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Esper said Turkey’s decision to go ahead with the purchase of S-400s from Moscow was ‘the wrong one’ [Erin Scott/Reuters]
US President Donald Trump‘s nominee to become the next secretary of defence has denounced Turkey‘s decision to buy Russia’s S-400 missile defence system in remarks that break days of
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Ursula von der Leyen faced the European Parliament in Strasbourg ahead of a vote on her nomination [Vincent Kessler/Reuters]
Ursula von der Leyen has been elected into the EU’s top job by a narrow margin after vowing to address climate change.
The 60-year-old former defence minister of Germany
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Rescue workers and residents search for survivors at the site of the collapsed building [Reuters]
At least seven people have been killed and dozens of others trapped after the collapse of a four-storey residential building in India‘s financial capital, Mumbai, officials and media reports said.
“Seven people have died in
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Fifty years ago, astronaut Buzz Aldrin and Niel Armstrong, took the first steps on the moon.
The moment unified hundreds of millions of people worldwide in a way never seen before or since.
People tuned in to radios or watched on their television screens on July 20, 1969, as Armstrong, who
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Iran will only sit down with the United States if it lifts punishing economic sanctions, foreign minister says [EPA]
Iran hit back at US President Donald Trump‘s call for new nuclear negotiations that encompass its ballistic missiles programme, accusing Washington of bringing the Middle East to the brink of
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Demonstrators protest against President Jimmy Morales’s decision to end the mandate of the UN anti-corruption commission CICIG, in Guatemala City January 12, 2019 [File: Luis Echeverria/Reuters]
In 1985, with the country in a deep economic crisis, Guatemala’s military rulers announced a new economic package that included a rise in the
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