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2020/03/12

European officials reacted with surprise and anger Thursday after U.S. President Donald Trump imposed a trans-Atlantic travel ban they fear...

Traders work after the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) on August 7, 2019 on Wall Street in New York City.

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Stocks, Oil Plunge as Trump Travel Ban Fans Recession Fears

2020/03/12

Stock markets tumbled across the globe and oil prices slumped Thursday after President Donald Trump banned all travel from mainland...

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Greece Has ‘Secret Site’ for Migrant Pushbacks: Report

2020/03/11

Greece has a "secret site" on the border with Turkey to incarcerate and expel migrants arriving in a surge facilitated...

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UN Sec. Council Approves US-Taliban Deal as Afghan Gov. Agrees to Release POWs

2020/03/10

The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday unanimously approved a United States' resolution on the recent deal between the U.S. and...

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UN Appeals for Funds to Shield Refugees from Coronavirus

2020/03/10

84 percent of the world's refugees are meanwhile hosted in low or middle-income countries with weaker health, water and sanitation...

Smoke rises from the site of an attack on Tuesday after a massive explosion the night before near the Green Village in Kabul, Afghanistan

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Rockets Mar Afghan President’s Swearing-In as Rival Inaugurates Self

2020/03/09

Rocket fire interrupted the swearing-in ceremony Monday for Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, whose second-term win has been undercut by his...

US President Donald Trump (R) holds a defense sales chart with Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in the Oval Office of the White House on March 20, 2018 in Washington, DC

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‘Mutual Extortion Racket:’ How Defense Manufacturers Influence US Foreign Policy

by Bryan Bowman

2020/03/10

In a new report titled "A Mutual Extortion Racket: The Military Industrial Complex and U.S. Foreign Policy - The Case...

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Oil Crash Sparks ‘Black Monday’ Meltdown on Virus-Hit Markets

2020/03/09

World oil prices crashed Monday, fueling a vicious selloff on stock markets which were already buckling under intense pressure over...

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Indigenous Children Die of Malnutrition in Northern Argentina

2020/03/06

In parched and dusty villages in northern Argentina, children have been dying of hunger and disease linked to a lack...

EU Court Says Israel Settlement Goods Must be Labeled

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Unions Pressure Norwegian Fund Over UN Settlement Blacklist

Two international trade unions have used a U.N. list of companies working in Israeli settlements in the occupied Palestinian territories...

Migrants try to get through border fencing between Turkey and Greece.

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Turkey Deploys Police to Stop Greece Pushing Back Migrants: Minister

Turkey deployed 1,000 police officers on Thursday to prevent Greece pushing migrants back into Turkish territory, its interior minister said,...

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Millions Out of School as WHO Calls for Stronger Virus Response

Almost 300 million students worldwide faced weeks at home with Italy and India the latest to shut schools over the...

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Two Billion Women Won’t See Gender Equality by 2030 at Current Pace: Report

by Monique Davis

More than two billion women and girls won’t see gender equality by 2030, as more than a third of countries...

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Afghan War Crimes Probe Must Go Ahead, ICC Judges Say

ICC prosecutors previously said their investigation would include alleged war crimes by U.S. CIA operatives at detention facilities, referred to...

Israel Seeks to Further Expand Settlements

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Palestinians Fear Netanyahu Win is Step to Annexation

2020/03/04

Hugh Lovatt, Israel-Palestine analyst at the European Council on Foreign Relations think-tank, warned Israel annexing the Jordan Valley would be...

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Swathes of NW Syria Uninhabitable for Years: Report

2020/03/04

Fighting in northwest Syria has rendered large parts of the region uninhabitable for civilians now crammed into an ever-shrinking area...

Charred areas of the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, August 27, 2019

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Amazon, African Forests Turning From CO2 Sink to Source: Study

2020/03/04

In the Amazon, the forest's carbon sink capacity is predicted to reach zero by 2035.

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Coronavirus Now Well-Established in Iran: WHO

2020/03/03

National emergency services chief Pirhossein Kolivand was the latest high-profile official to contract the illness, a spokesman for the services...

A man and a boy cry after police fire tear gas in a refugee camp in Lesbos (Greece). At least one woman and one child have died in a fire during riots with the police. Photo: Angelos Tzortzinis.

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Refugee Aid Groups Attacked as Tensions Rock Greek Island

2020/03/03

On Monday night, the crew of the human rights observation ship Mare Liberum said it was also "attacked by a...

Chile President Lifts State Of Emergency, But Protests Continue

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Violence Flares as Chile Braces for New Anti-Government Protests

2020/03/03