July2018
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Trump to meet Queen Elizabeth despite chorus of discontent
Jul 5, 2018When Donald Trump meets Queen Elizabeth next week, he will become the 12th U.S. President that the monarch has met during her 66 years on the throne, the longest in British history. Apart from Lyndon Johnson,... -
Inside Qatar’s charm offensive to win over Washington
Jul 5, 2018There was much bonhomie as a few dozen people, including members of Congress and U.S. administration officials, gathered last week for dinner in a posh Washington neighborhood in honor of Qatar’s foreign minister. Treasury Secretary Steven... -
Russian warplanes pummel southwest Syria in support of government assault
Jul 5, 2018Dark clouds of smoke rose over Syrian rebel-held areas near the border with Jordan on Thursday as President Bashar al-Assad’s Russian allies unleashed heavy air strikes and government forces launched ground assaults. Assad aims to recapture... -
Hezbollah role in Syrian south exposes limits of U.S. policy
Jul 5, 2018Hezbollah is helping to lead a Russian-backed offensive in southern Syria, pro-Damascus sources said, exposing the limits of U.S. policy that hopes Moscow can get Iran and groups it backs out of the country. Hezbollah’s role... -
Heavy rain feared as Thai rescuers plan how to extract boys from flooded cave
Jul 5, 2018Rescuers in Thailand were no closer on Thursday to deciding when and how to extract 12 boys and their soccer coach from a flooded cave complex, where they were found this week, hungry and frail but... -
Netflix turns to Bollywood to script India growth story
Jul 5, 2018Netflix premiered its first original series in India in a sheen of Bollywood glitter on Wednesday, upping the stakes in its battle with streaming rival Amazon Prime for a chunk of the country’s more than 1... -
Killings sow fear inside Rohingya refugee camps in Bangladesh
Jul 5, 2018Bangladesh is deploying thousands of extra police to Rohingya refugee camps in the south, officials said, after a series of mostly unexplained killings that have sown fear among hundreds of thousands of people who have fled... -
Uruguay’s Cavani unlikely to face France in quarter-final
Jul 5, 2018Uruguay striker Edinson Cavani is likely to miss his side’s World Cup quarter-final against France on Friday after suffering a calf injury in the last-16 win over Portugal. The Uruguayan Football Association (UFA) posted photos of... -
FIFA World Cup quarterfinal line-up now decided
Jul 5, 2018All quarterfinalists of the 2018 FIFA World Cup were decided on Tuesday night. On July 6, Uruguay will take on France in Nizhny Novgorod at 17:00 Moscow time. On the same day, Brazil will face Belgium... -
FIFA World Cup Golden Boot standings
Jul 5, 2018The race for the World Cup 2018 Golden Boot is hotting up. Some of the best forwards in the world – from Kylian Mbappe, to Romelu Lukaku to England’s very own Harry Kane – are all...
