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The death toll in Indonesia's twin quake-tsunami disaster climbed to 1,558 with time running out to rescue survivors a week after the twin disasters struck. Residents on Sulawesi
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It was described as a watershed moment when, last year, tens of millions of people from around the world shared their personal stories of sexual harassment, assault and
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has arrived in India for a two-day visit during which Moscow is expected to ink a weapons deal worth billions of dollars, despite threat of sanctions by
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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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IRBIL, Iraq: The ruling Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) was leading in a parliamentary election in the semi-autonomous Kurdistan Region of Iraq with 85 percent of votes counted, 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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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - About 147 million Brazilians will head to polls on Sunday in highly polarised presidential and congressional elections. At stake, is the presidency and more than
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Jerusalem's mayor has said he plans to remove a United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees from the city to "end the lie of the Palestinian refugee problem". Nir Barkat
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Lebanon will have a new government within a week or ten days and the economy cannot withstand any more delay, Prime Minister-designate Saad al-Hariri said in a television
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Cristiano Ronaldo has been left out of Portugal's national squad for a series of upcoming matches, as the football star faces a lawsuit over an alleged rape in
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In a series of coordinated announcements, authorities in the US, UK, the Netherlands and Australia have accused the Russian military intelligence agency GRU of a huge array of
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Help is not arriving fast enough for some communities that have been largely cut off on Sulawesi Island. Almost 71,000 people have been displaced, many in coastal areas
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JERUSALEM: Israel said it was reinforcing troops around the Gaza Strip on Thursday as a precaution against incursions by Palestinians during violent protests along the border that have
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JERUSALEM: Israel said it was reinforcing troops around the Gaza Strip on Thursday as a precaution against incursions by Palestinians during violent protests along the border that have
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DUBAI: Saudi Arabia, Kuwait and the United Arab Emirates will soon sign an agreement to provide up to $10 billion of financial support to Bahrain, Kuwait’s Al Rai
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Turkey's foreign ministry summoned Saudi Arabia's ambassador to Ankara over the disappearance of journalist Jamal Khashoggi after he entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul two days ago. Turkish diplomatic
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The US Department of Justice is charging seven Russian military intelligence officials over the alleged hacking of doping agencies and other organisations. The officials were indicted for conspiring to
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The Dutch defence minister has said the Netherlands disrupted a Russian hacking attack and expelled four Russian intelligence officers. In April, authorities disrupted an attempt by Russian intelligence
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Costa Rica President Carlos Alvarado faced the scorn of protesters that tried to stop him leaving a theatre as nationwide protests against a proposed tax reform enter a fourth week.
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India's Supreme Court has allowed the first deportations of Rohingya Muslims to Myanmar since the federal government ordered their identification last year. On Thursday, the country's top court
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ISIL no longer holds towns and cities, but its fighters still operate in the desert regions around the Iraq-Syria border. Iraq's military has launched another offensive to target
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ANKARA: Four Turkish soldiers were killed and five others were wounded after a roadside bomb in the southeastern province of Batman was detonated by Kurdish militants, the local
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ANKARA: Four Turkish soldiers were killed and five others were wounded after a roadside bomb in the southeastern province of Batman was detonated by Kurdish militants, the local
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Indian police bused seven Rohingya to the border on Wednesday to be deported to neighbouring Myanmar for illegal entry, officials and activists said, the first such move against the
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JEDDAH/THE HAGUE: Iran failed on Wednesday to persuade the UN’s highest court to overturn punishing US economic sanctions that have brought the country’s economy to its knees. The
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DUBAI: Across the world, countries locked out of purchasing US-made drones are being wooed by Chinese arms dealers, who are world’s main distributors of armed drones. “The Chinese
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BAGHDAD: She was a 22-year-old former beauty queen, fashion model and social media star, whose daring outfits revealed tattoos on her arms and shoulder. Tara Fares won fame
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