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Armenia's defence ministry says warplane shot down by Turkey
RTE 29 Sep 2020
A Turkish F-16 fighter jet shot down an Armenian SU-25 warplane over Armenian territory today, killing the pilot, an Armenian defence ministry spokeswoman said. Shushan Stepanyan, an Armenian defence ministry spokeswoman, wrote on her Facebook page that the plane had been on a military assignment when it was shot down ... ....
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Trump secretly mocked Christian leaders: Report
Press TV 29 Sep 2020
US President Donald Trump has secretly mocked Christian leaders, describing them as “schmoozed” and “conned,” though he was praising them in public through his campaigns and presidency, a new report says ... “His view was ‘I’ve been talking to these people for years,” I’ve let them stay at my hotels — they’re gonna endorse me ... www.presstv.ir ... ....
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Meghan loses latest court battle with U.K. tabloid newspaper
Toronto Sun 29 Sep 2020
LONDON — Meghan, Britain’s Duchess of Sussex, has lost the latest skirmish in her privacy lawsuit against a tabloid newspaper, after London’s High Court ruled on Tuesday the paper could amend its case to include details from a recently published biography ... We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or ... ....
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Kuwaiti Ruler Sheikh Sabah Has Died at 91
Hamodia 29 Sep 2020
Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Sabah, the ruler of Kuwait who drew on his decades as the oil-rich nation’s top diplomat to push for closer ties to Iraq after the 1990 Gulf War and solutions to other regional crises, died Tuesday. He was 91 ... WhatsAppPrintEmailGmail. ....
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Biden releases tax returns hours ahead of first debate with Trump
Market Watch 29 Sep 2020photo: AP / Sebastian Scheiner
Israeli PM to UN: Hezbollah storing missiles in Beirut
The Oklahoman 29 Sep 2020
JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday accused the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah of maintaining a "secret arms depot" in a residential neighborhood of Beirut, warning it could cause another tragic explosion in the Lebanese capital. In an address to the U.N ... "You should tell them, 'Tear these depots down.'” ... ....
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Farm laws to curb black money, says PM Narendra Modi
Deccan Herald 29 Sep 2020
Slamming the Opposition for holding protests against three new agriculture-related laws, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Tuesday said that through these laws, the government has ended one more way of creating black money. "Some persons are unable to tolerate this freedom (of farmers) ... They're opposing the freedom of farmers." ... Read ... Narendra Modi ... .......
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‘Support both on and off the battlefield’: Turkey throws weight behind ‘brotherly Azerbaijan,’ in fresh escalation
Russia Today 29 Sep 2020
Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu announced on Tuesday that Ankara will stand by Azerbaijan in the face of what he described as “Armenian aggression,” and offered both diplomatic and military assistance ... On Monday, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan expressed similar sentiments ... “There is only one solution....
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Disgraced Cardinal George Pell Slithers Back to Rome and Targets His Vatican Bank Enemies
The Daily Beast 29 Sep 2020
ROME—Cardinal George Pell, the disgraced former Vatican No ... The timing of the return of the former prefect of the Vatican Secretariat of the Economy, coincides with a tawdry scandal involving the Vatican's former No ... ....
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Duterte lashes out at Facebook after it takes down fake accounts
Deccan Herald 29 Sep 2020
President Rodrigo Duterte of the Philippines is one of a number of populists around the world who rose to power in part by harnessing Facebook to get his unfiltered messages to millions. During Duterte’s 2016 campaign, his allies flooded the social media platform with misinformation about his opponents and laudatory stories about him ... Philippines....
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Trump asks Pentagon to have nuclear warheads ready if Russia treaty expires: report
Raw Story 29 Sep 2020
On Monday, Politico reported that the Trump administration is exploring ......
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Hundreds dead as Armenia, Azerbaijan fight intensifies
Mid Day 29 Sep 2020
Armenia and Azerbaijani forces kept fighting Monday over the disputed separatist region of Nagorno-Karabakh after hostilities broke out the day before, with both sides blaming each other for resuming the deadly attacks ... According to Nagorno-Karabakh officials, 31 servicemen have been killed so far ... Keep scrolling to read more news....
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Joe Biden nominated for Nobel Peace Prize by British lawmaker; here's why
International Business Times 29 Sep 2020
Joe Biden is also in the race for winning the Nobel Peace Prize after Labour Party member of the U.K. Parliament Chris Bryant nominated the Democrat Presidential runner for the prestigious honour. Biden's nomination comes after Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump's names were put forward ... ....
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Putin slams external pressure on Belarus as Macron meets opp. leader
Press TV 29 Sep 2020
Russian President Vladimir Putin has decried the “unprecedented external pressure” exerted on neighboring Belarus, as French President Emmanuel Macron met with Belarusian opposition leader Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya in Lithuania ... Belarus has been experiencing unrest since Alexander Lukashenko won the country’s presidential election in August ... ....
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United Arab Emirates to launch spacecraft to moon in 2024
Indian Express 29 Sep 2020
A top official in the United Arab Emirates on Tuesday said his country plans to send an unmanned spacecraft to the moon in 2024. Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, who is also the ruler of Dubai, made the announcement on Twitter ... India has tried and failed to land a spacecraft, as has Israel and Japan. 📣 The Indian Express is now on Telegram ... Tags....
