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Ahmaud Arbery was hit with a truck before he died

William Bryan told investigators he heard Travis McMichael use a racial epithet after fatally shooting Ahmaud Arbery in Glynn County, Georgia, a Georgia Bureau of Investigation agent testified Thursday during preliminary hearings. Bryan told police McMichael said “f***ing n***er” after three blasts from McMichael’s shotgun left Arbery dead in February …

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Iraq signs two-year contract with Iran to import electricity

Iranian Minister of energy, Reza Ardakyanian, announced on Thursday signing a two-year contract to export electricity to Iraq. The announcement took place during his official visit to Baghdad this Wednesday. In a statement reported by the official Iranian news agency, “IRNA”, Ardakyanian said that, “the previous contracts for exporting electricity …

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Iraq will reject any talks to prolong US troops presence: MP

An Iraqi legislator says the parliament will reject any negotiations between Baghdad and Washington aimed at prolonging US military presence in the country, emphasizing that the forthcoming talks should secure the exit of American troops. “The negotiations between Washington and Baghdad, which are to start in the middle of this …

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Iraq reported 672 new Coronavirus cases, 15 deaths.

Iraq reported 672 new cases of Coronavirus during the past 24 hours, the Iraqi Ministry of Health announced on Thursday. The new casualties were distributed as: Baghdad / Rusafa: 233 cases, Baghdad / Al-Karkh: 60 cases, Medical City: 70 cases, Basra: 28 cases, Najaf: 18 cases, Sulaymaniyah: 57 cases, Erbil: …

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Maps reveal the scale of George Floyd protests

Related video: George Floyd protesters met with violence from police across US Cities large and small across the US have participated in protests, vigils, and demonstrations following the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis, among many recent African Americans whose deaths have galvanized a mass movement against police brutality …

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Astronomers confirm Earth-size exoplanet

Astronomers have confirmed the existence of Proxima b, an Earth-size exoplanet orbiting the closest star to our sun. The European Southern Observatory’s High Accuracy Radial velocity Planet Searcher (HARPS) detected the planet in 2016. The Very Large Telescope based in Chile has a new and more powerful spectrograph named ESPRESSO, …

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Al-Halbousi meets the American ambassador to Baghdad

Iraqi Parliament Speaker Mohammed Al-Halbousi and the US ambassador to Baghdad Matthew Toller discussed ways to support the Iraqi government in several areas. Al-Halbousi’s office said in a statement, “Today, Thursday, the Speaker of the House of Representatives received Matthew Toller, the American ambassador to Iraq, and the meeting discussed …

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