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President Donald Trump officially recognizes Israeli sovereignty of Golan Heights WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump officially recognized Israel's sovereignty of the Golan Heights in Washington on Monday. The document reverses
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Hamas official denies firing rocket near Tel Aviv, new Israeli troops headed for Gaza MISHMERET/JERUSALEM: Hamas official denied firing the rocket that hit a house near Tel Aviv
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The preliminary findings of a UN investigation in northern Afghanistan has found that a US air raid on Saturday killed 13 civilians, most of them children. The attack
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US President Donald Trump on Monday formally recognised Israeli sovereignty over the Israel-occupied Golan Heights, reversing decades of US policy. The announcement came as Benjamin Netanyahu visited the
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The Israeli military has begun striking Hamas targets throughout Gaza, according to local residents and the Israeli military. Residents in the northern part of the Gaza Strip reported
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TEHRAN: Flash floods in southern Iran have killed at least 17 people and injured 74, Iranian state TV reported on Monday.Heavy rains outside the city of Shiraz triggered
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RIYADH: The Houthi militia have taken no action to protect children in Yemen, the Special Representative of the Secretary-General for Children and Armed Conflict, Virginia Gamba, said on Monday. In
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AIN ISSA, Syria: US-backed forces in Syria Monday called for the establishment of an international court in the country to try suspected Daesh group extremists. The announcement came
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Historic flooding continues to devastate parts of the central United States. The disaster was initiated during the second week of March when what is referred to as a
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Owning a gun in Brazil to become easier despite school shooting massacre this month and a widespread homicide crisis.
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At least 13 civilians, mostly children, were killed by a US air raid in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz, the United Nations said on Monday. The air raid
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MISHMERET/JERUSALEM: Israel’s military accused Hamas of carrying out a rocket strike from the Gaza Strip on Monday, and said they were sending two additional brigades to the area around the
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MISHMERET/JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday that he is to cut short his trip to the United States after a rocket attack near Tel Aviv.
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It has been four years since the Saudi-UAE coalition began its military offensive supporting the Yemeni government against Houthi rebels. The war has had a devastating effect on
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It's deja vu all over again in Israel's electoral politics, albeit with a few twists. Three-star general Benjamin "Benny" Gantz is promising to unseat the mercurial Benjamin "Bibi"
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Hojai, India - After battling for life for five days at a hospital in Guwahati, the capital of the northeastern Indian state of Assam, Kulsuma Begum succumbed to her
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GOLAN HEIGHTS: Druze on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights took to the streets in protest at US President Donald Trump’s pledge to recognise the Jewish state’s sovereignty there.Trump broke
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BYBLOS: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife Susan spent much of the second and last day of their visit to Lebanon touring historical churches and
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TRIPOLI: Relatives and supporters of Libya’s Qaddafi-era intelligence chief, jailed for his alleged role in a bloody crackdown during the country’s 2011 uprising, protested in Tripoli on Saturday
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A rocket fired from Gaza has struck a home in central Israel wounding six people, Israeli officials said. The sounds of air raid sirens woke up the residents of Sharon
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MUST-SEE PROGRAMMES Featured Documentaries An Unholy Alliance: Monks and the Military in Myanmar Is the joining of forces between radical Buddhist monks and generals threatening Myanmar's young and
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New Zealand will hold a top-level inquiry into the mass shootings of 50 people at two Christchurch mosques that will examine what roles guns, social media and spy
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BAGHOUZ: Daesh group extremists emerged from tunnels to surrender to US-backed forces in eastern Syria on Sunday, a Kurdish spokesman said, a day after their “caliphate” was declared
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CAIRO: President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, King Abdullah II of Jordan and Adel Abdul Mahdi, the prime minister of Iraq, held a trilateral summit at the Federal Palace in
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GOLAN HEIGHTS: Druze on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights took to the streets in protest at US President Donald Trump’s pledge to recognise the Jewish state’s sovereignty there.Trump broke
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People in Comoros are casting their ballots in the archipelago's presidential elections, with incumbent Azali Assoumani widely expected to win a new term in a vote that rivals say has
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Federal soup kitchens for the poor in Mexico are being shut down, as are other government programmes that help the most vulnerable. President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador says
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