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PARIS/BAGHDAD: Iran has given ballistic missiles to Shiite proxies in Iraq and is developing the capacity to build more there to deter attacks on its interests in the
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The United Arab Emirates (UAE) asked an Israeli spyware company to hack into the phones of the Qatari emir and a Saudi prince among other political and regional
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The plan calls for 50 million trees planted over a 300-kilometre stretch of land.
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Rescue teams are still searching through villages in Myanmar for people stranded by a dam that burst on Wednesday. Four people are confirmed dead but the floodwaters unleashed
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ATHENS: Sarah Mardini, one of two Syrian sisters who saved over a dozen refugees in 2015 by pulling their sinking dinghy to Greece, has been arrested for alleged
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Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has reiterated his country's need for the highly advanced Russian S-400 missile system, a planned purchase the US opposes. Speaking at a graduation
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An air raid by a Saudi Arabia-UAE coalition has killed at least a dozen fishermen in Yemen's Hodeidah province, according to Houthi-linked media. Friday's attack comes a day
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Staffan de Mistura, the UN Special Envoy for Syria, is calling for a humanitarian corridor to free three million people trapped there. The Syrian government - backed by
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CAIRO: Italy hopes for a breakthrough by the end of this year in the investigation into the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Egypt, Italy’s deputy prime
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CAIRO: Italy hopes for a breakthrough by the end of this year in the investigation into the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Egypt, Italy’s deputy prime
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Over the past week, fighting in the streets of the Libyan capital Tripoli killed 26, including 15 civilians. Clashes erupted between the Seventh Brigade from the town of
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South Sudanese rebels have approved a peace deal with Juba that is expected to be formally signed at a summit of regional leaders. Sudan's Foreign Minister Al-Dirdiri Mohamed
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A Ugandan pop star-turned-opposition legislator has been blocked from leaving for the United States for treatment on his injuries from alleged torture, his lawyers said. Bobi Wine, whose
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CAIRO: Italy hopes for a breakthrough by the end of this year in the investigation into the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Egypt, Italy’s deputy prime
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CAIRO: Italy hopes for a breakthrough by the end of this year in the investigation into the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Egypt, Italy’s deputy prime
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CAIRO: Italy hopes for a breakthrough by the end of this year in the investigation into the death of Italian student Giulio Regeni in Egypt, Italy’s deputy prime
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The Syrian government and its major ally Russia have signalled that an all-out offensive to retake the last rebel-held province in Syria is only a matter of time, raising
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Johannesburg, South Africa - Last week, US President Donald Trump ignited a firestorm when he decided to wade into the sensitive land debate in South Africa. Trump wrote in a
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Damian Chazelle's film, First Man, has officially opened the 75th annual Venice Film Festival. Renowned for premiering many Oscar winners, the 11-day festival marks the official beginning of
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Syria will ‘go all the way’ in Idlib offensive as UN envoy offers to help civilians leave GENEVA: The UN’s Syria peace envoy offered Thursday to travel to
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China has been accused of detaining more than a million Uighur Muslims in what UN human rights experts say resembles "a massive internment camp, shrouded in secrecy, a
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Iran continues to comply with the terms of its nuclear deal with world powers, despite a US withdrawal from the landmark pact, according to the United Nations' atomic
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The family of a Palestinian man who was shot dead two years ago while laying wounded on the ground has slammed recent comments made by the Israeli soldier
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JEDDAH: The UN called on Russia, Iran and Turkey on Thursday to forestall a battle in Syria’s Idlib province, which could affect millions of civilians and see both militants
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VENICE: A shocking new film about Daesh in Iraq warns that the group is far from defeated and may return in an even more ferocious form.Italian documentary makers
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AMMAN: Jordan will host a fundraiser at the United Nations headquarters in New York next month to keep the agency for Palestinian refugees afloat, the Kingdom’s top diplomat
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Geert Wilders, an anti-Islam opposition leader in the Netherlands, has cancelled a competition for cartoons depicting Islam's Prophet Muhammad that sparked protests in Pakistan. The far-right politician, who
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