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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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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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On November 6, voters across the United States will head to the ballot box in elections slated as a test for right-wing President Donald Trump. The midterm elections
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A week after his mysterious disappearance at Saudi Arabia's consulate in Turkey, US leaders are voicing their fears for Jamal Khashoggi. US President Donald Trump has said he
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People are fleeing the city of Derna, which is besieged by a self-declared army battling to control the oil-rich region. Many families are now in Tripoli seeking help,
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BEIRUT: The Syrian government has announced an amnesty for men who deserted the army or have avoided military service, giving them several months to report for duty without
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Pakistan's navy is no longer part of the counterpiracy Combined Task Force (CTF) that operates in the western Indian Ocean, officials told Al Jazeera. The decision to leave
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Over the past year, East Africa has seen an unprecedented flurry of political developments that are changing dramatically the political landscape in the region. Eritrea has emerged out
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The iconic Sydney Opera House was lit up as a giant billboard to promote the world’s richest horse race, the Everest, on Sunday. But protesters against animal cruelty
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BAGHDAD: Iraq’s prime minister designate Adel Abdel Mahdi launched a website on Tuesday to allow candidates to apply for a ministerial position online as he struggles to form
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BEIJING: A vessel carrying 2 million barrels of Iranian oil discharged the crude into a bonded storage tank at the port of Dalian in northeast China on Monday,
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BEIJING: A vessel carrying 2 million barrels of Iranian oil discharged the crude into a bonded storage tank at the port of Dalian in northeast China on Monday,
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Istanbul, Turkey – Saudi Arabia will allow Turkish authorities to search the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, the Turkish foreign ministry said, a week after the disappearance of Saudi journalist
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US President Donald Trump has accepted Nikki Haley's resignation as US ambassador to the United Nations, saying she would be leaving his administration at the end of the
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Khashoggi vanished after entering the Saudi consulate in Istanbul last week and Turkish officials have said he was murdered inside the building. Riyadh denies that, claiming he left
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ANKARA: Turkish authorities detained 90 people on Tuesday over suspected links to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) militant group, the Interior Ministry said.The operation across eight provinces
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DUBAI: Colonel Turki Al-Maliki, spokesman for the Saudi-led Arab coalition, said that the Houthis were causing problems that were directly affecting the Yemeni economy, Saudi news channel Al-Ekhbariya
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A suicide bomber has struck an election meeting in Afghanistan's Helmand province, killing at least eight people, including a candidate for the upcoming parliamentary elections, a provincial official said. Saleh
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The United Nations human rights office has called on Turkey and Saudi Arabia to properly investigate the fate of prominent Saudi journalist and regime critic Jamal Khashoggi, who vanished
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The death toll from Indonesia's earthquake and tsunami has climbed past 2,000, as authorities prepare to end the search for thousands of victims feared buried in mud and rubble
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DUBAI: The southern coastal cities of Oman and Yemen are bracing themselves for a battering as Tropical Storm Luban heads their way just months after Cyclone Mekunu left
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ISTANBUL: They are among Istanbul’s most iconic sights — magnificent waterside mansions strung out along the Bosphorus as the waters of the strait dividing Europe and Asia lap
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ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan named several of his advisers and a theology professor to a new economic policy committee, as the country seeks to reassure foreign investors
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The disappearance and possible killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi last week inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul has thrown a new challenge to Saudi-Turkish diplomatic relations, analysts
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With a week to go until long-delayed parliamentary elections, Awrang Zib Zierak, a 38-year-old labourer in Afghanistan's capital city of Kabul, has decided to vote despite concerns about
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A couple, detained in Mexico while transporting human body parts in a baby carriage, has admitted to killing 20 people, twice the number originally suspected. Under interrogation, the
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JERUSALEM: Aqal passes to Aqal, who finds Aqal in space out wide. He squares to Aqal, who smashes home a strike, sending the crowd of yet more family
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