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DUBAI: Houthi militias are using civilians as human shields in Hodeidah, Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed told the UN humanitarian coordinator in Yemen during their meeting on Tuesday.
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TORBAT-E HEYDARIYEH: The laborers edge their way across a field of bright purple flowers gathering up the world’s most expensive spice, a bounty that makes this dusty corner
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The leadership of Taiwan's President Tsai Ing-wen is in doubt after her ruling party was defeated in last week's election. Worsening relations with China seem to have contributed
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A Syrian man who had been stranded at a terminal at a Malaysian airport for the past seven months has finally arrived in Canada, ending a long ordeal that
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The Chinese scientist who claims to have created the world's first genetically-edited babies has paused the trial following an international outcry over the highly controversial procedure. Geneticist He
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TORBAT-E HEYDARIYEH: The laborers edge their way across a field of bright purple flowers gathering up the world’s most expensive spice, a bounty that makes this dusty corner
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TANNOURINE: High up in Lebanon’s mountains, the lifeless grey trunks of dead cedar trees stand stark in the deep green forest, witnesses of the climate change that has
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BAGHDAD: Iraq’s broken electricity sector is planning a long-awaited overhaul to both meet US pressure to halt Iranian power imports and head off summertime protests over chronic cuts.With
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Nineteen leaders of the world's biggest economies and a representative of the European Union are set to meet on Friday and Saturday in Buenos Aries, Argentina as part
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Mexico's outgoing government has conferred the country's highest civilian honour for foreigners to US President Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, a decision that has caused a social media outcry. President Enrique
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An award-winning Chinese photographer is missing and may have been detained by state security officers while visiting China's far-flung western Xinjiang region, his wife said, as she appealed
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BEIRUT: A well-known British radio presenter who had been living in Lebanon for years was found dead in his apartment in a mountain town near Beirut on Tuesday after
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BEIRUT: A local official in Raqqa says more than 500 bodies have so far been exhumed from one of the largest mass graves discovered near the Syrian city,
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Republican Cindy Hyde-Smith won a US Senate special election runoff in Mississippi on Tuesday, defeating a black challenger after a campaign that recalled the history of racist violence
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Philippine leftists reacted with dismay on Wednesday to a threat by President Rodrigo Duterte to create a "death squad" to hunt what he said were Maoist assassins. Critics
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More than 200 employees comprising engineers, designers and managers at Alphabet Inc's Google published an open letter demanding the company end development of a censored search engine for
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NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump’s administration has told Israel that it will present its long-awaited Middle East peace plan early next year, Israel’s UN envoy said Tuesday.
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NEW YORK: US President Donald Trump’s administration has told Israel that it will present its long-awaited Middle East peace plan early next year, Israel’s UN envoy said Tuesday.
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TUNIS: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited Tunisia on Tuesday where he was received by President Beji Caid Essebsi. On arrival, Prince Mohammed said the Tunisian people have
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Lion Air pilots struggled to maintain control of their Boeing jet as an automatic safety system in the plane repeatedly pushed the plane's nose down, according to a
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China will retaliate "in proportion" if the United States sanctions its top official in its far-west Xinjiang region over alleged human rights abuses, China's ambassador to the US
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Geneva, Switzerland - The European Union signed a financing agreement worth millions of euros with Afghanistan during a key summit focused on development and the war-torn country's beleaguered
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Saudi Arabia’s crown prince arrives in Tunisia, received by President Beji Caid Essebsi TUNIS: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman arrived in Tunisia on Tuesday, and was received by President
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TUNIS: Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman visited Tunisia on Tuesday where he was received by President Beji Caid Essebsi. On arrival, Prince Mohammed said the Tunisian people have
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BEIRUT: Police are investigating the death of a British radio host whose body was found at his home outside Beirut. Gavin Ford, who joined the Lebanese station Radio
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Youth unemployment has been described as a ticking time bomb in Kenya, a nation where three quarters of the population are younger than 30. Due to poverty and hopelessness,
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It's been nearly two months since journalist Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. His murder at the hands of a 15-member hit squad has put
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