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The Russia government is once again creating deadlocks with plans to sell advanced fighter jets to Iran and the U.S. is ready to step in and stop the military trade relations.
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On April 3, the South African Presidency strongly rejected allegations that President Jacob Zuma laundered 6 billion rand (about 400 million U.S. dollars) to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for a wealthy family in India known as the “Gupta family”.
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Widely known by his nickname “Mongo”, white-bearded Ramon Castro preferred tending crops and livestock to the revolutionary political life embraced by younger siblings Fidel and Raul – who replaced Fidel as Cuba’s president in February 2008. Image: Ramon Castro. Two years older than Fidel, Ramon was long used to getting double-takes from people who insisted…
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“Cities will no longer be allowed to build more ‘meaningless and weird’ structures devoid of cultural tradition in the future,” according to a new directive from the central government of China. The State Council and the Communist Party of China Central Committee issued the directive on Sunday. It says buildings should be “suitable, economic, green and…
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This photo (undated) shows Nie Shubin, who was convicted and executed in 1995 for the rape and murder of a woman in Hebei province in north China. A court in east China’s Shandong Province has extended the review of a rape and murder case, for which the young man was executed 20 years ago, to June…
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Modern technology has its ups and downs, sometimes making life easy and at times, unleashing pain, anger and misery. A traffic light at an intersection in southwest China’s Chongqing municipality is reported to have suffered an unreasonable setting, which only leaves two seconds for green light. Even the world’s fastest runner Usain Bolt can’t make…
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