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DAMASCUS: A Syrian woman captured by Daesh said her eight-year-old son died in her lap after the extremists shot him and his cousin during a military operation to liberate
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PARIS: US National Security Adviser John Bolton said that more sanctions were possible on Iran just days after a new round of measures touted as the most punishing
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Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has been accused of violating the country's constitution. In late October, he sacked Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe and replaced him with former leader
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Authorities in Florida have ordered a machine recount of votes in its neck-and-neck race for the US senate seat and governor's office amid allegations of fraud from the
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Journalist Tamila Varshalomidze grew up in Georgia after the downfall of the Soviet Union, but she is very aware of how the USSR's influence has affected her life, her
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BEIRUT: The leader of the Lebanese Shiite group Hezbollah insisted that one of its Sunni allies be given a portfolio in a new Lebanese cabinet, and indicated it
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RAMALLAH: A Palestinian man shot in clashes with Israeli forces in October has died of his wounds, the health ministry in the occupied West Bank said on Saturday.Mohammed
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Turkey says it shared recordings of conversations related to Khashoggi with Riyadh, US and others DUBAI: Turkey has shared recordings linked to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder last
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Wrapped in a blanket and four months pregnant, Liliana Mendoza has been walking for eight hours. Her journey, which began three days ago, is a treacherous one, but
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French President Emmanuel Macron has sought to defuse a dispute with his US counterpart, hailing the "great solidarity" between the two countries after Donald Trump blasted his proposals for
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The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is facing its worst Ebola outbreak in the country's recorded history, health officials have said. The announcement late on Friday came amid
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Turkey says it shared recordings of conversations related to Khashoggi with Riyadh, US and others DUBAI: Turkey has shared recordings linked to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s murder last
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BEIRUT: Extremists have killed at least eight Syrian government troops near a planned buffer zone around the country’s last major rebel bastion, a monitor said on Saturday.The Syrian
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BEIRUT: Lebanese President Michel Aoun said on Saturday that a solution would be found to a political row that has blocked the formation of a new national unity
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Heavy rains and flooding have killed at least 12 people in Jordan and forced authorities to evacuate more than 3,500 tourists from the ancient city of Petra and
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After two years of a violent "war on drugs" in the Philippines, thousands of people are dead and much of the population live in fear of the police.
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Turkey has shared recordings related to the killing of Jamal Khashoggi with Saudi Arabia, the United States, Germany, France and Britain, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Saturday. Turkish
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TRIPOLI: Libya’s key political players are set to meet global leaders in Italy next week, in the latest bid by major powers to kickstart a long-stalled political process
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TRIPOLI: Libya’s key political players are set to meet global leaders in Italy next week, in the latest bid by major powers to kickstart a long-stalled political process
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DAMASCUS: Abu Mohammed thought he could finally go home after terrorists were expelled from his Damascus suburb, but he says Syrian authorities have blocked his return by wrongly
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Yemeni forces, backed by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, have seized control of a hospital in the western city of Hodeidah which was taken over by
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Heavy rains and flooding killed at least 11 people in Jordan and forced authorities to evacuate more than 3,700 tourists from the ancient city of Petra on Friday,
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Turkish police are ending the search for Jamal Khashoggi's body, but the criminal investigation into the Saudi journalist's murder will continue, sources told Al Jazeera. Al Jazeera has
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ANKARA: Ankara officially announced on Friday the opening of a new border crossing between Turkey and the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin. The aim of this direct gate,
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ANKARA: Ankara officially announced on Friday the opening of a new border crossing between Turkey and the northwestern Syrian city of Afrin. The aim of this direct gate,
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MOSUL: A deadly car bomb in Iraq’s Mosul, the first since the city was recaptured from terrorists, has left residents shaken and terrified that past nightmares are returning
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The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) said it was taking legal action to challenge President Donald Trump's proclamation, which bans those crossing between official points of entry on
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