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JEDDAH: Yemeni Vice President Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar said on Saturday that he was grateful for the Saudi-led Arab coalition in defending Yemen from “Iran’s destructive influence in the
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Sudan police fire tear gas as civil disobedience campaign begins, Pope pleads for peace KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas Sunday at protesters taking part in the first
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Hundreds of thousands of people have marched through Hong Kong in the last bid to block a proposed extradition law that would allow suspects to be sent to
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A Brit buying the Daily Mirror in 1976 would have come across an article entitled "Cheated by the dole queue fiddlers". Now, in 2018, a recent headline in
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CAIRO: Egypt says security forces have killed 4 militants in the restive northern part of Sinai Peninsula.The Interior Ministry says the four were killed in a shootout with
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TEHRAN: Iran said Saturday that new US sanctions on its petrochemical industry show the hollowness of President Donald Trump’s claims to be open to fresh negotiations with Tehran.“Only
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Iran has condemned new sanctions imposed by the United States targeting its petrochemical industry, saying they prove US President Donald Trump is not serious about pursuing negotiations. Abbas
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Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has fired the country's chief of national intelligence after he suggested that the president was forewarned about the deadly Easter bombings. Indian intelligence agents
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JERUSALEM: Israel’s attorney general on Thursday rejected Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s request to postpone a court hearing over corruption allegations against him, media reports said.The prosecutor’s office said
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DUBAI: Iran rejected French calls for wider international talks over its nuclear and military ambitions, saying on Friday it would only discuss it existing 2015 atomic pact with
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Heavy fighting raged in northwestern Syria on Friday after rebels launched a counterattack to repel an offensive by government forces in the war-torn region. Syria and ally Russia ramped up
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A prominent investigative journalist has been arrested in Russia on drugs charges. Ivan Golunov, known for his investigations into corruption in Russia, writes for online news source Meduza
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BRUSSELS: The head of the NATO mission in Iraq insisted Thursday that the recent increase in tension between the US and Iran has not hampered the alliance’s work
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CAEN, France: Iran is “championing terrorism” across the Middle East, President Donald Trump said Thursday in Caen, western France, after attending a ceremony to commemorate the 75th anniversary
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A court in Germany has handed life sentence to a nurse, believed to be the most prolific serial killer in the country's post-war history, for the "unfathomable" crime
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Detectives investigating the murder of journalist Lyra McKee in Northern Ireland have arrested a 46-year-old man and carried out searches at properties near the site of the shooting,
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JERUSALEM: Global financial institutions will attend a US-led conference on the Palestinian economy this month that the Trump administration has cast as an overture to its Middle East
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JERUSALEM: Global financial institutions will attend a US-led conference on the Palestinian economy this month that the Trump administration has cast as an overture to its Middle East
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Iran's President Hassan Rouhani has stressed his country's willingness to strengthen relations with Qatar, and called regional tensions with Tehran "detrimental". In a phone call on Wednesday between
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Washington, DC - A bipartisan group of seven influential United States senators said on Wednesday they intend to force congressional votes on 22 resolutions that would block President
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GENEVA: Fighters have set fire thousands of acres of wheat and other crops in northwest Syria in a campaign that has turned food supplies in a “weapon of
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LONDON: At two years old, Yemeni filmmaker Khadija Al-Salami witnessed her father beating her mother so violently she was rushed to the emergency room at hospital.When her father
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Sudan's opposition has rejected a plan by the country's military to hold elections within nine months, a day after more than 35 people were reportedly killed when security forces
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Donald Trump, the president of the United States, hailed "the greatest alliance the world has ever known" after meeting British Prime Minister Theresa May on Tuesday. On the
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RABAT: Three suspects accused of belonging to a “terrorist cell” affiliated to Daesh were arrested in Morocco on Monday, the country’s anti-terror police said.The three men, aged between
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DAMASCUS: Syria on Sunday accused Israel of targeting an air base in Homs province, in the second such attack in 24 hours.“Our air defenses thwarted an Israeli aggression
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Colombo, Sri Lanka - All of Sri Lanka's Muslim ministers and their deputies have resigned from their portfolios after accusing the government of failing to guarantee the security
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Sudanese security forces are moving against a protest sit-in camp in the capital, besieging the site, witnesses and protest leaders said. Machine-gun fire and explosions were heard and
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AIN ISSA, Syria: Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria said Sunday they plan to hand 800 women and children, including relatives of militants, to their families in the first
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AIN ISSA, Syria: Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria said Sunday they plan to hand 800 women and children, including relatives of militants, to their families in the first
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