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Sudanese security forces are moving against a protest sit-in camp in the capital, besieging the site, witnesses and protest leaders said. Machine-gun fire and explosions were heard and
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AIN ISSA, Syria: Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria said Sunday they plan to hand 800 women and children, including relatives of militants, to their families in the first
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AIN ISSA, Syria: Kurdish authorities in northeast Syria said Sunday they plan to hand 800 women and children, including relatives of militants, to their families in the first
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Protests erupted on Sunday after Israeli forces entered the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound along with hundreds of ultra-nationalist Jews whom they allowed to access the compound on Jerusalem Day -
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Donald Trump can expect both pomp and protests when he arrives in the British capital on Monday. Hundreds of thousands of people demonstrated against his visit last year,
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LONDON: Israel is set to auction off classrooms it seized from the occupied West Bank last year, according to a report in UK newspaper the Guardian citing an
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LONDON: The captured widow of an Daesh group leader helped the CIA in its hunt for the organization’s elusive leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi, a British daily said Friday.In
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About 200 people have come out in the US city of Virginia Beach to pray for 12 people killed in a mass shooting at a municipal centre by
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For the past five months, Mustafa al-Kharouf has been languishing inside Israel's Givon prison, away from his wife Tamam and their one-and-a-half-year-old daughter Asia, but now he faces
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LONDON: Iran’s stockpiles of low-enriched uranium and heavy water have increased since the start of the year, the UN atomic watchdog said Friday. The confidential quarterly report by
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VIENNA: Iran’s stockpiles of low-enriched uranium and heavy water have increased since the start of the year, the UN atomic watchdog said Friday. The confidential quarterly report by
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When it comes to well-intentioned but awkward conversations about race and culture in the workplace, March of Dimes Chief People Officer Darlene Slaughter has "heard it all". Slaughter
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Mitrovica, Kosovo - Just north of the bridge over the Iber river that splits the ethnically divided city of Mitrovica in northern Kosovo, life seems normal. Locals mill
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SALE, Morocco: The trial in Morocco of two dozen men over the murders of two Scandinavian hikers resumed Thursday after previous hearings were swiftly adjourned.Danish student Louisa Vesterager
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The trial in Morocco of two dozen men over the murders of two Scandinavian hikers resumed after previous hearings were swiftly adjournedA Dane and a Norwegian had their throats
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Austria has named Brigitte Bierlein as interim chancellor, the first woman to hold the position, after being chosen by the country's president to govern until elections are held
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Reproductive rights groups petitioned a United Nations agency on Wednesday on behalf of four young pregnant rape survivors in Latin America, calling on the region to ease up
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ISTANBUL: Turkish police said on Wednesday they had detained the leaders of what they called Europe’s biggest people-smuggling ring, which helped thousands of irregular immigrants reach Europe from
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LONDON: Britain is to provide a £1.6 million aid package to help build a limb reconstruction center in Gaza. The funds will go to the World Health Organization
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On the second day of the strike in Sudan, protest leaders say they have the upper hand and are threatening more strikes if the Military Transitional Council doesn't
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A prominent Iranian political figure has grabbed the headlines over shocking reports that he murdered his wife. Former Tehran Mayor Mohammad Ali Najafi was taken to a preliminary
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner is heading to the Middle East, the White House said Tuesday, signalling a fresh push on a long promised but
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TEHRAN, Iran: A wife of an adviser to Iranian President Hassan Rouhani was shot and killed at her home, the semi-official ISNA news agency reported Tuesday.The report said
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Missouri's only abortion clinic expects to be shut down this week after the state health department refused to renew its license, which would make it the only US
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European Union (EU) leaders are descending upon Brussels to formally begin the horse-trading over establishing parliamentary groupings and choose leaders of the continent's most powerful institutions. In discussions
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JEDDAH: The delicate situation in the region requires cautiousness and social unity to retain the state’s security and the people’s safety, said the Emit of Kuwait Sheikh Sabah
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JERUSALEM: Israel moved toward a new election on Monday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s efforts to form a government following a national ballot just last month remained deadlocked.In
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