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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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The leader of the Gaza-based Islamist group Hamas has said that another war in the Gaza Strip is "definitely not in our interest." Hebrew daily Yedioth Ahronoth and
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A Chicago jury convicted a white police officer of second-degree murder in the 2014 shooting of Laquan McDonald, a 17-year-old African American. Jason Van Dyke shot McDonald 16
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Rwandan opposition activist and former presidential candidate Diane Rwigara has been released on bail after spending more than a year in jail on charges including inciting insurrection against
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Yemen has been at war for more than three years now. The region's poorest country has been reduced to even further misery as the Saudi-Emirati coalition continues to
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MADRID: Madrid and Rabat are in talks to repatriate thousands of Moroccan minors who arrived in Spain alone without their parents, a Spanish interior ministry spokesman said Friday.The
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MADRID: Madrid and Rabat are in talks to repatriate thousands of Moroccan minors who arrived in Spain alone without their parents, a Spanish interior ministry spokesman said Friday.The
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LONDON: A woman was killed and 11 people were injured on Friday after the Houthi militia attacked the Bani Jaber camp for the displaced in Al-Khokha, Hodeidah governorate. Three missiles launched by
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Thousands of women and children captured after the defeat of ISIL in Iraq are being held in detention facilities. Human Rights Watch is urging nations to repatriate their
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Christine Blasey Ford has accused US Supreme Court nominee, Brett Kavanaugh, of sexually assaulting her when they were teenagers. According to Ford, Kavanaugh groped her and tried to
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Hungary has ordered a Ukrainian consul to leave the country within 72 hours amid an escalating diplomatic row over Ukraine's proposed language laws and Hungary's issuance of passports to
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New Delhi, India - The India-Russia ties have received a boost with a $5bn deal that will see New Delhi buy an S-400 air defence system from Moscow
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Colombia is planning to evict hundreds of Venezuelan migrants who set up camp in the capital, Bogota. The city is struggling to cope with the sudden influx of
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New Zealand's enforcement of a law under which visitors can be fined up to $3,200 if they refuse to give access to their electronic devices has been termed
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NEW YORK: The Security Council has renewed for a year UN member states’ authorization to inspect vessels off Libya suspected of smuggling migrants between Africa and Europe. Proposed
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Denis Mukwege, a gynaecologist treating victims of sexual violence in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Yazadi human rights activist Nadia Murad have been awarded the 2018 Nobel Peace
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Iran is facing growing domestic and international pressure as US sanctions on oil exports are about to take effect amid increasingly visible public discontent with the ruling elite.
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Meteorologists in Oman are on alert as forecast models predict the development of a tropical cyclone in the Arabian Sea that is expected to make landfall later this
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NEW TORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he hopes for the “swift” formation of an “inclusive” Iraqi government following the election of the country’s president. “The secretary-general hopes
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BEIRUT: The clock is ticking to implement a Russian-Turkish deal for the Syrian opposition region of Idlib, but its terms remain hazy and little has changed on the
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BEIRUT: The clock is ticking to implement a Russian-Turkish deal for the Syrian opposition region of Idlib, but its terms remain hazy and little has changed on the
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China angrily denounced on Friday renewed US allegations that it was interfering in upcoming American midterm elections. In a wide-ranging speech delivered on Thursday night, US Vice President
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Chicago, Illinois - A jury in Chicago began its deliberation on Thursday in one of the most closely-watched murder trials in recent memory in a city riven by
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Eight years ago, a photo of the brutalised body of Khaled Said, a young man from the Egyptian port city of Alexandria, went viral on social media. Said
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NEW YORK: The Security Council has renewed for a year UN member states’ authorization to inspect vessels off Libya suspected of smuggling migrants between Africa and Europe. Proposed
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NEW TORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he hopes for the “swift” formation of an “inclusive” Iraqi government following the election of the country’s president. “The secretary-general hopes
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NEW TORK: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said he hopes for the “swift” formation of an “inclusive” Iraqi government following the election of the country’s president. “The secretary-general hopes
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