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The UN's special envoy to Yemen is relaunching talks to try and end the war, as the Saudi-UAE coalition deploys thousands of soldiers to the main port city
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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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According to reports, there are four different caravans travelling through Mexico with up to 6,000 people. The Central American migrant seeks US resident status largely under the auspices
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Simone Biles is dominating at the world gymnastics championships in Doha. She's already led the Americans to a team gold, and is starting to rack up her own
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Following Khashoggi's murder, the spotlight's now on how much money Saudi Arabia spends in the U-S - trying to buy influence in both politics and education. Some universities
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PARIS: For dozens of French women detained in Syria, an impossible choice looms: Keeping their children in a war zone, or sending them home knowing they might never
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BAGHDAD: Iran-backed political forces in Iraq are preparing to launch mass demonstrations in Basra to pressure the new prime minister to choose their candidates for the key security
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JEDDAH: The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Thursday that Iran should strengthen its anti-money laundering and anti-terrorism financing frameworks to comply with international standards by February 2019. “The
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Hundreds of millions of children and adults in Asia's rapidly expanding cities are undernourished, and will remain so without "inclusive, sustainable and nutrition-sensitive" urban planning, offiicals from the
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Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's cabinet approved draft legislation on Friday to allow in more blue-collar workers from overseas and deal with severe labour shortages, in a controversial policy
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The US Justice Department indicted two companies based in China and Taiwan and three individuals saying they conspired to steal trade secrets from US semiconductor company Micron relating
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WASHINGTON: US National Security Adviser John Bolton said the administration of President Donald Trump wants sanctions on Iran’s crude exports to strain Tehran, but does not want to
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MOSCOW: Russia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs has accused Nusra militants in Syria’s Idlib Province of trying to wreck a Russo-Turkish initiative to create a demilitarized zone in the
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PARIS: For dozens of French women detained in Syria, an impossible choice looms: Keeping their children in a war zone, or sending them home knowing they might never
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman held a rare meeting with American evangelical Christians as the conservative kingdom seeks to open up more to the world and
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Canberra, Australia - The people of New Caledonia will vote on Sunday on whether they want full independence from France, which has ruled the small archipelago in the Pacific
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Colombo, Sri Lanka - For a brief moment on Thursday, it appeared as though Sri Lankan politicians might be able to return soon to the country's suspended parliament
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AMMAN: Jordan's tourism and education ministers resigned Thursday in response to flash floods near the Dead Sea that killed 21 people- mostly children. The government has come under increasing pressure
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RABAT: Morocco, struggling with an influx of African migrants seeking passage to nearby Europe, on Thursday imposed a new rule requiring such travelers to fill out an online
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Chemical terrorism, ‘lone wolf’ attacks highlighted at Arab conference in Tunis JEDDAH: “Lone wolf” attacks and chemical terrorism were among the key dangers discussed at the 21st Arab conference
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Less than a week before the midterm elections, US President Donald Trump said his administration is finalising a plan that would deny asylum to individuals who cross the
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Washington, DC - A large proportion of non-Muslim Americans think Islam is incompatible with American values, research by the New America foundation and the American Muslim Initiative found.
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Enough is enough. That's the message from the United States to the warring parties in Yemen. Washington wants a halt to more than three years of combat between
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BEIRUT: Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri remains the strongest Sunni leader despite a decline in his political power, according to Lebanese President Michel Aoun.“The prime minister, whether it is
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RABAT: Morocco, struggling with an influx of African migrants seeking passage to nearby Europe, on Thursday imposed a new rule requiring such travelers to fill out an online
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AMMAN: Jordan's tourism and education ministers resigned Thursday in response to the flash floods near the Dead Sea that killed 21 people- mostly children. The Minister of Tourism Lina
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Cuba's President Miguel Diaz-Canel has arrived in Russia for talks expected to focus on strengthening economic ties between the two countries. The 57-year-old is due to meet his
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