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Brazil's Bolsonaro rejects COVID-19 shot, calls masks taboo

Bolsonaro mulls deploying army to combat Amazon fires

11:35 pm August 23, 2019

Brasilia: Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro said Friday he is considering deploying the army to help combat fires in the Amazon rainforest, amid growing international pressure over the wildfires. The fires raging in parts of the world’s largest rainforest have sparked protests around the world, ignited a war of words between Bolsonaro and his French counterpart […]

UN, France raise concern over Amazon wildfires ‘crisis’

8:53 pm August 23, 2019

Salvador: Paris and the United Nations called Thursday for the protection of the fire-plagued Amazon rainforest as Brazil’s right-wing president accused his French counterpart of having a “colonialist mentality” over the issue. Official figures show nearly 73,000 forest fires were recorded in Brazil in the first eight months of the year — the highest number […]

Trump backs Russia return to G8

3:54 am August 21, 2019

Washington: President Donald Trump said Tuesday he’d like to see Russia readmitted to a group of the world’s major industrial nations. Trump said Russia is often discussed when he and the leaders of Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy and Japan meet annually. Trump is scheduled to fly to France on Saturday for this year’s meeting […]

India, Iran should work to expedite Chabahar Port development, connectivity to Afghanistan: Zarif

Iran says foreign minister Zarif to visit Macron in France

7:04 pm August 20, 2019

Tehran: Iran’s Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif is expected to visit Paris and meet with his counterpart and the French president on Friday, state news agency IRNA reported. “We will visit Paris on Friday to meet Emmanuel Macron and France’s foreign minister” Jean-Yves Le Drian, IRNA quoted Zarif as saying during a gathering of Iranians […]

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