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Putin Opposition Leader Jailed Again After Suspected Poisoning

Supporters say Alexei Nalvany was exposed to a chemical agent while serving a 30-day sentence for leading an opposition action against the Kremlin.

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Boeing 737 Max Grounding Takes Toll On Airlines And Passengers

Airlines around the world are cutting flights because of the grounding of Boeing’s 737 Max. That’s created disruptions for passengers during the busy summer travel season and hit airlines financially.

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UN urges world ‘not to turn its back’ on Yemen

A senior UN official appealed Monday for the international community “not to turn its back” on Yemen and to honour its pledges of aid for the impoverished and war-battered country. “Four years of conflict according to the UNDP latest report have set b…

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Trump Pals Pushed Nuke Firm That Wanted to Undercut Protections Against a Saudi Bomb

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast / Photos GettyTwo of President Trump’s closest advisers pushed hard for a firm trying to circumvent the safeguards meant to Saudi Arabia from building a nuclear weapon. That’s one of the many conclusions of a year-…

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Mitch McConnell: Top Trump ally angrily hits back at ‘modern-day McCarthyism’ amid row over election security and Russia

Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell has angrily hit out at critics who accused of him ignoring threats to US elections from Russia, claiming the “unhinged smears” amounted to “modern-day McCarthyism”.Last week, Mr McConnell, a leading Republican all…

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Tunisians To Choose New Leader After First Democratically Elected President Dies

NPR’s Ari Shapiro speaks with Sarah Yerkes of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace about the death of Tunisia’s president last week. He led the post-Arab Spring transition to democracy.

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As U.S.-China Trade Talks Resume, A Deal Remains Uncertain

U.S. trade negotiators are heading to Shanghai for talks with their Chinese counterparts this week, but there appears to be little pressure for a settlement in the year-old conflict.

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UN envoy calls for truce in Libyan war for Muslim holiday

The U.N. envoy for Libya called Monday for a truce between the country’s warring parties during the upcoming Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha, warning that the ongoing conflict can grow into “a full-blown civil war” with potentially existential consequenc…

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Iran vs. Royal Navy: British Naval Destroyer Deploys to Persian Gulf

The Royal Navy destroyer HMS Duncan has arrived in the Persian Gulf,  temporarily doubling the number of British warships in the Persian Gulf following repeated Iranian attacks on British ships.The brief increase in British warships in the region, from…

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TSA: Man checked missile launcher in luggage at BWI

BALTIMORE (AP) — Federal officials say they’ve found a missile launcher in a man’s luggage at the airport in Baltimore. The Transportation Security Administration said in a statement that the military grade weapon was located in the man’s checked lu…

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Iranian women face 10 years for sharing videos of hijab removal

Iranian women face 10 years for sharing videos of hijab removalIranian officials have warned that posting video footage of women removing their mandatory headscarves in public could lead to up 10 years imprisonment, according to media reports yesterday.  The announcement specifically named the US-based social media platform of Masih Alinejad, which since 2014 has been inviting Iranian women to post pictures of themselves without the hijab. Ms Alinejad has been accused by the Iranian regime of working as an agent of the US government over the website, known as My Stealthy Freedom.  “As Masih Alinejad has a contract with the Americans, all those women who send the video footages of removing their hijab to her will be sentenced between one to 10 years of jail according to the article 508 of the Islamic Criminal Justice Act,” the head of Tehran’s Court of Revolution cleric Mousa Ghazanfarabadi told Fars news. Earlier this year Ms Alinejad met with US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo who “thanked her for her bravery and continued dedication to the cause of freedom for Iranian women”.  In recent days the morality police in Iran has reacted to a number of incidents in which its vigilantees have been attacked in Tehran metro while “advising” women not to remove their hijab. She has denied working for any foreign governments.  Asked by the Fars news agency if sending video clips to an individual in US amounts to a criminal act, Mr Ghazanfarabadi has said: “My understanding of the law is that three types of video recordings are criminal acts; to film our military installations; to record private life of another citizen and the third case is to record a film with the aim of working with an enemy government”. In 2015, the Geneva Summit for Human Rights and Democracy gave Alinejad its women’s rights award for “giving a voice to the voiceless and stirring the conscience of humanity to support the struggle of Iranian women for basic human rights, freedom, and equality”. The hijab mandatory in public for all women in Iran with punishment for violations usually two months imprisonment and a £20 fine.

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