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Gulf leaders will meet in Riyadh for the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) summit on Sunday amid questions about whether Qatar will attend as a diplomatic crisis continues to
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Israel soldiers fire at Hezbollah activists, Lebanon calls them army patrol as Netanyahu briefs Putin on tunnels (Adds Lebanese comment, background)JERUSALEM: Israeli soldiers at the Lebanese border opened
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RIMBO: The Houthi militia is “not serious” on finding common ground to end the devastating war in Yemen, a member of the government delegation to the UN-brokered talks in
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DUBAI: United Arab Emirates federation president Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan has decided that women should make up half of its semi-elected advisory body when it is renewed
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White House Chief of Staff John Kelly will leave his post at the end of the year, US President Donald Trump has announced. An announcement about Kelly's replacement
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Budapest, Hungary - Thousands of Hungarians have taken to the streets to demonstrate against a proposed new labour law and for more academic freedom in the country. Inspired
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At least six people, including five teenagers, have died and about 120 were injured in a stampede when panic broke out during a rap concert at a packed
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TRIPOLI: Libyan tribesmen protested at the giant El Sharara oilfield on Saturday and shut down production, the force guarding the facility and a spokesman for the protesters said.State
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CAIRO: Egyptian police killed two gunmen who carried out last month’s attack on a bus carrying Christians in Minya governorate to the south of Cairo, the interior ministry
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Israel soldiers fire at Hezbollah activists, Lebanon calls them army patrol as Netanyahu briefs Putin on tunnels (Adds Lebanese comment, background)JERUSALEM: Israeli soldiers at the Lebanese border opened
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China has warned Canada of "severe consequences" if it did not immediately release telecom company Huawei's chief financial officer (CFO), calling the case "extremely nasty". "China strongly urges the
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Rimbo, Sweden - Yemeni officials have said that removing President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi will "not solve the country's problems" after their adversaries, the Houthi rebels, proposed the formation of
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US stocks clawed back much of the ground they lost in an early plunge triggered by the arrest of a key Chinese Huawei executive at Washington's request. The
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BAGHDAD: A year after it was routed from Iraq in a devastating war that left entire neighborhoods and towns in ruins, the Daesh group is fighting to hang
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CAIRO: Yemen’s warring parties are meeting for a third day of talks in Sweden aimed at halting the country’s catastrophic 4-year-old war.Both the internationally recognized government, which is
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After nearly six decades of membership, Qatar, the world's largest supplier of liquefied natural gas is leaving the Organisation of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). The Gulf state is the
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France has experienced weeks of social unrest since massive protests erupted across the country on November 17. The demonstrations were initially held to protest planned hikes in fuel taxes,
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The United States and Britain have accused Russia of fabricating a story about chemical weapons use by Syrian rebels. In separate statements issued on Friday, London and Washington
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BEIRUT: Air strikes by a US-led coalition battling the Daesh group in east Syria killed nine civilians on Friday, a monitor said.The Kurdish-Arab Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), backed
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Yemeni army commander vows to enter Saada if Houthis fail to negotiate at Sweden peace talks DUBAI: A Yemeni army commander has vowed to enter deeper into Saada
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BAGHDAD: A year after it was routed from Iraq in a devastating war that left entire neighborhoods and towns in ruins, the Daesh group is fighting to hang
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Police fired tear gas canisters and pepper spray at 'yellow vest' protesters in central Paris on Saturday during a demonstration against the high cost of living. A police
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On the day global attention zeroed in on a highly-anticipated meeting between Donald Trump and Xi Jinping in the Argentine capital, thousands of kilometres away, on Canada's western coast, a
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Iranian President Hassan Rouhani has denounced US President Donald Trump's decision to reimpose economic sanctions against Tehran, calling it a form of "economic terrorism". Speaking at a regional
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Six people died, most of them teenagers, in a stampede at a nightclub near Ancona in central Italy after panic erupted in the early hours of Saturday morning,
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Rimbo, Sweden - Yemen's Houthi rebels have rejected a proposal by the Yemeni government to re-open Sanaa international airport, saying the offer tabled was not in "accordance to
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Wadi Qadoum, occupied East Jerusalem - Murad and Johar Hashimeh spent most of Friday removing all the furniture, clothes and other belongings from a room of their modest home
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