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Putin orders two upgraded ‘Doomsday’ planes for use in event of nuclear war
New York Post 27 Jul 2021
Russian President Vladimir Putin has directed the construction of two new so-called “Doomsday” planes that would function as command and control centers in the event of a devastating nuclear conflict ... The planes are accompanied by fighter jets and are windowless save for the cockpit ... An E-4B refuel mid-flight simply never gets old ... .
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Lebanon Turns to Billionaire Tycoon to Form Next Government - New York Times
WorldNews.com 27 Jul 2021
Najib Mikati, who has served as prime minister twice before, will try to form a government that can please Lebanon’s politicians and address its financial meltdown. His two predecessors failed. Go To Source . .
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Koreas restore communication channels, agree to improve ties
Yahoo Daily News 27 Jul 2021
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The leaders of North and South Korea restored suspended communication channels between them and agreed to improve ties, both governments said Tuesday, amid a 2 ½ year-stalemate in U.S.-led diplomacy aimed at stripping North Korea of its nuclear weapons ... It thinks South Korea still has an effective value ... About 28,500 U.S.
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Tunisian president responds to coup critiques: 'review your constitutional lessons'
Reuters 27 Jul 2021
CAIRO, July 26 (Reuters) - Tunisian President Kais Saied, who recently ousted parliament, responded to critics who called his actions a coup on Monday by telling them to "review your constitutional lessons.". The president was also keen to reassure the business community saying ... read more ... read more ... read more ... Our Standards ... More from Reuters.
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Biden Reportedly Agrees to Iraqi Request to Remove All Combat Troops From Country
Sputnik 26 Jul 2021
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Haiti arrests top security official in slain president probe
Yahoo Daily News 27 Jul 2021
PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) — Authorities in Haiti arrested a top official who served as general security coordinator when President Jovenel Moïse was assassinated, his attorney told The Associated Press on Monday ... Civil's attorney, Reynold Georges, called his client's arrest politically motivated ... “No justice, no peace!” he said ... .
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Mexican president says Biden must “make decision” on Cuba embargo
Metro USA 26 Jul 2021
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said Monday that he thinks U.S. President Joe Biden must make a decision about the embargo against Cuba amid the biggest unrest in the Caribbean nation in decades ... “I think that President Biden must make a decision about it ... embargo. Lopez Obrador says the U.S ... .
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China to expand size of its Private Military Companies in Central Asia
Yahoo Daily News 26 Jul 2021
Beijing [China] July 26 (ANI). Increase in Taliban insurgencies and the danger that it will seek to expand its influence into Central Asia, either by direct incursions or as a role model for local radicals--has refocused China's attention and changed its calculations as well as those of the Central Asian governments ... (ANI). TRENDING. The Quint ... News18 ... .
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California's largest fire burns homes as blazes scorch West
TVNZ 26 Jul 2021photo: AP / David Goldman
Bermuda and the Philippines Have Won Their First Olympic Gold Medals—Ever
Time 27 Jul 2021photo: AP / Ace Morandante/ Malacanang Presidential Photographers Division
'I did not know I was fighting my own government,' Duterte says on drug war
Sun Star 26 Jul 2021
WHEN he said back in 2016 that he would eradicate the illegal drug trade in six months, President Rodrigo Duterte said he thought the fight would be no different from the one he waged in his hometown Davao City ... Little did he know that he would be "fighting (his) own government" as nine police generals were involved in the illegal trade, he said.
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The US diplomatic assurances are inherently unreliable. Julian Assange must be released
Amnesty 26 Jul 2021
Il Fatto Quotidiano’s Stefania Maurizi asked Julia Hall for an analysis of these assurances and for comment on the Pegasus scandal, which Amnesty International has greatly contributed to exposing ... Amnesty International is asking for the charges against Assange to be dropped. Do you believe it is likely that the Biden Administration will drop them? ... .
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After COVID jab, BioNTech sets sights on malaria vaccine
Manila Bulletin 27 Jul 2021
FRANKFURT, Germany — Germany’s BioNTech, which developed a coronavirus vaccine with US giant Pfizer in record time, said Monday it aimed to start trialling a malaria vaccine next year using the same breakthrough mRNA technology ... Thomas Lohnes / AFP ... The coronavirus jab developed by US rival Moderna also uses mRNA technology ... .
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Amazon Denies Report of Accepting Bitcoin As Payment
Slashdot 27 Jul 2021
Amazon on Monday denied a media report saying the e-commerce giant was looking to accept bitcoin payments by the end of the year. Reuters reports. The report from London's City A.M ... .
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Biden announces end of US combat operations in Iraq
Eye Witness News 27 Jul 2021
Eighteen years after the US invaded Iraq to remove strongman Saddam Hussein, and seven years after a US-led coalition battled Islamic State extremists who threatened the country, Washington turned its focus to other types of assistance ... .
