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Boris Johnson beneath fire for ‘misleading public’ by asserting scientists had been effective novichok came from Russia

Boris Johnson has been accused of misleading the public by wrongly claiming Porton Down experts had identified Russia as the source of the nerve agent used in the Salisbury poisoning. The foreign secretary came under pressure as it emerged the Foreign Office also deleted a tweet stating that scientists had concluded the novichok used in…

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Tariffs on appliances, electronics would hit customers within the pockets: US outlets

U.S. retailers warn that tariffs proposed by President Donald Trump on Chinese imports would raise prices for American consumers on many products. Trump’s list includes more than 1,300 goods, such as flat-screen televisions, appliances and everyday consumer products. Clothing and shoes are not targeted. Industry experts fear retailers that sell consumer electronics would be most…

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Victims’ relatives quiz accountability over Kunduz air raids

Distraught relatives of children killed in a government air raid targeting Taliban fighters in Afghanistan’s Kunduz province have rejected official claims that no civilians were killed in the attack as « dishonest ». A religious school in the Dasht-e-Archi district of the northern province was hit late on Monday. The Afghan government said the raids targeted a…

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Is US President Trump ‘milking Gulf countries’ ?

US President Donald Trump is « milking Gulf countries » and exploiting tensions in the Middle East to bolster its arms sales. That’s according to Al Jazeera’s senior political analyst Marwan Bishara, who was commenting shortly after the US leader told Saudi Arabia it needed to pay up if it wanted the US to continue its fight…

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50 years after MLK’s death: The formative years stay out his legacy

New York City – The news that Martin Luther King Jr had been murdered on a balcony in Memphis, Tennessee hit 17-year-old Freeman Hrabowski like a death in the family. In 1968, Hrabowski was a math-obsessed undergraduate at Hampton University, in the midst of pledging King’s Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity. His fellow students were devastated,…

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Is Sheikh Hasina turning Bangladesh into one-celebration teach?

Dhaka, Bangladesh – The controversial jailing of former Bangladesh Prime Minister Khaleda Zia and the state persecution of dissent have raised fears that the next parliamentary election could turn into a violent sham. Fear of a 2014 repeat, when the parliamentary elections were boycotted by almost all the opposition parties and marred by large-scale violence…