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[l] at 5/22/22 12:58pm
The US preliminary expressed readiness to approve the NATO membership bids filed by Finland and Sweden last week. The two states decided to rescind their long-standing neutral status amid the crisis in Ukraine.

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[l] at 5/22/22 12:57pm
MINSK (Sputnik) - The Collective Security Treaty Organization has enough capacities to respond to any potential threat coming from NATO as it continues to expand eastward, the bloc’s secretary general said Sunday.

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[l] at 5/22/22 12:51pm
An analysis of Hunter Biden's laptop and iCloud account indicated that he and his company earnt $11 million from Ukrainian and Chinese firms between 2013 and 2018, according to NBC News, with a “big guy” taking a 10% cut. Previously, over 120,000 of Hunter's emails were released by a former White House staffer.
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[l] at 5/22/22 12:49pm
US citizens' pessimism comes amid low approval ratings for President Joe Biden, with his numbers hitting 39%, according to an Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Research poll.
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[l] at 5/22/22 12:27pm
BEIJING (Sputnik) - The US-proposed Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF), which aims to foment confrontation and undermine peace in the region, is bound to fail, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Sunday.

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[l] at 5/22/22 12:08pm
A third option has been proposed in the bitter argument between transgender rights activists and those fighting for fair sporting clashes regarding whether trans women should compete against biological women.
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[l] at 5/22/22 11:56am
WARSAW (Sputnik) - Polish Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki suggested Sunday that Norway made extra money selling oil and gas during the energy crisis and should now share it with impoverished Ukraine.

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[l] at 5/22/22 11:55am
NATO has raised the stakes by flooding Ukraine with heavy weaponry and trying to prolong the conflict, says Scott Ritter, a military analyst and former US Marine intelligence officer.

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[l] at 5/22/22 11:51am
Several western countries have offered Ukraine financial help, mostly in the form of loans to purchase weapons to fight Russian troops carrying out the special military operation. However, these loans must be repaid by Kiev.

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[l] at 5/22/22 10:27am
Fellow UK lawmakers from both parties were allegedly targeted, but the name of the Tory MP in question has not been revealed.
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[l] at 5/22/22 10:14am
According to the FT, Beijing is working on at least two additional security deals with Pacific island nations following an earlier agreement with the Solomon Islands. The April agreement allows the archipelago to request Chinese security reinforcements in the case of public unrest.
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[l] at 5/22/22 9:41am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said on Sunday his country can give Turkey guarantees that it will not harbor members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), labeled "terrorists" by both Ankara and Brussels.

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[l] at 5/22/22 9:41am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - Finnish Foreign Minister Pekka Haavisto said on Sunday his country can give Turkey guarantees that it will not harbor members of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), labeled "terrorists" by both Ankara and Brussels.

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[l] at 5/22/22 8:55am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The United States will consider delivering arms to Moldova if it receives a request from the country's government, US Congressman and House Foreign Affairs Committee Chair Gregory W. Meeks said Sunday.

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[l] at 5/22/22 8:49am
Islam allows Muslim men to have up to four wives at a time, with the practice being legal in Afghanistan, Pakistan and some other predominantly Muslim nations.
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[l] at 5/22/22 8:36am
The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps is a separate branch of Iran's Armed Forces which carries out missions both at home and abroad. It has its own units and even conducts its own R&D in the military sphere.
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[l] at 5/22/22 8:26am
In 2016, the "October surprise" – a leak of the now-notorious Access Hollywood tape in which the then-Republican candidate boasted that women would let him "grab 'em by the p**sy" – dealt Donald Trump's presidential campaign a major blow.
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[l] at 5/22/22 8:17am
Western propaganda continues to present the defenders of Mariupol as heroic martyrs, but every day it becomes harder to do so. They have been involved in the murder and brutal torture of women and children. The Azov Battalion is a symbol of hell and years of terror for the people of Donbass.

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[l] at 5/22/22 7:24am
The Iraqi Heritage and Antiquities Law’s Article 41 envisages penalty of up to capital punishment for those who “deliberately removed archaeological material from Iraq or attempted to remove it”.

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[l] at 5/22/22 7:22am
The majority of Earth's active volcanoes known to scientists are located within the so-called Ring of Fire, or the Circum-Pacific Belt - a region in the Pacific Ocean where many eruptions and earthquakes occur. But what feeds the fire of the volcanoes outside the Ring of Fire?
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[l] at 5/22/22 7:03am
MOSCOW (Sputnik) - The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Sunday that a total of 92 confirmed monkeypox cases and 28 suspected cases have been recorded in 12 countries.

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[l] at 5/22/22 5:50am
Some of the EU countries are pushing forward the idea of doing away with Russian hydrocarbon supplies in the wake of the special ,military operation in Ukraine. The bloc has been failing to negotiate a ban on purchasing Russian oil for weeks, and severing much stronger ties in the gas sector will be even more difficult.
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[l] at 5/22/22 5:45am
Since the beginning of Russia's military operation in Ukraine, the Kremlin has repeatedly warned about the Western mainstream media outlets disseminating and promoting fake news about the actions of Russian troops in the neighbouring country.
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[l] at 5/22/22 5:04am
Desertion is a grave offence in the US military, something that can lead to a dishonourable discharge, forfeiture of pay, a loss of benefits or even incarceration.

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