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US President Donald Trump has threatened to revoke the credentials of more White House reporters, doubling down in response to criticism of his administration's decision to revoke credentials
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Mexico City - Jairo Mauricio Ramirez did not have to say many goodbyes in Honduras. A 16-year-old orphan, he joined thousands of US-bound migrants and refugees last month
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International observers have ruled out irregularities in this week's presidential election in Madagascar, after former leader Hery Rajaonarimampianina alleged the ballot was marred by fraud. In separate statements on Friday,
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A fast-moving wildfire that ravaged a Northern California town on Thursday sent residents racing to escape on roads that turned into tunnels of fire as thick smoke darkened
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Colombo, Sri Lanka - Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena has dissolved the country's parliament and declared a snap election on January 5, hours after his coalition admitted that it could
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DAMASCUS: Daesh militants shot and killed two children during an operation to liberate a group of hostages from southern Syria that were being held by the extremist group
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DUBAI: Saudi Arabia has welcomed today’s resolution titled: The Permanent sovereignty of the Palestinian people in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and of the Arab population
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BEIRUT: Syrian government forces killed 23 rebels near Idlib province on Friday, the deadliest clash to rock a buffer zone where a Russian-Turkish truce is to be enforced.
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A Saudi-UAE-led military coalition and pro-government forces in Yemen have launched a new "vast offensive" to capture the strategic port city of Hodeidah from Houthi rebels, according to the country's internationally
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US President Donald Trump signed a proclamation on Friday suspending the entry of migrants through the US southern border between ports of entry for 90 days. The proclamation,
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Female politicians from 86 countries have gathered in the UK parliament to mark 100 years since women in Britain got the right to vote. But apart from celebrating
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Final preparations are underway in Paris to mark 100 years since the end of the first world war. On Sunday French President Emmanuel Macron will host world leaders,
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Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) has acknowledged that some of its scouts were illegally profiling promising talents outside the capital and categorising them according to their ethnicities, French investigative news
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At least half a million people in Afghanistan, Iraq and Pakistan have been killed due to the so-called "war on terror" launched by the United States in the
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NABLUS, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian farmer Mahmud Abu Shinar surveys two rows of severed olive trees — something he says has become a sadly familiar sight.He didn’t see who
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ASHMA: Chimo Osman’s children stopped going to school after Turkish shelling struck his home in northeastern Syria, where Kurdish residents fear another military onslaught is imminent. In recent
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A Philippine court found former first lady Imelda Marcos guilty of graft and ordered her arrest on Friday in a rare conviction among many corruption cases that she
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One person was confirmed dead, and two others were injured after a stabbing incident during rush hour in the Australian city of Melbourne, police said on Friday, as
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A federal judge has blocked construction of the controversial Keystone XL oil pipeline, arguing that United States' President Donald Trump's administration had failed to adequately explain why it
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ASHMA: Chimo Osman’s children stopped going to school after Turkish shelling struck his home in northeastern Syria, where Kurdish residents fear another military onslaught is imminent. In recent
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NABLUS, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian farmer Mahmud Abu Shinar surveys two rows of severed olive trees — something he says has become a sadly familiar sight.He didn’t see who
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NABLUS, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian farmer Mahmud Abu Shinar surveys two rows of severed olive trees — something he says has become a sadly familiar sight.He didn’t see who
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A Japanese television station cancelled a performance by the wildly popular Korean boyband BTS after controversy erupted over a shirt worn by a member appearing to show the
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A Financial Times Asia editor was denied entry into Hong Kong a month after he was forced to leave the semi-autonomous Chinese city when the government refused to
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Alicia Wagner says she moved her family six years ago from the affluent Los Angeles-area enclave of Pacific Palisades to the sleepier and more distant Thousand Oaks, in
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ASHMA: Chimo Osman’s children stopped going to school after Turkish shelling struck his home in northeastern Syria, where Kurdish residents fear another military onslaught is imminent. In recent
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Dubai wants to have the world’s most active residents, what can other cities in the region learn DUBAI: Whether it is rewarding dieters with gold, offering lucrative cash
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