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A Turkish court has upheld life sentences for prominent journalists Ahmet Altan, Mehmet Altan, Nazli Ilicak and three others, on charges of aiding the plotters of a failed
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BAGHDAD: The veteran secular Kurdish politician Barham Salih was elected on Tuesday as Iraq’s next president. Salih, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), faced a challenge from Fuad Hussein
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BAGHDAD: The veteran secular Kurdish politician Barham Salih was elected on Tuesday as Iraq’s next president. Salih, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), faced a challenge from Fuad Hussein
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Middle East
DUBAI: Eight members of an Emirati family were killed and one person was injured in a devastating house fire in the United Arab Emirates early on Tuesday. The
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Four men linked to a white supremacist group were arrested on Tuesday in connection with the far-right rally that turned deadly in Charlottesville, Virginia, last year, authorities said.
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US President Donald Trump engaged in "dubious tax schemes", including cases of fraud in which he and his siblings helped their parents dodge taxes in 1990s, the New
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Middle East
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will meet North Korean leader Kim Jong-un on Sunday for a new round of talks on denuclearisation, the US State Department said.
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World
A rare spot of happy news: Apple is finally getting a llama emoji. And a raccoon, bagel, frisbee and mosquito emoji, too. The company said it will likely
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World
Tencent Music has filed plans to go public in the United States in what could be one the biggest recent US IPOs by a Chinese company. The company
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World
A tumultuous quarter at Tesla ended with some very good sales numbers. The company delivered 83,500 vehicles during the third quarter, a strong performance that should calm investor
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: Turkish police detained 280 suspects in a money-laundering investigation into the transfer of about 2.5 billion lira ($419 million) worth of foreign currency to bank accounts abroad,
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Middle East
BAGHDAD: Barham Salih, the veteran Kurdish politician, is set to become Iraq's next president. Salih, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), faced a challenge from Fuad Hussein of the
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Middle East
Prominent Saudi dissident and journalist Jamal Khashoggi has gone missing after visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul on Tuesday, the Arab21 news website reported, citing his fiancee. Khashoggi, who
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Middle East
The mayor of an Italian town known around the world as a model of integration has been put under house arrest for 'aiding illegal migration'. Domenico Lucano, who
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Middle East
Over the past few months, pundits have obsessed over the unprecedented surge in the number of female candidates in the upcoming congressional elections in the United States, calling
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Middle East
GENEVA: The World Health Organization said Tuesday it was helping Yemeni authorities with a second round of vaccination against cholera in three hard-hit districts, as cases surged across
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Middle East
BEIRUT: Syrian foreign minister said in remarks broadcast Tuesday that the Iranian ballistic missiles attack on militants in eastern Syria the previous day was part of “legitimate” cooperation
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: Turkish police detained 280 suspects in a money-laundering investigation into the transfer of about 2.5 billion lira ($419 million) worth of foreign currency to bank accounts abroad,
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Middle East
New Delhi, India - Activists are calling for police reforms following a shooting in which a police officer killed an Apple executive in the state of Uttar Pradesh
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An anti-money laundering body in the Maldives has informed police that President Abdulla Yameen received 22.5 million Maldivian rufiyaa ($1.5m) in hard currency days in advance of a contentious
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Middle East
British Prime Minister Theresa May says her government will end preferential access for European Union workers after Brexit. In an announcement at her Conservative party conference on Tuesday,
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World
Palu, Indonesia (CNN)Desperation is growing in the stricken Indonesian city of Palu as residents faced a fifth day with little food or clean drinking water and the official
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Middle East
TRIPOLI: Libya has reopened the only functioning airport in the capital Tripoli again after rockets fired in its direction forced a brief closure, officials said on Tuesday, days
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Middle East
ISTANBUL: Turkish police detained 280 suspects in a money-laundering investigation into the transfer of about 2.5 billion lira ($419 million) worth of foreign currency to bank accounts abroad,
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Middle East
At least 13 people have been killed and 25 others wounded in a suicide attack at an election campaign rally in the eastern Nangarhar province in Afghanistan. The assailant detonated
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Middle East
About one million people in northern Yemen are living in makeshift camps on the verge of famine. They're in a Houthi-controlled area that the Saudi-Emirati coalition has been
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Middle East
In yet another move aimed at reducing Islamic influence in China, authorities there have renamed a river because it had an "Arabic-sounding name". The name of the river
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