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EL-ARISH, Egypt: Mohammed Amer Shaaban stood over trays of fresh fish at his tiny store in the coastal Sinai Peninsula city of El-Arish, pointing to his right and left
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BEIRUT: Iran was accused on Tuesday of sabotaging the formation of a government in Lebanon as President Michel Aoun intervened to try to end the impasse. Political negotiations
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A court in Canada has granted bail to a top executive of Chinese telecom giant Huawei while she awaits an extradition hearing, 10 days after her arrest at
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Former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak has been charged with tampering with the audit report into state investment fund 1MDB, the latest in a string of charges against
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Melbourne, Australia - Friends and supporters of Australian-based refugee Hakeem Al-Araibi are stepping up calls for his release from detention in Thailand, where he faces extradition to Bahrain, the
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EL-ARISH, Egypt: Mohammed Amer Shaaban stood over trays of fresh fish at his tiny store in the coastal Sinai Peninsula city of El-Arish, pointing to his right and left
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EL-ARISH, Egypt: Mohammed Amer Shaaban stood over trays of fresh fish at his tiny store in the coastal Sinai Peninsula city of El-Arish, pointing to his right and left
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RIMBO, Sweden: Yemen’s government and rival militia announced Tuesday plans for a mass prisoner swap, exchanging some 15,000 names, as UN-brokered talks on ending the country’s war entered
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A lone gunman has shot dead at least three people and wounded 12 others near a Christmas market in the French city of Strasbourg before fleeing the scene,
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Marrakech, Morocco - Rodrigo Duterte's war on drugs will lead to a "killing field" if the Philippines president is allowed to continue his crackdown, the country's Commission on
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Yangon, Myanmar - Screams of "Let them speak!" filled the air as a group of journalists stood in front of the police wagon holding Reuters reporters Wa Lone
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CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have launched an investigation into images said to show a naked couple who scaled the Great Pyramid that has sparked outrage in the conservative Muslim
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CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have launched an investigation into images said to show a naked couple who scaled the Great Pyramid that has sparked outrage in the conservative Muslim
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CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have launched an investigation into images said to show a naked couple who scaled the Great Pyramid that has sparked outrage in the conservative Muslim
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India's ruling party lost power in three key states on Tuesday, dealing Prime Minister Narendra Modi his biggest defeat since he took office in 2014 and boosting the
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A jury recommended life plus 419 years on Tuesday for a man convicted of killing a woman and injuring dozens when he drove his car into counterprotesters at
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Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir - Four policemen were killed when rebels stormed a police post in the southern part of Indian-administered Kashmir's Shopian district. The state police chief Dilbagh Singh
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CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have launched an investigation into images said to show a naked couple who scaled the Great Pyramid that has sparked outrage in the conservative Muslim
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BRUSSELS: The European Union’s asylum office says people from Iran and Turkey are increasingly applying for international protection throughout the EU.EASO said Tuesday that “Iran and Turkey have
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GENEVA, Switzerland: Up to 250,000 Syrian refugees could return to their devastated homeland in 2019, while many others face problems with documentation and property that the Damascus government
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Ramallah - Video footage released on Tuesday showed the fatal shooting by Israeli forces of a mentally challenged Palestinian man in the occupied West Bank last week was unlawful
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Sri Lanka's deposed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe is facing a lawsuit challenging his right to hold a seat in parliament amid a bitter power struggle that has driven
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London, United Kingdom - British Prime Minister Theresa May has left London for talks with European Union leaders aimed at seeking agreement to amend her Brexit deal. May met
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CAIRO: Egyptian authorities have quietly introduced restrictions on the sale of yellow reflective vests, fearing opponents might attempt to copy French protesters during next month’s anniversary of the
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Researchers from Brazil's National Museum said on Monday that they had recovered more than 1,500 pieces from the debris of the building following a massive fire. The September
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India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) looked set to lose power in three key states, official vote counts showed on Tuesday, likely handing Prime Minister Narendra Modi his biggest defeat
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"We are the Greenpeace of the nationalist right," Aurelien Verhassel, the leader of far-right group Generation Identity, told me during an interview. I had to make a real
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