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BEIRUT: After being nearly defeated on the battlefields of its would-be caliphate, Daesh has reverted to what it was before its spectacular conquests in 2014, analysts say —
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Four new sports have been added to this year's Summer Youth Games, helping keep the Olympics 'relevant' to youth.
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A global partnership of scientists is building the first prototype nuclear fusion reactor in southeast France. At a cost of at least $24bn, the project could be the
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An Israeli court has upheld a ban on an American student refused entry to the country over her alleged support for the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions Movement (BDS). Lara
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US-based Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, a well-known critic of Saudi Arabia and its leadership, went missing in Turkey on October 2. US and Turkish officials have now been
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Athens, Greece - When the trial of Greece's far-right Golden Dawn party kicked off on April 20, 2015, it was expected to span some 18 months. But three-and-a-half years later,
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Several US media organisations and business leaders have pulled out a major Saudi investment conference over the disappearance and suspected murder of Jamal Khashoggi, as global pressure for
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GAZA CITY: The Israeli military killed seven Palestinians during protests in Gaza on Friday as the defense minster ordered an "immediate" halt to fuel deliveries to the territory. The deaths
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JERUSALEM: Israeli forces detained a Palestinian suspected of stabbing and wounding a soldier but a manhunt continued for a second Palestinian who shot dead two Israeli civilians, the
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Erdogan renews threat of another Syria incursion as Kurdish militia still in Manbij ISTANBUL/AFRIN,Syria: The Turkish president is suggesting that Turkey’s military could soon launch a new operation
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Humanitarian workers are struggling to calm community fears in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, where 125 people have died from Ebola, and cases of the virus are spreading
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An American pastor has flown out of Turkey after he was released by a Turkish court following two years in detention. Andrew Brunson, whose detention caused a diplomatic
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Israel's Defence Minister Avigdor Lieberman has ordered an immediate halt to fuel deliveries headed to the besieged Gaza Strip in response to what he said were attacks against
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PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron said on Friday it was not clear whether a foiled attack on a Paris-based Iranian opposition group was ordered by the higher echelons
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GAZA CITY: The Israeli military killed six Palestinians during protests in Gaza on Friday as the defense minster ordered an "immediate" halt to fuel deliveries to the territory. The deaths
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JERUSALEM: Israeli forces detained a Palestinian suspected of stabbing and wounding a soldier but a manhunt continued for a second Palestinian who shot dead two Israeli civilians, the
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UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has visited the Indonesian city of Palu to assess the impact of the earthquake and tsunami, as the World Bank announced $5m in financial
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Several US media organisations and business leaders have pulled out a major Saudi investment conference over the disappearance and suspected murder of Jamal Khashoggi, as global pressure for
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At least half a million people in Kenya are blind or visually impaired. The high cost of seeking treatment in a hospital or with an MD means many
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GAZA CITY: Mohammed Al-Hamaydeh is sorting through a large pile of clothes for something that suits him in Firas, a second-hand market in Gaza City. Such clothes markets
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A Turkish court on Friday ordered the release of American pastor Andrew Brunson, who has been held for the last two years in Turkey, in a case that
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Hundreds of Bulgarians queued silently at a church on Friday in Ruse to pay their last respects to Viktoria Marinova, the television journalist whose brutal rape and murder
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At the UN General Assembly last month, Iran and the United States were involved in "a war of words". But behind the scenes, there was a rare case
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YARMUK, Syria: Not far from where he used to live, Palestinian engineer Mahmud Khaled watched as bulldozers rumbled back and forth scooping up smashed concrete from the devastated
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ALIAGA, Turkey: The trial of an American pastor at the heart of a diplomatic dispute between Turkey and the United States resumes Friday in Turkey, with observers waiting
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IRBIL, Iraq: A joint task force of US coalition and Iraqi special forces has arrested 10 suspected members of a network that provided funding for Daesh in Baghdad
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An American pastor whose detention for the past two years by Turkey sparked a crisis in ties with the United States went back on trial on Friday with
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