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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: An 18-year-old Palestinian shot by Israeli forces died of his wounds Saturday, the fourth fatality in clashes along the Gaza border a day earlier,
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: An 18-year-old Palestinian shot by Israeli forces died of his wounds Saturday, the fourth fatality in clashes along the Gaza border a day earlier,
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DUBAI: Yemen’s army killed and wounded 30 members of the Iran-backed Houthi militia on Friday in clashes that took place in the southern province of Dalih, Saudi state-news
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The head of a United Nations mission tasked with monitoring a fragile ceasefire in the Yemen's strategic port city of Hodeidah has arrived Aden. Patrick Cammaert, a retired
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Supporters of overthrown South Korean president Park Geun-hye are turning to online video sites to demand her release. Geun-hye was jailed in April for 24 years for corruption
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Residents of a luxury, high-end neighbourhood in Rio de Janeiro awoke Friday to the unpleasant odour of 13 tonnes of dead fish floating in the water of the
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Two explosions have hit Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, killing at least six people, local media reported. The first car bomb detonated at a checkpoint near the national theatre, sending
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Kafr Kila, Lebanon - Across the border wall that divides the village of Kfar Kila in south Lebanon from Israel, the sound of Israeli excavations is disturbing a relative
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Iran on Saturday executed a businessman sentenced to death by a fast-track court set up to fight economic crimes, state television reported, following an outcry against profiteering and
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UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Friday voted unanimously to send a civilian observer mission to Yemen to monitor a fragile truce in the strategic Red Sea
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ISTANBUL, PARIS, BERLIN: Turkey will postpone a military operation against Syrian Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday as he “cautiously” welcomed a
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The US government was headed toward a partial shutdown at midnight on Friday after President Donald Trump's fellow Republicans in the Senate failed to muster the votes needed
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San Antonio Secortez, Guatemala - Nine-year-old Audel Caal carries a small bouquet of artificial white flowers as he runs down the dirt path leading to his grandfather's home
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The US Supreme Court on Friday dealt a setback to President Donald Trump by refusing to allow his administration to implement new rules prohibiting asylum for people who
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KHARTOUM: A Sudanese government spokesman said on Friday that nationwide protests over soaring prices that have left at least eight people dead in the past two days had
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UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Friday voted unanimously to send a civilian observer mission to Yemen to monitor a fragile truce in the strategic Red Sea
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In her final letter to her husband, Luis Carlos Prestes, and her daughter Anita two months before her death in 1942, Olga Benario Prestes wrote, "I fought for
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San Antonio Secortez, Guatemala - Nine-year-old Audel Caal carries a small bouquet of artificial white flowers as he runs down the dirt path leading to his grandfather's home
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The United Nations Security Council has unanimously approved the deployment of its observers to war-torn Yemen to monitor a fragile truce in the strategic Red Sea port of Hodeidah. The resolution, submitted
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ISTANBUL, PARIS, BERLIN: Turkey will postpone a military operation against Syrian Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday as he “cautiously” welcomed a
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ISTANBUL, PARIS, BERLIN: Turkey will postpone a military operation against Syrian Kurdish fighters in northeast Syria, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Friday as he “cautiously” welcomed a
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UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Friday voted unanimously to send a civilian observer mission to Yemen to monitor a fragile truce in the strategic Red Sea
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Three Palestinians, including a teenager, have been killed and dozens of other protesters injured while taking part in the ongoing demonstrations along the lands east of the besieged Gaza
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Retired general James Mattis was seen as a measure of calm and stability - in a White House swirling with chaos and unpredictability. Now, he has resigned as
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Latehar, Jharkhand - Imtiaz Khan, a 12-year-old schoolboy, and Majloom Ansari, a 32-year-old cattle trader, were abducted, beaten and hanged from a tree in Latehar in the Indian
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LONDON: Nine more people have been arrested in Morocco for connections to the four initial suspects in the killing of two Scandinavian university students in a remote corner
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ISTANBUL, PARIS, BERLIN: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday promised to clear Syria of Kurdish militia and Daesh insurgents after the US decision to pull troops out.
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