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Thousands have taken to the streets of the Nicaraguan capital, Managua, to demand the release of hundreds arrested during nearly four months of anti-government protests in the country.
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The chairman of South Africa's ruling African National Congress (ANC) has said the state should take land without compensation from owners of more than 12,000 hectares. The remarks
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AMMAN: Russia will help Jordan repatriate more than 150,000 Syrian refugees who fled fighting with the Assad regime in the country’s south, a Jordanian official said. The official
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BEIRUT: A Bangladeshi man kidnapped by Indian workers in Lebanon was the victim of a ransom plot, Lebanese internal security forces said. The 41-year-old worker was kidnapped as
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JERUSALEM: Israel’s military on Wednesday closed its probe into a deadly 2014 assault in Gaza that followed the capture of a soldier despite a rights group’s charge of
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The death toll brought on by floods, landslides and bridge collapses in India's monsoon-hit state of Kerala has jumped to 67, according to officials. Authorities in the southern state,
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New Zealand has rolled out legislation banning foreigners from buying existing homes in the country amid an ongoing housing crisis which has left tens of thousands of people homeless. The
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Johannesburg, South Africa - It has been described as the worst act of South African police brutality since the end of apartheid. On the afternoon of 16 August,
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JEDDAH: Qatar defied US President Donald Trump on Wednesday and promised to plough $15 billion into Turkish financial markets and banks, amid a collapse in the value of
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ISTANBUL: An Istanbul court on Wednesday ordered the release of Amnesty International’s Turkey chair who has spent more than a year in jail over alleged links to the
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JERUSALEM: Israel’s military on Wednesday closed its probe into a deadly 2014 assault in Gaza that followed the capture of a soldier despite a rights group’s charge of
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The people of Afghanistan have not known peace for a long time. In the 1980s, it was the conflict to end the Soviet occupation. In the 1990s, they
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Fast Facts Since 2015, the volume of trade between both has exceeded $4.4bn The total of Qatari investment in Turkey amounts to $8.2bn The total of investments and trade
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Masses of seaweed and toxic algal blooms are choking the coastlines of Florida and the Caribbean. The so-called 'red tide' is the worst seen in more than a
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At least 48 people have been killed in a suicide bomb attack in front of an education centre in the west of the Afghan capital, Kabul, according to
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At least 22 children have drowned in Sudan when their boat sank in the Nile while they were on their way to school, according to official media. A woman
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The Afghan military has made significant gains against the Taliban in Ghazni city. The assault began on Friday and at least 400 people have been killed, a quarter
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US is trying to make Iran ‘surrender’ through sanctions says Iran’s vice president The United States is trying to make Iran surrender through the imposition of sanctions, Iranian
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel reopened its only goods crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to relative calm on the border after months of tensions
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel reopened its only goods crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to relative calm on the border after months of tensions
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Turkey doubled tariffs on some imports from the United States - such as passenger cars, alcohol and tobacco - in what it said was retaliation for "deliberate attacks" on its economy.
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Tehran, Iran - Reza, 27, wanted to work in a stock exchange firm, or in an insurance company in the Iranian capital. He had high expectations. Years before,
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Italian emergency workers pulled more bodies out of tons of broken concrete and twisted steel on Wednesday after a highway bridge collapsed in Genoa, raising the death toll
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GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories: Israel reopened its only goods crossing with the Gaza Strip on Wednesday in response to relative calm on the border after months of tensions
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Israel reopened the Karam Abu Salem border crossing, the primary passageway that transfers necessities to residents of the besieged Gaza Strip. The lifting of the closure on Wednesday will
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The death toll in a major bridge collapse reached 38 in Italy and could rise further on Wednesday as rescue teams searched the vast concrete debris for any survivors. A
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At least 40 Afghan soldiers and police were killed in a Taliban attack on a military outpost in a northern province, the latest in a series of deadly
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