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Yemen’s newly appointed Prime Minister Maeen Abdulmalik Saeed arrived at Aden International Airport on Tuesday from Saudi Arabia. Local news outlets say that the government of President Abdrabbuh
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KABUL, Afghanistan: A Taliban spokesperson says five members of the Afghan Taliban who were freed from the US military prison at Guantanamo Bay in exchange for captured American
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DUBAI: Yemen’s national army forces gained advances on their battlefield positions against Houthis on several fronts in the country’s western coast, where the militia have suffered dozens of
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Brazil's new president-elect has announced his first foreign trip. Jair Bolsonaro says he will visit Chile, followed by the United States and Israel. Bolsonaro won more than 55
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Tens of thousands of supporters of Sri Lanka's deposed Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe have protested in the capital, Colombo, as political turmoil on the island enters its fifth
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The US government is planning to end birthright citizenship for babies of non-citizens and undocumented immigrants born on US soil, President Donald Trump said in an interview on
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BEIRUT: The Syrian government has accused Turkey of failing to meet obligations set out in an agreement with Russia to create a demilitarised zone free of extremists in
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BEIRUT: The Syrian government has accused Turkey of failing to meet obligations set out in an agreement with Russia to create a demilitarised zone free of extremists in
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DUBAI: UAE’s visa amnesty scheme might be extended according to immigration sources in Abu Dhabi and Sharjah. The three-month scheme is set to end this October 31, but
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Search teams scoured the sea off Indonesia on Tuesday for any signs of life and evidence to determine what brought down a Lion Air flight with 189 people
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The US is ratcheting up pressure on Saudi Arabia to restore relations with Qatar, Bloomberg has reported, as the kingdom comes under increasing international scrutiny for its role
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Three Palestinian boys aged between 13 and 14 have been killed in an Israeli air raid in the southeastern Gaza Strip, according to health officials. The children were
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REMADA: Tunisian Zubair Abdel-Moula lost his work selling smuggled fuel on the streets of a poor southern town after the government tightened controls with Libya to stop militants
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DUBAI: History was made on Monday as the first satellite to be fully engineered and developed by Emiratis was successfully launched into space from an island south of
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DUBAI: History was made on Monday as the first satellite to be fully engineered and developed by Emiratis was successfully launched into space from an island south of
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The United States is preparing to announce tariffs on all remaining Chinese imports by early December if talks next month between presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping fail
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A British academic charged with espionage in the United Arab Emirates has been temporarily released until his court date next month. Matthew Hedges, a 31-year-old doctoral student at
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Unbridled consumption has decimated global wildlife, triggered a mass extinction, and exhausted Earth's capacity to accommodate humanity's expanding appetites, a conservation group warned on Tuesday. From 1970 to
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DUBAI: History was made on Monday as the first satellite to be fully engineered and developed by Emiratis was successfully launched into space from an island south of
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ROME: The Syrian opposition on Monday presented a “road map” to peace, including steps to be taken ahead of an election and guidelines for a plan to write
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A week out from the US midterm elections, the Pentagon said on Monday it is sending 5,200 troops, some armed, to the Southwest border to respond to a
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New York City - Chinese President Xi Jinping's recent talk of "preparing for war and combat" is just the latest example of feisty language that has stoked fears of a
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London - The fiancee of the murdered Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Khashoggi has demanded that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman reveal the whereabouts of his body. In an
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ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Monday opened Istanbul’s new international airport, which his government says will eventually become the world’s largest.“The new airport will be the
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GAZA: Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded 25 including two medics on Monday during Palestinian protests along the Gaza Strip’s beachfront border with Israel, the
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GAZA: Israeli forces shot dead a Palestinian man and wounded 25 including two medics on Monday during Palestinian protests along the Gaza Strip’s beachfront border with Israel, the
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The number of reported hate crimes in the United States rose in 2016, the year Donald Trump was elected president, the second consecutive year the figures increased. African
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