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Sri Lanka's strongman leader Mahinda Rajapaksa will step down from his disputed position of the prime minister on Saturday, his son said. Rajapaksa's legislator son, Namal Rajapaksa, tweeted
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Middle East
Mexico's new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has opened the doors of Mexico's hitherto off-limits presidential palace. Mexico's president has declared that the presidential residence and office, known
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World
(CNN)He's arguably the most successful manager in history with a win record of 88.5%, but All Blacks head coach Steve Hansen has announced he will step down after
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(CNN)Veteran driver Felipe Massa has been getting fans in a flap ahead of his Formula E debut. Ahead of his first appearance in the all-electric race series, the
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(CNN)When Shaun Denis wants to relax at work, he steps into a quiet room, outfitted with a few ferns and a chair. He slips on a virtual-reality headset
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: Turkish forces will enter the Syrian town of Manbij if the United States does not remove YPG Kurdish fighters, and it will also target Kurdish-controlled areas further
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MAYS AL-JABAL, Lebanon: As Israeli excavators dug into the rocky hills along the frontier with a Lebanese village, a crowd of young Lebanese men gathered to watch.The mood
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DUBAI: Yemen’s security committee met on Thursday to discuss the launch of a program to regulate arms possession in Aden and neighboring provinces, Yemeni news agency Saba New
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Middle East
A court in the Maldives has frozen bank accounts owned by former President Abdulla Yameen, two sources told Al Jazeera on Friday, as part of an investigation into
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Middle East
Anticipating a fifth straight weekend of violent protests, Paris' police chief has said that armoured vehicles and thousands of officers will be deployed again in the French capital.
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Middle East
US President Donald Trump knew it was wrong to order election-eve hush money paid to two women who claimed affairs with him, his former lawyer Michael Cohen said
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World
(CNN)He'd blacked out in the snow-swept night somewhere on Mt. Everest's airy northeast ridge. Now Kilian Jornet was lost, exhausted and delirious, whipped by a fierce wind in
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St George's Park (CNN)On a bleak December day, inside an indoor training pitch with as much coziness as an igloo, toes are quickly becoming numb in the bone-chilling
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(CNN)They're the wheelers and dealers, the people that make football transfers happen -- and they're in a lucrative business.A report released by world governing body FIFA has revealed
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Middle East
Hundreds of Jordanians have protested in the capital Amman against the government's planned tax increases and high unemployment rates. Demonstrators on Thursday evening were met with riot police
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Middle East
Beirut, Lebanon - There were 20 boys in the group, aching to catch a glimpse of Palestine. They jumped on to a bus which took them from a
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Middle East
The United States and Iran have welcomed breakthroughs in UN-brokered peace talks between Yemen's warring parties, who agreed on Thursday to cease fighting for the vital port city
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World
Washington (CNN)National security adviser John Bolton unveiled President Donald Trump's Africa strategy on Thursday, outlining a plan that he said focuses heavily on countering China and Russia's expanding
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Hong Kong (CNN Business)Canadian and US companies are bracing themselves for fallout from the arrest of a top executive at Chinese tech giant Huawei.Meng Wanzhou, Huawei's chief financial
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World
(CNN)Now entering its fifth season, Formula E feels a world away from the sport that first appeared for its inaugural championship in 2014.The "Generation 2" cars boast a
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Middle East
AMMAN: Israel was accused on Thursday of humiliating Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas by placing Ramallah on virtual lockdown amid a 24-hour outbreak of violence in which five people died.
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Middle East
BEIRUT: Kurdish-led forces on Thursday moved deep into Hajjin, the main village in the last pocket still held by the Daesh group in eastern Syria, a war monitor
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Japan has begun main reclamation work at a controversial US military airbase on the southern island of Okinawa, prompting protests and "strong" opposition from the local governor. Construction
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Middle East
A seven-year-old girl from Guatemala has died of dehydration and shock hours after she was taken into US Border Patrol custody, the Washington Post has reported. The girl
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Middle East
After a two-day manhunt, authorities in France say police have found and killed the suspected gunman who shot three people dead at a Christmas market in Strasbourg. More than 700
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World
(CNN)The man suspected of killing at least three people and wounding 13 others at Strasbourg's famed Christmas market has been killed by French police, following a shoot-out not
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Brussels (CNN)The European Union will not throw British Prime Minister Theresa May a lifeline over Brexit, after she survived a bruising confidence motion triggered by members of her
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