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UK’s Queen Elizabeth pulls out of state opening of parliament

LONDON (Reuters) – Britain’s Queen Elizabeth will not attend the opening of parliament on Tuesday as she has had a recurrence of issues with her mobility, Buckingham Palace said on Monday, adding her son Prince Charles would set out the

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Five years ago, Trump secretly celebrated firing FBI director and gave Russians classified intel inside the Oval Office

Exactly five years ago tomorrow then-President Donald Trump gave top Russian officials code word classified top secret intelligence, putting Israeli spies at risk, and celebrated his firing of FBI Director Jim Comey, all during a meeting inside the Oval Office.

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I Had an Unplanned Pregnancy, and a Choice

First, some caveats. As every woman who writes something on the internet knows, I must insert the appropriate number of “I love my kids!” “My kids are my life!” in anything that may be construed as complaining, lest the trolls

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‘We are not Nazis’: Kyiv quietly marks Victory Day

As Lera Nelyub walked alongside her grandfather Nikolai, she admitted it was difficult to find a way to talk about the ongoing Russian invasion with the 97-year-old World War II veteran. At Kyiv’s Tomb of the Unknown Soldier on Monday,

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Ferdinand ‘Bongbong’ Marcos Jr., a Dictator’s Son, Takes Huge Lead in Philippine Presidential Election

Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr., the 64-year-old son of a kleptocratic dictator, has a huge lead in race to become the next president of the Philippines’ following the election Monday. With more than 80% of the votes counted, Marcos had received

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World leaders weighed in on the war in Ukraine on Victory in Europe Day

Chancellor Olaf Scholz warned peace is impossible under Russian dictatorship, saying “freedom and security will win the day, just as freedom and security triumphed over oppression, … 77 years ago.” (Image credit: Alexey Furman/Getty Images)

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Marcos Jr., son of Philippine dictator, takes lead in presidential vote

The son and namesake of ousted Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos has taken a commanding lead in an unofficial count in the presidential election in the deeply divided Asian democracy.

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After nearly a thousand interviews, Jan. 6 panel considers calling Trump and Pence

The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection has interviewed nearly 1,000 people. But the nine-member panel has yet to talk to the two most prominent players in that day’s events — former President Donald Trump and former Vice President

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Pope postpones trip to Lebanon for health reasons: minister

Pope Francis has postponed a trip to Lebanon initially planned for June over health concerns, Lebanon’s tourism minister Walid Nassar said Monday. Nassar did not elaborate on the “health reasons” behind the postponement, but the pope who has suffered from

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Mexico president says hiring Cuban doctors, praises Cuban counterpart

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) -Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador on Monday lavished praise on Cuba’s leader, reiterated his wish for the Caribbean island nation to be invited to the Summit of the Americas in June and said Mexico would be

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