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Guatemala City - Guatemalan activists and politicians warn of a breakdown in constitutional order following the government's rejection of a court ruling overturning the president's decision to ban
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) has sentenced Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former vice president and rebel leader in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), for bribing witnesses during his war
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JERUSALEM: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday decided to allow 1,000 Ethiopians to immigrate to Israel, his office announced, in a rare intake of the Falashmura community.The Falashmuras
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TAJI: German forces will be needed in Iraq for a long time to help rebuild the country’s military as it struggles to ensure that Daesh terrorists do not
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TAJI: German forces will be needed in Iraq for a long time to help rebuild the country’s military as it struggles to ensure that Daesh terrorists do not
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has said the United States would cap the number of refugees allowed into the country at 30,000 for fiscal year 2019, a
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Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel has shown support for same-sex marriage, saying that discrimination of any kind should be eliminated. The 57-year-old leader said on Sunday he backed marriage
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Honduras's supreme court has indefinitely suspended the start of a trial of eight men accused in the 2016 killing of prize-winning Honduran indigenous and environmental rights activist Berta
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Clan complains to UN over ‘discrimination, torture, illegal imprisonment’ by Qatar regime GENEVA: A prominent clan in Qatar has complained to the UN over systematic ill-treatment by Qatari authorities,
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The Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika on Monday dismissed the navy and air force commanders. Commander of the navy forces, Major General Ahsan Tafer, was replaced by General Hamid Ghuris.
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President Vladimir Putin and his Turkish counterpart Recep Tayyip Erdogan met Monday to try to come to an agreement over the Syrian rebel stronghold of Idlib.The leaders of
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Hundreds of Russian Communist Party supporters have rallied in Vladivostok against what they said was the brazen rigging of a regional election in favour of a politician backed by President
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Calls from both Democrats and Republicans to delay a vote on US President Donald Trump's Supreme Court nominee continued to mount on Monday after a woman, who accused
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More than 1,200 roads in North Carolina were closed on Monday due to flooding from Hurricane Florence, now downgraded to a tropical depression, which brought record rain and
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LONDON: The Turkish opposition have ‘questioned the honor’ of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan after the leader admitted accepting a luxury jumbo jet as a “gift” from Qatar. Erdogan has
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ISTANBUL: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has vowed that Ankara will increase rather than reduce its troops numbers in Cyprus, a move that could further set back attempts
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Prominent tribe complains to UN about ‘systematic discrimination’ at the hands of the Qatari regime GENEVA: A delegation representing Al-Ghufran tribe, one of the biggest tribes in Qatar,
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Authorities in Thailand have charged the leader and two senior members of a newly-formed political party for allegedly spreading false information about the ruling military government on Facebook.
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At least 27 members of the Afghan security forces have been killed in multiple Taliban attacks on checkpoints as well as police and military bases in different parts
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Thousands of people have taken to the streets of the Ethiopian capital to express their anger after a weekend of deadly ethnically-motivated violence. At least 23 people were
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Peruvian President Martin Vizcarra is facing a standoff with legislators over his call for a referendum on anti-corruption measures and has invoked a constitutional procedure that could end up dissolving
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At least four people were killed in China's southern Guangdong province as a result of Typhoon Mangkhut, Chinese state television has reported. Clean-up efforts were under way on
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The US has cut additional aid to the Palestinians for programmes supporting conflict resolution with Israelis, adding to more than $500m in other cuts. The latest cuts come
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BEIRUT: They dug trenches around towns, reinforced caves for cover and put up sand bags around their positions. They issued calls to arms, urging young men to join
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The peace of the Camp David Accords was undermined by the failure to resolve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict BEIRUT: Forty years after Egypt and Israel signed the Camp David
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[Warning: Some viewers may find images in this video distressing] It was what everyone here dreaded - two dead children. After sifting through a home turned to rubble,
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Eleven of the 14 governments that are part of the Lima Group have rejected the possibility of military intervention against Venezuela's government and defended a peaceful outcome of
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