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SAO PAULO/BRASILIA: A proposal by Brazil’s next president to relocate its embassy in Israel, following US President Donald Trump’s lead, may set off a diplomatic storm in the
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Seoul, South Korea - The sun sets on a cool autumn Sunday afternoon but the action is just getting started at one of Seoul's oldest establishments - the Gwangjang
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Canberra, Australia - Opposition to Australia's policy of confining people on remote Pacific islands if they try to get to the country by boat is coming under increasing
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Bangladesh declined an offer by Canada to take in Rohingya refugees - including women who were raped - Canadian officials said, as the South Asian country pushes ahead
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MOSCOW: Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian media reported, signalling Kremlin support ahead of a conference aimed at settling the
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MOSCOW: Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu met Libyan commander Khalifa Haftar in Moscow on Wednesday, Russian media reported, signalling Kremlin support ahead of a conference aimed at settling the
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GAZA: A seasonal shift in the weather and intensified international diplomacy are prompting Palestinians mounting protests along Gaza’s border with Israel to rethink their tactics. Since the demonstrations
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The United Nation's envoy to Yemen, Martin Griffiths, is no longer aiming to convene the country's warring parties for peace talks this month and will instead try to
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A US appeals court in California has ruled that President Donald Trump's administration must continue an Obama-era programme shielding young immigrants from deportation. US Supreme Court refuses to
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Some 400 buffaloes have died in a mass drowning after stampeding into the Chobe river along the border between Botswana and Namibia, possibly while trying to escape from
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The United Nations says there are now three million refugees and migrants from Venezuela who have left the country due to its crumbling economy, violence, hyperinflation and shortage of
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Donald Trump's choice for acting attorney general has attracted criticism from Democrats and others over fears he may limit or end a probe into foreign interference in the
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Former Madagascar president Hery Rajaonarimampianina has alleged "many voting irregularities" in this week's election, raising fears of protests and a disputed result. In a statement on Thursday, Rajaonarimampianina said
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JERUSALEM: Israeli police said Thursday at the conclusion of a long-running corruption probe that there was evidence a lawyer for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu committed crimes. Referring to
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DUBAI, UAE: Minister Louis Farrakhan, the leader of the Nation of Islam, is warning President Donald Trump not to pull “the trigger of war in the Middle East
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DUBAI: Amnesty International accused the Houthi militia on Thursday of “deliberate militarization of hospitals” in the battleground city of Hodeidah and called on warring parties to protect civilians.
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Raipur, Chhattisgarh - Suspected Maoist rebels in India have killed five people, including a paramilitary soldier, in a restive central Indian state that goes to polls this month.
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A gunman killed at least 12 people late on Wednesday after opening fire on a bar packed with college students in southern California, according to the Ventura County Sheriff's
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Three of the deadliest mass shootings in the United States's modern history have occurred since October 2017. In February 2018, a gunman opened fire at a high school
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ISTANBUL: A Turkish journalist was handed a suspended sentence of two years and five months in prison on Thursday for insulting Turkey’s President Tayyip Erdogan, a court ruling
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TUNIS: Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Thursday he was ready to swear in ten new ministers named in a reshuffle that he had originally rejected, easing
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TUNIS: Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi said on Thursday he was ready to swear in ten new ministers named in a reshuffle that he had originally rejected, easing
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Vote counting has started in Madagascar after the presidential election. The African island nation had 36 candidates to choose from - three of them former presidents. But there
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Two press freedom advocates taken from their hotel in Tanzania by security officers have been released, a South African government official said Thursday. There was concern after it
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At least 12 people have been killed, including a sheriff's sergeant, following a shooting inside a bar packed with college students in southern California, according to the Ventura
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BEIRUT: Tehran must withdraw all the forces it commands in Syria, and the US will focus on pressuring Iran financially and resisting its meddling in the region, the
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Multiple people are believed to have been injured in a shooting at a bar packed with college students in southern California, local authorities say. At least 11 people
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