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Clashes have erupted in Nigeria between security forces and the supporters of an imprisoned Shia cleric marching in the capital, Abuja. The army and police confronted hundreds of
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has inaugurated a massive new airport project in Istanbul, which, once complete, is expected to become one of the world's largest. More than
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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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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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Tecun Uman, Guatemala and Tapachula, Mexico - A Honduran man was killed late on Sunday as the crackdown on migrants and refugees walking from Central America to the
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At least nine people have been wounded in a suicide bomb blast that rocked the centre of Tunisia's capital, Tunis, according to the interior ministry. A 30-year-old suicide
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Jewish leaders in Pittsburgh, including the former president of the Tree of Life synagogue that was targeted in Saturday's deadly shooting, have said US President Donald Trump is
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RAQQA, Syria: Sajed Salameh has spent days waiting at a mass grave in the Syrian city of Raqqa, hoping the bodies of his wife and three children will
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RAQQA, Syria: Sajed Salameh has spent days waiting at a mass grave in the Syrian city of Raqqa, hoping the bodies of his wife and three children will
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RAQQA, Syria: Sajed Salameh has spent days waiting at a mass grave in the Syrian city of Raqqa, hoping the bodies of his wife and three children will
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At least nine people have been wounded in a suicide bomb blast that rocked the centre of Tunisia's capital, Tunis, according to the interior ministry. A 30-year-old suicide
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Colombo, Sri Lanka - The speaker of Sri Lanka's parliament has warned the country's political crisis could devolve into a "bloodbath" unless President Maithripala Sirisena reconvened parliament to
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After several delays, the Istanbul summit finally took place on Saturday, bringing together the leaders of Turkey, Russia, France and Germany to discuss peace in Syria. The four-way
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DUBAI: Dozens of Houthi militia were killed and wounded in clashes with the Yemeni army in east of Hodeidah, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday. More than
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DUBAI: Dozens of Houthi militia were killed and wounded in clashes with the Yemeni army in east of Hodeidah, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Sunday. More than
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Turkish, Saudi prosecutors cooperating on Khashoggi case is useful, says Turkey’s foreign minster The Saudi public prosecutor heading the investigation into the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi met
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The German army has sent its top brigade to lead the NATO's biggest military exercises since the Cold War. About 50,000 personnel from all 29 NATO allies are
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Bangladesh's imprisoned opposition leader Khaleda Zia was handed another seven years in prison on Monday on corruption charges her supporters say are politically motivated to prevent her running in
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has told leaders of her Christian Democrats (CDU) that she will not seek re-election as party chairwoman at a conference in early December, a
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AZAZ, Syria: “Brotherhood has no limits.” The phrase is painted in Arabic and Turkish on a wall in Azaz, the town at the heart of Turkey’s de facto
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ALGIERS: Algeria’s frail President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, in power since 1999, will stand for a fifth term at elections next year, the head of his party said Sunday.National Liberation
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Turkish artillery bombards YPG forces in Syria after Erdogan’s ‘final warning’ BEIRUT: Turkish artillery on Sunday bombarded Kurdish militia positions on the eastern shore of the Euphrates River
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At least six people were injured after a suicide bomber detonated explosives near Afghanistan's election commission headquarters in Kabul on Monday, officials said. At least four officials of
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A white gunman walks into a synagogue outside of Pittsburgh and guns down 11 congregants after screaming, "All Jews must die!" during Sabbath services. Another self-identifying white male
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Equanimity, the luxury ocean-going yacht at the heart of the 1MDB scandal, went on sale on Monday as Malaysia's new government tries to retrieve some of the billions
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JEDDAH: An attempt by Iran on Sunday to counter new US sanctions on its crucial oil trade ended in failure. Tehran offered a million barrels of oil to
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