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ANKARA: After Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan told US President Donald Trump on Sunday that Turkey was ready to take over security keeping in Manbij in northern Syria without
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Venezuela's National Assembly, the opposition-controlled legislative body, declared President Nicolas Maduro a "usurper" last week, deepening the political and humanitarian crisis that has engulfed the country. The declaration
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Patients' names have been changed to protect their identity. Sanaa, Yemen - With each breath he took, the red rashes on Ahmad's cheeks appeared to get brighter and brighter.
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First-term Democratic Senator Kamala Harris of California, a rising party star and outspoken critic of President Donald Trump's immigration policies, launched her 2020 campaign for the White House
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BEIRUT: The fourth Arab Economic and Social Development Summit was held in Beirut on Sunday, in an effort to, among other things, find ways to alleviate the suffering
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TEHRAN: An Iranian labor protest leader has been arrested for the second time, state media reported Monday, after the judiciary denied his claim that he was tortured in
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TEHRAN: An Iranian labor protest leader has been arrested for the second time, state media reported Monday, after the judiciary denied his claim that he was tortured in
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Social messaging app WhatsApp has said it is limiting the number of times a user can forward a message to five in an attempt to fight fake news
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A car bomb has targeted a joint convoy of US and allied Kurdish forces in northeastern Syria, marking the second attack against US forces in less than a
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Hindu Rohingya refugees in Bangladesh say they are desperate to go home. They had fled to Bangladesh fearing reprisals after they refused to join an armed Rohingya group.
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Israel has officially inaugurated a new international airport on Monday near the Red Sea resort town of Eilat, a few kilometres from the Jordanian border. Prime Minister Benjamin
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American tennis star Serena Williams has knocked out world number one Simona Halep to reach the quarterfinals of the Australian Open, staying on course to equal Australian Margaret Court's
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A man identifying himself as a Venezuelan National Guard sergeant at a Caracas military outpost called for the removal of President Nicolas Maduro, a video circulating on social media
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DUBAI: Yemen’s army reclaimed strategic mountain ranges in the Kitaf district in the northern Saada province from Houthi militants on Sunday night, Saudi state-news channel Al-Ekhbariya reported. Yemeni
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DUBAI: Yemen’s army reclaimed strategic mountain ranges in the Kitaf district in the northern Saada province from Houthi militants on Sunday night, Saudi state-news channel Al-Ekhbariya reported. Yemeni
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DUBAI: Yemen’s army reclaimed strategic mountain ranges in the Kitaf district in the northern Saada province from Houthi militants on Sunday night, Saudi state-news channel Al-Ekhbariya reported. Yemeni
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In Gaza, a shell of a structure offers a symbol of what could of been. The airport that could once handle 700,000 passengers is rubble, shut down during
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With no end in sight to the government shutdown in the United States, many furloughed federal employees have been forced to find new jobs. School districts in the
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A counting machine flips through a stack of bright pink-coloured paper money - bills destined for children at an elementary school in Taiwan. The notes are either passed
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JEDDAH: Syria exploded into new violence on Sunday with an Israeli airstrike on a military base near Damascus, a rocket attack aimed at the occupied Golan Heights, and
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BEIRUT: Lebanon used an Arab economic summit on Sunday to urge the return of refugees to safe areas of Syria after eight years of war. President Michel Aoun
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JEDDAH: Syria exploded into new violence on Sunday with an Israeli airstrike on a military base near Damascus, a rocket attack aimed at the occupied Golan Heights, and
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01/21/2019: Correction: This story stated the monsoon 'moved to' northern Australia. That was incorrect. The monsoon developed there. Australia is having an unusually hot summer as the heatwave
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The Israeli military carried out overnight attacks on Iranian targets in Syria, while Syrian state media reported that the country's air defences have shot down "hostile targets". Russia's
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Bangkok, Thailand - In the latest of a series of fatal attacks in Thailand's southernmost provinces, a group of assault rifle-wielding attackers on Friday stormed a Buddhist temple,
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KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas on Sunday at protesters ahead of a planned march on Parliament in Omdurman, the twin city of Khartoum, witnesses said. Security forces
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Manila, Philippines - Nearly three million Filipinos from the country's Muslim-majority southern region are set to decide on a new law which would place them under a substantially more
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