Friday, May 31, 2019

UK's Chagos Islands descendants feel like 'lost nation'

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Evicted from their homeland, Chagos Islands families living in the UK are divided by immigration law. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in...

Venezuela crisis: What happened to uprising against Maduro?

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A beleaguered people say they had hopes their misery would end but now they go back to one thing - survival. from BBC News - World https:/...

Sayyida Salme: The tragic life of Zanzibar's rebel princess

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Sayyida Salme is a little known 19th Century princess who fled Zanzibar after scandalising the royals. from BBC News - World https://bbc.i...

MacKenzie Bezos: Novelist and Amazon shareholder

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What do we know about the novelist who is the third-richest woman in the world? from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2XkRCO3

Tiananmen 30 years on - China's great act of 'forgettance'

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Older people are not allowed to remember; the younger generation aren't even allowed to know. from BBC News - World https://bbc.in/2EL...

Saudi king says attacks by Iran-backed groups threaten global oil

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Saudi Arabia's King Salman said on Saturday that attacks on Saudi oil assets last month by Iran-backed groups are a threat to global oil...

Documents Suggest Prosecutors Quickly Changed Mind on Jussie Smollett Case

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By JULIA JACOBS from NYT Arts https://nyti.ms/2wqywdF

Hungary's Fidesz might join new grouping in European parliament: PM

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Hungary's Fidesz party could join a new grouping in the European parliament if staying in the center-right European People's Party (...

North Korea executes envoy in a purge after failed U.S. summit: media

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North Korea executed its nuclear envoy to the United States as part of a purge of officials who steered negotiations for a failed summit bet...

Saudi Arabia says firm stand needed to deter Iran, Iraq demurs

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Saudi Arabia's King Salman told an emergency Arab summit on Friday that decisive action was needed to stop Iranian "escalations...

Hungary PM Orban seeks thorough probe into fatal boat accident

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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban said on Friday he had asked for a thorough investigation into a boat accident on the Danube River in c...

'Khan Market Gang': India's Modi mocks his elite adversaries

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A tatty shopping center originally built to house refugees in the heart of New Delhi has become a handy symbol for Prime Minister Narendra M...

Palestinian stabs Israelis, shot dead by police: spokesman

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A Palestinian stabbed two Israelis in Jerusalem on Friday, wounding one of them critically, before being shot dead by police, an Israeli pol...

Car bomb targets U.S. convoy in Afghan capital, several casualties

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A car bomb targeting a U.S. convoy exploded in the Afghan capital on Friday, wounding four U.S. service members and causing a number of othe...

Trump vows rapid, high tariffs on Mexico unless illegal immigration ends

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U.S. President Donald Trump, responding to a surge of illegal immigrants across the southern border, vowed on Thursday to impose a tariff on...