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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday is expected to sign legislation providing 800,000 federal employees with back pay when the partial government shutdown ends, even though a conclusion
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The Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has said it will support efforts to establish a safe zone in northeastern Syria. The SDF, a coalition of armed groups backed
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British Prime Minister Theresa May faces a vote of no confidence in her government following her crushing Brexit vote rout and her historic loss is being mocked online,
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Yemen has been torn apart by conflict since 2014, when Houthi rebels, allied with troops loyal to former President Ali Abdullah Saleh, captured much of the country, including
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A suicide bomber targeted an American military patrol in the northern Syrian town of Manbij, leaving casualties, news reports say. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights and the Kurdish-led
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The Houthi militia attacked a refugee camp in Hodeidah, injuring five with a grenade, a Yemen minister said on Tuesday. Minister of Local Administration and head of the
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DUBAI: Forty years ago today, Iran’s then-shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, fled the country after a 37-year reign, in the first stage of a revolution that would replace 2,500
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The government says if air quality levels reach dangerous levels, there are other measures that can be implemented.
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An American journalist working for Iran's English-language Press TV has been arrested by US authorities on unspecified charges, the state-run broadcaster said on Wednesday. Marzieh Hashemi, 59, was
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YouTube has clarified rules against posting videos of dangerous pranks, as risky "challenges" that prompt people to video themselves doing things like biting into laundry soap or driving
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DUBAI: Forty years ago today, Iran’s then-shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, fled the country after a 37-year reign, in the first stage of a revolution that would replace 2,500
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Uttarakhand, India - When seven women in the remote mountain village of Ranikhet first met Mala Srikanth, they stood with their heads down. Srikanth was a divorcee, retired doctor, ex-military, single mother
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One third of United Nations staff and contractors say they experienced sexual harassment over the past two years, according to a new report released by the organisation. The
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Colombian authorities have dismantled the country's first official camp for Venezuelan migrants. Almost 700 people took shelter in the tent city in Bogota when it opened in November.
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DUBAI: Forty years ago today, Iran’s then-shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, fled the country after a 37-year reign, in the first stage of a revolution that would replace 2,500
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DUBAI: Forty years ago today, Iran’s then-shah, Mohammed Reza Pahlavi, fled the country after a 37-year reign, in the first stage of a revolution that would replace 2,500
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European Union leaders have warned Britain is running out of time after UK politicians resoundingly rejected Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit agreement, deepening the country's worst political crisis in
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Gabon's Ali Bongo has returned to Libreville on Tuesday after months abroad recovering from a stroke, ending an absence that has spurred political turbulence. Returning from Morocco in the
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Shaken by weekly protests on the streets of France, sparked by a rise in fuel prices, French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants to turn anger into solutions. Macron's
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CAIRO: Egypt’s Al-Azhar University on Monday reversed an earlier decision to expel a student after she was filmed hugging a male friend. A video that went viral earlier this
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KHARTOUM: Crowds of people chanting “Peace, justice, freedom” returned to the street in the Sudanese capital on Tuesday as authorities deployed hundreds of police to disperse them, witnesses
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RAMALLAH: Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank joined a strike on Tuesday against their government’s proposed new social security law, fearing the fund will be mismanaged. Much
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Nearly four in 10 adults in the United States say they are either personally affected by the partial government shutdown or they know someone who is, according to
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Guatemala City - The head of an international anti-corruption body has offered to step down if the Guatemalan government keeps in place the beleaguered commission it shut down last
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San Pedro Sula, Honduras - It was still dark when hundreds of Hondurans set out for the border with Guatemala as part of new caravan of US-bound migrants
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Houthi militants involved in Al-Anad drone attack captured: Yemen Ministry of Interior DUBAI: Yemen’s interior ministry on Tuesday said they had captured members of a Houthi cell involved
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Houthi militants involved in Al-Anad drone attack captured: Yemen Ministry of Interior DUBAI: Yemen’s interior ministry on Tuesday said they had captured members of a Houthi cell involved
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