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Dhaka, Bangladesh - With less than a week remaining before Bangladesh's much anticipated parliamentary elections, the main opposition Jatiya Oikya Front (National Unity Front) has accused the government
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Goma, DRC - A young voice sings, "What's up in Congo Kabila? Why so much crime, violence, corruption and killings?" The lyrics are from the latest album by Shusha
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KHARTOUM: Doctors in Sudan went on strike on Monday, feeding into deadly protests against bread prices that represent one of the biggest challenges President Omar Al-Bashir has faced
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KHARTOUM: Doctors in Sudan went on strike on Monday, feeding into deadly protests against bread prices that represent one of the biggest challenges President Omar Al-Bashir has faced
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ISTANBUL: A famous Turkish actor testified to Istanbul prosecutors on Monday after authorities opened a probe into whether comments he made on television threatened President Recep Tayyip Erdogan
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Gunmen stormed a government building in Afghanistan's capital, Kabul, on Monday, taking civilians hostage as they fought a gun battle against Afghan soldiers, officials said. The attack began
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Anglophone separatists in Cameroon have announced launching a virtual currency to help fund their campaign for independence and provide humanitarian aid. The AmbaCoin, a bitcoin-like currency based on the
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Are Germans eating habits too unhealthy? That is what their government seems to believe, it is working to persuade the food industry to cut sugar, salt and fat
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HODEIDAH: The head of the United Nations team tasked with monitoring a fragile cease-fire in the flashpoint city of Hodeidah on Monday visited its lifeline docks, a port
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HODEIDAH: The head of the United Nations team tasked with monitoring a fragile cease-fire in the flashpoint city of Hodeidah on Monday visited its lifeline docks, a port
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JERUSALEM: The Bank of Israel’s new governor says the country’s financial stability should not be taken for granted in a period of “numerous changes in financial markets.”Amir Yaron
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Chow Yun-fat, the Hong Kong star of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, has vowed to donate his entire fortune - reportedly $715m - to charity after he dies. The 63-year-old
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More than 40 percent of people in Kenya live below the poverty line. Some charities and volunteers are trying to pull street kids out of poverty, as well
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On December 8, the League, the far-right party led by Italy's Interior Minister and Vice Prime Minister Matteo Salvini, organised a major rally in Rome. Around 200 buses
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ADEN: They lurk under shifting desert sands, amid the debris of urban roadsides and inside abandoned schools, some set to go off at the lightest touch.Land mines scattered
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BEIRUT: Lebanon’s parliament speaker said there are parties that do not want a new government, a newspaper reported on Monday, highlighting the obstacles that have derailed its formation
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ARBIN, Syria: With Christmas approaching, Nabil Al-Aash dusts off religious books as he attempts to tidy up the war-scarred Saint George Church in the town of Arbin, northeast
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Fans at a football match in Sudan's capital chanted slogans demanding President Omar al-Bashir step down and later clashed with police in the Khartoum suburb of Omdurman. Video
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A Pakistani anti-corruption court has jailed former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif for seven years on corruption charges. The court found on Monday the three-time prime minister was unable
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Fifty years ago, during the Christmas week, three American astronauts flew around the moon. The mission is considered to be NASA's boldest and perhaps most dangerous ever. That
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A man in northern Algeria has died after authorities spent nearly a week trying to rescue him from a 30-metre-deep well he had fallen into, civil defence officials
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Protests in parts of Sudan continued for the fifth consecutive day on Sunday, as doctors prepared to strike over the rising cost of bread and fuel. At least
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It was just after 9pm on Saturday when Anak Krakatoa, a volcano located in the Sunda Strait between the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra, erupted. Twenty-four minutes
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ARBIN, Syria: With Christmas approaching, Nabil Al-Aash dusts off religious books as he attempts to tidy up the war-scarred Saint George Church in the town of Arbin, northeast
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ARBIN, Syria: With Christmas approaching, Nabil Al-Aash dusts off religious books as he attempts to tidy up the war-scarred Saint George Church in the town of Arbin, northeast
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Rescue workers are stepping up efforts to reach many areas devastated by a deadly tsunami that hit an Indonesian strait almost without warning in the darkness, smashing into
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Both sides of Indonesia's Sunda Strait - Java on the east and Sumatra on the west - were hit by a tsunami late on Saturday, causing hundreds of
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