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About 750 US soldiers are being deployed to the Middle East in response to violent protests at the country's embassy in Iraq, Defence Secretary Mark Esper has said.

Additional forces from the US Army's 82nd Airborne Division are also prepared to deploy in the next several days.

He said: "This deployment is an appropriate and precautionary action

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He's been called the Indiana Jones of the art world, though investigator Arthur Brand insisted he is more like Inspector Clouseau.

But surely, I pointed out, the comical anti-hero of the Pink Panther movies is a bumbling idiot?

"No," Mr Brand replies. "Clouseau is always successful in the end, like I am. But the way to his success is stumbling,

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North Korea's leader said his country will continue developing nuclear programmes and introduce a "new strategic weapon" in the near future.

Kim Jong Un accused the US of dragging its feet in nuclear negotiations.

He said that his country will not put its security at risk in exchange for economic benefits, adding North Korea will never denuclearise

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"I am leaving. I did all I could."

So spoke Boris Yeltsin on the eve of the millennium, as he begged his people's forgiveness for the chaos of the 1990s and announced he was handing presidential duties to Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin, his recently appointed PM.

It was a bolt from the blue - an entrustment of the country into the hands of a man whose

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Former Nissan chief Ghosn says he is in Lebanon to avoid ‘political persecution&
Nissanformer Chairman Carlos Ghosn has said he is in Lebanon and was not fleeing justice, but instead sought to avoid &injustice and political persecution& in Japan where he is to be tried for alleged financial misconduct.
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Kansas police officer faked story of ‘pig& being written on his coffee cup
Herington Police Chief Brian Hornaday said at a news conference that the now-former officer &completely and solely fabricated& the allegations.
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