The Syrian foreign ministry has, in correspondence to the United Nations, accused the US-led coalition of new atrocities against its civilians. It includes an attack on hospital in Raqqa and the use of "internationally banned white phosphorus munitions" against the Syrian people.
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A petition to stop French president Emmanuel Macron’s wife Brigitte being afforded a formal position as the country's First Lady has so far collected over 180,000 signatures of the targeted 200,000.
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Carla del Ponte, a leading UN investigator of the Syrian conflict, has announced she's quitting her job because backing from the UN Security Council has been lacking. "We have no power as long as the UNSC does nothing," she said.
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said defendants in the trials linked to last year’s failed coup as well as terrorism suspects will now have to wear a standard brownish prison uniform, following controversy in which an accused soldier wore a t-shirt saying ‘hero’ in court.
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Israel has announced plans to effectively expel the Al Jazeera network from the country, revoking journalists' credentials, shutting the company's bureau in Jerusalem and pulling its broadcasts from national cable and satellite television networks.
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Drone footage has been released showing the dramatic impact of heatwave Lucifer on the Italian Alps, as temperatures soar to over 40°C.
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The world faces the worst humanitarian crisis since World War II. Four countries across Africa and the Middle East are on the brink of disaster.
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An inaugural event to curb murders in one of America’s most violent cities was interrupted by the killings of two men on Saturday, though organisers insist that the ‘Baltimore ceasefire’ has not ended.
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Refugees have continued their protest on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island detention centre over the removal of power, water, and medical services. A journalist on the scene warns that there could be a “big tragedy” if they are forcibly removed.
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Authorities in Venezuela have announced they thwarted a "terrorist attack" on a military base not far from the capital, Caracas. The statement comes after a group of men in military uniforms released a video announcing an uprising against President Nicolas Maduro.
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Champion boxer and Olympic medallist Vijender Singh has made an extraordinary gesture in victory, which he hopes will encourage the Indian and Chinese governments to de-escalate tensions in their territorial dispute in the Himalayas.
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The UN Security Council (UNSC) has once again attempted to pressure North Korea (DPRK) over its nuclear and missile tests by approving a seventh round of sanctions in 11 years.
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Belgian officials have admitted they knew in early June that eggs from Dutch farms could possibly be contaminated with a toxic insecticide, fipronil, which can affect people's kidneys and liver, but chose not to go public because of an ongoing fraud investigation.
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An Iranian soldier opened fire on his fellow servicemen at a military air base 10 kilometers to the south of Tehran, Mehr News agency reported. Ten soldiers were injured in the attack, it said.
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A man carrying a knife and reportedly shouting “Allahu Akbar” tried to force his way through security checks at the Eiffel Tower on Saturday. French prosecutors have launched a counterterrorism investigation, according to reports citing judicial sources.
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Australia has sent naval vessels and divers to assist the US in finding three missing marines, following Saturday’s US military plane crash.
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Rex Tillerson and Sergey Lavrov held their first meeting since the US Senate voted to impose new sanctions on Russia, which responded with countermeasures. Lavrov said Moscow is ready for normalized relations if the US “pulls back from confrontation.”
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Saudi Arabia has issued a rare public response to accusations of torture used to force confessions from 14 Shia Muslims who were sentenced to death in July by the secretive Saudi Specialized Criminal Court.
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German police have arrested two Chinese tourists for giving a “Heil Hitler” salute outside the country's historic Reichstag parliament building.
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Moscow and Beijing are against any missile launches carried out by North Korea and are at the same time calling on the US to halt military drills in the region, Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says.
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The Chinese foreign minister called on his North Korean counterpart to accept a newly-passed UN resolution and stop provoking “the international community’s goodwill” by conducting missile launches and nuclear tests.
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With US President Donald Trump signing off on the latest round of sanctions against Russia over its alleged meddling in the 2016 US election, the country is resigned to living under sanctions for a long time to come.
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A 10-page memo that went viral inside Google and has been obtained by Gizmodo sees a Google software engineer arguing that women are underrepresented in tech not due to bias, but rather because of inherent psychological differences from men.
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Cyberattacks across the world have grown ever-larger in scale, inflicting billions of dollars of damage – and the US is spearheading the quest to make hackers pay, wherever they are, sometimes with exceedingly tough jail terms.
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has criticized Washington's "lack of commitment" to the historic multinational nuclear deal, one of his first moves since being re-elected. Widely considered as one of the greatest achievements of former US leader Barack Obama, his successor has clearly shown opposition to the pact.
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