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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump warned Sunday that if Turkey attacks US-backed Kurdish forces in Syria, the United States will “devastate Turkey economically.”Trump’s decision to pull American troops out
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While US Mike Pompeo is in Riyadh, he is expected to bring up sensitive issues like the wars in Yemen and Syria and the backlash against the murder
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Nobel Prize-winning scientist James Watson has been stripped of his honours by his former laboratory after doubling down on controversial remarks he made on the relationship between race
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Tunisia is often touted as the Arab Spring's only success story - and for good reason. Since 2011, the North African country has held free and fair elections,
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DUBAI: Three years ago, the world came together to design a blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all in the backdrop of a litany of
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DUBAI: Three years ago, the world came together to design a blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all in the backdrop of a litany of
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DUBAI: Three years ago, the world came together to design a blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all in the backdrop of a litany of
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Children's organisations in Indonesia are urging the government to include disaster education in the school curriculum. Many children died during an earthquake last year because they didn't know
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Thousands of asylum seekers from Haiti who were denied entry in the United States two years ago have established a community on Mexico's northwestern border. Many have been
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Indonesia has found the cockpit voice recorder from a Lion Air jet that crashed into the Java Sea in October, killing all 189 on board, an official has
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DUBAI: Three years ago, the world came together to design a blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all in the backdrop of a litany of
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DUBAI: Three years ago, the world came together to design a blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all in the backdrop of a litany of
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DUBAI: Three years ago, the world came together to design a blueprint for a better and more sustainable future for all in the backdrop of a litany of
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At least 11 people have been injured after Indian security forces opened fire on mourners, who were attending the funeral of two rebels in Indian-administered Kashmir. Zeenat ul-Islam was killed along
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A senior Israeli minister has arrived in Cairo to attend an energy conference after receiving an invitation from the Egyptian government, Israel's energy ministry has said. Energy Minister
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Teenager Rahaf al-Qunun has grabbed the world’s attention for defying a strict social code in Saudi Arabia. She said she feared for her life if she was returned
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BEIRUT: US officials are in Beirut holding talks with Lebanese officials about the growing threat posed by Hezbollah as US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo continues to tour
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ANKARA: Over the weekend, Turkey carried out counter-terrorism operations against the alleged members of Syria’s former Al-Qaeda affiliate Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HTS) in cities throughout the country.With HTS taking
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TEHRAN: The head of Iran’s nuclear program said Sunday that the Islamic Republic has begun “preliminary activities for designing” a modern process for 20-percent uranium enrichment for its
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Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte faced criticism on Sunday after making comments about what he called "white wine sipping elites in Amsterdam" who are not giving US President
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Images of glowing light danced to a slow electronic beat, as an indistinguishable instrument radiated sound resembling flowing water. No more than a hundred people sat down in
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The head of Iran's nuclear programme Ali Akbar Salehi has announced that the Islamic Republic has broken new ground on nuclear technology, with scientists taking the first steps
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BEIRUT: Daesh militants are "living their final moments" in the last enclave they hold in Syria, near the Iraqi border, where the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces have stepped
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KHARTOUM: Sudanese police fired tear gas Sunday at crowds of anti-government protesters in Khartoum and the western war-torn region of Darfur after organizers called for nationwide rallies against
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CAIRO: Hundreds of protesters marched in and around Sudan's capital Khartoum on Sunday, the fourth week of unrest that began over skyrocketing prices and a failing economy but which
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Democratic Republic of Congo should recount the votes of its contested presidential election that the runner-up says was rigged, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) said. "A recount
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On January 9, the upper house of India's parliament - the Rajya Sabha - passed a constitutional amendment to lift the cap on reservations in education and public sector
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