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U.S. CIA Director John Ratcliffe travelled to Moscow on Tuesday for meetings with Russian officials, U.S. media outlets reported, citing unnamed sources. If confirmed, the trip would mark the first known visit
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The United States is preparing to widen its sanctions campaign against Iran, targeting not only Tehran but the commercial networks that have allowed Iranian oil to keep reaching international markets despite years
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On New Year’s Eve 1989, as the Berlin Wall had fallen and reunification was becoming imaginable, photographer Maurice Weiß of the Ostkreuz agency captured a moment of extraordinary optimism at the Brandenburg
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Five-year-old Hind Rajab Hamada was killed in Gaza on 29 January 2024 after her family fled attacks by the Israeli army in the northern Gaza Strip. Her uncle, his wife, their four
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