0322 GMT December 08, 2019
Hong Kong protesters returned to the streets on Sunday for a series of marches and rallies after a rare period of calm in nearly six months of unrest.
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The workshop on waste and water as a joint program by Iran and Netherlands started work in Tehran on Sunday.
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Thousands of people rallied on Saturday against the far-right Alternative for Germany in the western German city of Brunswick where the AfD gathered to elect new leaders.
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Russia’s MiG-31K interceptor jet carried out a test of the Kinzhal (Dagger) hypersonic missile in the Russian part of Arctic earlier this month, TASS reported on Saturday, citing two military sources.
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A man suspected of stabbing two people to death in a terror attack on London Bridge was an ex-prisoner convicted of terrorism offenses and released last year, police said Saturday.
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Iraqis kept up anti-government protests in Baghdad and the south on Saturday, unsatisfied with the premier’s vowed resignation and insisting on the overhaul of a system they say is corrupt and beholden to foreign powers.
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An Israel warplane launched an airstrike against a position of the Palestinian resistance movement of Hamas in the northern parts of the besieged Gaza strip, hours after Israeli troops shot dead a Palestinian teenager during a protest rally in the coastal enclave.
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Finland, Belgium, Denmark, Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden will join the INSTEX mechanism for trade with Iran, the six countries declared in a joint statement on Friday ahead of further talks between parties to the Iran nuclear deal in Vienna next week.
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The Taliban said on Friday they were prepared to restart peace talks with the United States, a day after US President Donald Trump made a surprise visit to American troops in Afghanistan and said he believed the militant group would agree to a cease-fire.
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International Desk
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