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Lampard close to being new Chelsea manager.

Frank Lampard moved a step closer to being appointed Chelsea manager after Derby County granted him permission to speak to the English Premier League club about their managerial vacancy. Chelsea is looking for a new manager after Maurizio Sarri left the club to join Serie A champion Juventus earlier this …

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Ukraine fury as Russia gets human rights vote.

Five years after Russia had it’s voting rights removed because of the annexation of Crimea from Ukraine, the Council of Europe’s parliamentary assembly has voted to restore them. The assembly backed the proposal in the face of angry opposition from Ukraine, whose delegation later walked out. Russia had threatened to …

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Iraqi parliament votes in defense, interior, justice ministers

The education portfolio is the only one yet to be filled in Iraq’s government after lawmakers on Monday voted in Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi’s nominees as defense, interior and justice ministers. Najah al-Shammari, Yaseen al-Yasiri and Faruq Ameen were respectively confirmed in those posts, lawmakers said. But Safana al-Hamdani, the …

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Zarif: B-Team, not Trump, wants war with Iran

  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said the B team was close to implicating US President Donald Trump in the war. Zarif’s reference to the telephone call was Saudi Arabia’s contact with elements of the terrorist “creation” group, which confirmed their cooperation in the case of the tanker bombing …

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