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Iran stops sharing data on downed Ukrainian plane with Kiev after control tower audio leaked to local media

Iran stops sharing data on downed Ukrainian plane with Kiev after control tower audio leaked to local media An investigation team in Tehran decided not to share any further data on the downing of Ukrainian airliner with Kiev, after local media published the recording of air traffic communications which took place during the tragedy. "The technical investigation team of the Ukrainian airline crash, in a strange move, published the secret audio file of the communications of a pilot of a plane that was flying at the same time as the Ukrainian plane," Hassan Rezaifar, who leads the investigation of the crash in Iran, told Mehr News Agency on Monday. The audio was provided by Iran to Ukraine as part of the joint investigation efforts. Rezaifar labelled t...

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BoJo triggers social media after telling 'juvenile anti-Americans' to 'grow up' over post-Brexit trade deal with US

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BoJo triggers social media after telling 'juvenile anti-Americans' to 'grow up' over post-Brexit trade deal with US British PM Boris Johnson has provoked social media ire after branding critics of an impending trade deal with Donald Trump's United States as "juvenile anti-Americans," insisting that they should "grow up and get a grip." In a speech in Greenwich, London on Monday to outline the kind of trading arrangements Britain will be seeking with the EU and the rest of the world, Johnson said that he "shared the optimism of President Trump" on a UK-US post-Brexit trade deal. He specifically hit out at critics of Trump's America, who have voiced concerns about the lowering of regulations and standards in any potential deal struck between the two a...

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Warring Libya sides sit down for Geneva talks agreed in Berlin

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Warring Libya sides sit down for Geneva talks agreed in Berlin The two major warring parties in the Libyan civil war have for the first time sat down for commission-level talks in Geneva. The meeting was agreed at the Libya summit in Berlin, after a peace process started by Russia and Turkey. Officials from the UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) and Libya’s National Army (LNA), which is led by General Khalifa Haftar, have gathered in Geneva for the first session of the Libyan Joint Military Commission. The talks are UN-brokered and are moderated by the UN Special Representative Ghassan Salamé. Each side sent five of its officers to the meeting. The commission was agreed as part of a deal reached in Berlin during a summit attended by Hafta...

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Life in Ukraine worse than during USSR, country may split into FIVE states – Georgia’s controversial ex-leader Saakashvili

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Life in Ukraine worse than during USSR, country may split into FIVE states – Georgia’s controversial ex-leader Saakashvili Just when you thought he’d finally gone away, Mikhail Saakashvili has popped up on Ukrainian TV to predict that his adopted nation will collapse. He also told viewers they lived better under the Soviet regime. The former Odessa governor and Georgian president didn’t hold back during an appearance on the 112 Ukraine TV channel. “Ukraine’s cities have never been in such bad condition, and every year it’s getting worse and worse,” he said, adding that while the “whole world” is moving forward and developing, the country has been left behind. “Kiev, Ukraine is now much worse than Kiev and Ukraine during the times of the USSR,” he ex...

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ISIS claims Sunday’s attack on gas pipeline between Egypt & Israel

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ISIS claims Sunday’s attack on gas pipeline between Egypt & Israel The Islamic State (IS, formerly ISIS) has reportedly claimed that it attacked a gas pipeline between Egypt and Israel on Sunday night. The gas flow between the two states remained undisrupted. Local sources told AFP that the gas pipeline targeted was a domestic line that connects to a power station in the provincial capital El-Arish, powering homes and factories in central Sinai. IS in the Sinai took responsibility for the attack on Monday afternoon, saying that it had detonated a number of explosives next to a pipeline and causing damage to it. The masked gunmen drove a four-wheel drive before detonating explosives in the attack, carried out around 80km west of El-Arish, according to sources. Some media re...

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'It is our common disaster': UFC to extradite Zhang Weili from China as strawweight champ leaves Beijing over coronavirus fears

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'It is our common disaster': UFC to extradite Zhang Weili from China as strawweight champ leaves Beijing over coronavirus fears UFC champion Zhang Weili has cut short her Beijing camp for her title defense against Joanna Jedrzejczyk next month after the casualty toll from the coronavirus rose to 361 dead and more than 17,000 confirmed cases across China. The country’s first UFC champion had expected to complete her camp in the capital before fighting Jedrzejczyk – who she was involved in an angry exchange with over social media about the deadly virus last week – in Las Vegas on March 8. Zhang’s manager, Brian Butler-Au, revealed the move had been made for "precautionary reasons" and told MMA Fighting that the UFC had been "working hard" to expedite ...

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Gunman opens fire on California BUS, 6 shot, ‘major injuries’ reported

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Gunman opens fire on California BUS, 6 shot, ‘major injuries’ reported A Greyhound bus en route from Los Angeles to San Francisco Bay Area became a crime scene on Monday after a gunman opened fire inside, injuring six people, some seriously. A passenger opened fire around 1:27am local time when the bus was traveling on a highway near Fort Tejon road in Kern County, California Highway Patrol spokesperson, Steve Loftus, said. The suspect is now in custody. There were 40 passengers on the bus when the shooting happened. Six of them have been hospitalized with gunshot injuries, some reportedly “major.” Footage from the scene shows police swarming a parked Greyhound bus, which had been cordoned off by police. #BREAKING UPDATE: Six people suf...

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India’s growth target for 2021 is ‘realistic’ – finance minister

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India’s growth target for 2021 is ‘realistic’ – finance minister Asia’s third-largest economy, India, is projected to grow in the range of six percent to 6.5 percent in the new fiscal year that begins on April 1. According to the country’s Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, the government’s growth targets for the next year are within reach. “I say it is realistic because we’ve taken various factors on board, and expect the [government’s] revenue generation to improve, which it’s already showing signs of,” Sitharaman told CNBC. Also on rt.com India set to overtake Germany as world's fourth largest economy by 2026 She has explained that an improvement in the government’s revenue generation would enable it t...

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Organization of Islamic Cooperation rejects Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ peace plan for Middle East

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Organization of Islamic Cooperation rejects Trump’s ‘deal of the century’ peace plan for Middle East The Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC), which consists of more than 50 Muslim-majority countries, has asked member states not to cooperate in any way with US President Donald Trump’s peace plan for Israel and Palestine. During a special session in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia on Monday, the OIC’s executive committee called on all member states “not to engage with [Trump’s] plan or to cooperate with the US administration in implementing it in any form.” The body also asked members to refrain from any actions that “do not adhere to the inalienable rights of Palestinians.” OIC Secretary General Yousef Al-Othaimeen said that the organization will support ...

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Like father, like son: Paolo Maldini's son Daniel makes his Serie A debut for AC Milan at San Siro (VIDEO)

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Like father, like son: Paolo Maldini's son Daniel makes his Serie A debut for AC Milan at San Siro (VIDEO) Daniel Maldini, the son of Italian football legend Paolo Maldini, continued his family's decades-long association with AC Milan when he came off the bench to make his Serie A debut on Sunday. Eighteen-year-old Maldini was introduced in stoppage time at the end of Milan's 1-1 home draw with Hellas Verona at the San Siro Stadium as he followed in the footsteps of his father Paolo and his grandfather Cesare, who both played for the Rossoneri during their careers. Maldini Jr. entered the fray wearing the number 98 shirt, but was unable to spark a late winner as the match ended in a draw. But his brief appearance was enough to make history as the th...

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