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Trump in the dock: Security beefed up around Manhattan court ahead of arraignment
Apr 03, 2023 10:33Security has been beefed up in Manhattan as former US President Donald Trump is set to fly from Florida to New York City ahead of his scheduled arraignment on charges related to hush money payments before the 2016 election.
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Cruz's stunt shows sanctions, meddling cornerstone of US foreign policy: Think tank
Apr 03, 2023 10:22A US think tank has slammed a bid by a far-right Republican senator to call for sanctions on Argentine officials as yet "another expression of a dangerous addiction to sanctions and meddling" that remains a cornerstone of US foreign policy.
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UK Home Secretary exploits loophole to ‘milk’ expenses system to get £25,000 to pay for personal household bills, report reveals
Apr 03, 2023 10:11UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman has “milked” the expenses system to get taxpayers to foot her household bills, a report has revealed, as ordinary citizens are struggling to pay their bills amid the cost-of-living crisis.
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UK passport office staff launch five-week strike over long-running pay dispute
Apr 03, 2023 09:59Passport Office workers in the UK are launching a five-week strike in the long-running dispute with the government over pay and conditions, as the cost-of-living crisis is weighing on Britons’ lives.
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Ambassador: Russia will move tactical nuclear weapons to Belarus border ‘despite noise in Europe, US'
Apr 03, 2023 05:27Russia's ambassador to Belarus says his country is bent on moving its tactical nuclear weapons close to the border with Belarus, placing them nearer than ever before to the threshold of US-led military alliance of NATO.
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Russia's Wagner group says its units captured Ukraine's Bakhmut 'in legal sense'
Apr 03, 2023 05:24Russia's private security company, Wagner, claims its units have nearly captured the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, which has been the subject of one of the most protracted battles in the ongoing conflict between the two neighbors.
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Violent US storms kill at least 32 people
Apr 03, 2023 04:31The death toll from a violent storm that whipped up tornadoes in the southern and midwestern regions of the United States rose to at least 32 over the weekend, according to officials and media reports.
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British home secretary defends deporting migrants to Rwanda
Apr 03, 2023 03:34Britain's Home Secretary Suella Braverman says she is convinced Rwanda is a safe country to deport migrants who arrived in Britain illegally.
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Barr: Trump should not testify in hush money case because ‘he lacks all self-control’
Apr 02, 2023 11:47Former Republican President Donald Trump should not testify in the criminal case against him in New York because “he lacks all self-control,” according to former US Attorney General William Barr.
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Thousands of Portuguese hold nationwide demonstrations to protest country’s housing crisis
Apr 02, 2023 10:58Thousands of people in Portugal have taken to the streets in the capital city of Lisbon and other cities across the country in protest against increasing rents and house prices at a time when high inflation is making it even tougher for people to make ends meet.