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Black candidate challenges political status quo in Spain

Serigne Mbaye, who is running on a ticket with the anti-austerity United We Can party, in the Madrid regional assembly elections, talks with a potential voter during an election campaign event in Madrid, Spain, Friday, April 16, 2021. Mbaye, a Senegalese-born environmental refugee wants to defy a history of underrepresentation of the Black community and

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Iran negotiator: based on accords so far, U.S. sanctions on oil, banks would be lifted

European External Action Service (EEAS) Deputy Secretary General Enrique Mora, Iranian Deputy at Ministry of Foreign Affairs Abbas Araghchi and Iran’s ambassador to the U.N. nuclear watchdog Kazem Gharibabadi wait for the start of a meeting of the JCPOA Joint Commission in Vienna, By Francois Murphy Iran’s chief nuclear negotiator said on Saturday Tehran expects

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Mourners hold protester funerals in Chad’s tense capital

Mourners lower the coffin of one of the victims of protest who was killed this week during his funeral at a cemetery in N’Djamena, Chad, Saturday, May 1, 2021. Hundreds of chanting mourners carrying Chadian flags gathered Saturday to bury victims who were shot dead earlier this week amid demonstrations against the country’s new military

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Congo declares state of siege over eastern bloodshed

Democratic Republic of Congo President Felix Tshisekedi arrives at the UK-Africa Investment Summit in London, Britain, January 20, 2020. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls/File Photo Congolese President Felix Tshisekedi on Friday declared a state of siege over the worsening violence in the eastern provinces of Ituri and North Kivu that has killed hundreds this year and displaced more

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‘EU trying to avoid, externalize refugee issue’

Rising anti-refugee sentiments in Europe led EU to try to use 3rd countries, like Turkey, as buffer zones, says academic The EU is working to externalize the problem of refugees by keeping them in third countries like Turkey and promising funding, said a speaker at the Turkish-based TRT World Forum Digital Debates on Friday. “Refugee

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UN says 125 Europe-bound children rescued off Libyan coast

Last week, 130 migrants bound for Europe went missing and are feared to be dead after their boat capsized in the Mediterranean (AFP) The majority of the children were sent to detention centres in Libya and the UN is calling for their release A total of 125 children were intercepted at sea this week by

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Crush at Israeli religious festival kills 44

Medics and rescue workers attend to the Lag B’Omer event in Mount Meron, northern Israel, where fatalities were reported among the thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered at the tomb of a 2nd-century sage for annual commemorations that include all-night prayer and dance, at Mount Meron, Israel April 30, 2021 REUTERS/ Stringer By Reuters, Dan Williams

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Dark web drug dealers paid more than £3.5m in Bitcoin and cryptocurrency in massive cocaine operation

Jehanzeb Amar and Salahydin Warsame (Image: Metropolitan Police) By Carl Jackson Jehanzeb Amar and Salahydin Warsame used social media sites called ‘LetsWork’ and ‘TheOnlyLw’ to wholesale cocaine from Boliva, Peru and Columbia ‘Greedy’ drug dealers who sold huge amounts of South American cocaine over the dark web were paid more than £3.5million in Bitcoin and

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China says US increasing military activity directed at it

File – In this April 23, 2019, file photo, the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy aircraft carrier Liaoning participates in a naval parade to commemorate the 70th anniversary of the founding of China’s PLA Navy in the sea near Qingdao in eastern China’s Shandong province. China says it is holding naval drills involving the

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Saudi Arabia decides to close 8 Turkish schools with 2,256 students by end of 2021

Kingdom decides to terminate activities of schools in capital Riyadh, other provinces at end of 2020-2021 academic year The Saudi Arabian administration has decided to terminate the activities of 8 Turkish schools affiliated to the Ministry of National Education operating in the capital Riyadh and other provinces at the end of the 2020-2021 academic year,

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