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Washington, DC - Republican leadership in Congress moved to stall until next year a broadly supported congressional resolution aimed at ending US support for Saudi Arabia's bombing campaign
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TUNIS: After four years working “under fire” and interviewing almost 50,000 witnesses, Tunisia’s commission tasked with serving justice to victims of half a century of dictatorship is poised to
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TUNIS: After four years working “under fire” and interviewing almost 50,000 witnesses, Tunisia’s commission tasked with serving justice to victims of half a century of dictatorship is poised to
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BAGHDAD: Iraqi activist Nadia Murad met her country's president in Baghdad on Wednesday after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for her advocacy on behalf of victims of wartime sexual
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The Senate is debating a resolution aimed at ending the US involvement in Yemen. The measure has won new support in the aftermath of the killing of Saudi
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CIA Director Gina Haspel gave a classified briefing to leaders of the US House of Representatives on Wednesday on the what the intelligence agency knows about the murder
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London, United Kingdom - British Prime Minister Theresa May has survived a vote of confidence triggered by MPs of her ruling Conservative Party. Two-hundred of the Conservatives' 317 members of
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Yemen groups agree to reopen Sanaa airport, still in talks on port at Sweden talks RIMBO, Sweden: Yemen's warring parties agreed on Wednesday to reopen Sanaa airport in
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Yemen groups agree to reopen Sanaa airport, still in talks on port at Sweden talks RIMBO, Sweden: Yemen's warring parties agreed on Wednesday to reopen Sanaa airport in
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Erdogan threatens to launch military operation against Syria Kurd militia ‘within days’ ANKARA: Turkey will launch a military operation east of the Euphrates River in northern Syria "within a
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Budapest, Hungary - Thousands of Hungarians have taken to the streets of capital, Budapest, to protest several measures adopted by the parliament, including a controversial amendment to labour laws. The
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Failure by countries to agree on rules to implement the 2015 Paris climate agreement on global warming would be "suicidal", the United Nations chief said on Wednesday. UN
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The global compact for migration was adopted in Marrakesh, Morocco after two years of intense negotiations, but some of the signatories remain divided. The agreement is non-binding, but
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Yemen groups agree to reopen Sanaa airport, still in talks on port at Sweden talks RIMBO, Sweden: Yemen's warring parties agreed on Wednesday to reopen Sanaa airport in
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AL-HOL, Syria: Faraj was born in the pouring rain on a nondescript stretch of desert road in eastern Syria as his family fled escalating fighting over the Daesh
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May's political fate hangs in the balance after members of her Conservative Party brought forth a motion of no confidence on Wednesday. The United
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CIA Director Gina Haspel is set to give a classified briefing to leaders of the US House of Representatives on Wednesday on the what the intelligence agency knows
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Filmmaker: Ashraf Mashharawi On December 15, 2016, a 49-year-old Tunisian man was shot dead outside his home in Sfax, 270 kilometres south-east of Tunis. Mohammed al-Zawari had been known locally
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Turkey will start operation east of Euphrates in Syria in a 'few days', Erdogan says ANKARA:Turkey will start an operation east of the Euphrates river in northern Syria
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GENEVA: Rights groups on Wednesday called for a "robust" response to a UN expert's allegations that people she met during a visit to Egypt faced harassment, intimidation and
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GENEVA: Rights groups on Wednesday called for a "robust" response to a UN expert's allegations that people she met during a visit to Egypt faced harassment, intimidation and
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A manhunt is under way in northeastern France for a gunman who killed three people and wounded at least 13 others at a Christmas market in the French
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An Argentine court on Tuesday convicted two former Ford executives of involvement in the torture of workers during the country's 1976-83 military dictatorship, according to the victims' lawyers.
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An Egyptian prosecutor ordered the arrest of a lawyer after the publication of a picture of him wearing a yellow vest similar to those worn by protesters in
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British Prime Minister Theresa May will face a vote of no confidence in her government, the head of a Conservative Party committee in charge of organising leadership challenges
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A four-year-old Palestinian boy has died after being injured by Israeli gunfire at a routine protest near the fence with Israel, Gaza's health authorities said. The Ministry of
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US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen is expected to be sentenced in a Manhattan federal court on Wednesday. Cohen, who was considered Trump's personal fixer, pleaded
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