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Kim Jong-un will be keeping North Korea watchers busy on New Year's Day, when he is expected to give his annual address laying out the country's top priorities
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Tough negotiations lie ahead over a new pact between China and Southeast Asian nations aimed at easing tensions in the South China Sea, as Vietnam pushes for provisions
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Dhaka, Bangladesh - Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina's Awami League (AL) party has won Bangladesh's parliamentary vote, the country's election commission has announced, after the main opposition alliance rejected
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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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GIZA: Crowds of tourists stared in awe at the towering pyramids of Giza near Cairo on Saturday undaunted by a nearby bomb attack a day earlier that killed
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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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Israel says it has filed a complaint to Jordan over a picture of a Jordanian government minister stepping on an image of the Israeli flag. Jumana Ghuneimat, minister
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Video footage leaked to Turkish media shows a Saudi hit team in Istanbul carrying bags said to contain the remains of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, whose killing
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Kinshasa, DRC - An armed militia overrun several polling stations in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) as millions went to the polls to elect a new president. Maimai fighters attacked
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An Afghan official said that presidential elections, which were originally scheduled for coming April, will be held on July 20 next year. The polls were postponed to allow
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Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina is the "daughter of democracy" to her supporters and an authoritarian to her critics. She has been in and out of power for decades
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Bangladesh Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won a third consecutive term in office in an election contested by the opposition. The leader of the Jatiya Oikya Front -
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SANAA: The United Nations has cast doubt on the claims by the Houthis to have withdrawn from the port of Hodeidah, saying such steps can only be credible if all
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Gaza’s Islamist rulers Hamas on Saturday denied an allegation by Egypt’s deposed president Hosni Mubarak that it infiltrated hundreds of men across the border
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Brazil will move its embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, with only the date of the transfer to be decided, according to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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The party of Bangladesh's Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has won the nation's general election, unofficial results reported by local TV stations showed, after the main opposition alliance rejected
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Athens, Greece - When two children from the small, remote Greek island of Leros were taken to one of the largest paediatric hospitals in Athens for a psychological
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Dhaka, Bangladesh - Vote counting was under way on Sunday after Bangladeshis cast their ballots in general elections marred by deadly violence and accusations of irregularities. At least
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Kinshasa, DRC - Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is heading to the polls on Sunday in long-delayed elections, two years after they were first scheduled to be held. Voting
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Migration was a key part of Donald Trump's last presidential campaign and is expected to feature heavily when he heads out on the trail next year. As
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The Iranian-allied Houthi militia on Saturday prevented an aid convoy that was headed for Sanaa from leaving Hodeidah, Yemen’s state news agency reported. The Houthis broke their agreement
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RABAT: Morocco arrested a Swiss national on Saturday in connection with the killing of two Scandinavian women, the counter-terrorism agency said.Louisa Vesterager Jespersen, 24, from Denmark, and Maren
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Dhaka, Bangladesh - Millions of Bangladeshis voted on Sunday to elect a new parliament amid reports that at least 10 people were killed in deadly clashes between supporters and
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The Taliban has rejected Kabul's offer of talks next month in Saudi Arabia where the armed group, fighting to restore strict Islamic law in Afghanistan, will meet the United
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a letter to South Korean President Moon Jae-in asking for talks in the new year, according to Moon's office. The
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BEIRUT: Over the course of 2018, Saudi Arabia opened cinemas for the first time in 35 years, Apple Inc. reached $1 trillion on the stock market, and the US
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The International Rescue Committee (IRC) has named the countries most at risk of being hit by humanitarian catastrophe next year, with Yemen, the Democratic Republic of Congo and South Sudan
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