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JERUSALEM: When Israel locked up Ahed Tamimi for slapping a soldier last year, it hoped to finally silence the teenage Palestinian activist. Instead, it created an international celebrity.Less
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BEIRUT: An offensive by US-backed forces against Daesh’s last redoubt in eastern Syria killed 35 militants on Saturday, a Britain-based war monitor said.Twenty-eight Daesh members were killed in
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Kabul, Afghanistan - Polls have closed in Afghanistan's long-awaited parliamentary elections, with large numbers of voters defying deadly attacks to cast their ballots. Most polling stations in the
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Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist who wrote critically of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (also known as MBS), entered Saudi Arabia's consulate in Istanbul on October 2. He was
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The Maldives' top court has rejected a bid by outgoing President Abdulla Yameen to annul results of a presidential election held in September. The Supreme Court threw out
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JERUSALEM: When Israel locked up Ahed Tamimi for slapping a soldier last year, it hoped to finally silence the teenage Palestinian activist. Instead, it created an international celebrity.Less
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JERUSALEM: Israel ordered the country’s goods and people border crossings with Gaza to be opened on Sunday, just four days after shuttering them following a Palestinian rocket attack
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RAFAH, Palestinian Territories: Separated from the impatient crowd by a flimsy barrier, Palestinian policemen read out names, their voices barely audible above the din.Those called file forward, relieved
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Israel has announced it was putting on hold the demolition of a Palestinian Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank for a "short, fixed period of time". In
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Bangkok, Thailand - Every evening Bangkok's Khaosan Road comes alive as bars open, blaring music to tourists and Thais on the hunt for cheap eats and drink. Mobile
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Trump said he was not satisfied with Saudi Arabia's explanation of Jamal Khashoggi's death, but did not condemn them either. Trump insisted that halting an arms deal with
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BEIRUT: Daesh has released two women and four children among 27 surviving Druze hostages it seized during a deadly July attack on the minority community’s heartland in southern
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Sao Paulo - Brazil's turbulent election enters its final phase with far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro poised for victory amid a high-profile fake-news scandal and an uptick of reports
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Saud al-Qahtani was fired as Saudi Arabia's royal court adviser on Saturday, Saudi state media reported. The announcement came as the kingdom's state media said the missing journalist Jamal
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Not much is known about the solar system's smallest and least-explored planet, Mercury. Scientists are hoping to change that. The key to their plan is the BepiColombo, a
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BEIRUT: By reopening a key land crossing with Jordan this month, the Syrian regime is inching toward a return to trade with the wider region as it looks
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BEIRUT: Syrian toddler Luay happily explores his grandfather’s modest house near Damascus for the first time. After years as refugees in Lebanon, the three-year-old and his family have
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BEIRUT: By reopening a key land crossing with Jordan this month, the Syrian regime is inching toward a return to trade with the wider region as it looks
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Esquipulas, Guatemala - Reina Madrid breaks down in tears when she mentions her children. She left them with her sister Thursday afternoon to join a caravan of Honduran
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Saudi Arabia says Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in Istanbul. The announcement was made on Saudi state TV in the middle of the night - 17
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Thousands of people have rallied in Taiwan's capital to call for a referendum on independence, in the first major protest calling for a popular vote since the self-ruling
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After more than two weeks of denials, Saudi Arabia on Saturday admitted that journalist Jamal Khashoggi was killed inside its consulate in the Turkish city of Istanbul. In
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Scores of protesters gathered in Jordan's capital Amman on Saturday, calling for constitutional reform and the establishment of parliamentary democracy in the country. Led by members of the
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The United States is going to unilaterally withdraw from a decades-old treaty with Russia that bans a wide array of nuclear weapons, US President Donald Trump has said. The
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Five journalists arrested by the police in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) have been released after 12 hours of interrogation. The journalists were picked up on Friday
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Tanzanian tycoon Mohammed Dewji, who was kidnapped a week ago in Tanzania's economic capital Dar es Salam, has returned home unharmed. Dubbed as Africa's youngest billionaire, the 43-year-old
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Sao Paulo - Brazil's turbulent election enters its final phase with far-right candidate Jair Bolsonaro poised for victory amid a high-profile fake-news scandal and an uptick of reports
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