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The wife of former Malaysian prime minister Najib Razak was charged with 17 offences, including money-laundering, as anti-graft agents investigate billions of dollars missing from state coffers. Rosmah
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Peru's former authoritarian president Alberto Fujimori was transported by ambulance to a local clinic after a judge annulled a pardon granted to him last year and ordered his
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It has been 33 years since Brazil's military government gave up power and democratic elections were held. And it's been 30 years since the country returned to democracy
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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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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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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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Washington, DC - In one of the most divisive political battles of President Donald Trump's presidency, US Republicans are moving forward with a risky showdown vote on the Supreme
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A prominent Saudi journalist and former royal family adviser has criticised the government's crackdown on Saudi intellectuals and journalists, lamenting that the kingdom will never become democratic under
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has branded former double agent Sergei Skripal "a traitor" and "scumbag", saying Moscow knew he had cooperated with foreign intelligence after his release in
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CAIRO: A Facebook page has helped reunite hundreds of Egyptian families with their missing children as concern increases about child welfare. Ramy El-Gebaly founded the Missing Children page
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GAZA: A Palestinian teenager was killed on Wednesday when a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during a border protest hit him in the head, Gaza health
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GAZA: A Palestinian teenager was killed on Wednesday when a tear gas canister fired by Israeli troops during a border protest hit him in the head, Gaza health
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Jeff Bezos' space company is in the conceptual design phase of a large lunar lander that it says will provide reusable access to the moon's surface and its
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US President Donald Trump drew strong criticism from both Republicans and Democrats after mocking Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexually assaulting her decades ago. At
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A Palestinian teenager was killed by an Israeli gas canister that was fired at a protest along the enclave's northern border with Israel, Gaza's health authorities said. Ministry spokesper
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Amnesty International slams ‘sickening’ execution of domestic and sexual violence victim in Iran LONDON: Amnesty International have responded to reports that a 24-year-old Kurdish woman was executed on
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JEDDAH: The Arab Coalition in Yemen has succeeded in securing the transfer of two sons of former Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh from Sanaa to Jordan, Saudi state
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CAIRO: The UN children's agency on Wednesday suspended cash transfers to 9 million of Yemen's most impoverished citizens under pressure from Yemen's Houthi rebels. The move comes at
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Cristiano Ronaldo has denied the accusations of rape against him, saying Wednesday that he had a "clear conscience" as he awaits the conclusions of an investigation. The 33-year-old
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Saudi and Turkish officials have made conflicting statements on the whereabouts of a prominent journalist who has reportedly gone missing while visiting the Saudi consulate in Istanbul. Jamal Khashoggi,
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has announced that the US is withdrawing from a 1955 treaty with Iran, just hours after the UN's highest court ordered Washington to
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BAGHDAD: The veteran secular Kurdish politician Barham Salih was elected on Tuesday as Iraq’s next president. Salih, of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), faced a challenge from Fuad Hussein
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BEIRUT: Syria’s foreign minister said a deal to create a demilitarised zone in a northwestern rebel stronghold was a step toward “liberating” the territory, in comments aired Tuesday.“We
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The South African government is being urged to do more to tackle drug gangs by communities who say increased policing is not nearly enough. Al Jazeera's Fahmida Miller
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New information about a corrupt police unit of the Baltimore Police Department (BPD) that was able to rob and steal with impunity for at least a decade has
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An India-led coalition of nations aims to harness solar energy, which it says will eventually replace the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil cartel. "The role of
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GAZA: It’s nearly 10 p.m. when young Palestinian men begin banging drums and chanting songs, while others attach incendiary devices to balloons — all closely watched by Israeli
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