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ISTANBUL: Turkish police detained 280 suspects in a money-laundering investigation into the transfer of about 2.5 billion lira ($419 million) worth of foreign currency to bank accounts abroad,
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New Delhi, India - Activists are calling for police reforms following a shooting in which a police officer killed an Apple executive in the state of Uttar Pradesh
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An anti-money laundering body in the Maldives has informed police that President Abdulla Yameen received 22.5 million Maldivian rufiyaa ($1.5m) in hard currency days in advance of a contentious
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British Prime Minister Theresa May says her government will end preferential access for European Union workers after Brexit. In an announcement at her Conservative party conference on Tuesday,
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TRIPOLI: Libya has reopened the only functioning airport in the capital Tripoli again after rockets fired in its direction forced a brief closure, officials said on Tuesday, days
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ISTANBUL: Turkish police detained 280 suspects in a money-laundering investigation into the transfer of about 2.5 billion lira ($419 million) worth of foreign currency to bank accounts abroad,
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At least 13 people have been killed and 25 others wounded in a suicide attack at an election campaign rally in the eastern Nangarhar province in Afghanistan. The assailant detonated
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About one million people in northern Yemen are living in makeshift camps on the verge of famine. They're in a Houthi-controlled area that the Saudi-Emirati coalition has been
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In yet another move aimed at reducing Islamic influence in China, authorities there have renamed a river because it had an "Arabic-sounding name". The name of the river
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Damaged roads, bridges and airports are creating a logistical nightmare for the Indonesian government and relief agencies as they try to get vital supplies to Palu, four days
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Who is winning, Russia or the West? That vexing question seems to be on everyone's mind with regard to the September 30 referendum which was supposed to change
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Lebanon's government has taken diplomats and journalists on a tour of Beirut to try to disprove Israeli claims of Hezbollah bases. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had told
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JERUSALEM: Israel is prepared to open its side of the crossing point with Syria following the return of UN peacekeepers to the Golan Heights following a four-year absence,
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JERUSALEM: Israel is prepared to open its side of the crossing point with Syria following the return of UN peacekeepers to the Golan Heights following a four-year absence,
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Dozens of children were killed after being buried by a mudslide that slammed into their church during Indonesia's earthquake-tsunami disaster with more than 50 others still missing. Rescuers
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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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Guatemala City - The Guatemalan army will obey a recent constitutional court ruling overturning the government's decision to ban an international anti-corruption commissioner, a Ministry of Defense spokesman
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JERUSALEM: Israel is prepared to open its side of the crossing point with Syria following the return of UN peacekeepers to the Golan Heights following a four-year absence,
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JERUSALEM: Israel is prepared to open its side of the crossing point with Syria following the return of UN peacekeepers to the Golan Heights following a four-year absence,
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JERUSALEM: Israel is prepared to open its side of the crossing point with Syria following the return of UN peacekeepers to the Golan Heights following a four-year absence,
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Rio de Janeiro, Brazil - Political party canvassers were busy on Sunday at Rio de Janeiro's Gloria market in a last-ditch effort to persuade passersby to vote for their candidate,
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Toronto - Canada, Mexico, and the United States ushered in NAFTA 2.0 late on Sunday, just before an end-of-weekend deadline set by the US to salvage the 24-year-old trilateral
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Suspected cholera cases have almost tripled in Yemen's coastal Hodeidah region since the Saudi Arabia-UAE coalition launched a military offensive in June to retake the area, according to
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BAGHDAD: A vote in Iraq’s parliament to decide the next president was delayed until Tuesday as a deadline for filling the post approaches. What should have been a
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JEDDAH: Damning new evidence has emerged of an Iranian plot to detonate bombs during the Hajj pilgrimage in 1986, using explosives planted in the baggage of innocent pilgrims before
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Lebanese Foreign Ministry responds to Netanyahu with diplomatic tour of 'missile launcher' sites BEIRUT: Lebanese Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil responded to what he called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin
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Prominent Emirati rights activist Ahmed Mansoor has filed a Supreme Court appeal in a bid to overturn a 10-year prison sentence handed to him earlier this year over
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