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In Malta, the family of a journalist killed in a car bombing one year ago wants to know if the government played role in her death and are
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BEIRUT: Amnesty International on Monday condemned the US-led coalition’s failure to acknowledge and investigate its role in civilian killings during the battle a year ago to oust militants
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BEIRUT: Amnesty International on Monday condemned the US-led coalition’s failure to acknowledge and investigate its role in civilian killings during the battle a year ago to oust militants
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BEIRUT: The Assad regime renewed its threat on Monday to launch an offensive in Idlib province in northwest Syria after militants defied a Russia-Turkey deal for them to
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A court in Bahrain has sentenced seven people to prison, stripping six of their nationality after finding the group guilty of attacking an oil pipeline last year. Five
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The disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi has put the spotlight on Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, or MBS. Since he outmaneuvered his rivals to become
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Senator Elizabeth Warren says President Donald Trump's comment about him personally administering a DNA test to her to prove her Native American heritage is "creepy". Warren, who is
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BEIRUT: The Assad regime renewed its threat on Monday to launch an offensive in Idlib province in northwest Syria after militants defied a Russia-Turkey deal for them to
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JEDDAH: Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi received OIC Secretary-General Dr. Yousef bin Ahmad Al-Othaimeen in Cairo on Monday. Al-Othaimeen is head of a Saudi delegation in the Egyptian capital,
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ANKARA: Turkey has dismissed 259 local officials for suspected links to terrorist groups or unsuitable behavior, the government said on Monday, a move the pro-Kurdish opposition said was
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The Catholic archdiocese of Washington divulged on Monday the names of 31 former clergy accused of being involved in the abuse of minors over the past 70 years,
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Billionaire Paul Allen, who founded US software giant Microsoft with Bill Gates in the 1970s, died on Monday at the age of 65 after his latest battle with
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A senior Greek official has described the way the government buys migration-related services as "chaos," after Greece's top court ordered an inquiry into the handling of European Union
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Lebanon rejects Syrian conditions on its trucks' transit through Nassib border crossing BEIRUT: Lebanese government sources confirmed to Arab News that it "will not coordinate with the Syrian
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ADEN: At least one person was killed when tropical storm Luban slammed into the southern coasts of Oman and neighboring Yemen, Omani civil defense said Monday.The man was
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JERUSALEM: Israeli troops on Monday shot and killed a Palestinian man who allegedly tried to stab a soldier in the northern West Bank, the military said.The military said
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Turkish police investigators have entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, nearly two weeks after the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. The proposed search of the consulate on Monday
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In the largest schism in Orthodox Christianity for over a century, the Russian Orthodox Church has cut all ties with the Constantinople Patriarchate over a "historic" decision to recognise
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Tunis, Tunisia - When Ghofrane Binous was a child, she was told she was dirty because her skin was black. Binous, now a flight attendant with Tunisia's national
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ANKARA: Turkey has dismissed 259 local officials for suspected links to terrorist groups or unsuitable behavior, the government said on Monday, a move the pro-Kurdish opposition said was
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PARIS: The United States is still aiming to cut Iran's oil sales to zero and does not foresee the re-imposition of oil sanctions against Tehran on Nov. 4
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ANKARA: An individual who claimed to have links to Daesh threatened to attack the Iranian embassy in Ankara, Tehran’s envoy in Turkey said on Monday, denying Turkish media
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Britain's Prime Minister Theresa May says a deal for the UK's withdrawal from the European Union is still within reach. May was speaking to parliament after Brexit negotiations
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A Qatari human rights group is demanding Saudi Arabia disclose the whereabouts of four Qatari citizens who were forcibly disappeared in the neighbouring kingdom in separate cases since
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US President Donald Trump has stepped back from condemning Saudi Arabia over its alleged involvement in the disappearance of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi in the Saudi consulate in
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RAQA, Syria: Shattered ultrasound machines and prosthetic limbs litter the hallways of Raqqa’s main hospital, still gutted a year after Daesh made its infamous last stand in its
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India's junior foreign minister MJ Akbar has filed a defamation suit against one of at least 10 women who have accused the former editor of sexual harrasment. The
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