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North Korea: Kim Jong Un opens the Workers' Party Congress

North Korean leader Kim Jong-un opened on Thursday an important congress of the ruling Workers' Party, which is held every five years, which, according to experts, will determine a wide range of national priorities, especially the goals of the nuclear program. In his opening speech at the Ninth Party Congress in Pyongyang, Kim hailed a “historic turning point in the investigation of the issue...

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French Interior Minister: I am responsible for public order and cannot ban demonstrations

Interior Minister Laurent Nunez on Friday described what happened as an “extremely heinous murder” that followed “a quarrel between two groups.” It is expected that between two and three thousand people will participate in the march. The police station reported that the movement will be accompanied by a “large security deployment” of MKAF members. The riot police and gendarmerie, attributing allowing the march to ensure freedom of expression and demanding that the participants refrain from launching “any” political expression.

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Volodymyr Zelensky: Ukraine is not losing the war

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky confirmed in an interview with Agence France-Presse on Friday that his country’s army has regained large areas of territory in recent days from Russian forces in the south, indicating that his country does not lose…

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Trump imposes new tariffs of 10 percent

US President Donald Trump announced on Friday that he will impose a new 10 percent tariff on all imports to the United States, in response to the Supreme Court’s decision to reject a set of customs duties imposed by…

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