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Adi Quala, Eritrea and Rama, Ethiopia - Teklehaimanot Tesfazigi is 103 years old and has witnessed Eritrea's many stages, from the Italian colonial period to the British administration, which
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Mexico's Pacific coast is set to be pounded on Tuesday by two storms headed its way, both of them having distinct characteristics. The larger of the two storms
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Australia's government on Tuesday unveiled sanctions against five officers in Myanmar's powerful military who are accused of overseeing barbaric violence against the Rohingya. Following similar actions by the
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Early morning on Sunday, October 23, 1983, Pierre Sabbagh awoke from an uncomfortable night's sleep in the grounds of the US Battalion Landing Team (BLT) headquarters in Beirut,
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Two American warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait in a move bound to aggravate China amid heightened tensions with Beijing. The USS Curtis Wilbur and USS Antietam conducted
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Hong Kong - President Xi Jinping opened the long-delayed and over-budget Hong Kong-Zhuhai-Macau Bridge on Tuesday, billed as a major step forward in China's plan to turn the Pearl
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Authorities in Nigeria have deployed special police forces to northern Kaduna and declared a 24-hour curfew in the state's capital following communal violence that killed dozens of people.
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Despite the differing narratives about what happened to Jamal Khashoggi on October 2, some facts are indisputable, pieced together using security footage and Turkish intelligence. Turkish sources say
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TEHRAN: A militant group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of 12 Iranian security personnel near the border with Pakistan, Iran’s semi-official news agency ISNA reported Monday.“The terrorist
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Sao Paulo - The frontrunner in Brazil's presidential election - far right former army captain Jair Bolsonaro - gave a fiery and confrontational speech to supporters on Sunday in
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Salty water just below the surface of Mars could hold enough oxygen to support the kind of microbial life that emerged and flourished on Earth billions of years
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A "potentially catastrophic" Category-5 hurricane is moving quickly through the Pacific Ocean and is predicted to pound western Mexico's shores on Tuesday, according to the US-based National Hurricane
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Close to the seafront in Lebanon’s Tripoli, giant curves of concrete stand testimony to dreams before the civil war, etchings of an exhibition park never finished
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SULAIMANIYAH, Iraq: A year after a disastrous independence vote he had championed in Iraqi Kurdistan, veteran leader Masoud Barzani has made a strong comeback both on the home
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The death toll from tropical storm Luban that struck war-torn Yemen's eastern province of al-Mahra has risen to 12, a local health official has said. Awad Mubarak told
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is promising to reveal the "naked truth" about the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul. That will
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Washington, DC - Republican candidates claiming that Islam is a political ideology rather than a religion. Super PACs broadcasting a slew of television ads linking Democratic candidates to
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TEHRAN: A militant group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of 12 Iranian security personnel near the border with Pakistan, Iran’s semi-official news agency ISNA reported Monday.“The terrorist
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JERUSALEM: The Israeli army Monday accused the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah of setting up a new observation point in south Lebanon near the border under the guise of
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TRIPOLI, Lebanon: Close to the seafront in Lebanon’s Tripoli, giant curves of concrete stand testimony to dreams before the civil war, etchings of an exhibition park never finished
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Ivo Sanader, former prime minister of Croatia, has been sentenced to two-and-a-half years in prison for war profiteering during the country's 1990s conflict. The 65-year-old was on Monday found guilty of accepting
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Cameroon's President Paul Biya, Africa's oldest leader, has easily won a seventh term, according to the Constitutional Council. Biya, 85, won 71.3 percent of the October 7 vote, far
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Relations between Italy and France hit a new low this week, with Rome accusing French border guards of illegally crossing the border to "dump" unwelcome migrants inside Italian
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DAMASCUS: Some people in the Syrian capital Damascus have been able to enjoy a semblance of normality since fighting in the area ended in May, but in the
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ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, French President Emmanuel Macron, and Russian President Vladimir Putin are expected to attend a critical four-way summit on
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Israeli forces have shot dead a Palestinian man in the city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank after he allegedly tried to stab an Israeli soldier, Palestinian
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Russia has warned US President Donald Trump's push to withdraw from a landmark anti-proliferation weapons deal could spark a new arms race between Moscow and Washington. Kremlin spokesperson
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