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Parts of Amsterdam's Schipol Airport have been evacuated after a man in a departure hall claimed he had a bomb, police said. The alert on Monday evening saw
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TAIZ: Day after day Nabil Al-Hakimi, a humanitarian official in Taiz, one of Yemen’s largest cities, went to work feeling he had a “mountain” on his shoulders. Billions
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Dhaka, Bangladesh - The leader of the main opposition Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) has said that Sunday's general election was a "fraud" and marred by widespread irregularities. "Yesterday's
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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has promised the New Year will bring about economic development, as security forces dispersed anti-government protests in the capital using teargas and live ammunition.
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US House Democrats are introducing a package of bills on Monday that would re-open the federal government without approving money for President Donald Trump's border wall. The House
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BAGHDAD: Iraq sentenced more than 600 foreigners including many women and dozens of minors in 2018 for belonging to the Daesh group, the judiciary said on Monday.Iraq declared
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RAMALLAH, West Bank: A Palestinian court sentenced an American-Palestinian on Monday to life imprisonment for violating a ban on selling land to Israelis, judiciary officials said.The US ambassador
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TAIZ: Day after day Nabil Al-Hakimi, a humanitarian official in Taiz, one of Yemen’s largest cities, went to work feeling he had a “mountain” on his shoulders. Billions
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The daughter of the late Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has posted on her Twitter account what she said were the last words her father had for the Iraqi
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Sudanese security forces fired tear gas and live ammunition at hundreds of demonstrators in central Khartoum on Monday as demonstrators attempted to march to President Omar al-Bashir's palace
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On the first day of 2019, Jair Bolsonaro will be sworn in as the president of Brazil. The incoming leader of South America’s biggest economy is a hard-right
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Kinshasa, DRC - Vote counting has started in the Democratic Republic of Congo's long-delayed election as the opposition claimed it will not accept a ruling party victory. "I
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A United Arab Emirates (UAE) appeals court has upheld a 10-year prison sentence against prominent pro-democracy activist Ahmed Mansoor for criticising the government on social media, Amnesty International reported.
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Human Rights Watch has urged Sudan's government to show restraint and not use lethal force against protesters during the weeks-long demonstrations against President Omar al-Bashir. The New York-based
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump has ordered a slowdown to the withdrawal of US forces in Syria, Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham said Sunday.“I think we’re in a pause situation,”
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Senegal's female basketball team, called the Lionesses, made history in October, edging closer to winning the World Cup. With a new female NBA women's training facility in the
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Russian rescuers are searching for people still trapped under the rubble of a city apartment block that partly collapsed in a suspected gas blast, killing at least four,
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California, which is believed to have one of the toughest gun laws in the United States, is going to make it stricter in 2019. The state is going
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BAGHDAD: Iraq’s new education minister has resigned over allegations her brother was a leader with Daesh just days after she was handed the post. The scandal is the
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DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar Assad authorized Iraqi forces on Sunday to attack the Daesh group inside Syria without waiting for permission from authorities in Damascus, the state news
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MIANDOAB, Iran: It is one of the worst ecological disasters of recent decades, but the shrinking of Iran’s great Lake Urmia finally appears to be stabilizing and officials
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The death toll from flash floods and landslides caused by torrential rains due to a tropical depression in the eastern Philippines has jumped to at least 68, officials
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I was born and raised on three calendars: the Iranian, the Islamic, and the Gregorian. It may sound confusing, but it is actually quite an intriguing exercise which
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The number of journalists and media workers killed while carrying out their jobs rose again in 2018, reversing a downward trend of the previous three years, according to
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BEIRUT: Almost eight years into Syria’s civil war, President Bashar Assad seems closer than ever to securing a comeback at home and in the Arab region, analysts say.
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ANKARA: Turkish security forces on Sunday arrested 30 Daesh-linked suspects, all foreign nationals, in the capital Ankara. The operation’s timing is significant ahead of New Year’s Eve celebrations,
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KHARTOUM: Sudan’s President Omar Bashir on Sunday told police to abstain from using excessive force against anti-government demonstrators as the UN called for a probe into deaths during
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