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DUBAI: Forecasters say a tropical depression 1,040 km off the coast of southern Oman has developed into a tropical cyclone. But the India Meteorological Department warned it could
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DAMASCUS: Syria’s President Bashar Assad on Sunday said that a Russia-Turkey deal for the last major rebel bastion of Idlib was a “temporary measure,” state news agency SANA
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DUBAI: Forecasters say a tropical depression 1,040 km off the coast of southern Oman has developed into a tropical cyclone. But the India Meteorological Department warned it could
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A Romanian referendum aimed at changing the definition of marriage to exclude same-sex couples has failed after turnout fell well below the threshold. Final results, published on Monday,
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Hundreds of thousands of children are suffering acute malnutrition because of the war in Yemen. Two weeks ago, we reported how two-year-old Bassam Hassan's parents in the Houthi-controlled
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The 2018 Nobel Prize for economics has been awarded to US economists William Nordhaus and Paul Romer for integrating innovation and climate with economic growth. Nordhaus, a professor at Yale
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SWEIDA, Syria: Maysoun Saab’s eyes filled with tears as she recalled finding her parents bleeding to death on the ground outside their home, minutes after they were shot
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Muslim World League head urges faith leaders to travel to Jerusalem seeking peace AMMAN: In an unprecedented move, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Issa, secretary-general of the Muslim World League (MWL),
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The US Senate is expected to confirm Brett Kavanaugh as the next Supreme Court judge, offering President Donald Trump a big political win and tilting the nation's high
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The Chinese government has remained tight-lipped on the disappearance of International Criminal Political Investigation (Interpol) Chief Meng Hongwei on a trip to China. His disappearance was made public on
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Two Cameroonian opposition parties have agreed to form a coalition in an effort to dislodge six-term President Paul Biya in Sunday's presidential polls. The announcement on Friday confirms
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JERUSALEM: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has been sidelined, isolated and humiliated by the US administration. But the embattled Palestinian leader may have the final say in determining the
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Muslim World League head urges faith leaders to travel to Jerusalem seeking peace AMMAN: In an unprecedented move, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Issa, secretary-general of the Muslim World League (MWL),
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TUNIS: Tunisia’s presidency on Friday announced the extension of the country’s state of emergency, imposed in 2015 following a series of deadly extremist attacks.The decision to prolong the
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US President Donald Trump has described the signing of a new free trade deal with Mexico and Canada as signalling "a new dawn" for Americans and the return
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One year ago separatists, who control the Catalan regional government, held what they called a binding referendum on Catalan independence. Spain's central government in the capital, Madrid, rejected
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Christine Blasey Ford has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her when they were both teenagers. Ford and Kavanaugh testified separately in front of the
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BEIRUT: The families of Druze hostages held by Daesh rallied for a third day on Friday to demand action by the Syrian regime to free them, witnesses said.
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BEIRUT: The families of Druze hostages held by Daesh rallied for a third day on Friday to demand action by the Syrian regime to free them, witnesses said.
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BEIRUT: The families of Druze hostages held by Daesh rallied for a third day on Friday to demand action by the Syrian regime to free them, witnesses said.
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Sitting in a small and airless living room on the edge of northern Rio de Janeiro's winding Acari favela, Christian Lucas Fonseca's mother says she
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Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has welcomed Turkey to search the Saudi consulate in Istanbul following the disapperance of prominent journalist Jamal Khashoggi who entered the mission earlier
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Saudi Arabian Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has praised the kingdom's relationship with the current US administration just days after President Donald Trump warned that the Middle East
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ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said he would consider putting Turkey’s long-stalled bid to join the EU to a referendum, signalling exasperation with a process he says has
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WASHINGTON: Former secretary of state John Kerry voiced fear Friday of conflict with Iran after the United States pulled out of a denuclearization deal, saying regional leaders had
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Muslim World League head urges faith leaders to travel to Jerusalem seeking peace AMMAN: In an unprecedented move, Sheikh Mohammed Al-Issa, secretary-general of the Muslim World League (MWL),
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Sao Paulo - All eyes are fixed on Brazil's presidential election that latest polls suggest will go to a second round run-off between far right Jair Bolsonaro and
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