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Bangkok, Thailand - Preliminary results from Thailand's Election Commission show a military-backed party in the lead, in the country's first elections since a military coup in 2014. With
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Iraq's parliament has sacked the governor of the northern province of Nineveh where more than 100 people died when a ferry capsized three days ago, triggering grief and anger among residents.
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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - Mahmoud was well into his shift baking bread when a burst of urgent shouts warned him of an approaching cordon of men in uniform.
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ALGIERS: A group of Algerian opposition parties and unions proposed on Saturday a “roadmap” to end a political crisis and weeks of protests sparked by the veteran president’s
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ISTANBUL: If former Turkish prime minister Binali Yildirim wants a reminder of how much he needs to win as Istanbul mayor in this month’s election, he just has
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OMAR OIL FIELD, Syria: Syria’s Kurds warned Sunday that the thousands of foreign militants they have detained in their fight against the Daesh group are a time-bomb the
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Bangkok, Thailand - Voting has closed in the long-delayed elections that Prayuth Chan-ocha, the retired army general who led the coup against the country's last elected government five years ago,
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Al Jazeera visits a village in Kenya at the centre of a drought crisis.
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With the self-declared "caliphate" of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) now erased, there are questions over what happens to foreign fighters and
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JERUSALEM: Israeli aircraft targeted Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip early Sunday after Palestinians there threw explosive devices at the border fence during “riots,” the army said.Also Sunday,
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JERUSALEM: Israeli aircraft targeted Hamas positions in the Gaza Strip early Sunday after Palestinians there threw explosive devices at the border fence during “riots,” the army said.Also Sunday,
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BAGHOUZ: A driver working with NBC News reporters in Syria was killed Saturday by an explosive device in eastern Syria, where several media outlets are covering the liberation
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AIPAC, one of the most powerful lobby groups in the United States, is facing new criticism from Democrats and advocates for Palestinian rights as it convenes its annual
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Dire Dawa, Ethiopia - Millions of people in the Horn of Africa are suffering from a prolonged drought that is coinciding with the United States's proposal to slash funding
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Indonesia's first subway has opened in the country's capital, Jakarta - the development seen as crucial to tackling some of the world's worst congestion. Minutes after inaugurating the
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Saudi-led Coalition forces raid two caves used by Houthis to hide drones in Yemen RIYADH: Saudi-led Coalition forces have raided two caves being used by the Houthi militia
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BAGHDAD: US President Donald Trump’s statement recognizing Israel’s sovereignty over the Golan Heights “contravenes international law,” the Iraqi Foreign Ministry said on Twitter on Saturday.Trump’s statement on Thursday
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi has formally requested that Parliament sack Nineveh Governor Nawfal Hammadi Al-Sultan after a river ferry accident that killed at least 100
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MUST-SEE PROGRAMMES Featured Documentaries An Unholy Alliance: Monks and the Military in Myanmar Is the joining of forces between radical Buddhist monks and generals threatening Myanmar's young and
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The number of people killed in Mozambique alone has risen to more than 400. And the United Nations has warned of the risk of further flooding in the
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The Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) once controlled territory in Syria and Iraq equivalent to the size of Great Britain, where it imposed its
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World
(CNN)Royal visits overseas always attract a great deal of scrutiny, but none in recent memory has been quite as politically sensitive and potentially inflammatory towards the UK's closest
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Bangkok, Thailand (CNN)Choltanutkun Tun-Atiruj wasn't old enough to vote in the last official elections held in Thailand in 2011. Like many of the 7 million other first time
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(CNN)The pilots of a jet that crashed in Ethiopia, killing all on board, used a flight simulator to learn how to fly the Boeing 737 Max 8 plane,
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Middle East
Leaders from a number of countries are reacting to the announcement by US-backed forces that they have captured the last enclave held by the Islamic State of Iraq
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Congressional Democrats have demanded the full release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation report that is now in the hands of the US Attorney General, William Barr.
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Armed men have killed more than 100 people in central Mali, according to local officials, in what is one of the deadliest attacks in a country plagued by
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