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Government troops and allied forces have in recent days made major gains in areas around Aleppo city, securing a key highway connecting the country's four largest cities and allowing for the reopening of the international airport
In 2019, the swanky dinner held in a hotel near the White House featured a talk by historian Ron Chernow, suspending the tradition of having comedians let rip at the media and politicians
Scientists predict hot spells made increasingly likely by climate change could lead to roving blackouts as an ever-greater share of humanity opt to live in cities
Despite its legality in Italy, women often have a hard time getting an abortion because 70% of gynecologists whom the law allows to be ‘conscientious objectors’ refuse to perform the procedure
She resigned as premier in July 2019 after three years in the post amid mounting pressure over her inability to carry out Brexit, a topic notably absent from her speech in the United Arab Emirates
Iran-linked Huthi rebels claimed to have shot down the aircraft
She placed fourth Tuesday in the New Hampshire primary, trailing the top tier of candidates by more than 10 percentage points
A Belfast couple were set to become the first same-sex couple to get married in Northern Ireland after a change in the law
The budget makes cuts to social programs, environmental protections and foreign assistance, to fund higher defense spending and extend tax cuts for wealthy individuals and companies, according to officials and multiple US media reports
'Europe has been treating us very badly,' US president says at a White House event with US state governors
Mali has struggled to contain a jihadist revolt that broke out in the country in 2012, claiming thousands of military and civilian lives since
The playboy son of Equatorial Guinea leader Teodoro Obiang Nguema has a fondness for parties, supercars, fancy suits, jewelry, yachts and the company of hip hop stars, documenting many of his exploits on Instagram
'Nigeria's position on the Eco currency is that the convergence criteria have not been met by majority of the countries,' the country's presidency said on Twitter.
The Scottish National Party (SNP) wants a second referendum to be held now that Britain has left the European Union, as a majority north of the border with England wanted to stay in the bloc
More than 30 travel firms complain to the EU's powerful anti-trust authority that the search giant is unfairly trying to encroach on their business
Rebels captured much of the West African state's north in 2012, including Kidal, triggering a war that has since been taken over by jihadists and spread to central Mali, neighboring Burkina Faso and Niger
Ruhollah Zam, 41, who had been living in exile before being arrested, had been accused by authorities of playing an active role in 2017-18 anti-government protests
In a statement, the French foreign ministry calls on Iran to abide by international obligations on its controversial ballistic missile program
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps announced the arrest of Ruhollah Zam in October, describing him as a 'counter-revolutionary' who was 'directed by France's intelligence service'
Jan Szkodon, a bishop in the southern city of Krakow, said in a statement that the Vatican had told him of the inquiry, adding that the accusations were 'false and harmful' - though he gave no further detail
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