July 21 2021, 08:00
In the central Syrian desert, an oil field has become a makeshift torture chamber. An unarmed man writhes in the dust, howling in pain. Four men in military fatigues pin him down and smash his hands and feet with a sledgehammer.
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July 21 2021, 08:00
Street protests over water shortages in southwest Iran continued for a sixth night on Tuesday amid rising violence, while residents in the capital of Tehran chanted anti-government slogans, according to videos posted on social media on Wednesday and Iranian news outlets.
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July 21 2021, 08:00
Every time I see a call from home, my heart sinks. I always fear that they're ringing to say that my grandmother has died. She has been on a ventilator for four weeks and my anxiety is near breaking point. The dreaded call could come at any time: Covid-19. Again.
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July 21 2021, 08:00
Zhengzhou, a city in central China, has had a record-breaking level of rainfall that has caused major flooding and displaced thousands of people.
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July 21 2021, 08:00
Tucker Carlson has called the idea of vaccine passports the medical equivalent of "Jim Crow" laws. And other Fox News personalities have spent months both trafficking in anti-vaccine rhetoric and assailing the concept of showing proof of vaccination status.
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July 20 2021, 08:00
Boris Johnson's former chief adviser has claimed that the Prime Minister tried to maintain his weekly face-to-face audiences with Queen Elizabeth during the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic, despite the elderly monarch being vulnerable to the virus.
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July 20 2021, 08:00
ISIS have claimed responsibility for an explosion that ripped through a busy market in the Iraqi capital on Monday, killing at least 27 people and wounding 32.
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July 20 2021, 08:00
Haiti's acting prime minister Claude Joseph, who has led the country since the assassination of president Jovenel Moise earlier this month, will step down and hand power to Ariel Henry, the elections minister told CNN on Monday.
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July 20 2021, 08:00
Leon Black, co-founder and former CEO of Apollo Global Management, responded Monday to a lawsuit accusing him of forcing a woman into an abusive relationship for years. He said the only thing he is guilty of is "extremely poor judgment in entering into an affair."
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July 20 2021, 08:00
The UK government's decision to lift almost all remaining coronavirus restrictions in England on Monday was expected to deliver a windfall for businesses that have been hampered by social distancing rules.
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