Israel is reportedly pressuring the United States to condition any future sale of F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia on Riyadh abandoning its demand for a Palestinian state and formally normalizing ties with Tel…
Category: 2. World
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Lebanese army slams Israeli attack on UN peacekeepers
Lebanon’s army has strongly denounced an attack by Israeli occupation forces that nearly struck the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon (UNIFIL) forces in southern Lebanon, calling it a “dangerous…
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Ecuador votes against allowing foreign military bases in country
Ecuadoreans have voted against allowing the return of foreign military bases in the country, frustrating US hopes of expanding its presence in the eastern Pacific region.
The referendum result is a blow to Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa, who had…
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Brazil’s Amazon rainforest at risk as key protection under threat
Justin Rowlatt,Climate editor and
Jessica Cruz,South America producer
BBC / Tony JolliffeThe Amazon rainforest could face a renewed surge of deforestation as efforts grow to overturn a long-standing ban that has protected it.
The ban – which…
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Communist and far-right candidates head to Chile presidential run-off
Chile’s presidential election will go to a run-off vote in December between a Communist Party and a far-right candidate, after the first round on Sunday produced no outright winner.
The election campaign was dominated by crime and immigration, as…
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The oil pipeline feud testing Canada’s global ambitions
Nadine YousifSenior Canada reporter
Getty ImagesBritish Columbia Premier David Eby has dismissed Alberta’s hopes of building a pipeline through his province to the Pacific. Alberta Premier Danielle Smith has called him “un-Canadian” As Canada looks…
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How realistic is the plan to build a ‘drone wall’ against Russia?
Frank GardnerSecurity correspondent
BBCFirst comes the warning, that disembodied voice over the tannoy: “Your attention please. Air siren in the city. Please move to the shelter on the minus second floor.” Then comes the mosquito-like whine of…
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Two US marines implicated in killing family in notorious Iraq war shooting, expert tells BBC
Lara ElgebalyBBC Eye Investigations
BBCSafa Younes is now 33 – she was the only person in her family to survive the shootings in Haditha “This is the room where my whole family was killed,” says Safa Younes.
Bullet holes pepper the front door to the…
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