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Daily COVID deaths in Sweden hit zero
"Sweden was maligned in 2020 for foregoing a strict lockdown. The Guardian called its approach 'a catastrophe' in the making, while CBS News said Sweden had become 'an example of how not to handle COVID-19' ", fee.org portal reports.
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Trump Appoints Another US Envoy to Balkans
A month after Donald Trump announced Matthew Palmer as the new US Special Representative to the Western Balkans, the White House said on Thursday that its top diplomatic representative in Germany, Richard Grenell, will be its new special envoy for the Serbia-Kosovo talks.
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Ugly politics
In the latest and final public opinion polls published by the New York Times/CBS News on Thursday ahead of the US elections on Tuesday, more than eight in 10 respondents claimed to be repulsed by the campaign. The majority also said they consider both of the leading candidates to be dishonest and hold an unfavorable general view of them.
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NATO Chief Urges Russia to Avoid Snap Military Drills
Al Qaeda leader responsible for Charlie Hebdo massacre killed
An Al Qaeda leader in the Arabian peninsula is dead, according to CBS news. The jihadist leader is the moral culprit who instigated the Charlie Hebdo massacre in paris.
Nasr al-Ansi was killed by a CIA drone strike on the 21st of April in Yemen.
Al-Ansi’s death was announced by Al Qaeda on a video published on the web.
Toward the end of the Syrian conundrum
The fighting in Syria, which started with an uprising against the Bashar al-Assad regime and transformed into a deadly civil war, has entered its fifth year. As of January 2015, it has claimed over 220,000 lives, displaced 7.6 million people inside Syria, and driven another 3.5 million people out of the country.
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Kerry says US will have to negotiate with Syria's Assad
The United States will have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad for a political transition in Syria and is exploring ways to pressure him into agreeing to talks, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News in an interview.
Kerry: US Will Have to Negotiate with Assad
The United States will have to negotiate with Syrian President Bashar Assad, US Secretary of State John Kerry told CBS News on Sunday.
"We have to negotiate in the end. We've always been willing to negotiate in the context of the Geneva I process," the US top diplomat said in an interview broadcast on Sunday, referring to the June 30, 2012 conference on Syria.
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Kobani teacher-turned-sniper fends off ISIS killers
Denis Sipan had, until recently, been employed as a schoolteacher in the predominately northern part of Syria bordering with Turkey, a region of unofficial Kurdistan.
Obama Nominates Ashton Carter for Defense Secretary
President Barack Obama has nominated former senior Pentagon official Ashton Carter as US Secretary of Defense.
If confirmed by the Senate, Carter will replace outgoing Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel, who resigned in November.