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Yemen's rebels say they attacked Saudi oil facility in key offensive
Yemen's Houthi rebels said on Sunday they had attacked a Saudi oil facility as part of a major military operation in the neighbouring monarchy that is leading an alliance fighting the Iran-linked rebels. Houthi military spokesman Yehia Serae said they had targeted the Saudi Aramco facility in Saudi Arabia's eastern Ras Tanura port and military sites in the eastern Saudi region of Dammam. The Houthis also attacked military sites in the Saudi border areas of Assir and Jazan, Serae said in an online statement. A total of 14 drones and eight ballistic missiles were used in the operation, according...
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Sen. Joe Manchin, a crucial Democratic vote, says he looks for 'moderate middle'
Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia said Sunday he never intended to become the deciding vote on the Democratic agenda. “I didn’t lobby for this position. I’ve never changed,” the Democrat told ABC’s “This Week.” “I look for that moderate middle. “My state of West Virginia — they know me, they know how I’ve governed,” Manchin added. “I’ve tried to basically represent them in the best of my ability.” The comments came after Manchin held up the Senate vote on President Biden’s $1.9 trillion stimulus package for hours over the weekend. He eventually got fellow Dems to drop plans to increase the fed...
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Biden signs order aimed at making voting easier
Washington (AFP) - US President Joe Biden on Sunday signed an executive order aimed at making it easier for Americans to vote at a time when new limits on their right to do so are pending in statehouses across the country. He announced the order in a pretaped speech marking the anniversary of the 1965 civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, when peaceful Black marchers were attacked by police. That brutal suppression brought national attention to the issue of voting rights. "Today, on the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, I am signing an executive order to make it easier for eligible voters to regis...
AFP
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Saudi coalition bombards Yemen's rebel capital after Houthi attacks
A Saudi-led coalition on Sunday mounted a series of airstrikes on Yemen's rebel-held capital Sana'a amid an increase in attacks by the Houthi rebels against neighbouring Saudi Arabia, residents said. Yemen has been roiled by a devastating power struggle between a Saudi-backed government and the Iran-aligned Houthis since late 2014. In 2015, the Saudi-led coalition started a military campaign against the Houthis in Yemen. On Sunday, the coalition unleashed at least 12 air raids in different parts of Sana'a, resulting in heavy explosions, local residents said. No casualties were reported. The Sa...
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Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage withdraws from politics
British politician and Brexit campaigner Nigel Farage has announced he is retiring from politics and stepping down from his role as chairman of the Reform UK party. Brexit is done and there is no going back on that, Farage told the Telegraph newspaper on Saturday. Farage, a populist who led the campaign to take Britain out of the European Union, said he had planned to retire a few times before, but this time he really was leaving the political stage. His previous party, the United Kingdom Independence Party (Ukip), was considered a driving force behind Britain's departure from the EU following...
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Myanmar's protesters remember those killed and march on against coup
Hundreds of thousands of people turned out to demonstrate in Yangon, Mandalay and cities and towns across Myanmar on Sunday, in one of the biggest days of protest since the military coup. Tens of thousands of protesters in Mandalay stood in silence for two minutes in memory of those killed in the bloody crackdown on demonstrations by the police and security forces. "Even if guns are pointing at us, we must shout our dissatisfactions from our heart," one protester told the crowd in Mandalay. Many chanted in response, condemning the military. At the beginning of February, the military mounted a ...
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German politician resigns after being caught up in face mask deals
A lawmaker from German Chancellor Angela Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) is stepping down after his company earned hundreds of thousands of euros on deals to procure face masks. Nikolas Loebel on Sunday announced that he would resign from his parliamentary mandate at the end of August and would not run for the Bundestag again. He also announced the immediate termination of his membership in the CDU's parliamentary group and issued an apology. Loebel confirmed on Friday that he was involved in businesses that dealt with face masks. His company earned commissions of around 250,000 euro...
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FOCUS: Fukushima fish, rice still struggling to overcome consumer concerns
Fukushima Prefecture's agricultural and fishery pr...
Kyodo News
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FEATURE: Deconstructing reconstruction to increase understanding of Fukushima
Ten years after the earthquake-tsunami disaster an...
Kyodo News
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FOCUS: Wary Japan firms looking out for signs of risk in Myanmar chaos
Sparked by a coup a month ago, the recent turmoil ...
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