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  Last update: 16:43 24.05.2019

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  Europe

  'Pro-EU Tory Leaders Gone': Political World Has Its Say on May’s Tearful Resignation Speech

  Her voice breaking, Theresa May named 7 June as the day she will quit her role as Conservative Party leader, thereby bringing the turbulent three years of her premiership to an end.

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  Last update: 16:49 24.05.2019

  16:49 24.05.2019

  Europe

  Avast Scam! Sacked HMS Queen Elizabeth Captain Let His Wife Use Ship's Car

  He'd been warned on more than one occasion over the inappropriate use of the ship's Ford Galaxy - it was the discrepancies between the vehicle worksheet, documenting who used the vehicle, for what purpose and for how long, and the recorded mileage on the car that first alerted authorities to Cooke-Priest's vehicular misdemeanours.

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  Last update: 16:25 24.05.2019

  16:25 24.05.2019

  Africa

  Political Forces in Sudan Want to Establish Parliamentary Republic - Opposition

  DOHA (Sputnik) - Political forces in Sudan are planning to establish a parliamentary republic with expanded powers of the government and parliament for a transitional period, a spokesman for the opposition Forces for the Declaration of Freedom and Change, Satia Alhaj, said on Friday.

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  Last update: 16:38 24.05.2019

  16:38 24.05.2019

  US

  US Can 'Overextend, Destabilise' Russia Via Non-Military Domains, Think Tank Claims

  US-Russian relations have been in a downward spiral since 2014, spurring the exchange of sanctions and a military build-up. Relations have also been exacerbated by Washington’s withdrawal from the INF Treaty and NATO's regular drills and reconnaissance flights near Russia’s borders.

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  Last update: 16:34 24.05.2019

  16:34 24.05.2019

  Russia

  Police Probe as Russian Grads Rave in School ‘BDSM Flashmob’ (VIDEO)

  To celebrate farewell to their school years, boys and girls in the Russian Far Eastern port city of Vladivostok decided to exchange their school uniforms for naughty rabbit and police officer costumes. After videos and photos of the graduates dancing and throwing paint surfaced online, an investigation was launched.

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  Last update: 15:01 24.05.2019

  15:01 24.05.2019

  Middle East

  Pakistan Offers to Mediate Between US and Iran Amid Mounting Regional Tensions

  On Thursday, Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif arrived in Pakistan for bilateral talks amid an escalating crisis between the United States and Iran in the Middle East and ahead of Arab League emergency meetings scheduled for next week following fears of a military conflict in the Persian Gulf.

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  Last update: 12:41 24.05.2019

  12:41 24.05.2019

  Europe

  WATCH Theresa May's Voice Break as She Nearly Cries Announcing Resignation

  As people gathered in Downing Street on Friday, the embattled British Prime Minister, Theresa May, announced her resignation as Conservative Party leader, promising to step down on 7 June.

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  Last update: 15:10 24.05.2019

  15:10 24.05.2019

  Europe

  Orthodox Jews Outraged as Women-Only London Pond Opens to Transgenders – Reports

  The famous Ladies Pond in the Hampstead Heath Woods area in the north of London is now open to not only those born women, but also to transgender people who identify themselves as women, The Times of Israel reported.