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Southern, central China brace for flood risk after typhoon

BEIJING, July 28 - The remnants of Typhoon Noul pushed deeper into China on Tuesday, threatening heavy flooding across a broad swathe of the country's southern and central provinces as forecasters warned the weakened storm could linger inland longer than usual.

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Riyadh’s bomb-in-waiting: inside the US-Saudi nuclear deal

“Saudi Arabia does not want to acquire any nuclear bomb, but without a doubt, if Iran developed a nuclear bomb, we will follow suit as soon as possible.” This sentiment from Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman might come true sooner than expected. The recent US-Saudi nuclear

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India’s Gen Z: the generation Modi couldn’t silence

You can kill a revolutionary but never kill the revolution. A revolutionary can be silenced, imprisoned or exiled but ideas have a remarkable ability to outlive those who champion them. Thousands of young protesters took to the streets of Delhi as part of Cockroach Janta Party

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With spirit of Anchorage dead, no new ideas to end Ukraine War

On the sidelines of the ASEAN Foreign Ministers meeting in Manila, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio met with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov. The meeting was planned ahead, hence the US and Russian flags were prominently displayed. Yet the discussion was brief: between

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Azerbaijan sentences online TV founders, journalists to jail

BAKU, July 27 - Two co-founders of an independent Azerbaijani online TV station, three of its journalists and four activists were each sentenced to jail terms of up to 15 years on Monday over financial crimes, in a case that has raised Western concerns over press freedom.

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