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BEIRUT: Hezbollah urged Lebanon’s new government on Tuesday to negotiate with banks to restructure the country’s massive national debt. The unprecedented call by a Hezbollah member of Parliament
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ANKARA: Turkish authorities detained 729 people in nationwide raids Tuesday over alleged links to a group blamed for a failed coup in 2016, the Ankara public prosecutor’s office
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Two weeks before a second summit between the leaders of the United States and North Korea, the commander of US forces in South Korea has said he has
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Several people have been killed in a stampede at a rally in support of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's candidacy days before the country's presidential and legislative elections, his office
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said the Australian government would reopen its controversial offshore detention centre on Christmas Island, stepping up the conservative administration's hardline policies towards asylum
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World
(CNN)The verdict in the trial of the once-powerful leader of Mexico's Sinaloa drug cartel will have little impact on the operations of the world's largest drug trafficking organization
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World
(CNN)Did you read the story about Meghan Markle demanding synthetic air freshener in a 14th century royal chapel? Or the one about her making Kate Middleton cry? Maybe
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(CNN)Every few months or so, a foot washes ashore in British Columbia, and while that is awful creepy, authorities want you to know there doesn't seem to be
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Middle East
KHARTOUM: Security forces arrested 14 professors who were gathering to protest outside Khartoum University on Tuesday, witnesses said, as anti-government demonstrations neared the end of their eighth week. Doctors
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KHARTOUM: Security forces arrested 14 professors who were gathering to protest outside Khartoum University on Tuesday, witnesses said, as anti-government demonstrations neared the end of their eighth week. Doctors
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JERUSALEM: On a Jerusalem plaza looking up at the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, a crowd gathers in front of two guides, listening attentively, a common
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Melbourne, Australia - As a toddler in a children's jail in Melbourne, Brian Morley cried relentlessly. Having been taken from his mother by the police in 1960, when
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Warsaw, Poland - A US-led summit on peace and security in the Middle East will take place in Warsaw on Wednesday and Thursday. The meeting was first announced
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Washington, DC - Days away from another possible government shutdown, Maria can't imagine facing another one. The 43-year-old law clerk and mother of one spent the last month
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World
Tehran, Iran (CNN)Iranian President Hassan Rouhani stood before a big crowd celebrating the Islamic Revolution's 40th anniversary on Monday and vowed to boost his country's military and ballistic
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(CNN)A single act of generosity was multiplied again and again this week after a Good Samaritan paid for hotel rooms to shelter homeless Chicagoans from a historic and
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OMAR OIL FIELD, Syria: US-backed forces pressed the battle to expel diehard militants from the last pocket of land under their control in eastern Syria on Tuesday after
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RAMALLAH: The United States has denied accusations it is pressuring banks to stop dealing with the Palestinian government, whose relations with Washington have been plummeting.Several Palestinian officials have
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TUNIS: Officials in Tunisia have been “dragging their feet” on efforts to repatriate Tunisian children of Daesh group members from camps in Syria, Iraq and Libya, Human Rights Watch
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At least 16 civilians, including seven children, were killed in air attacks launched by a US-backed coalition aiming to capture ISIL's last enclave in eastern Syria. Fighter jets fired
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Lagos, Nigeria - A fear of violence has gripped many in Nigeria days before the presidential and legislative elections on February 16 with at least five deaths reported so far
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Efforts by Russia and China to develop space technologies are challenging US dominance in the space race and threaten to cripple its galactic security supremacy, a new report
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World
(CNN)An Emirati woman who fled to the Republic of Macedonia has made a desperate plea for help after her asylum request was rejected by the Balkan state.In a
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)Companies and executives around the world are desperately trying to gauge the severity of China's economic slowdown. But getting a clear picture is very difficult.Growth
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Hong Kong (CNN)A Chinese billionaire and political donor has called Australia a "giant baby" after it revoked his permanent residency amid concerns over China's growing foreign influence. Property
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Middle East
CAIRO: Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered an ancient workshop used to build and repair ships that dates back to the Ptolemaic era (332 B.C.-30 B.C.) in the Sinai
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ISTANBUL: A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the Syrian town of al-Rai near the Turkish border on Tuesday, residents and an emergency worker told
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