Feared global hunger crisis 'coming to pass' as Mideast war lingers, says UN
GENEVA, June 5 (AFP): "Pessimistic" predictions that the Middle East war could push tens of millions more people into acute hunger if drawn out are being proven right, the United Nations said Friday.A few weeks after the US-Israeli strikes against Iran on February 28 sparked the conflict and plunged world...
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US imposes sanctions on Cuban president, Treasury website shows
WASHINGTON, June 4 (Reuters): The US on Thursday imposed sanctions on Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and some affiliated people and entities, the US Treasury Department's website showed.The sanctions also targeted four other people and five entities, including Diaz-Canel's wife, Lis Cuesta Peraza, two members of the Castro family, and the...
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US forces board sanctioned tanker in Indian Ocean, Pentagon says
WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters): US forces conducted an interdiction of the sanctioned stateless oil tanker Davina overnight in the Indian Ocean, the US military's Indo-Pacific Command said on Friday.Washington has imposed a blockade on Iran's sea trade while Tehran has fired on ships to prevent them sailing through the Strait...
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US Senate approves $70 billion for Trump immigration crackdown
WASHINGTON, United States, June 5 (AFP): The US Senate on Friday approved $70 billion in funding for Donald Trump's hardline immigration crackdown, but only after a long day of votes on multiple amendments that highlighted Republican infighting over some of the president's other contentious policy proposals.The bill would fund Immigration...
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Russia, Ukraine swap 185 POWs each
MOSCOW, June 5 (AFP): Russia and Ukraine exchanged 185 prisoners of war on Friday, the Russian defence ministry said, in one of the few areas of cooperation between the warring sides."On June 5, 185 Russian service members were returned from territory controlled by the Kyiv regime. In exchange, 185 Ukrainian...
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India's 'Cockroach Party' chief flies to New Delhi for protest
NEW DELHI, June 5 (AFP): The founder of India's satirical online "Cockroach People's Party" said he was flying back to New Delhi on Friday, to take the viral social media campaign to the streets.Abhijeet Dipke, the 30-year-old Boston University graduate behind the online movement, said he was flying back from...
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US, Europeans fail to agree on new diplomat overseeing Bosnia peace deal
SARAJEVO, June 5 (AFP): US and European officials failed to agree by Thursday on a top international envoy for keeping the peace in Bosnia after two days of meetings, outgoing high representative Christian Schmidt confirmed.Established as part of the 1995 peace deal that ended Bosnia's inter-ethnic war, the high representative...
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Trump's 'crazy' rebuke undercuts Netanyahu at a critical moment
3JERUSALEM/WASHINGTON, June 5 (Reuters): Benjamin Netanyahu has long portrayed himself to the Israeli public as being uniquely adept in dealing with Donald Trump, capable of winning and sustaining the US president's backing.But an acrimonious phone call this week where the president called the prime minister "fucking crazy", first leaked to...
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