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The release of the latest report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change was designed to define the impacts of global warming reaching 1.5 degrees Celsius. It also
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MOSCOW: More than 1,000 militants have left a demilitarised zone in Syria’s rebel-held region of Idlib, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova told reporters on Wednesday.Russia and Turkey
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DUBAI: Oman is on alert after the meteorology center upgraded Luban to tropical cyclone category one on Wednesday while Yemen issued a warning. Oman is likely to escape the
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BENI MELLAL: A 17-year-old Moroccan girl whose alleged gang rape and forcible tattooing sparked a public outcry has confronted in court the only minor among the 12 suspects
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A massive corruption scandal has engulfed Belgian football as authorities carried out dozens of police raids in the country and around Europe in a vast probe into financial
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Jamal Khashoggi entered the Saudi counsulate in Istanbul on October 2 to obtain a document certifying he had divorced his ex-wife, only to never be seen since. Turkish
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Hurricane Michael made landfall on Florida's Panhandle as a "monstrous" Category-4 storm on Wednesday, bringing with it life-threatening winds, catastrophic storm surges and heavy rain. The National Hurricane
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Myanmar police have arrested three journalists after their paper criticised the financial management of Yangon's government, which is overseen by a protege of leader Aung San Suu Kyi.
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Globally, mental ill health is becoming more prevalent and government health budgets struggling to cope. According to the World Health Organization, by 2030, depression will be the world's
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Top Saudi leaders deployed a 15-man hit squad to lie in wait for dissident writer Jamal Khashoggi inside Riyadh's consulate in Istanbul, The New York Times said in
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DUBAI: Oman is likely to escape the worst of tropical storm Luban, and will probably head towards Yemen instead, Omani forecasters said on Wednesday. But as it heads
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DUBAI: Oman is likely to escape the worst of tropical storm Luban, and will probably head towards Yemen instead, Omani forecasters said on Wednesday. But as it heads
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CAIRO: Egyptian security forces killed 10 militants in a “pre-emptive strike” against extremist strongholds in the Sinai Peninsula on Tuesday. Police said they raided an abandoned farm near
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Former Guatemala Vice President Roxana Baldetti has been sentenced to 15 years in prison for her involvement in a multi-million dollar fraud case. The court found Baldetti, 56,
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Maldives President Abdulla Yameen has filed a court challenge against his election loss, citing a "lot of complaints from supporters", according to a lawyer. The complaint was filed
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After months of delays, Iraq finally has a new president and prime minister. The new leadership faces major challenges with a disgruntled Iraqi public. Prime Minister Adel Abdul
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BAGHDAD: Forming a government in Iraq is never easy. There are endless negotiations, hand-written letters are passed between partners and rivals, while aides shuffle between Baghdad’s party headquarters.
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Dhaka, Bangladesh - A Dhaka court has handed down death penalty to 19 people, including two former ministers, and sentenced a top opposition leader to life imprisonment over a
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Fifty people have been killed in a bus accident in western Kenya early on Wednesday, authorities said. Witnesses and police on Wednesday said the bus swerved off the
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The capital of China's Xinjiang region, home to the mostly Muslim Uighur minority, has launched a campaign against halal products to stop Islam penetrating secular life and increasing
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BEIRUT: Militants and Turkish-backed opposition in Syria’s last major opposition stronghold have withdrawn most of their heavy weapons from a planned buffer zone ahead of a Wednesday deadline,
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BEIRUT: Militants and Turkish-backed opposition in Syria’s last major opposition stronghold have withdrawn most of their heavy weapons from a planned buffer zone ahead of a Wednesday deadline,
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DUBAI: Syria’s wheat crop this year was the smallest in three decades as war and drought cut production by around 30 percent, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization
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Rescue workers in Indonesia stepped up their search on Wednesday for victims of a catastrophic earthquake and tsunami, hoping to find as many bodies as they can before
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Qatari-bought fuel arrived at the Gaza Strip's only power station after entering through Israel, sources said, in a bid to alleviate conditions in the besieged enclave and stem
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Police in Bulgaria have said a suspect will be released without charge in the murder case of Viktoria Marinova, a journalist who was raped and killed earlier this
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NIAMEY: Algeria must immediately stop collective expulsions of African migrants across its border with Niger, a UN report said, after rights groups accused Algiers of rounding up and
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