Niger coup: ‘Why I want Russia in and France out’
Supporters of the military who seized power in Niger last week have been showing their support for Russia.
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Niger coup: Ousted President Mohamed Bazoum meets Chad's leader
Mohamed Bazoum meets Chad's president, who is trying to find a way to end the crisis.
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Niger coup leader warns regional and Western powers against military intervention
Coup supporters protest outside the French embassy, shouting "Long live Russia" and "Down with France".
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Niger coup: President Mohamed Bazoum in good health, says France
The French foreign minister says the coup is not 'final' as Niger's army backs the plotters.
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Powerful right-wing radicals are testing democratic checks and balance in both Israel and the US
White House criticism of Israel after its right-wing coalition embarked on a plan to target judicial power is bringing a new kind of turbulence to one of America's oldest friendships.
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Democratic worries bubble up over Cornel West's Green Party run as Biden campaign takes hands-off approach
Cornel West's candidacy on the Green Party line confuses some of his longtime political allies and friends -- while also alarming top Democrats and Black leaders as a potential ticking time bomb for President Joe Biden in next year's election.
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RFK Jr. hearing encapsulates a political era when truth is upside down
In a Donald Trump-influenced era of through-the-looking-glass politics, everything seems upside down, traditional loyalties are scrambled, history can be rewritten and truth is just what anyone wants it to be.
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New York City agrees to pay more than $13 million over police tactics used at George Floyd demonstrations
New York City has agreed to pay more than $13 million to settle a class action lawsuit that accuses the city's police department of using unlawful tactics against protesters following the death of George Floyd, according to a proposed settlement filed in a Manhattan federal court Wednesday.
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RFK Jr's conspiracy theories and Republican supporters
Robert F Kennedy Jr is under fire over comments suggesting Covid-19 was "ethnically targeted".
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Iraqi officials condemn demolition of 300-year-old minaret in Basra
Condemnation grew in Iraq after a 300-year-old minaret, viewed as a heritage site by the Ministry of Culture, was demolished in the southern city of Basra on Friday.
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Marjorie Taylor Greene Has Her Own Rap Video Now and It's Really Something
VIDEO: MTG rap will make you question things.
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Georgia state lawmaker switches from Democrat to Republican
A Georgia lawmaker who represents part of Atlanta in the state House of Representatives switched her party affiliation to Republican this week after repeatedly breaking with her former party on several key votes this session.
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