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What Lula’s reelection means for Brazil, Latin America
By Xinhua News Agency Brazilian incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (C), candidate of the ruling Workers’ Party, delivers a speech following his victory in the presidential runoff
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Featured ArticlesWhat Lula’s reelection means for Brazil, Latin America
By Xinhua News Agency Brazilian incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (C), candidate of the ruling Workers’ Party, delivers a speech following his victory in the presidential runoff
What Lula’s reelection means for Brazil, Latin America
By Xinhua News Agency Brazilian incumbent President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva (C), candidate of the ruling Workers’ Party, delivers a speech following his victory in the presidential runoff
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A popular journalist fled danger in Somalia. He returned home and was killed.
Awil Dihar Salad knew firsthand the dangers of practicing journalism in Somalia. The veteran reporter had spent years working there, but he fled the Horn of Africa nation in 2005, fearing he
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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy appears to confirm loss of Bakhmut
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Patients paying £550 an hour to see private GPs amid NHS frustrations
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88-year-old Australian doctor freed 7 years after kidnapping by Islamic extremists in West Africa
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13-year-old becomes youngest African American to graduate college with degree in computer science and cybersecurity: family
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Ukraine’s Zelenskiy appears to confirm loss of Bakhmut
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Russia says 500 Americans to be banned, list includes Obama
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Exclusive: Somalia President Hassan Sheikh intends to sell embassy properties
File Photo Somali Times/Somalia President Hassan Sheikh discussing senior officials to sell embassy properties Somalia’s President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud wants to sell all the properties of
Somalia president meets Jamal Khashoggi’s killer Crown Prince bin Salman
Photo/Somali Times Somalia shady President Hassan Sheikh Mohamoud, who is in Saudi Arabia, held a meeting with Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killer Crown Prince of Saudi
Patients paying £550 an hour to see private GPs amid NHS frustrations
Private clinics are wooing customers by offering short-notice consultations. Photograph: Anthony Devlin/PA The Guardian By Sarah Marsh and Denis Campbell Signs that NHS’s inability to offer
Russian Muslims significant in expanding Russia’s trade ties: Putin
By Anadolu Agency Russia is seeking new partners to promote agricultural and industrial cooperation, and create transport and logistics chains, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on Friday,
88-year-old Australian doctor freed 7 years after kidnapping by Islamic extremists in West Africa
File – Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong listens beside Philippine Foreign Affairs Secretary Enrique Manalo during a joint press conference at a hotel in Makati City, Philippines on
UK to ban Russian diamonds at G7 in fresh round of sanctions
By Reuters Britain’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak plans to announce a ban on Russian diamonds and imports of metals from Russia including copper, aluminium and nickel in support for Ukraine,