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PARIS: Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has warned Europe against developing a “fortress” mentality to immigration from Africa, while promising his country is doing everything possible to control
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Abeir Mohammed* sits at the foot of her mother's mud-brick house in Sawan, east of Yemen's capital Sanaa. She struggles as she searches for the words to describe
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Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak has said Moscow will support Iran to counter US oil sanctions. Washington on Friday restored sanctions on Tehran, which had previously been lifted
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Since the Great March of Return began earlier this year, Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have protested along the fence with Israel, demanding their right to return to
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PARIS: Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has warned Europe against developing a “fortress” mentality to immigration from Africa, while promising his country is doing everything possible to control
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PARIS: Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has warned Europe against developing a “fortress” mentality to immigration from Africa, while promising his country is doing everything possible to control
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Halima Aden has heard it all: "You're not Somali enough. You're not a good Muslim. You're not American enough. I have multiple identities, multiple things that make me
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In the northwestern US state of Washington, a Republican state politician is facing backlash for distributing a document outlining the guidelines for a "holy army" and advocating killing
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Washington, DC - Mourners attended a prayer and memorial service for slain Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi in Washington, DC, the city where he was based before his killing
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PARIS: Morocco’s Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita has warned Europe against developing a “fortress” mentality to immigration from Africa, while promising his country is doing everything possible to control
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DUBAI: D-Day looms for the world’s biggest state sponsor of terror, as the US is set to reimpose sanctions against Iran on Sunday. The move could be the
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DUBAI: D-Day looms for the world’s biggest state sponsor of terror, as the US is set to reimpose sanctions against Iran on Sunday. The move could be the
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Mexico City - Parents travelling in a US-bound caravan of thousands of Central American migrants and refugees are taking legal action on behalf of their children against US President
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The US government has announced that it will grant temporary waivers to eight "jurisdictions", allowing them to buy Iranian oil beyond November 5, when the second round of
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UN chief Antonio Guterres has demanded an "immediate" halt to fighting in Yemen, as he warned that the country stands on a "precipice" and could face the world's "worst famine" for
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LONDON: A raft of new US sanctions against Iran were announced on Friday, as it emerged that eight territories have been temporarily exempted from restrictions on importing oil
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Colombo, Sri Lanka - The United Nations chief has urged Sri Lanka's President Maithripala Sirisena to reconvene parliament and allow legislators decide between the two men claiming to
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What happened to journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a critic of the Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, has been the subject of denials, official leaks, presidential speeches, changing Saudi
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Pakistan's far-right Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pakistan (TLP) party has called off protests against the acquittal of a Christian woman accused of blasphemy which have rocked the Muslim-majority South Asian democracy in recent
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Sri Lanka’s deposed prime minister has told Al Jazeera democracy in the country is under threat. Ranil Wickremesinghe is refusing to quit after being fired last week by
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It's a month to the day since Jamal Khashoggi walked into the Saudi consulate in Istanbul and disappeared. Turkish investigators say a Saudi "hit squad" strangled the journalist
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A Pakistani political and religious leader has been killed by unknown attackers at his residence in the northern city of Rawalpindi, according to family members and officials. Sami-ul-Haq,
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RAMALLAH: A senior Palestinian official on Friday condemned Brazilian far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s announcement that he would move his country’s Israel embassy to Jerusalem.The move announced Thursday comes
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RAMALLAH: A senior Palestinian official on Friday condemned Brazilian far-right President-elect Jair Bolsonaro’s announcement that he would move his country’s Israel embassy to Jerusalem.The move announced Thursday comes
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TEHRAN, Iran: Iran is bracing for the restoration of US sanctions on its vital oil industry next week, as it grapples with an economic crisis that has sparked
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At least seven people have been killed in an assault on a bus heading towards a monastery in northern Egypt, according to a Coptic Church official. The incident
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People who fled the Iraqi city of Kirkuk are slowly returning, a year after government forces took back control from Kurdish Peshmerga fighters. But the threat of violence
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