Secretary of State Marco Rubio has said the US will “blow up” foreign crime groups if needed, possibly in collaboration with other countries.
“Now they’re gonna help us find these people and blow them up, if that’s what it takes,” Rubio said…
Category: 2. World
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Arundhati Roy’s fierce memoir on life with her mercurial mother
Soutik BiswasIndia correspondent
AFP via Getty ImagesRoy’s debut The God of Small Things won the 1997 Booker and made her a celebrity at 36 “Someone once asked me what my mother’s greatest legacy to me was,” Arundhati Roy said at a private…
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Protest at AIPAC as Gaza diminishes Zionist lobby’s influence
Ramin Mazaheri
Press TV, Washington DC.There is increasing outrage in the United States over the influence of AIPAC, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee.
This comes…
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Sweden says Russia behind surge in GPS jamming over Baltic Sea
Sweden has accused Russia of being behind a significant rise in instances of GPS signal jamming recorded over the Baltic Sea, raising concerns for aviation in the region.
The Swedish Transport Agency (STA) said reports of disruptions have risen…
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A small waterway with big political and economic impact for Iraq
Nawar Faeq
Press TV, BaghdadKhor Abdullah is Iraq’s most important maritime passage to the Persian Gulf. But this waterway has long been a source of dispute with…
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‘Alligator Alcatraz’ immigration centre can stay open, appeals court rules
A federal appeals court has overturned a legal order requiring Florida and US President Donald Trump’s administration to shut Alligator Alcatraz, allowing the immigration detention centre to stay open.
In a 2-1 ruling, the US Court of Appeals for…
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Yemen marks Prophet’s birth anniversary with political overtones
Abdullatif al-Washali
Press TV, Sana’aYemenis have turned out in massive numbers to celebrate Prophet Mohammad’s birth anniversary, the country’s most important religious…
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Trump says China no threat, then accuses Xi of ‘conspiring against US’
US President Donald Trump has accused his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, of conspiring against the US with the leaders of Russia and North Korea as the Chinese president hosted foreign leaders at a major military…
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French MP calls for expulsion of Israeli envoy over threat against Gaza-bound flotilla
A French politician has called for the expulsion of Israel’s ambassador to France, Joshua Zarka, after he made a veiled threat against a Gaza-bound humanitarian flotilla.
During a Tuesday interview with Paris-based…
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16 years ago today, a tanker airstrike exposed US-German war crimes in Afghanistan
By Ivan Kesic
Sixteen years ago today, a catastrophic airstrike ordered by a German military commander and carried out by an American bomber crew near the village of Omar Khel in Kunduz, northern Afghanistan,…
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