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Kurds remain the biggest winners from the US-led invasion of Iraq

IRBIL, Iraq (AP) — Complexes of McMansions, fast food restaurants, real estate offices and half-constructed high-rises line wide highways in Irbil, the seat of the semi-autonomous Kurdish region in northern Iraq. Many members of the political and business elite live in a suburban gated community dubbed the American Village, where homes sell for as much …

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Muslims in Indonesia gear up for the first day of Ramadan

JAKARTA, Indonesia (AP) — Millions of Muslims in Indonesia are gearing up to celebrate the holy month of Ramadan, which is expected to start on Thursday, with traditions and ceremonies across the world’s most populous Muslim-majority country amid soaring food prices. From colorful torchlight street parades to cleaning relatives’ graves and sharing meals with family …

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Race record trails ‘wild card’ prosecutor in Louisiana death

FARMERVILLE, La. (AP) — In this conservative corner of northern Louisiana, where reverence for law enforcement runs deep and Blue Lives Matter flags often fly alongside the Stars and Stripes, the case of five white officers charged in the deadly 2019 arrest of Black motorist Ronald Greene is seen as anything but a slam dunk. …

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After Talks With Xi, Putin Hails China’s Proposals for Ukraine

(Bloomberg) — After two days of talks with Chinese President Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin pledged even closer ties with Russia’s most powerful backer and hailed Beijing’s proposals for ending its war in Ukraine. Most Read from Bloomberg “Many of the provisions of the peace plan proposed by China are in line with Russian approaches and …

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Team Biden touts Russian oil caps. Putin? He’s meeting with China to get around them.

It was a bit more than six months ago when the G-7 announced a novel plan to try and cap the price of Russian oil worldwide. The idea has faced skepticism, but new data has allowed Biden officials to say with increased certainty that the effort has cut deeply into Russian President Vladimir Putin’s bottom …

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Putin warns UK it is ramping up war with its ‘nuclear component’ arms for Ukraine

Vladimir Putin toasted President Xi Jinping with white wine at a reception – AFP Vladimir Putin has accused Britain of escalating the war in Ukraine after it emerged that the UK will send Kyiv depleted uranium shells. The Russian president was speaking at a joint press conference with Xi Jinpingthe Chinese leader, where he said …

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Man gets 4 years for attacking police at Jan. 6 Capitol riot

A Virginia man who assaulted police with a stolen baton and used a flashing strobe light to disorient officers trying to defend the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 was sentenced Tuesday to more than four years in prison. Geoffrey Sills of Mechanicsville, Virginia, was convicted of assault with a dangerous weapon, obstruction of Congress …

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Video shows Irvo Otieno pinned to the floor before his death

DINWIDDIE, Va. (AP) — A large group of sheriff’s deputies and employees of a Virginia mental hospital pinned patients Irvo Otieno to the ground until he was motionless and limp, then began unsuccessful resuscitation efforts, newly obtained surveillance video shows. The footage, which has no audio, shows various members of the group struggling with a …

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Putin is unlikely to get the desired support from the Chinese leader’s visit to Moscow, says ISW

Xi Jinping and Vladimir Putin at a meeting on March 20, 2023 Although Xi and Putin touted the strength of Chinese-Russian relations in their meeting on March 20, they offered different interpretations of the scale of future relations in articles they published on March 19, ISW analysts said. Putin published an article in Chinese state …

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Why Putin is casting the Ukraine war as a fight for Russia’s survival

Russian President Vladimir Putin has increasingly cast the Ukraine war as an epic fight for Russia’s survival, accusing the West of “using Ukraine as a battering ram against Russia and as a testing range.” In his telling, the West started the war, and Russia has everything to lose — even when all available evidence points …

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