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BRUSSELS, BEIRUT: Syrian President Bashar Assad has suspended special multiple-entry visas for EU diplomats to Damascus. “We are continuing as the EU ... to do whatever we can
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CAIRO: The annual Cairo International Book Fair opened this week in a shiny new venue far away, literally and metaphorically, from the city’s historic book souk — and
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WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Iranian militias made up of Afghan and Pakistani refugees, including children, and sent as “cannon fodder” to Syria
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Thousands have demonstrated in Greece's main cities and on the Macedonian border against a historic deal to normalise relations with Macedonia. Police said more than 2,000 protesters gathered
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The US Senate on Thursday blocked two bills, including one piece of legislation backed by President Donald Trump, that were aimed at ending the record-long partial federal government
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A 24-year-old man has died of his wounds during protests in Sudan as thousands of demonstrators continued their protests across several cities, calling on longtime ruler Omar al-Bashir,
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ALGIERS: An Algerian court has released a journalist a month after he was sentenced to one year in jail for taking part in an unauthorised protest, his lawyer
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WASHINGTON: The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on two Iranian militia groups operating in Syria. The Treasury Department also targeted two companies linked to the blacklisted Iranian
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French and British authorities have called off the search for the small plane carrying Argentinian footballer Emiliano Sala, which disappeared on Monday near the British Channel Islands. In
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From a deadly ambush on a Pittsburgh synagogue that killed 11 to a Parkland, Florida school shooting that left 17 dead, every US "extremism-related murder" in 2018 was
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Gaza's rulers Hamas have rejected a fresh tranche of Qatari funds, accusing Israel of imposing new conditions on the money entering the blockaded Palestinian territory. The rejection of the expected
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TEHRAN: Fissures appear along roads while massive holes open up in the countryside, their gaping maws a visible sign from the air of something Iranian authorities now openly
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Opposition leader Felix Tshisekedi has been sworn in as Democratic Republic of Congo's president, succeeding Joseph Kabila in the vast central African country's first transfer of power through
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Turkey, Russia, and China came to the aid of Venezuela's leader on Thursday after the United States declared Nicolas Maduro was no longer its president. The pledges of
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After almost half-a-century of conflict, more than two million Filipinos residing in several Muslim-majority regions of the country cast their votes on the establishment of a new Muslim-dominated entity,
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ALGIERS: An Algerian court has released a journalist a month after he was sentenced to one year in jail for taking part in an unauthorised protest, his lawyer
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ALGIERS: An Algerian court has released a journalist a month after he was sentenced to one year in jail for taking part in an unauthorised protest, his lawyer
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TEHRAN: Fissures appear along roads while massive holes open up in the countryside, their gaping maws a visible sign from the air of something Iranian authorities now openly
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US President Donald Trump said in a late-night Tweet on Wednesday that he would wait until the government shutdown was over to deliver a State of the Union
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Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah of central Pahang state has been named Malaysia's new king, replacing Sultan Muhammad V who abdicated unexpectedly after just two years on the
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Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu said on Thursday it is time for an international investigation to be launched into the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, adding that a United
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MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday vowed to coordinate their actions more closely in Syria.“Cooperation
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In Iran, parched lands hollowed by water pumping now sinking Updated 5 min 33 sec ago January 24, 2019 00:00 TEHRAN: Fissures appear along roads while massive holes
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MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan at a meeting in Moscow on Wednesday vowed to coordinate their actions more closely in Syria.“Cooperation
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The Australian government has urged China to treat the case of arrested writer Yang Hengjun "transparently and fairly", amid a growing row over the fate of the Chinese-Australian. Officials
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Juan Guaido has risen from backbench obscurity to the US-backed, self-declared interim president of Venezuela in just three weeks, amid a deepening political and economic crisis in the
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As the global temperature averages a 0.8-degree Celsius increase over the last century, one must question the seemingly insatiable appetites of politicians and world economies for endless and
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