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Updated 10 September 2018 September 09, 2018 00:00 0 Suspected US drone strike kills 4 Al-Qaeda members in Yemen Updated 10 September 2018 AP September 09, 2018 00:00
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JEDDAH: The US Navy has vowed to ensure the free flow of shipping in the Arabian Gulf and the Red Sea after Iranian threats to disrupt the waterways.
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JEDDAH: Bahraini authorities said they have arrested 14 Iranians who entered the country on “forged passports” under fake names.Bahrain’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday night that the Iranians
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Swedish Prime Minister Stefan Lofven has invited the opposition to talks aimed at a "cross-bloc cooperation", after his left-wing party failed to gain majority in Sunday's elections that
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Blasts were heard at the headquarters of the National Oil Corporation (NOC) in the Libyan capital on Monday morning and a security operation is under way at the
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Construction has begun on a town solely for female police officers in the Afghan capital Kabul. There are about 3,000 female officers in the country, just two percent
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Rival Shiite factions trade blame for who drove the burning of buildings in Basra BAGHDAD: The discovery of four bodies dumped in a street in central Basra on
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Rival Shiite factions trade blame for who drove the burning of buildings in Basra BAGHDAD: The discovery of four bodies dumped in a street in central Basra on
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GENEVA: The UN Refugee Agency (UNHCR) has recommended that thousands of refugees who escaped from detention centers amid clashes between militia in Tripoli be directed to a facility
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Of the three million people currently in Idlib, one million have already moved several times over the seven years that Syria has been embroiled in conflict. Now some
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Doha, Qatar - Mewa Singh is a 50-year-old labourer from the Indian state of Punjab. With a family of five to feed, he moved to Qatar 14 years
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Seventy-five people have been sentenced to death in Egypt for protesting the 2013 coup by Abdel Fattah el-Sisi. There's been strong condemnation from human rights groups for the
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BUYUKADA ISLAND, Turkey: Each morning, Erol Baytas checks for further damage on the imposing but derelict timber building on an island off Istanbul that for decades housed orphans
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BUYUKADA ISLAND, Turkey: Each morning, Erol Baytas checks for further damage on the imposing but derelict timber building on an island off Istanbul that for decades housed orphans
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CAIRO: A Lebanese tourist who was sentenced to eight years in prison for posting a video on Facebook the authorities claimed had insulted the country is set to
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Sweden's centre-left governing bloc is neck-and-neck with the centre-right opposition alliance in the country's general elections, according to official results, which also showed gains for an anti-immigration party
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Sudan's President Omar al-Bashir has dissolved the government in a bid to fix the country's troubled economy. A presidential statement late on Sunday said that the move included
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Iran's Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) confirmed on Sunday that it had launched deadly missile attacks against Kurdish rebels in northern Iraq a day earlier. Rockets struck the headquarters of
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Antakya, Turkey - Russian-backed Syrian government forces have pounded rebel-held areas in northwest Syria, killing at least five people in a second day of heavy bombardment, according to rescuers.
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Kosovo's leader urged calm as the Serbian president spoke to thousands of people in a majority-Serb area in Kosovo's north. Serbian President Aleksandar Vucic received a warm welcome
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Sweden's centre-left governing bloc is neck-and-neck with the centre-right opposition alliance in the country's general elections, according to an exit poll, which also projected large gains for an
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CAIRO: A new image of Hosni Mubarak circulated on social media just weeks after a rare photo emerged that sparked furious speculation about the former Egyptian president. The
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AMMAN: Russian and Syrian jets resumed intensive strikes in Idlib and Hama on Sunday, residents and rescuers said, as Damascus stepped up its assault on the rebels’ last
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CAIRO: A new image of Hosni Mubarak circulated on social media just weeks after a rare photo emerged that sparked furious speculation about the former Egyptian president. The
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Dozens of people have reportedly been killed in clashes and air raids around the Yemeni city of Hodeidah following the collapse of United Nations-sponsored peace talks between the internationally recognised government
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Mauritania's ruling party has taken the lead in legislative, regional and local elections held earlier this month, the electoral commission said Sunday. "The Union for the Republic is
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On March 30, 2016, members of Libya's UN-backed Government of National Accord (GNA) sailed into Tripoli in an effort to unite rival factions and bring stability to the
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