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Indonesia deployed divers on Wednesday around the site of an aircraft that crashed into the Java Sea with 189 people on board after picking up a signal searchers
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A landmark 11-country deal that will slash tariffs across much of the Asia-Pacific will come into force at the end of December, New Zealand said on Wednesday, a
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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has unveiled a 182-metre statue, the world's tallest, to honour Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel, one of the country’s founding fathers and its first home
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DUBAI: Dazed and completely daunted, Sharon listened to the muffled words of the doctor informing her that she had Stage 3 breast cancer. “Why only now?” the doctor
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ABU DHABI: The introduction of VAT and a “sin tax” on tobacco, coupled with the rise of free trade zones that underpin the GCC’s reputation as a global
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ABU DHABI: The introduction of VAT and a “sin tax” on tobacco, coupled with the rise of free trade zones that underpin the GCC’s reputation as a global
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Top American officials called for a ceasefire in Yemen and demanded warring parties immediately come to the negotiating table. The comments came as the Saudi-Emirati-led military coalition deployed
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Chinese intelligence officers conspired with hackers and company insiders to break into private companies' computer systems and steal information on a turbo fan engine used in commercial jetliners,
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With early voting soaring in the US state of Georgia, civil rights and voting rights groups have sounded the alarm on what they describe as widespread voter suppression
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BEIRUT: Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri has solved the issue of Lebanese Forces representation in the Lebanese government — but now Hezbollah has raised a problem concerning the representation
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BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah pressed a demand for one of its Sunni allies to be given a post in a new government on Tuesday as politicians sought a compromise
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JERUSALEM: Israelis voted in municipal elections across the country on Tuesday, with a closely watched race taking place in Jerusalem — a city with great importance to billions
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US President Donald Trump arrived in Pittsburgh on Tuesday as funerals began for the victims of last weekend's anti-Semitic shooting at a synagogue in the US city that
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Update: Hours after this story was published, NYU spokesperson John Beckman released a statement that the university has decided to postpone the classroom appearance by Milo Yiannopoulos. The decision
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James "Whitey" Bulger, who lived a double life as one of Boston's most notorious mobsters and as a secret FBI informant before going on the run for 16
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BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Hezbollah pressed a demand for one of its Sunni allies to be given a post in a new government on Tuesday as politicians sought a compromise
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TAIZ, Yemen: Outside the home of Yemeni teacher Adel Al-Shorbagy the queue of children lining up for education keeps getting longer.Almost 700 come daily to his house which
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CAIRO: The US commission on international religious freedom has denounced Yemen’s Houthi militia for charging 24 Baha’is, including women and a teenager, with espionage.Tenzin Dorjee, chair of the
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Correction: 30/10/2018: A previous version of this article stated Sisi came to power in 2014. That is incorrect. Sisi took power in a military coup in 2013 and
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Authorities in Egypt have released the author of a book critical of President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi's economic policies and his publisher after detaining them more than a week ago. Abdel Khalik
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has accused Saudi Arabia of stalling the investigation into the killing of Saudi journalist and government critic Jamal Khashoggi. Saudi Arabia's chief prosecutor met his
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COPENHAGEN: Iranian intelligence services attempted to assassinate an Arab opposition figure in Denmark, Danish security officials revealed on Tuesday. A Norwegian citizen of Iranian background has been arrested
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Ankara: Turkey has completed preparations for a new operation in northern Syria to “destroy” a US-backed Kurdish militia that Ankara considers to be a terrorist group, President Recep
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LONDON: US sanctions against Iran will have “severe consequences” for the world order, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said on Tuesday, days before new sanctions on Tehran’s
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This article is the second of a two-part series on Gaza's water crisis. The first, which examines Gaza's water and health catastrophe, was published on Monday, October 29. Gaza
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan says a game is being played over the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi to protect senior figures linked to the crime. Erdogan's
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China has defended its decision to reverse aspects of a decades-old ban on the trade of tiger bones and rhino horns after conservationists labelled it a "huge setback" to efforts aimed
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