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Hungary’s nationalist government launches its presidency of the European Union on Monday with a Trump-like call to “Make Europe Great Again” after EU lawmakers questioned whether it should be allowed to take on the role. Their concerns…
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Indonesia’s Prabowo Subianto has been elected president of the world’s third-biggest democracy, the elections commission said Wednesday, beating two rivals who have vowed to file legal complaints about the vote. The fiery defense…
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Saudi authorities arrested 19,321 people in one week for breaching residency, work and border security regulations, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday. According to an official report, a total of 11,427 people were arrested for…
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Russia’s UN ambassador on Monday dismissed US and European Union descriptions of its presidency of the Security Council this month as an April Fool’s joke and announced a meeting to be chaired by Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on defending…
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A Lebanese clergyman has expressed his support for a woman candidate for the presidency. Beirut’s Metropolitan Greek Orthodox Archbishop Elias Aoude asked during his Sunday sermon: “What would the situation be like if a female candidate…
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East Timor President Jose Ramos-Horta said on Tuesday during a visit to Indonesia that he hoped to boost trade ties between the countries and seal a decades-long bid by his nation to join the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)…
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US President Joe Biden and his wife, Jill Biden, announced Friday their combined combined net income in 2021 along with the amount of taxes they paid. "The President and First Lady jointly filed an income tax return (for 2021) and reported…
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The son and namesake of late Philippine leader Ferdinand Marcos has maintained a strong lead in the Philippines’ presidential election race, according to an opinion poll published on Monday. The Feb 18-23 survey by independent pollster…
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Hundreds of Iranian Americans whose relatives were executed more than three decades ago following sham trials involving new Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi took part in a rally in Washington on Monday. They were calling on the US and its…
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The Constitutional Court in Turkey has decided to cancel the Turkish Presidency's access to free services from various state institutions. According to the Turkish newspaper "Zaman", the Constitutional Court in Turkey canceled the…
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