#UPDATE Iraq's powerful Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr announced on Monday that he is quitting politics, after a nearly-year long stalemate that has left the country without a new government u.afp.com/wFCE
#BREAKING Iraq army announces curfew in Baghdad from 1230 GMT
#BREAKING Live fire in Baghdad's fortified Green Zone: AFP
#UPDATE Live fire rocked Baghdad's Green Zone on Monday after hundreds of supporters of Shiite Muslim cleric Moqtada Sadr stormed the government building in the fortified area, an AFP journalist said u.afp.com/wFtD
#BREAKING Iraqi army declares nationwide curfew from 1600 GMT after supporters of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr storm government building
#BREAKING Two protesters killed in clashes in Baghdad's Green Zone: medics
#UPDATE Two protesters were killed and Iraq declared a nationwide curfew on Monday after supporters of Moqtada #Sadr stormed the government palace in Baghdad's Green Zone following the powerful Shiite leader's declaration that he was quitting politics u.afp.com/wFvy
#BREAKING 8 protesters dead in clashes in Baghdad's Green Zone: new toll
#BREAKING US urges calm amid 'disturbing' reports of unrest in Baghdad
#BREAKING 12 protesters shot dead in Baghdad Green Zone clashes: new toll
#BREAKING Shells fired towards Baghdad's Green Zone: security source
#BREAKING 15 protesters shot dead in Baghdad's Green Zone: medical sources
Shelling targeted Baghdad's high-security Green Zone Monday, a security source said, after Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr said he was quitting politics, sparking chaos in which 12 of his supporters were killed u.afp.com/wt43
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#BREAKING Biden says still considers Xi a 'dictator'
#UPDATE US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's a dictator in the sense that he's a guy who's running a country, a Communist country, that's based on a form of government totally different than ours," Biden said at the end of a news conference when a reporter asked if he would still use the term to describe Xi
#BREAKING China will not begin armed conflict with any nation, President Xi Jinping said Wednesday, after a high-stakes summit with US President Joe Biden.
"China does not seek spheres of influence, and will not fight a cold or hot war with any country," he told a gathering of business leaders in San Francisco
#BREAKING Any compromise with Russia will 'destroy' Ukrainian statehood: presidential aide to AFP
#BREAKING Putin says West used grain deal for 'political blackmail'
VIDEO: Ukrainian firefighters battle flames after a Russian strike on Odesa.
Ukraine's president accused Russia of deliberately targeting grain export infrastructure in the city after Moscow ended a landmark deal and lifted security guarantees in the Black Sea
#BREAKING Putin says situation 'difficult' in Rostov in southern Russia
#UPDATE Russian President Vladimir Putin on Saturday acknowledged a "difficult" situation was unfolding in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don, where the Wagner mercenary group has taken control of key military sites in an effort to oust Russian military's top brass.
#UPDATE President Vladimir Putin vowed Saturday he would not allow Russia to slip into civil war, after the leader of the Wagner mercenary force seized a key military headquarters overseeing the offensive in Ukraine.
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#BREAKING Titanic sub operator believes passengers have 'sadly been lost': statement
#UPDATE The US Coast Guard now says the discovered debris from the submersible -- which was carrying five passengers down to the wreckage of the Titanic when the small vessel vanished on Sunday -- suggests 'catastrophic loss'
#BREAKING Pakistan offer condolences to family of British-Pakistan nationals on Titanic sub