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Chancellor Angela Merkel's Bavarian allies suffered their worst election result since 1950 on Sunday, bleeding votes to the far-right in a setback that immediately raised tensions within Germany's
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In Democratic Republic of Congo, about six million children are affected by conflict, many of them in North Kivu in the country's east. Now, this same province is
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AMMAN: Jordan’s King Abdullah II has opened the country’s third ordinary session of parliament and delivered a speech during which he vowed to crack down on corruption. The
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El-ARISH, Egypt: The Egyptian military says commercial truck traffic with Israel has resumed via a border crossing in the Sinai Peninsula that had been shut down amid the insurgency
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YARMOUK, Syria: The Yarmouk district in Damascus has switched hands many times in Syria’s war: from rebels, to Daesh militants, and back to government forces. But Abu Nimr
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Researchers are warning teachers and clinicians are mistaking immaturity in the classroom for attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder or ADHD. A global study shows the youngest children in a classroom are
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The United Kingdom, France and Germany have called on Saudi and Turkish authorities "to provide a complete and detailed response" to the disappearance of prominent Saudi journalist and
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Jordan and Syria have agreed to reopen a vital border crossing between the two countries, three years after the commercial lifeline fell to rebel groups and traffic was
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The United States is seeking “regime change” in Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday, adding that the current US administration is the most hostile that the Islamic
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The United States is seeking “regime change” in Iran, President Hassan Rouhani said on Sunday, adding that the current US administration is the most hostile that the Islamic
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BEIRUT: Hard-line fighters have yet to begin withdrawing from a planned buffer zone in northwestern Syria, a monitor and an AFP correspondent said Sunday on the eve of
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Some say its an architectural "jewel in the crown" of an ancient port in Israel. But the Khan al-Umdan - in the old city of Acre - has
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US President Donald Trump points to a soaring stock market and record-low unemployment as evidence his leadership has been good for the country. He says he is delivering
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Bosnia and Herzegovina is on the verge of a political crisis as anti-EU, anti-NATO and pro-Russia Serb nationalist candidate Milorad Dodik is about to take the presidency of
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Rebel fighters have fired mortar shells from a planned buffer zone in northwestern Syria, despite an apparent heavy arms pullout days earlier, according to a monitoring group. The
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Tashkent, Uzbekistan - On September 25, friendly staff at Uzbekistan's Supreme Court warmly greeted dozens of guests, among them journalists, foreign diplomats and members of the international community,
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Pope Francis has made saints of two of the most contentious Roman Catholic figures of the 20th century: assassinated Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero and Pope Paul VI, who
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GAZA CITY: Palestinians in the Gaza Strip spoke of their despair on Saturday after Israel halted a deal to supply fuel to generate electricity. Thousands of liters of
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GAZA CITY: Palestinians in the Gaza Strip spoke of their despair on Saturday after Israel halted a deal to supply fuel to generate electricity. Thousands of liters of
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DJERBA, Tunisia: Tunisian fishermen saw the blue crab wreak such havoc on their catches when it first appeared that they nicknamed it after the terrifying jihadists of the
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Venezuelan authorities have freed a prominent opposition activist jailed for four years just days after an anti-government politician died in state custody. Lorent Saleh, 30, was immediately escorted
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US President Donald Trump has welcomed freed US pastor Andrew Brunson at the White House, hours after he arrived in Washington back home from Turkey following two years in
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US President Donald Trump has said "severe punishment" awaits Saudi Arabia if the alleged murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul turns out to
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GAZA CITY: Palestinians in the Gaza Strip spoke of their despair on Saturday after Israel halted a deal to supply fuel to generate electricity. Thousands of liters of
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NEW CAIRO: It was supposed to offer a more desirable way of life away from the Egyptian capital’s crowds, traffic and pollution. Affluent Egyptians could pay some of
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NEW CAIRO: It was supposed to offer a more desirable way of life away from the Egyptian capital’s crowds, traffic and pollution. Affluent Egyptians could pay some of
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San Salvador - Nearly four decades after his assassination, Father Oscar Romero, the former Archbishop of San Salvador who was killed by suspected right-wing paramilitaries in 1980, will
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