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ADEN: Yemen’s warring parties are expected to agree on the terms of a prisoner exchange in around 10 days, a representative of the internationally recognized Yemeni government said on
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BAQA AL-GHARBIYA, ISRAEL: Thousands of mourners attended the funeral on Wednesday of Aya Maasarwe, an Arab Israeli student killed in Australia, in her hometown of Baqa Al-Gharbiya in northern
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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 biggest democracy in the world is due to elect its leader for the next five years in fewer than 100 days. And the race has just become
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The United States, Canada and major South American nations recognised the head of Venezuela's opposition-controlled legislature, Juan Guaido, as the country's interim leader on Wednesday, leaving President Nicolas
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Italy and France have long been close allies and fellow-founding European Union members. But relations have taken a turn for the worse since Italy's populist parties came to power
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MOSCOW: Russia said on Wednesday that Israel should stop carrying out what Moscow called arbitrary airstrikes on Syria, days after the Israeli air force targeted what Israel said were
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BAQA AL-GHARBIYA, ISRAEL: Thousands of mourners attended the funeral on Wednesday of Aya Maasarwe, an Arab Israeli student killed in Australia, in her hometown of Baqa Al-Gharbiya in northern
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LIVERPOOL: The traffickers told Fardin Gholami that a fishing boat would take him from France to England at midnight, but when he and five other Iranian asylum seekers got
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Venezuela has plunged further into political crisis amid a growing row over President Nicolas Maduro's future as the country's leader. Maduro started a second term on January 10
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US House of Representatives Speaker Nancy Pelosi on Wednesday informed President Donald Trump that he will not be allowed to deliver an annual State of the Union address
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Athens, Greece - On Thursday night, Greece and the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia (FYROM) are due to put to rest a 27-year dispute over the latter country's
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LONDON: Afghanistan is now the deadliest country in the world for terrorism although the total number of terror attacks globally fell by a third last year.The decrease is
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LONDON: Afghanistan is now the deadliest country in the world for terrorism although the total number of terror attacks globally fell by a third last year.The decrease is
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LONDON: Afghanistan is now the deadliest country in the world for terrorism although the total number of terror attacks globally fell by a third last year.The decrease is
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Venezuela opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself the country's interim president on Wednesday before thousands of demonstrators cheering in support. "I swear to formally assume the powers of
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Saudi Arabia's General Entertainment Authority (GEA) has revealed plans to turn the conservative Gulf kingdom into an entertainment hub in an attempt to generate billions of dollars in
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Louisville, Kentucky - Outside Kentucky's last abortion clinic, anti-abortion rights protesters gather each day to face off against orange-vested volunteers who escort women inside for a procedure that state
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UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths departed from Sanaa on Wednesday with chief monitor Patrick Cammaert, Al Arabiya reported. The departure was due to Patrick Cammaert refusing to
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UN envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths departed from Sanaa on Wednesday with chief monitor Patrick Cammaert, Al Arabiya reported. The departure was due to Patrick Cammaert refusing to
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BEIRUT: Kurdish-led fighters overran the last village held by the Daesh group in Syria on Wednesday, confining its once vast cross-border “caliphate” to two small hamlets, a war
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Nigeria's anti-trafficking agency has said it found thousands of missing girls and women in southern Mali, many of whom were sold as sex slaves. According to the agency
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The announcement for the date of Thailand's election came as two bodies of anti-government activists were found in the Mekong River. They were among dozens of dissidents who
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Britain's pound sterling rose above $1.3 after the British opposition Labour Party said it was "highly likely" to back any attempt by politicians to prevent a disorderly, no-deal
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DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has said it will provide “full assistance” to Lebanon, as the country continues to face a sluggish economy, Saudi Arabia’s finance minister said. "We are
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Saudi Arabia rejected all Israeli policies, practices and plans that attempt to perpetuate racial discrimination against the Palestinian people and obliterate their national identity and to undermine their
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JERUSALEM: The discovery of natural gas fields off Israel’s coast along the Mediterranean Sea has given the country a geopolitical boost with its neighbors.It’s tightened relations with Arab
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