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ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to bring peace and safety to Iraq and areas in Syria not under Turkish control and said terrorist organizations in
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ANKARA: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan vowed on Sunday to bring peace and safety to Iraq and areas in Syria not under Turkish control and said terrorist organizations in
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LONDON: A British-Iranian charity worker has been ordered to return to prison after being allowed out for three days. Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not granted an extension to her
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Colombians are heading to the polls to vote in a landmark referendum on tougher anti-corruption laws, two months after choosing Ivan Duque as their new president. Polls opened across
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The leader of ISIL in Afghanistan was killed in air strikes in eastern Nangarhar province, the fourth head of the armed group to die since it emerged in
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Four armed men have been killed in an operation by the Egyptian police in the city of Arish in the northern Sinai. Egyptian security source told Arabic-language media
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World
(CNN)The head of ISIS in Afghanistan, Abu Sayed Orakzai, also known as Sad Arhabi, and 10 other ISIS fighters were killed Saturday night in an airstrike in Nangarhar
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World
(CNN)A British-Iranian woman who has been imprisoned in Tehran since 2016 on spying charges returned to prison on Sunday, just three days after she was temporarily released.Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe
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Middle East
CAIRO: Daesh on Sunday claimed responsibility for an attack on an Egyptian police checkpoint in northern Sinai, the group’s Amaq news agency reported, saying 15 soldiers were killed
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Middle East
TEHRAN: Iran's parliament impeached Economy Minister Masoud Karbasian on Sunday in the latest blow to embattled President Hassan Rouhani as he struggles to face down a mounting economic crisis.Karbasian
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Middle East
DAMASCUS: Iran's defense minister arrived in Syria on Sunday for talks on boosting cooperation and is expected to meet with President Bashar Al-Assad, state media reported.Iran has provided
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Middle East
Afghanistan's President Ashraf Ghani has rejected resignations tendered by three senior officials. The resignations from Defence Minister Tariq Shah Bahrami and Interior Minister Wais Barmak, as well as Masoom Stanekzai, head of
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Community activists in the United States are marking 50 years since the infamous Chicago riots. In 1968, a 10,000-strong protest against the war in Vietnam turned into a
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Middle East
Emmerson Mnangagwa has taken the oath as Zimbabwe's president, after winning last month's bitterly contested election that marked the country's first vote since Robert Mugabe was removed from power. The
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Middle East
The US has no royalty but the late US Senator John McCain was born into the closest thing the country has to an aristocracy. He began life in
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Middle East
Iran's finance minister has been impeached by the country's parliament in the latest blow to the embattled government as it struggles against a fall in the currency value
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Middle East
The Yemeni government has reopened the historic Cairo Castle in war-torn Taiz to visitors, just days after regaining control of the site from the UAE-backed Abu al-Abbas Brigades. For
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MOSUL: More than a year since the Daesh group’s expulsion from Mosul, Sana Ibrahim bears daily hardship to look after her 22 grandchildren, after losing five family members
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MOSUL: More than a year since the Daesh group’s expulsion from Mosul, Sana Ibrahim bears daily hardship to look after her 22 grandchildren, after losing five family members
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TEHRAN, Iran: Three earthquakes, including one magnitude 6, have struck western Iran, with state media reporting at least two people killed and 241 injured.The US Geological Survey says two
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United States Senator John McCain, a former prisoner of war in Vietnam who ran unsuccessfully for US president in 2008 and became a prominent critic of President Donald
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Pope Francis has arrived in Ireland for the first papal visit to the country in nearly four decades. The pontiff's arrival at Dublin airport on Saturday comes amid
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Middle East
Jean-Pierre Bemba has been banned from running in the Democratic Republic of Congo's presidential election later this year by the country's electoral commission. Bemba, a former vice president,
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Middle East
Syrian rebels planning chemical attack in Idlib to provoke US retaliation, Russia claims ANKARA: Militant opposition fighters in northern Syria are preparing a “staged” chemical gas attack, Russia
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Syrian rebels planning chemical attack in Idlib to provoke US retaliation, Russia claims ANKARA: Militant opposition fighters in northern Syria are preparing a “staged” chemical gas attack, Russia
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The World Bank will provide $1bn in direct budget support to Ethiopia in the next few months, the prime minister has said, more than 13 years after the
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Middle East
Saudi Arabia has reportedly delayed its plans to list shares of its state-owned oil company Aramco on the stock market. Media reports say the initial public offering (IPO),
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