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BEIRUT: A major Lebanese trade union is to hold a general strike on Friday over living conditions and the political gridlock roiling the country. Lebanon has no government
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BEIRUT: A major Lebanese trade union is to hold a general strike on Friday over living conditions and the political gridlock roiling the country. Lebanon has no government
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BEIRUT: A major Lebanese trade union is to hold a general strike on Friday over living conditions and the political gridlock roiling the country. Lebanon has no government
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Amarante do Maranhao, Brazil - Davi Gaviao, an indigenous man with a mental illness was known to spend his days wandering the streets of Amarante do Maranhao, a
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Croatia has urged Israel to overcome a rare disagreement with the United States and to confirm it can carry through on a deal to sell 12 used American-made
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New US legislators were sworn in on Thursday, with a number of "firsts" taking their seats in the 116th Congress. Democrats assumed majority control of the House of
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DUBAI: Iran’s health minister has resigned over proposed budget cuts, the official news agency IRNA reported, amid an economic crisis wrought by the reimposition of US sanctions on
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DUBAI: Jailed Iranian-British charity worker Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe said she would go on hunger strike from Jan. 14, 2019 after being refused access to medical help, UK website The
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The House and Senate convened for the 116th US Congress on Thursday with the most diverse class of politicians in history. The House is returning the first woman
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Brazil’s new far right President Jair Bolsonaro has been busy since he was sworn in. Among other things, he signed an order to make it impossible to create
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Many Congolese were kept from voting in the December 30 presidential election because polling stations often opened late, closed early and voting machines sometimes did not work, a
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DUBAI: Iran’s health minister has resigned over proposed budget cuts, the official news agency IRNA reported, amid an economic crisis wrought by the reimposition of US sanctions on
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WASHINGTON: The United States issued a pre-emptive warning to Iran on Thursday against pursuing three planned space rocket launches that it said would violate a UN Security Council resolution
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DUBAI: Iran’s health minister has resigned over proposed budget cuts, the official news agency IRNA reported, amid an economic crisis wrought by the reimposition of US sanctions on
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New US legislators are set to be sworn in on Thursday, with a number of "firsts" taking their seats in the 116th Congress. Democrats will assume majority control
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Al Jazeera has seen evidence of food meant for starving Yemenis being sold at a marketplace in the capital Sanaa. The World Food Programme (WFP) has accused both
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India has rejected US President Donald Trump's comments mocking Prime Minister Narendra Modi for funding a library in Afghanistan, saying New Delhi has provided $3bn in development assistance to
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BEIRUT: With the end of the holiday period, Lebanese politicians have revived efforts to form a government before the Arab Economic and Social Development Summit in Beirut on
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Dhaka, Bangladesh - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's astronomical victory in Bangladesh's general elections, analysts and opposition leaders say, will turn the South Asian country into a "one-party state". The
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Saudi Arabia's state media says the 11 suspected killers of dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi have attended their first court hearing in the capital, Riyadh. The official Saudi Press
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India's so-called "cow protection gangs" display antithetical qualities to the ones they attribute to their sacred animal - they are unholy, ungentle, frenzied and violent. According to data
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The US Congress starts its new two-year session on Thursday. While the Republicans have retained control of the Senate, Democrats have retaken control of the House of Representatives,
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United States President Donald Trump said that his country would get out of Syria slowly "over a period of time", describing the situation in the war-torn country "sand and
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Results from the Democratic Republic of Congo's (DRC) long-delayed presidential election could be pushed back past Sunday's deadline, the country's electoral commission has said, as ballots trickle in
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BAGHDAD: A video of an Iraqi member of parliament firing into the air has sparked anger after stray bullets from celebratory New Year gunfire killed a teenage girl. A
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JEDDAH: The Arab coalition issued 10 permits for ships heading to Yemeni ports carrying food and oil, according to Saudi state-news channel Al-Ekhbariya. The coalition pointed out the
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JERUSALEM: With little resistance from a friendly White House, Israel has launched a new settlement push in the West Bank since President Donald Trump took office, laying the
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