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TUNIS: Tunisia’s powerful UGTT union called on Saturday for another national strike for two days next month to press its demand for higher wages for 670,000 public servants,
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Yemen's warring sides have failed to reach agreement on swapping thousands of prisoners of war. Negotiations between Yemeni government and Houthi rebel representatives broke down in Jordan's capital,
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A controversy about Jewish insults is threatening to overshadow a mass march by American women. One of the organisers attended a rally with the Nation of Islam's Louis
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The funeral of Pawel Adamowicz, the murdered Gdansk mayor, has drawn tens of thousands of people in the Polish Baltic coast city amid outrage over his killing six days ago. Banners
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Chicago, Illinois - A judge in the United States has sentenced former white police officer Jason Van Dyke to six years and nine months in prison, plus two
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British Prime Minister Theresa May narrowly survived a no-confidence motion this week while her plan to navigate Brexit was massively rejected by Parliament. The deadline of March 29,
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Burri, Sudan - It's been a month since a wave of anti-government protests began in Sudan. I'll admit, at first, I didn't expect it to last this long.
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UNITED NATIONS: Fuel is being shipped illegally from Iran to Houthi militia in Yemen to finance their war against the government, and both sides are violating international law
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NEW YORK: UN experts monitoring sanctions against Yemen are recommending that the Security Council urge the Houthis to respect the neutrality and independence of humanitarian workers. The Associated
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Senator Lindsey Graham has said the relationship between the United States and Saudi Arabia cannot move forward until Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman is "dealt with", without elaborating
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London, United Kingdom - It's 6:15am on a dark, rain-soaked Saturday morning and the traders on Dalston's Ridley Road Market are busy setting up. The Afghan butcher from
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US President Donald Trump has denied reports that he had directed his former personal lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the plans to build a Trump
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DELHAMIYEH, Lebanon: Snowstorms and weeks of bad weather have turned Lebanon’s lush Bekaa Valley into an unliveable swamp for tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. The Litani River flooded
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BEIRUT: Financial strains in Lebanon have been brought into focus by turbulence on markets where its dollar-denominated sovereign bonds suffered a heavy sell-off last week following comments by
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NEW YORK: UN experts monitoring sanctions against Yemen are recommending that the Security Council urge the Houthis to respect the neutrality and independence of humanitarian workers. The Associated
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Donald Trump will hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un around the end of February, the White House said on Friday after the US
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Zimbabwe has imposed a "total internet shutdown" in what critics called an attempt to hide growing reports of a violent crackdown on protests against a dramatic fuel price increase.
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Colombia's ELN rebel group was responsible for the car bomb attack against a police academy that killed at least 21 and injured dozens, the government said on Friday,
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NEW YORK: UN experts monitoring sanctions against Yemen are recommending that the Security Council urge the Houthis to respect the neutrality and independence of humanitarian workers. The Associated
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NEW YORK: UN experts monitoring sanctions against Yemen are recommending that the Security Council urge the Houthis to respect the neutrality and independence of humanitarian workers. The Associated
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NEW YORK: UN experts monitoring sanctions against Yemen are recommending that the Security Council urge the Houthis to respect the neutrality and independence of humanitarian workers. The Associated
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The reports on the dramatic rise in the number of Iranians seeking asylum in Europe, especially unaccompanied children, are profoundly unsettling. Prominent human rights lawyer Shadi Sadr recently drew
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This week, the White House Council of Economic Advisers doubled its estimate of how much the shutdown - the longest in US history - will cost the economy.
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Donald Trump will hold a second summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un around the end of February, the White House said on Friday after the US
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DELHAMIYEH, Lebanon: Snowstorms and weeks of bad weather have turned Lebanon’s lush Bekaa Valley into an unliveable swamp for tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. The Litani River flooded
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MANBIJ: Charred walls, shattered windows, uncooked kebabs still on the counter — the blast that hit US forces at this small restaurant in northern Syria has left residents
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MANBIJ: Charred walls, shattered windows, uncooked kebabs still on the counter — the blast that hit US forces at this small restaurant in northern Syria has left residents
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