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ANKARA: While Moscow and Damascus urge the repatriation of Syrian refugees based on improving living conditions in the country, their call seems largely unheard by Syrians who think
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AMMAN: Seventeen Jordanians were arrested over protests against a controversial fiscal reform, a judicial source in Amman said on Friday.The attorney general in the capital decided to “arrest
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US President Donald Trump said on Friday that his budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, would take over as White House chief of staff on a temporary basis after former
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Sporadic clashes broke out on the outskirts of Yemen's Hodeidah on Friday, the first violence to hit the lifeline port city since a United Nations-brokered ceasefire was reached
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A statue of Indian independence leader Mahatma Gandhi has been removed from Ghana's most prestigious university following complaints that he was racist against the black Africans. The statue, installed
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ANKARA: While Moscow and Damascus urge the repatriation of Syrian refugees based on improving living conditions in the country, their call seems largely unheard by Syrians who think
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JEDDAH: King Salman and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman of Saudi Arabia on Friday urged Iran-backed Houthi militias in Yemen to “embark on the path” toward a political
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BEIRUT: Kurdish-led forces seized Daesh’s main hub of Hajjin Friday, a milestone in a massive and costly US-backed operation to eradicate the militants from eastern Syria.The Syrian Democratic
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The United Nations Special Envoy for Syria Staffan de Mistura will hold talks with high-level officials from Iran, Russia and Turkey in Geneva early next week on setting
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The war in Yemen began in late 2014 when Houthi rebels from the north took control of much of the country. Years of conflict have led to what
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London, United Kingdom - Former British Prime Minister Harold Wilson once said a week is a long time in politics. This week, the UK's ongoing political drama over the
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RAMALLAH, West Bank: Israeli forces kept up a manhunt on Friday for a Palestinian who shot dead two soldiers in the occupied West Bank, as Prime Minister Benjamin
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UN envoy says ‘robust monitoring regime’ urgently needed in Yemen, Saudi hails Yemen accord JEDDAH: UN special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths on Friday urged the creation of
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Shares of Johnson & Johnson fell 10 percent on Friday and were on track to post their biggest percentage drop in more than 16 years, after Reuters reported that
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A Palestinian teenager was killed by Israeli forces on Friday in the occupied West Bank city of Ramallah. The Palestinian Ministry of Health identified the teen as 18-year-old
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The UN envoy for Yemen called for the urgent deployment of UN monitors to observe the implementation of a ceasefire agreement in the strategic port city of Hodeidah
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UN envoy says ‘robust monitoring regime’ urgently needed in Yemen, Saudi hails Yemen accord JEDDAH: UN special envoy to Yemen Martin Griffiths on Friday urged the creation of
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Saudi Arabia’s Foreign Ministry said on Friday that it welcomed the agreement between Yemen’s internationally recognized government and the Houthi militia. The ministry said that the Kingdom was committed to reaching a
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BEIRUT: Kurdish-dominated forces backed by air strikes by a US-led coalition retook full control of a key militant hub in eastern Syria on Friday, a war monitor said.The
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Six security officials have been killed in an attack in southwestern Pakistan when their convoy came under heavy firing in a mountainous area near the border with Iran. Pakistan's
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Sri Lanka's strongman leader Mahinda Rajapaksa will step down from his disputed position of the prime minister on Saturday, his son said. Rajapaksa's legislator son, Namal Rajapaksa, tweeted
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Mexico's new president, Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has opened the doors of Mexico's hitherto off-limits presidential palace. Mexico's president has declared that the presidential residence and office, known
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ISTANBUL: Turkish forces will enter the Syrian town of Manbij if the United States does not remove YPG Kurdish fighters, and it will also target Kurdish-controlled areas further
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MAYS AL-JABAL, Lebanon: As Israeli excavators dug into the rocky hills along the frontier with a Lebanese village, a crowd of young Lebanese men gathered to watch.The mood
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DUBAI: Yemen’s security committee met on Thursday to discuss the launch of a program to regulate arms possession in Aden and neighboring provinces, Yemeni news agency Saba New
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A court in the Maldives has frozen bank accounts owned by former President Abdulla Yameen, two sources told Al Jazeera on Friday, as part of an investigation into
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Anticipating a fifth straight weekend of violent protests, Paris' police chief has said that armoured vehicles and thousands of officers will be deployed again in the French capital.
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