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Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad forced to leave UAE - report
The Jerusalem Post 18 Oct 2021
Former Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was forced to leave the United Arab Emirates after he arrived in the country to visit the Expo 2020 in Dubai, due to the recommendation of Emirati officials, according to Iranian Fars News. He reportedly returned to Iran on Sunday night ... او ساعت ۲۱ دبی را ترک کرد ... (credit ... .
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China says recent test was spacecraft not missile
RTE 18 Oct 2021
China has denied a report it had recently launched a hypersonic missile, saying it tested a spacecraft to trial reusable technologies. The Financial Times reported on Saturday that Beijing had launched a nuclear-capable missile in August that circled the Earth at low orbit before narrowly missing its target ... .
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Colin Powell has died of COVID-19 complications, family says
The Los Angeles Times 18 Oct 2021
WASHIINGTON — . Colin Powell, the former secretary of State and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has died from COVID-19 complications, his family said Monday. He was 84. In an announcement on social media, the family said Powell had been fully vaccinated ... Advertisement ... Bush, and made the case for war against Iraq ... Sports ... Obituaries.
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Hundreds protest in Bangladesh over religious violence
The Times of India 18 Oct 2021
DHAKA. Hundreds of people protested in Bangladesh's capital Dhaka on Monday calling for an end to religious violence that has gripped the country for four days, leading to at least two deaths and several injured ... Two Hindu men died following that protest, Mohammed Shahidul Islam, the police chief in Noakhali, told Reuters by phone ... .
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War movie depicting brutal defeat of US Army tops China’s box office
New York Post 18 Oct 2021
A Chinese propaganda film depicting the defeat of the US Army has become a box-office smash in the Communist country. The three-hourlong war epic, “The Battle at Lake Changjin,” has grossed a whopping $769 million in China since its release less than three weeks ago, the Hollywood Reporter has revealed ... ....
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Jury selection to start in trial over Ahmaud Arbery's death
Times Union 18 Oct 2021
Hundreds of people were ordered to report for jury duty Monday in Georgia for what could be a long, laborious effort to find jurors to hear the trial of three white men charged with fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery as he was running in their neighborhood ... 23, 2020, just outside the port city of Brunswick. Jury selection could last two weeks or more ... .
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Mitsotakis, Tsipras Clash in Parliament Over Handling of the Pandemic
The National Herald 18 Oct 2021
ATHENS -- "The government is giving priority to dealing with the pandemic. We are still battling to persuade our fellow citizens to get vaccinated ... "There is no truth to SYRIZA's lies and the misinformation that runs through the entirety of your politics ... We do not have any excess mortality due to covid ... .
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China ‘fires hypersonic missile that circles globe before striking target’
The Independent 18 Oct 2021
China tested a nuclear-capable hypersonic missile that flew round the earth before speeding towards its target, catching US intelligence services by surprise, it was reported ... “We have no idea how they did this,” one of those briefed on the intelligence told the newspaper ... These missiles fly at five times the speed of sound ... He said ... ... .
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Iran: Tehran and Caracas to sign 20-year collaboration document
Ruptly 18 Oct 2021
Iran and Venezuela announced the signing of a 20-year cooperation accord between the two countries in a joint press conference on Monday. The document will be signed during a visit of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Tehran ... The document can be understood as an extension of the cooperation between the two countries ... .
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The Nigerians who want Israel to accept them as Jews
BBC News 18 Oct 2021
Rocking back and forth, Shlomo Ben Yaakov reads from a Torah scroll at a synagogue on the outskirts of Nigeria's capital, Abuja. Intermittently his soft mellow voice rises in Hebrew and he is joined by the dozens who recite after him ... "I consider myself a Jew," says Mr Yaakov ... His given Igbo name is Nnaemezuo Maduako ... Secessionist surge.
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Syrian government, opposition delegates agree to start drafting new constitution, says UN special envoy
Press TV 18 Oct 2021
The United Nations special envoy for Syria, Geir Pedersen, says representatives of the Syrian government and moderate opposition groups have reached a long-awaited agreement to start drafting new constitutional provisions during UN-mandated talks between the two sides in Geneva this week ... Envoy ... UN envoy ... Terrorist entity in northern Syria ... ....
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Taliban says Afghan girls will return to secondary schools soon
Al Jazeera 18 Oct 2021
Afghanistan’s Ministry of Interior Affairs has said girls will be allowed to return to secondary schools soon. Qari Saeed Khosty, a spokesman for the interior ministry, told Al Jazeera on Sunday that the exact timing will be announced by the Ministry of Education ... But boys in all grades and girls of primary age were told to return to school ... .
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Erdogan: US proposed F-16 sales to Turkey for F-35 payment
Press TV 18 Oct 2021
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says the US proposed the sale of F-16 fighter jets to Turkey after it had removed Ankara from the F-35 program in retaliation for Turkey’s purchase of Russian S-400 missile defense system ... Turkey to seek compensation for removal from US-led fighter jet program ... www.presstv.ir. www.presstv.co.uk. www.presstv.tv.
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Kerala flooding: Dozens killed and many missing in south India disaster
The Independent 18 Oct 2021
At least 28 people have died in India’s southern state of Kerala and several others remain missing after torrential rains flooded villages over the weekend and triggered landslides that flattened several houses ... Kottayam and Idukki were affected the worst ... Since 12 October, 28 persons have died in rain-related incidents in the state ... (AP) ... .
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The spies who hated us: reporting on espionage and the secret state
The Observer 18 Oct 2021
It is time for morning coffee and Richard Norton-Taylor and I are discussing secrecy, deception and brown envelopes, which comes naturally to the pair of us, as past and present defence and security correspondents of the Guardian ... The first part of his career was dominated by a series of landmark official secrecy battles ... Photograph. Alamy ... 03.05 ... .
