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Authorities in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have approved clinical trials for four experimental Ebola treatments, even as the deadly disease's outbreak among newborn babies raises new fears.
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LONDON: Daesh has killed 24 US-backed fighters in two days in an attack launched from its embattled holdout in eastern Syria, a war monitor said Saturday.The Syrian Democratic
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ISTANBUL: Turkey’s nationalist MHP will support President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party candidates in local elections in three key cities next year, the MHP leader said on Saturday, in
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ISTANBUL: Turkey’s nationalist MHP will support President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK Party candidates in local elections in three key cities next year, the MHP leader said on Saturday, in
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A congressionally mandated report from the US Global Change Research Program says extreme weather disasters are getting worse in the US and that climate change is to blame.
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French security forces have fired tear gas and water cannons against "yellow vest" protesters in the capital, Paris, as demonstrations against rising fuel taxes and President Emmanuel Macron's economic policies
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A rocky peninsula is again emerging as a big hurdle standing in the way of Britain's exit from the EU. Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez is demanding that
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BENGHAZI, Libya: Gunmen on Friday raided a town deep in Libya’s southern desert, killing nine people and kidnapping several others, a resident said, with officials blaming the attack
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ROME: Iraq plans to launch a reconstruction agency to focus on projects such as a deep water port and a rail network, Iraq's president said on Thursday, as
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On The Listening Post this week: An apparent cut-paste error confirms a US indictment against Julian Assange. But have the media already found him guilty? Plus, patriotic cinema
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US legislators from the Democratic Party have vowed to investigate President Donald Trump's response to the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The incoming head of the US
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Bahrainis are heading to the polls on Saturday in a parliamentary election from which opposition groups have been barred in a crackdown on dissent in the Western-allied kingdom
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DUBAI: The cost of private school education might be rising in the Gulf, but that is no deterrent to parents eager to enrol their children in leading independent
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DUBAI: The cost of private school education might be rising in the Gulf, but that is no deterrent to parents eager to enrol their children in leading independent
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ROME: Iraq plans to launch a reconstruction agency to focus on projects such as a deep water port and a rail network, Iraq's president said on Thursday, as
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Tijuana, Mexico - Bekeni Christain Tabasangh was one of dozens of people seeking the shade at the edge of a Tijuana plaza near the foot of the pedestrian
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Martin Griffiths, the United Nations envoy for Yemen, has arrived in the strategic port city of Hodeidah to discuss plans with Houthi rebels to cede control of the port
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Earlier this month the BBC aired an informed and informative weeklong series on disinformation and fake news, "a global problem," as they rightly put it, "challenging the way we
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ANKARA: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday accused the EU’s top diplomat of overstepping her brief by calling for the release of jailed Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas.
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BEIRUT: “Every day is Black Friday in Lebanon.” The term Black Friday in the Lebanese vocabulary has a different meaning when it comes to purchasing power. Ghada Buqshan,
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ROME / GAZA: The world must help resolve the Israel-Palestinian issue by backing a two-state solution to avoid the creation of an apartheid state, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad
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Matthew Hedges has spent the last seven months in prison in the United Arab Emirates and now he faces the prospect of staying there forever. The British PhD student
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Prague, Czech Republic - The Czech Republic's coalition government has survived a vote of no-confidence over a fraud scandal implicating embattled Prime Minister Andrej Babis. The vote on Friday saw only 92
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The reimposition of US sanctions on Iranian oil exports is threatening various parts of Iranian society. But the saffron-exporting sector believes it is virtually sanction-proof and some think
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GENEVA: At least 631 African migrants have died trying to reach Spain so far this year, nearly three times more than in all of 2017, and the situation
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GENEVA: At least 631 African migrants have died trying to reach Spain so far this year, nearly three times more than in all of 2017, and the situation
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ANKARA: Turkish Foreign Minister Mevlut Cavusoglu on Friday accused the EU’s top diplomat of overstepping her brief by calling for the release of jailed Kurdish leader Selahattin Demirtas.
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