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Ex-Beatle and new children's author McCartney recounts grandpa joy - 11/30/2019

LONDON (dpa)- Ex-Beatle Paul McCartney loves being a grandfather - or "granddude," he said in a radio interview on Friday. McCartney has eight grandchildren - aged between 8 and 20 - from his...

Car bomb hits village held by Turkish-backed rebels in Syria; 15 hurt - 11/30/2019

DAMASCUS (dpa)– At least 15 people were injured on Saturday in a car bombing in a north-eastern Syrian town held by rebels allied with Turkey, a local medical source and a war monitor reported. The...

Israel strikes Hamas in northern Gaza in response to rockets - 11/30/2019

Tel Aviv (dpa) - Israeli Defence Forces (IDF) struck a target in Gaza after a rocket was fired from the territory, the Israeli army said late of Friday. "We just targeted a Hamas military post in the...

Trump hosts Conan, dog in al-Baghdadi raid, at the White House - 11/26/2019

WASHINGTON, Shabtai Gold (dpa)- US President Donald Trump on Monday walked out into the Rose Garden of the White House with his wife, Melania, Vice President Mike Pence and a dog, Conan, who was part...

Israel carries out 'wide-scale strikes' on Syrian and Iranian targets - 11/20/2019

Damascus (dpa) - Israel said it carried out "wide-scale strikes" on "Iranian & Syrian terror targets," in the early hours of Wednesday morning, after explosions were reported around the Syrian...

NATO's Stoltenberg to visit Macron after 'brain death' comments - 11/19/2019

Brussels  - NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg will next week visit French President Emmanuel Macron, who stirred up a heated debate with comments about the "brain death" of NATO, the...

Germany announces higher defence spending ahead of NATO summit - 11/18/2019

Brussels(dpa) - Germany is boosting its defence spending in the coming year to come closer to NATO's 2-per-cent target, dpa has learned. Shortly before the next NATO summit with US President Donald...

Saudi oil giant Aramco offers 1.5-per-cent stake for massive IPO - 11/17/2019

Riyadh -By Ramadan Al-Fatash, - Saudi Arabian oil giant Aramco said on Sunday it was offering 1.5 per cent of its shares as part of what could be one of the biggest initial public offerings (IPO) in...

Manus refugee and author Behrouz Boochani arrives in Christchurch - 11/15/2019

WELLINGTON, Jule Scherer (dpa)- Kurdish writer, film-maker and former Manus Island detainee Behrouz Boochani arrived in the New Zealand city of Christchurch on Friday where he criticized Australia's...

Spanish king calls for more diversity and plurality in Cuba - 11/14/2019

Havana (dpa) – Spain's King Felipe VI has called on the Cuban government to open up to the "diverse and plural" nature of society and pledged support for such change.   Institutions need to...
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