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Iraq's Supreme Court has ratified the results of the country's May parliamentary election, setting in motion a 90-day constitutional deadline for the top parties to form a coalition
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BEIRUT: Hezbollah says its leader has met with a delegation from the Houthi militia.The Lebanese militant group said Sunday that Hassan Nasrallah met with a delegation headed by
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NICOSIA, Cyprus: An Egyptian man who hijacked a domestic EgyptAir flight in 2016 and ordered it to land in Cyprus to allegedly protest Egypt’s military-backed government has been
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TEHRAN: Iran will unveil this week a new jet fighter and upgrade its missile defenses to meet threats from Israel and the US, Tasnim news agency said Sunday
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An Egyptian man who hijacked an EgyptAir flight and ordered it to land in Cyprus has been extradited after giving up a drawn-out legal fight, authorities have said.
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Japan and South Korea are bracing for two typhoons which are expected later this week. The two storms, the 20th and 21st named storms of the West Pacific
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MUST-SEE PROGRAMMES Talk to Al Jazeera UN human rights chief: 'My job is not to defend governments' The outgoing diplomat Zeid Ra'ad al-Hussein discusses Syria, North Korea, Israel
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US President Donald Trump's administration is facing mounting criticism over its role in the war in Yemen. According to a CNN report, munitions experts say a US-made bomb
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The death toll from the worst flooding to hit India's Kerala state in a century has jumped to 357 with losses to infrastructure pegged at almost $3bn. The
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Uttarakhand, India - Haruli Devi sat on the ground in front of her new two-room house in Singhali village in the hilly northern state of Uttarakhand. For early winter,
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Mexico's president-elect says the fate of a controversial new $13bn airport will be decided by a referendum. The vote will take place in October. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador
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Protesters in Kathmandu have said a new citizenship bill treats women as second-class citizens. Nepal's parliament is debating a bill that could make it difficult for women to
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The once-thriving tourism industry in Nicaragua has completely collapsed. The recent unrest in the Central American country has meant tourists are staying away. Since April, hundreds of people
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French President Emmanuel Macron and German Chancellor Angela Merkel voiced concern Friday about the humanitarian situation in the opposition-held Syrian region of Idlib, which is shaping up be
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DAMASCUS: Russian air defense assets in Syria have downed 45 drones targeting their main base in the country, its military said, after an attack by Daesh on a
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DAMASCUS: Russian air defense assets in Syria have downed 45 drones targeting their main base in the country, its military said, after an attack by Daesh on a
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Cricketer-turned-politician Imran Khan was officially sworn in as Pakistan's new prime minister during a ceremony in the capital, Islamabad, on Saturday, marking a new beginning for politics in
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Tehran, Iran - On August 19, 1953, an American-led military coup toppled Iran's first democratically elected government of Prime Minister Mohammad Mossadegh, a move described in a declassified
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For 13 years, a tobacco factory in Sulayminyah, Iraq, lay abandoned. There was talk of re-opening it. Then talk of demolishing it. But now, there are plans to
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Russian President Vladimir Putin has said a planned trans-Baltic natural gas pipeline linking Russia and Germany is exclusively an economic project, in his latest remarks over a controversial
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Just weeks after scoring a major military victory in the south, Syria's President Bashar al-Assad appears set to fully open a new, more complex, front in the country's
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Cristiano Ronaldo has got his Serie A campaign off to a winning start, following his $117m move from Real Madrid to Italian giants Juventus. The reigning champions came from
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UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday presented four options aimed at boosting the protection of Palestinians in Israeli-occupied territories, from sending UN rights monitors and unarmed
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The UN migration agency says that more than 63,000 migrants and refugees have entered Europe by sea in 2018. Forty-two percent of them have arrived in Spain, but
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Egypt has rolled out a new law that allows authorities, through a judge, to order the blocking of websites that "constitute a threat" to the state, as well as jail or
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Former UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan, the first black person to head the organisation, died in the Swiss city of Bern after a short illness. The Ghanaian career diplomat
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DUBAI: Iran’s navy has mounted a locally built advanced defensive weapons system on one of its warships for the first time, the Iranian navy chief was quoted as
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