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LONDON: Iran on Tuesday unveiled what it claimed was its first domestically built, powerful fighter jet — to widespread derision from defense and military experts. State TV showed President
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Paul Manafort, US President Donald Trump's former campaign manager, has been found guilty of eight financial crimes in the first trial victory of the special counsel investigation into
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Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney of US President Donald Trump, has pleaded guilty to campaign-finance violations and other charges, saying he made payments to influence the 2016
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Prague, Czech Republic - Fifty years ago Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia to violently quash the democratic reform movement against communism known as the Prague Spring. Led by
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An Indonesian court sentenced a woman to 18 months in jail under a blasphemy law for complaining that a mosque near to her home was creating too much
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Michael Cohen, the former personal attorney of US President Donald Trump, is expected to plead guilty to charges stemming from a federal investigation of his buisness dealings and
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Inflation has skyrocketed, prices are at an all-time high, and the national currency, the Bolivar, has lost much of its value. Financial devastation has led to mass migration,
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JERUSALEM: The brother of a teenager who became a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after slapping two soldiers has been sentenced to jail for throwing stones at a
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JERUSALEM: The brother of a teenager who became a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict after slapping two soldiers has been sentenced to jail for throwing stones at a
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The UN's nuclear watchdog said it hasn't seen any indication that North Korea's nuclear activities have ceased despite pledges to denuclearise and it's causing "grave concern". A new report
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Their rulers at each other's throat, the United States and Iran have just lost two towering icons of their respective art and culture scenes in the span of
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An Indian court sentenced two men to death for the gang rape of an eight-year-old girl that sparked angry protests. The death sentences ordered on Tuesday were the
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BAGHDAD: The US-led anti-Daesh coalition said on Monday one of its members was killed in an apparently accidental aircraft crash in Iraq which left several others wounded.A statement
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United States immigration officials have arrested and deported a former Nazi concentration camp guard who lived in New York, according to government officials. Acting on a 2004 deportation
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According to police, the Taliban has fired several rockets at the presidential palace in Kabul as the Afghan president was delivering his holiday message for the Muslim celebrations
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Malaysia has announced the seizure of 50 rhino horns worth an estimated $12m, the biggest haul ever recovered in the country. Customs officials at Kuala Lumpur airport found
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DAMASCUS, Syria: Syrian President Bashar Assad has attended prayers for the Muslim holiday of Eid Al-Adha in Damascus, the seat of his power.State-run television showed Assad saluting worshippers
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TEHRAN: Iran unveiled its first domestic fighter jet at a defense show in Tehran on Tuesday.Images on state television showed President Hassan Rouhani sitting in the cockpit of
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TEHRAN: Iran unveiled its first domestic fighter jet at a defense show in Tehran on Tuesday.Images on state television showed President Hassan Rouhani sitting in the cockpit of
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Malaysian police have said the disappearance of an industrial item containing radioactive material more than a week ago appeared to have no link to terrorism. "At this stage,
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Iran has unveiled a new domestic fighter jet, with President Hassan Rouhani saying that Tehran's military strength was only designed to deter enemies and was aimed at creating
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Many families in war-torn Idlib province are forced to spend the Muslim holiday in displacement camps.
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton met in Jerusalem on Monday and called on European nations to do
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and US President Donald Trump’s National Security Adviser John Bolton met in Jerusalem on Monday and called on European nations to do
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MOSCOW: Russia has lashed out at Western countries, accusing them of blocking UN aid for Syria’s reconstruction and trying to prevent the return of refugees.Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov
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The United Nations has blamed the Saudi-led coalition for being responsible for most of Yemen's child casualties from the past year. It has also called for an investigation
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A new study by a group of researchers from the United States suggests that poverty makes minority children less likely to survive many types of cancer. The study
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