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US President Donald Trump on Friday said a deal had been reached on legislation that would reopen the US government through February 15. "I am very proud to
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Qatar's preparations for hosting the 2022 football World Cup are not being hindered by a blockade imposed on it by some of its Gulf neighbours amid a major
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ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey expected a "security zone" to be created in Syria in a few months as the US withdraws militarily from the
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ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday Turkey expected a "security zone" to be created in Syria in a few months as the US withdraws militarily from the
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MOSUL: An Iraqi priest who saved a trove of religious manuscripts from the Daesh group was ordained on Friday as the new Chaldean Catholic archbishop of Mosul.Najeeb Michaeel,
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There's optimism in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) as people welcome their new leader, in spite of the economic hurdles ahead and questions over the election
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Qatar reached the semi-finals of the Asian Cup for the first time after knocking out two-time champions South Korea 1-0 on Friday. Midfielder Abdelaziz Hatim hit the winner
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Voters have decisively approved an expanded Muslim-led region in the Philippines' south, which is hoped will bring a measure of peace after decades of fighting has killed thousands
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TEHRAN, Iran: Iran’s state TV says the army has launched an annual infantry drill involving some 12,000 troops.It quotes Gen. Nozar Nemati as saying the two-day exercise will
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HASAKAH, Syria: Any deal between Syria’s Kurds and Damascus should respect the “special status” of Kurdish-led forces who fought the Daesh group, a top Kurdish commander of those
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Turkey court orders release of hunger striking Kurdish MP /node/1441641/middle-east Updated 2 min 59 sec ago January 25, 2019 07:29 0 Turkey court orders release of hunger striking
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Myanmar's army chief should be prosecuted for genocide against the Rohingya, a United Nations' human rights investigator has said. Yanghee Lee, the UN special rapporteur on human rights
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Roger Stone, a confidant of US President Donald Trump, was arrested on Friday morning as part of the special counsel's Russia investigation and was charged with lying to
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Queen Elizabeth II has urged Britons to seek a "common ground" in remarks widely interpreted as an appeal to resolve the crisis over the United Kingdom's departure from
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 16-year-old Israeli with manslaughter after he allegedly threw a stone at a car in the occupied West Bank and killed a
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Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro has called home all Venezuelan diplomats from the United States and closed its embassy and consulates there after the US declared his government "illegitimate". He also ordered
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Rights groups have called on Saudi Arabia to grant them access to detainees in the kingdom a day after British parliamentarians threatened to publish their own report detailing allegations of
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For Vietnamese activist Nguyen Chi Tuyen, it was supposed to be just another day in Hanoi. In the morning, he dropped off his son at elementary school and
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JENDOUBA, Tunisia: Tunisian divorcee Latifa counts herself lucky — she has a modest home that boasts a neat vegetable garden, a fig tree, and a pomegranate tree, along
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UNITED NATIONS: The head of a United Nations mission tasked with overseeing a peace deal in Yemen’s Hodeidah port city plans to step down next month and will
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UNITED NATIONS: The head of a United Nations mission tasked with overseeing a peace deal in Yemen’s Hodeidah port city plans to step down next month and will
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For the first time this year, the United States has sent two warships through the strategic Taiwan Strait, according to the Taiwanese government. The move risks further heightening
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The Afghan Taliban has named one of its co-founders as the leader of its political office in Qatar, as part of a major reshuffle that comes as talks with
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Rescuers in Indonesia are racing to find more than two dozen people still missing after torrential rains unleashed flash floods and landslides that killed at least 30 people in South
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Politicians in the United States have discussed a temporary funding proposal aimed at ending a record-long partial federal government shutdown, after two competing measures to terminate the impasse
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The partial US government shutdown hit the one-month mark on Monday with no sign of ending any time soon. Since before it started, there have been public feuds,
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Cucuta, Colombia - Joimar Diaz and her husband had planned and saved for a year to move their two young children out of Venezuela. On the eve of
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