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Born in Baghdad in 1967, Kadhemi studied law in Iraq but then left for Europe to escape repressive ex-dictator Saddam Hussein
World
20.08.2024
Iraq's new PM: former spy chief with friends on all sides
A man walks through the rubble of a building that was damaged when strongman Khalifa Haftar's forces shelled the neighborhood in the Libyan capital Tripoli on May 1, 2020 -- Hafter has been receiving help from Russian mercenaries, a UN report says
World
20.08.2024
UN confirms Russian mercenaries are fighting in Libya: diplomats
Children pick up free lunch in Arlington, Virginia on March 16, 2020, after schools closed due to coronavirus. Disrupted school lunch programs could be a factor in alarming rises in hunger among US children since the outbreak began, the study says
World
20.08.2024
Nearly 1 in 5 US children left hungry since virus crisis: study
US soldiers stand along the side of a road across near a Russian military armoured personnel carrier (APC), near the village of Tannuriyah in the countryside east of Qamishli in Syria's northeastern Hasakah province on May 2, 2020
World
20.08.2024
US military killed 132 civilians globally in 2019: Pentagon
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President Sebastian Pinera greets his new Minister for Women Macarena Santelices with an elbow bump at the presidential palace in Santiago, Chile
World 20.08.2024
Chile president names Pinochet relative as minister
Kenya faces a severe shock from the economic impact of the coronavirus pandemic, the IMF said
World 20.08.2024
Kenya, Uganda latest to receive IMF help against pandemic
Venezuela President Nicolas Maduro says two Americans will face trial for allegedly being part of a mercenary force that tried to invade the South American country
World 20.08.2024
Maduro says captured Americans to be tried in Venezuela
Restaurants, cafes, museums and theatres in the Netherlands will be allowed to accommodate a maximum of 30 people, including staff, and must respect 1.5 metre (five feet) social distancing rules
World 20.08.2024
Dutch to reopen restaurants in June, sex clubs stay shut
US President Donald Trump says the coronavirus crisis is worse than Pearl Harbor
World 20.08.2024
Trump says coronavirus crisis 'worse than Pearl Harbor' or 9/11
Nigeria's Kano state reported an increase in "mysterious deaths" that turned out to be from coronavirus
World 20.08.2024
Spike in deaths in North Nigeria prompts virus probe
China's priority is first beating the pandemic -- and secondly countering the "absurd and ridiculous" US politicisation of the new coronavirus, Chinese UN ambassador Chen Xu (pictured February 2020) told reporters
World 20.08.2024
China UN envoy: beat pandemic before source probe
World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus (pictured March 2020) said investing now would save lives later, as the death toll from COVID-19 surged past 250,000
World 20.08.2024
Invest now to fight next pandemic, says WHO
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez speaks from his seat during a session to debate the extension of a national lockdown to curb the spread of the novel coronavirus at the Lower Chamber of the Spanish parliament in Madrid
World 20.08.2024
Spain lawmakers extend state of emergency
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