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Syrian government: Aleppo truce must include rebel pullout
Government forces and allies had advanced into al-Shaar, Zakaria Malahifji, a Turkey-based official with the Aleppo rebel group Fastaqim said on Monday. Syrian state news agency SANA said that government forces had also captured the adjoining Qaterji district and the Merjeh and Sheikh Lutfi areas further south.
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PM Renzi told to delay resignation by president
At worst, they say, Italy's shaky banks could need some extra rescue money. Grillo said that German industry is anxious about the consequences of the referendum, which prompted Premier Matteo Renzi to announce his resignation. "It doesn't seem to require any emergency steps". Unlike most European countries, Italy is accustomed to political change, having had more than 60 prime ministers since 1945.
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Packers get back to .500, beat Texans 21-13
The Packers defense is still an issue, but since the offense was criticized for being predictably vanilla, Packers coach Mike McCarthy has changed up formations and let Rodgers run the show. Rodgers was 20 of 30. The Texans had 109 yards in the first half but marched 67 yards to open the second half and tie the score 7-7. Aaron Rodgers' sore left hamstring appears to be OK.
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Trouble as Sun TV says Jayalalithaa dead; Apollo denies
Jayalalithaa suffering a cardiac arrest on Sunday evening and a large number of her AIADMK party cadres gathering near Apollo Hospitals where she was admitted. Chennai: One of India's most powerful and most popular politicians, Jayaram Jayalalitha, is reported to be in critical condition as she suffered from cardiac seizure, the hospital said .
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US' Kerry offers harsh ultimatum to Israel
A "stinging rebuke" is how the independent Times of Israel characterized his remarks in an online headline. Kerry noted that more than half of the ministers in Netanyahu's government have publicly stated their opposition to a Palestinian state, including the right-wing Education Minister Naftali Bennett, who stated following Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, "The era of the Palestinian state is over".
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OPEC drives Saudi supply cuts
Oil soared more than 10 percent on Wednesday to over $50 a barrel, its highest in a month. The bigger question of course is whether the strength in prices will persist. No one consumes more oil than the United States, but the second and third leading consumers are China and India. Horizontal drilling combined with hydraulic fracturing allowed USA drilling to reverse four decades of production declines, surging to more than 9.6 million barrels a day in April 2015, up from less than 5 ...