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Iran rejects US charge of being terror sponsor

  TEHRAN/ AP Iran on Sunday rejected an annual US State Department report that called it the world’s leading sponsor of terrorism. State TV quoted Foreign Ministry spokesman Hossein Jaberi Ansari as saying the report is “false” and further evidence of the “lack of credibility of reports by the US State Department.” As in many previous years, the report identified ...

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Britain, too, is infected with political silliness

  LONDON Misery loves company, so refugees from America’s Republican Party should understand that theirs is not the only party that has chosen a leader who confirms caricatures of it while repudiating its purposes. Jeremy Corbyn, the silliest leader in the British Labour Party’s 116-year history, might kill satire as well as whatever remains of socialism. Labour was founded in ...

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Anger over fish deaths must jolt Vietnam govt

The pollution that caused mass death of fish and other marine life in Vietnam did not only spark widespread anger nationwide, but was also a rude awakening for its people who began to see vividly lack of transparency when handling public issues in their country. According to a figure given by an official on May 5, the disaster had killed ...

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