Iran won't negotiate over missile capabilities
DUBAI, Feb 11 (Reuters/AFP): Iran's missile capabilities are its red line and are not a subject to be negotiated, an adviser to Iran's supreme leader said on Wednesday, as Tehran and Washington eye a new round of talks to avert conflict.U.S. and Iranian diplomats held indirect talks last week in...
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Ten dead as shooter opens fire at Canadian school
TUMBLER RIDGE, Feb 11 (Reuters): Ten people including the shooter are dead after an assailant opened fire at a high school in western Canada on Tuesday in one of the country's deadliest mass casualty events in recent history.The attack brought to Canada the type of mass shooting more common in...
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US to scrap legal cornerstone of climate regulations this week
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (AFP): President Donald Trump is set this week to scrap a landmark scientific finding that greenhouse gases jeopardize public health by driving climate change -- the bedrock of US regulations to curb planet-warming pollution.The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last summer proposed reversing the so-called "endangerment finding" of...
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Toddlers among 4 killed in Russian strike on Ukraine
KYIV, Feb 11 (AFP): A Russian drone strike on the Ukrainian city of Bogodukhiv killed three children and their father, an official said on Wednesday.Two one-year-old boys and a two-year-old girl died as a result of an enemy strike on a "private residential house" in the eastern city that sits...
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Half of them lack access to surgery, says WHO
GENEVA, Feb 11 (AFP): More than 94 million people suffer from cataracts, but half of them do not have access to the surgery needed to fix it, the World Health Organization said Wednesday.Cataracts -- the clouding of the eye's lens that causes blurred vision and can lead to blindness --...
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German court jails US military contractor in China spy case
BERLIN, Feb 11 (AFP): A US citizen was sentenced to two years and eight months in prison Wednesday for offering China sensitive information while working as a civilian contractor at a US military base in Germany.The defendant, only partially named as Martin D., was put on trial in a German...
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US deploys 200 troops to train Nigerian military
WASHINGTON, Feb 11 (AFP): The United States will deploy 200 troops to Nigeria to train the west African country's military in its fight against jihadist groups, an official from US Africa Command said Tuesday.The Wall Street Journal reported the deployment will supplement a small team already in the country to...
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