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Hillary Clinton has claimed that Donald Trump may refuse to leave office if he is defeated in November – and that voter suppression tactics are a key part of his strategy. “I think it’s a fair point to raise as to whether or not if he loses he’s going to …

Turkey has been on the receiving end of attacks by French-made Rafale jets in Libya and is looking to activate its Russian-made S-400 missiles as a countermeasure, according to the Eurasian Times news website. Itamilradar, an Italian news website, and Turkey’s pro-government Sabah daily also recently reported on Ankara mulling …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has warned that the prospect of returning to normal life will not be possible for the “foreseeable future” as many countries have untimely eased restrictions in their fight against the new coronavirus pandemic. WHO’s Director General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus raised the alarm on Monday and …

A Mongolian teenager diagnosed with bubonic plague died on Monday. The 15-year-old reportedly contracted the deadly disease after consuming marmot meat. The boy ate the infected meat with his two friends, whose condition is currently unknown. People who have been in contact with them have now been isolated and vaccinated, …

A top member of the White House coronavirus task force said Tuesday that “none of us lie” to the public, an accusation President Donald Trump had retweeted, and that while kids need to be back in school as Trump insists, “we have to get the virus under control.” Adm. Brett …

Poland’s incumbent Andrzej Duda has narrowly won the presidential election, paving the way for the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party to push ahead with its controversial judicial reforms at the parliament. Local officials said the bomb attack was carried out in the provincial capital Aybak close to an office …

EN DIRECT | Une Nation engagée, unie et solidaire : suivez la cérémonie du #14juillet. https://t.co/Plcl8n2aoo — Élysée (@Elysee) July 14, 2020 Medics in white coats replaced uniformed soldiers as stars of France’s Bastille Day ceremonies Tuesday as the usual grandiose military parade in Paris was recalibrated to honor medics …

The speaker of the Catalan regional parliament demanded Tuesday that the Spanish government launch an official investigation into reports that his cellphone was the target of espionage, allegedly by Spanish security services. Roger Torrent, a leading supporter of Catalonia’s efforts to break away from Spain and become an independent country, …

A new White House-backed ad campaign aims to encourage people who are unemployed or unhappy in their jobs or careers to go out and “find something new.” The opening ad in the “Find Something New” campaign beginning Tuesday features ordinary people sharing their stories. A companion website provides links to …

Several Turkish, Russian soldiers were wounded on Tuesday when a bomb attack hit a joint patrol in northern Syria’s M4 highway. Russia’s Defence Ministry said a roadside bomb detonated and hit a joint Russian-Turkish patrol in Syria, injuring three Russian soldiers, Russia’s RIA news agency reported. Several Turkish soldiers were …

The remains of an ancient Aztec palace have been discovered under a stately building in Mexico City. During renovations at the building of the capital’s central Zócalo plaza, workers found basalt slab floors. The floors were part of open space in the palace of Aztec ruler Axayácatl, Mexico’s National Institute …

Sudan has declared a state of emergency in part of the conflict-ridden western region of Darfur after violence and unrest in two towns, state news agency SUNA said. The African Union-United Nations Mission in Darfur (Unamid) said it had sent a team to Kutum town in North Darfur state following …

While US President Donald Trump obsesses about his reelection hopes in his White House bubble, state and local leaders are frantically reversing state reopenings that he demanded, which turned America into the world’s biggest coronavirus hotspot. As emergency rooms filled and the virus quickened its relentless march across southern and …

Another US Air Force jet has crashed, this time in New Mexico. The pilot has managed to escape with injuries. This is the fifth such crash since May. The F-16 jet of the US Air Force crashed at 03:50 GMT on July 14. The latest incident took place at Holloman …

The eastern-based Libyan parliament, which supports the Libyan National Army (LNA), has given go-ahead to the Egyptian armed forces to intervene in the Libyan conflict, citing AMN. In early June, Egypt put forward the Cairo peace initiative, outlining a path for a political settlement in Libya and calling for warring …

Iran’s Judiciary Spokesman Gholam Hossein Esmaeili said that an individual, a Defense Ministry retiree, was executed last week due to his spying for the CIA. Speaking in his weekly presser on Tuesday, he said that Reza Asgari, a retiree of Defense Ministry’s aerospace has been executed after the ruling was …

China on Tuesday described a U.S. rejection of its maritime claims in the South China Sea as completely unjustified and accused the U.S. of attempting to sow discord between China and the Southeast Asian countries with which it has territorial disputes. The Chinese Embassy in Washington said that a statement …

BLM protester gets tased and arrested following a confrontation with police in Brooklyn, New York

The liftoff of the United Arab Emirates’ Mars orbiter was postponed until Friday due to bad weather at the Japanese launch site. The orbiter named Amal, or Hope, is the Arab world’s first interplanetary mission. The launch was scheduled for Wednesday from the Tanegashima Space Center in southern Japan, but …

The Trump administration was moving ahead early Tuesday with the execution of the first federal prison inmate in 17 years after a divided Supreme Court reversed lower courts and ruled federal executions could proceed. Daniel Lewis Lee had been scheduled to receive a lethal dose of the powerful sedative pentobarbital …