“We agree to start negotiations before the end of November,” Ali Bagheri Khani, Iran’s Deputy Foreign Minister and the nation’s chief negotiator in Vienna, said in a Twitter post on Wednesday, adding that the exact date would be announced next week. He made the statement after meeting the EU’s political …
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It’s that time of the year, folks. When we’re told we simply must impose or re-impose restrictions – including mandatory masks, social distancing, vaccine passports and bans on indoor gatherings – to ‘protect the NHS.’ ‘The Health Service won’t be able to cope.’ ‘We’re in a perilous situation.’ ‘We’re on the …
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Speaking after Averina won all-round gold at the Olimpico Cup, Irina Viner-Usmanova, the head coach of the Russian national team, claimed that the 23-year-old had contemplated concentrating on an economics qualification in the aftermath of her controversial final at the Games, finishing second to Israel’s Linoy Ashram in a shock result that many considered …
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Biden phoned Macron on Wednesday to discuss last week’s announcement of a new security pact between the US, UK and Australia – which resulted in France losing a multi-billion-dollar shipbuilding contract, among other things – and “agreed that the situation would have benefitted from open consultations among allies on matters …
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“We are not against education of girls, but we are still working on mechanisms of how their school attendance can be possible,” Taliban spokesperson Zabiullah Mujahid told Germany’s Der Spiegel magazine. Mujahid said that a safe environment and transportation must be guaranteed for female students before they are allowed back in …
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Capitol Police briefed Congress on the return of the fence on Monday, confirming it was indeed coming back and promising the legislators would be spared the chaos of eight months previous. “The fence will go up a day or two before, and if everything goes well it will come down …
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I really can’t overstate just how much I dislike ABBA. Truly, their music actually physically hurts – the impact of an ABBA tune can be weighed and measured using a crap detector. That’s similar to a lie detector, but instead of a lie, it records my disdain. The opening lines …
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In letters to Attorney General Merrick Garland and Secretary of State Antony Blinken, ranking Republican members of the House Committees on Oversight and Reform and the Subcommittee on National Security urged the Biden administration to do “everything in its power to seize any illicitly gained funds that were corruptly embezzled …
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The Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan was a “severe defeat of the West” and a “moral victory of Islamism over the West,” Bavarian Minister-President Markus Soeder said, as quoted by German media. The fact that on the 20th anniversary of the 9/11 [terrorist attacks] the Taliban is back and is stronger …
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Jake Davison, 22, gunned down five people in the port city of Plymouth on Thursday. He killed two men, two women – including his mother – and a toddler, before turning his weapon on himself. Attention has now turned to Davison’s troubled history, as well as his firearms ownership. He …
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