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Bin Laden’s niece says Trump won
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The niece of Osama bin Laden has protested at the Biden-Putin summit in Geneva with a “Trump Won” banner. Noor Bin Ladin has branded new US president Joe Biden a “joke”. Tweeting from Switzerland, the 34-year-old said she “almost got arrested,” adding: “This whole summit is a joke. TRUMP WON and all of this is theatrics.”
Couple split after weeks in chains
A couple who chained themselves together for three months as a test of their love finally have immediately broken up after the clasp was cut. Alexander Kudlay, 33, and Viktoria Pustovitova, 29, from Kharkiv in Ukraine, spent 123 days chained together but have now gone their separate ways. “I want to live my own independent life, and grow as an independent person,” said Viktoria.
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How oil tankers have been weaponisedThe Explainer The seizure of a Russian tanker in the Atlantic last week has drawn attention to the country’s clandestine shipping network
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The rise of the spymaster: a ‘tectonic shift’ in Ukraine’s politicsIn the Spotlight President Zelenskyy’s new chief of staff, former head of military intelligence Kyrylo Budanov, is widely viewed as a potential successor
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Iran in flames: will the regime be toppled?In Depth The moral case for removing the ayatollahs is clear, but what a post-regime Iran would look like is anything but
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Europe moves troops to Greenland as Trump fixatesSpeed Read Foreign ministers of Greenland and Denmark met at the White House yesterday
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Why Greenland’s natural resources are nearly impossible to mineThe Explainer The country’s natural landscape makes the task extremely difficult
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Trump, Iran trade threats as protest deaths riseSpeed Read The death toll in Iran has surpassed 500
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Iran cuts internet as protests escalateSpeed Reada Government buildings across the country have been set on fire
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What do the people of Greenland want for their future?As Europe prevaricates over US threats for annexation there is a unifying feeling of self-determination among Greenlanders
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US nabs ‘shadow’ tanker claimed by RussiaSpeed Read The ship was one of two vessels seized by the US military
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Venezuela ‘turning over’ oil to US, Trump saysSpeed Read This comes less than a week after Trump captured the country’s president
