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DUBAI: Houthi militia started to redeploy inside the port city of Hodeidah as part of the UN-sponsored peace agreement signed in Sweden earlier this month, a UN source
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DUBAI: Egypt’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday that security forces killed 40 militants in Giza and North Sinai. Large quantities of weapons and explosives were found during the
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November - Fire fighters walk among the ashes of a wildfire-ravaged home in Malibu, California. The Camp Fire, in the northern part of the state, was the deadliest
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US commanders planning for the withdrawal of troops from Syria have recommended that Kurdish fighters be permitted to keep US-supplied weapons, a move that would incense NATO ally Turkey.
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Banten, Indonesia - Ahmad Hidayat's smile seemed strangely incongruous given the mess that lay around him. I have seen that smile before in Indonesia - a natural response,
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BAGHDAD: Thousands of followers of Muqtada Al-Sadr gathered on a recent Friday evening in central Baghdad to show their support for the powerful Shiite cleric. Al-Sadr has become
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BAGHDAD: Thousands of followers of Muqtada Al-Sadr gathered on a recent Friday evening in central Baghdad to show their support for the powerful Shiite cleric. Al-Sadr has become
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Officials have scrapped the use of wet bulb globe temperature readings for next month's Australian Open which should result in more matches suspended or delayed by Melbourne's notoriously
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A roadside bomb has hit a tourist bus near the Pyramids of Giza, south of the capital Cairo, killing three Vietnamese and their Egyptian guide, officials said. The
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A 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck off the Philippine island of Mindanao on Saturday triggering a tsunami warning, with small waves expected to hit southern parts of the country and
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ANKARA: With Syrian regime forces’ entry into the strategic northwestern city of Manbij on Friday amid Turkey’s massing of troops along the countries’ border, strategic cards are being
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Amos Oz, one of Israel's most famous authors, has died at the age of 79, his daughter confirmed on Twitter. "My beloved father, Amos Oz, a wonderful family
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US President Donald Trump has threatened to seal the United States-Mexico border "entirely" if Congress does not approve billions of dollars in funding for a wall. In a
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Sudanese police have fired tear gas and stun grenades on hundreds of protesters in several cities, including the capital Khartoum, as opposition groups urged for more anti-government protests. The
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ANKARA: With Syrian regime forces’ entry into the strategic northwestern city of Manbij on Friday amid Turkey’s massing of troops along the countries’ border, strategic cards are being
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JEDDAH: The Arab coalition fighting in support of the legitimate Yemeni government on Friday said that the Houthi militia had violated the cease-fire agreement 16 times over the
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JEDDAH: The Arab coalition fighting in support of the legitimate Yemeni government on Friday said that the Houthi militia had violated the cease-fire agreement 16 times over the
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The Indian government has announced it is allocating 100 billion rupees ($1.43 billion) for its first manned space mission, set to be launched by 2022. "Today the Cabinet
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Seven children are dead following a house fire in a poor Mexico City neighborhood, according to Mexican officials. The city prosecutors' office said on Friday that six young
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A Palestinian man was killed by Israeli fire during protests near the Israeli border fence east of the Gaza Strip, the health ministry in the coastal enclave said.
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ANKARA: Turkey will have nothing left to do in the Syrian town of Manbij once "terrorist organisations" leave the area, President Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday, hours after
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BEIRUT: Syrian troops deployed in support of Kurdish forces in a strategic northern city on Friday, in a shift of alliances hastened by last week’s announcement of a
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SAN ROQUE, Spain: A charity rescue boat carrying 311 mainly African migrants plucked off Libya entered Spanish waters Friday morning and was set to berth in a southern
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President Putin says Russia will soon be the first to deploy 'invincible' hypersonic missiles. He says the Avangard weapon guarantees Russian security for decades to come. Supersonic is
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The Syrian army has not entered Manbij, the United States military has said, after Syrian forces claimed they had gone into the key northern city and raised the
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A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus near the Pyramids of Giza, south of the capital Cairo, killing at least two people and wounding 10 others, Egypt's interior
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HODEIDAH: The United Nations on Friday welcomed a decision by Yemen’s government to pay the salaries of civil servants in the militia-held city of Hodeidah starting this month.
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