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Even as the European Parliament moves to punish Hungary for its violation of EU’s core values, a defiant Hungarian government has said its stand on George Soros-funded Central
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The UN Security Council has extended the mandate for the UNSMIL mission in Libya by another year, until September 15, 2019, but did not endorse a December 10
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Samut Sakhon, Thailand - In 2013, Chairat Ratchapaksi found a job in commercial fishing to support his family. The 40-year-old from Thailand's central Phetchaburi province went to see
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GENEVA: The UN said that the situation in Gaza was “catastrophic” after 11 years of “economic siege” and warned that Washington’s decision to halt assistance to Palestinian refugees
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ISTANBUL: A Russian military aircraft thunders into the sky at 4.47 p.m. from Russia’s air base at Hmeimim in western Syria, veering to the east. An observer takes
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ISTANBUL: A Russian military aircraft thunders into the sky at 4.47 p.m. from Russia’s air base at Hmeimim in western Syria, veering to the east. An observer takes
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This interview took place on September 10 at Basmanny Court in Moscow and September 11 at a cafe nearby the courthouse. Verzilov fell ill late on September 11.
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Venezuela's economy has been rapidly deteriorating for years, driving a growing number of Venezuelans into poverty and creating scarcities of basic food items and medicine. Since President
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The outer reaches of Hurricane Florence began lashing coastal North Carolina with heavy winds and flooded roads on Thursday ahead of an expected landfall that will bring walls
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France acknowledged for the first time it was responsible for systematic torture during the Algerian war of independence in the mid-1950s. President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that Maurice Audin,
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Riyadh-based carrier Flynas has announced plans to recruit Saudi women to work as co-pilots and flight attendants for the first time. Women are not legally barred from working
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Japan is proposing an end to a 33-year-old ban on commercial whaling, saying it is time because most whale species have rebounded from being endangered at the time
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Arab coalition member state officials review efforts to ease Yemeni suffering caused by Houthis The ambassadors of the member states of the Saudi-led Arab coalition met in Tunisia
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Arab coalition member state officials review efforts to ease Yemeni suffering caused by Houthis The ambassadors of the member states of the Saudi-led Arab coalition met in Tunisia
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ISTANBUL: Turkey’s top court on Thursday turned down a plea to open the Hagia Sofia, an Istanbul landmark that is now a museum after serving as both a
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Britain's mass surveillance programme has violated people's right to privacy, Europe's human rights court ruled on Thursday. Judges voted six to one the effort by its intelligence agency
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Vladimir Putin says Russia's armed forces will continue to be strengthened, as they undertake their largest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union. For the first
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Last week, the respected and well-known American artist Hank Willis Thomas' work was exhibited by the prestigious South African gallery, the Goodman, at the Johannesburg Art Fair. One
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TEHRAN: Just one shop among the thousands in Tehran’s sprawling Grand Bazaar can offer a tableau of the darkening mood descending across Iran as American sanctions again take
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TEHRAN: Just one shop among the thousands in Tehran’s sprawling Grand Bazaar can offer a tableau of the darkening mood descending across Iran as American sanctions again take
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Two Russian men accused by the United Kingdom of attempting to murder a former Russian double agent and his daughter have claimed they were in the country as
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Brazil's presidential candidate Jair Bolsonaro needs more surgery as he recovers from a stabbing attack last week. Bolsonaro, a far-right candidate in Brazil's October 7 presidential election, was
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The Indian government has banned 328 combination drugs in a blow to both domestic and foreign pharmaceutical firms, but the ban has been cheered by health activists worried
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AMMAN: When the chairman of the Palestine Liberation Organization, Yasser Arafat, and his deputy, Mahmoud Abbas, stepped foot on US soil in September 1993, the PLO was considered
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An unidentified gunman shot and killed his wife and four other people in a series of shootings in southern California before taking his own life, police said. Wednesday's incident happened
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A retrospective of one of the world's great architects opens in London on Saturday. Renzo Piano designed the Shard in London, the new Whitney Museum in New York
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Stocks of the tech giant Apple have dropped slightly after its latest launch featured its largest iPhone yet, but little in the way of groundbreaking innovation. However, the
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