Brazil’s outgoing President Jair Bolsonaro, who has not acknowledged his electoral defeat, left the country Friday, two days before his successor’s inauguration and shortly after bidding his followers a tearful farewell. The controversial far-right leader left for Florida in the United States on an air force plane around 2:00 pm (1700 GMT), according to several […]
Continue ReadingA group of “terrorists” attacked on Friday the vehicles of a group of oil workers in eastern Syria, leaving 10 dead and two others wounded, state news agency SANA reported. The attack was carried out when the workers were changing shifts at the al-Taym oil field in the province of Deir al-Zour, said the SANA […]
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A survey released by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) on Friday said that poverty affects one-third of the Arab region’s population, excluding the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries and Libya. Dubbed “Survey of Economic and Social Developments in the Arab Region,” it said that “poverty, measured against national poverty […]
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Croatia was counting the last hours Saturday before switching to the euro and entering Europe’s passport-free zone — two milestone steps for the country since joining the EU nearly a decade ago. At midnight (2300 GMT Saturday) the Balkan nation will bid farewell to its kuna currency and become the 20th member of the eurozone. […]
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At least 15 people were killed in western Mexico on Friday when the bus they were traveling in flipped over and crashed, local authorities said. The victims were tourists on their way back to the city of Leon in the central state of Guanajuato when the accident happened in the state of Nayarit, according to […]
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