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Oil prices retreated after Iran's foreign minister said there had been "major progress" toward ending the fighting in Lebanon during the first session of high-level talks.
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Tehran and Washington locked in talks in Switzerland over deal to settle four-month conflict
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Cape Verde do it again. World Cup debutants stun Uruguay to take big step towards knockout stage The New York TimesCape Verde cause another World Cup shock to deny Uruguay ESPNA big moment for a tiny island nation: Cape Verde gets 1st World Cup goal SFGATEWorld Cup 2026: Cape Verde draw with Uruguay and near knockout qualification BBCCape Verde produce another World Cup shock as Varela strike seals Uruguay draw The Guardian
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After Trump inspects Reflecting Pool, he says repair work will begin 'immediately' BBCBethesda man and former olympian arrested for taking paint from Reflecting Pool WUSA9Felony warning issued as arrests reported at Reflecting Pool FOX 5 DCTrump Vents Growing Frustrations With Reflecting-Pool Problems WSJ
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Traders see more volatility ahead as new central bank chair declines to give dot plot on future path of interest rates
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Vance wants to ‘turn over a new leaf' as US-Iran talks start in Switzerland Al JazeeraU.S. and Iran launch direct negotiations in Switzerland AxiosIran War Live Updates: US-Iran Talks Are Strained by Israel-Hezbollah Conflict and Trump's Renewed Threats The New York TimesUS-Iran talks in Switzerland paused but not ended — Iranian source The Times of Israel
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RELIGION and human rights have always had an intense, tortured relationship. On one hand, liberty of conscience and belief is one of the first and most fundamental principles enshrined in the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, the European Convention on Human Rights and other documents that lay out humanity's minimum entitlements. On the other hand, secular campaigners often blame oppressive forms of religion for a high proportion of the worst assaults on human welfare: from religiously inspired ethnic cleansing to female genital mutilation to the nihilist jihadism which treats every form of faith but its own as a legitimate target.
At this year's tenth-anniversary session of the Oslo Freedom Forum, an ever-expanding international festival for campaigners against tyranny, victims of religion were more obviously in evidence than practitioners. Speakers included Fatemah Qaderyan, 16, an Afghan teenager who led an award-wining female robotics team but lost her father in a jihadist bomb attack; and Omar Mohammed, an Iraqi...Continue reading
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