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GENEVA: The outgoing UN envoy for Syria is appealing on the country’s warring sides to form a committee that would negotiate a new constitution as a way of
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On the same 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
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US President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, lied to federal investigators about a payment and contacts with Trump administration officials, the US special counsel investigating whether
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China has launched a rover to the far side of the moon in an ambitious bid to become the world's first to explore the lunar "dark side". The
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GENEVA: The outgoing UN envoy for Syria is appealing on the country’s warring sides to form a committee that would negotiate a new constitution as a way of
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LONDON: There is no time limit for the Yemen peace talks taking place in Stockholm, the United Nations said Friday. The international organisation also said that the current phase of the consultations focused
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LONDON: There is no time limit for the Yemen peace talks taking place in Stockholm, the United Nations said Friday. The international organisation also said that the current phase of the consultations focused
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President Donald Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, was in touch as far back as 2015 with a Russian who offered "political synergy" with the Trump election campaign, the
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A Virginia jury on Friday convicted James Alex Fields Jr of first-degree murder in the death of Heather Heyer at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in
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With regard to the current macabre embrace between US President Donald Trump and Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, it is difficult to assess which side has gambled
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LONDON: There is no time limit for the Yemen peace talks taking place in Stockholm, the United Nations said Friday. The international organisation also said that the current phase of the consultations focused
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A top Chinese telecommunications executive facing possible extradition to the United States appeared in court Friday as she sought bail in a case that has rattled markets and
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Republican-controlled legislatures in Wisconsin and Michigan this week sought to curb the power of recently-elected Democratic governors and others, eliciting howls of protest from critics who called it
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It has been called the crown jewel of the Chinese technology industry, but now one of its top executives has been arrested. Meng Wanzhou, the chief financial officer
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Yemen’s government supports the reopening of Sanaa international airport, shut down for years in the country’s war, but only under supervision, an official said Thursday. “We are keen
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LONDON: There is no time limit for the Yemen peace talks taking place in Stockholm, the United Nations said Friday. The international organisation also said that the current phase of the consultations focused
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LONDON: There is no time limit for the Yemen peace talks taking place in Stockholm, the United Nations said Friday. The international organisation also said that the current phase of the consultations focused
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Dover, United Kingdom – The port in Dover, Britain's gateway to Europe, is doing a roaring trade as usual. A procession of trucks - an estimated 10,000 of them
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The last migrant rescue ship operating in the Mediterranean is ending its mission. Doctors Without Borders says a 'smear campaign' by European governments has forced the Aquarius to
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Chancellor Angela Merkel will be replaced by Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer as the leader of Germany's centre-right Christian Democratic Union (CDU) party. The choice was made by 999 voting delegates
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Yemen’s government supports the reopening of Sanaa international airport, shut down for years in the country’s war, but only under supervision, an official said Thursday. “We are keen
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MARIB: Farouk Baakar was on duty as a medic at Al-Rashid hospital the day a bleeding man was brought into the emergency room with gunshot wounds and signs
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Yemen’s government supports the reopening of Sanaa international airport, shut down for years in the country’s war, but only under supervision, an official said Thursday. “We are keen
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Riohacha, Colombia - Six-year-old Wilmer Valero has slept on the streets of Colombia's Riohacha with rotting teeth for four months. He brought the problem from Venezuela, where a
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The global livestock industry produces more greenhouse gases than cars, planes, trains and ships combined. But that doesn’t reflect anywhere on meat products. Denmark wants to change the
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The wife of a Ukrainian intelligence officer held captive by Russia has appealed to President Vladimir Putin for his release. Vasili Soroka was one of 23 servicemen captured
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ISTANBUL: Turkish authorities have issued an arrest warrant for journalist Can Dundar as part of an investigation into protests in Istanbul in 2013 against President Tayyip Erdogan’s rule,
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