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European Union legislators have voted overwhelmingly in favour of launching action against the Hungarian government for persistently flouting democratic rules. With 448 votes in favour, 197 against and
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ANKARA, Turkey: Turkish intelligence agents in an operation in Syria have captured a man wanted over a deadly 2013 bomb attack and brought him back to Turkey for questioning,
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BENGHAZI, Libya: The extremist Daesh group has claimed responsibility for an attack on the headquarters of Libya’s national oil company in the capital Tripoli that killed two people.Daesh
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RAFAH, Palestinian Territories: The opening of the Palestinians’ first airport, in the presence of US president Bill Clinton, was a symbol of the hopes for independence and peace
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said that the two men accused by the United Kingdom of attempting to murder a former Russian double agent and his daughter are
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The UK Labour Party's adoption of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance's (IHRA) anti-Semitism code in full, including its list of 11 examples, means it now considers calling Israel "racist" a
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Rockets were fired at Libya’s only functioning airport in Tripoli late on Tuesday, forcing flights to be diverted less than a week after the UN brokered a fragile
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on Russia and Iran to halt a looming “humanitarian disaster” in Idlib, saying Syrians there could not be left to
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on Russia and Iran to halt a looming “humanitarian disaster” in Idlib, saying Syrians there could not be left to
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The legacy of inequality still persists in South African schools. While access to education is improving, there are concerns that standards are slipping and fewer students are finishing
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About 1.5 million were ordered to leave their homes and more than 5.4 million were issued storm warnings on the US East Coast as Hurricane Florence builds in
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Five European countries have made a last-ditch appeal to Israel, asking it not go to ahead with the demolition of a Bedouin village in the Occupied West Bank.
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WASHINGTON: The US warned Iran on Tuesday it will “respond swiftly and decisively” to any attacks by Tehran’s allies in Iraq that result in injury to Americans or
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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Tuesday called on Russia and Iran to halt a looming “humanitarian disaster” in Idlib, saying Syrians there could not be left to
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Papua New Guinea (PNG) is gearing up for a nationwide vaccination campaign to protect citizens against polio, 18 years after the disease was eradicated from the country, The initiative, which
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Russia launched its largest war games since the Cold War on Tuesday with hundreds of thousands of troops, including Chinese soldiers taking part for the first time, in
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A cholera emergency has been declared in Zimbabwe's capital after 20 people died from the disease. It has led to many fearing a repeat of the outbreak that
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Iran increased its threat to regional security on Tuesday by boasting that its nuclear program was more advanced than ever. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy
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Iran increased its threat to regional security on Tuesday by boasting that its nuclear program was more advanced than ever. Ali Akbar Salehi, head of the Atomic Energy
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MINNEAPOLIS: An Iraqi man who is accused of hiding his past as a member of an elite Iraqi military force is asking a federal judge in Minnesota to
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Luiz Inacio "Lula" da Silva, the hugely popular but jailed former Brazilian president, has withdrawn his candidacy for the country's top seat ahead of a general election next
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Kigali, Rwanda - Inside Abdul Sibomana's farm, on the outskirts of Nyanza town in southern Rwanda, dry coffee cherries hang from small stems. The 30-year-old's farm sits between a
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The US government announced it's closing the diplomatic mission of the Palestinian Liberation Organization in Washington, DC. National Security Adviser John Bolton delivered the news during a speech
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BEIRUT: Daesh militants have killed 12 Syrian regime fighters in an ambush as the group faces separate assaults on its last desert strongholds, a war monitor said Tuesday.The
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KHAN SHAYKHUN: Violence in northwest Syria has displaced more than 30,000 people this month alone, the United Nations said Monday, warning that a looming assault could create the
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DUBAI: The Vice President of Yemen, Lieutenant General Ali Mohsen Al-Ahmar said his internationally recognized government will continue to liberate Houthi-held areas until every inch of the country
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A bus carrying pilgrims from a Hindu temple in the hills of south India plunged off a road Tuesday, killing at least 55 people including four children, officials
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