Kuwait’s retail co-ops have pulled French products in boycott over the use of cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad in a French school class on freedom of expression whose teacher was then beheaded by an Islamist. The non-governmental…
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BRUSSELS – The EU’s top diplomat Josep Borrell on Sunday (Oct 25) condemned Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan for making what he described as “unacceptable” comments about his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron. On Saturday, France had…
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WASHINGTON – US Vice-President Mike Pence planned to press ahead with campaigning including a Sunday (Oct 25) trip to the battleground state of North Carolina after multiple close aides tested positive for the coronavirus, as the pandemic…
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MILAN – Italy reported another daily record for Covid-19 cases on Saturday (Oct 24) as the government planned further restrictions to contain a resurgence of the pandemic, despite a second night of street protests against curfews ordered…
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MADRID – Spain was bracing for a new national state of emergency to allow the imposition of curfews as its regions on Saturday (Oct 24) pushed for action to slow surging virus cases. In the face of growing calls for a legal framework to…
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WASHINGTON – US President Donald Trump’s daughter and son-in-law, both top White House aides, are threatening to sue a group of anti-Trump Republicans for posting billboard ads in New York City’s Times Square linking them to the country’s…
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WASHINGTON – The US national security adviser said on Friday (Oct 23) the US Coast Guard (USCG) was basing Enhanced Response Cutters in the western Pacific for maritime security missions, citing illegal fishing and harassment of vessels by…
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WASHINGTON – Late-stage coronavirus vaccine trials run by AstraZeneca and Johnson & Johnson have resumed in the United States after the companies said Friday (Oct 23) that serious illnesses in a few volunteers appeared not to be related…
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