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India's main opposition says bank accounts frozen ahead of elections
Feb 16, 2024 09:12India’s main opposition Congress party says its bank accounts have been frozen by the income tax department weeks before the expected announcement of national elections.
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Sun descends for Japan as it loses title of ‘third largest economy’
Feb 16, 2024 09:06Japan has been overtaken by Germany as the world’s third-largest economy, after the Asian country slipped into recession, according to released data, while battling against a weak yen and an aging shrinking population.
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Maduro calls Argentine’s Milei ‘bandit’ after US 'stole' Venezuelan plane
Feb 16, 2024 05:30Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro has slammed his Argentinian counterpart Javier Milei over the US seizure of a Venezuelan cargo plane grounded in Buenos Aires.
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Ireland pledges funding for UNRWA after US-led withdrawal of support
Feb 16, 2024 05:29Ireland has pledged €20 million ($16.7 million) funding for the United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees after the US and its allies suspended their assistance for the agency based on unsubstantiated Israeli allegations.
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Brazil: No explanation for Israel's behavior in Gaza
Feb 16, 2024 05:29Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has said Israel's behavior in the Gaza Strip, which is enduring a genocidal war by the occupying regime, is beyond explanation.
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Venezuela charges UN human rights office with conspiring with coup plotters
Feb 16, 2024 04:08The Venezuelan government has ordered the local UN human rights office to “suspend its activities” and vacate its staff within 72 hours, accusing the body of conspiring against the country.
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Italian farmers storm Rome's Circus Maximus in latest protest
Feb 16, 2024 04:08More than a thousand farmers have stormed into Rome's historic chariot-racing stadium along with driving tractors in their prolonged campaigns that have resonated throughout various European capitals.
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Indonesia's Prabowo declares victory as president, after preliminary counts
Feb 15, 2024 13:20Indonesia’s defense minister and former general Prabowo Subianto has declared victory after preliminary counts from government-approved pollsters indicated he would win high office with a majority in his third attempt.
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Russia slams US for ‘malicious fabrication’ over space capabilities
Feb 15, 2024 13:05Moscow has dismissed as mere “malicious fabrication” a warning by Washington about Russia’s newly-achieved capabilities in space.
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One dead, 21 injured in shooting at Kansas City Super Bowl victory parade as police arrest three
Feb 15, 2024 13:02One person has been killed and at least 21 others have been injured in a mass shooting during a sport victory parade in Kansas City in the United States, with police detaining three people in connection with the incident.