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ANKARA: Turkey is planning a road network to link the main cities in the Euphrates Shield area in Aleppo with its southern provinces of Gaziantep and Kilis. The two
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Turkish president’s latest gamble not the right way to tackle economic challenges, say experts ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has raised the stakes in a diplomatic stand-off
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BAGHDAD: Failure by Iraq to comply fully with tough new US economic sanctions against Iran would be insane, analysts told Arab News on Tuesday.Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Abadi
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Labour, under the leadership Jeremy Corbyn, a leftist, has spent more than two years at the centre of a dispute concerning the extent to which anti-Semitism exists in
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Regent, Sierra Leone - A deafening sound from outside made Kalilu Daboh, an imam on the outskirts of Sierra Leone’s capital, Freetown, rush out of the mosque. As
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The Turkish lira is facing an unprecedented crash, losing more than 40 percent of its value against the dollar this year. And its meltdown is rattling global markets.
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JEDDAH: The terrorist attacks in Jordan over the weekend shocked the country but the people support the security agencies in countering extremist ideologies, political analysts told Arab News
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NEW YORK: Daesh has up to 30,000 members roughly equally distributed between Syria and Iraq and its global network poses a rising threat — as does Al-Qaeda, which
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ANKARA: Turkey is planning a road network to link the main cities in the Euphrates Shield area in Aleppo with its southern provinces of Gaziantep and Kilis. The two
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Rome, Italy - The search for survivors of a bridge collapse continued into the night in the northwestern Italian city of Genoa, as citizens began to mourn the
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More than 1,000 children - and possibly many more - were molested by hundreds of Roman Catholic priests in six dioceses in the US state of Pennsylvania, while
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Saudi-UAE coalition air strikes on Yemen’s Hodeida province have killed and wounded several people, medical sources said. A spokesperson from the Houthi-affiliated health ministry said Tuesday's attacks on
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DOHA: A 23-year-old Nepalese World Cup laborer in Qatar died Tuesday while working on one of the venues for the 2022 tournament, officials in Doha announced in a
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TAL KROUM, Syria: The Russian military said Tuesday that its forces in Syria will help UN peacekeepers fully restore patrols along the frontier with the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights,
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DOHA: A 23-year-old Nepalese World Cup laborer in Qatar died Tuesday while working on one of the venues for the 2022 tournament, officials in Doha announced in a
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A turbulent five days for the Turkish economy has seen the lira hit a record low against the US dollar, sparking fears of a meltdown as Ankara and
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Turkey is in the middle of a financial crisis with the collapse of its currency in recent days amid worsening relations with its NATO ally, the United States.
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A bridge has collapsed in Italy's northwestern city of Genoa, sending vehicles falling nearly 100 metres to the ground and killing and injuring dozens of people. The Italian Ansa news
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JERICHO, Palestinian Territories: Palestinian postal service employees are working overtime to sort through some 10 tons of letters and packages blocked by Israel for up to eight years,
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Turkey’s Erdogan vows US boycott, but diplomats resume talks Updated 29 min 26 sec ago August 14, 2018 00:00 ANKARA: Turkey’s president appeared to escalate a dispute with
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ANKARA: Turkey’s president appeared to escalate a dispute with the United States that has helped foment a Turkish currency crisis, claiming Tuesday that his country will boycott US-made
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Flash flooding in the Northern Philippines forces 50,000 people from their homes.
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A bridge has collapsed in Italy's northwestern city of Genoa sending vehicles falling nearly 100 metres to the ground and killing at least 30 people, according to local
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Egyptian police have arrested 13 alleged Muslim Brotherhood members, accusing them of inciting protests marking the fifth anniversary of the so-called Rabaa massacre. The Interior Ministry said in
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BEIRUT: The political wing of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has been to Damascus for a second round of talks with the state, the pro-government Al-Watan newspaper
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BEIRUT: The political wing of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) has been to Damascus for a second round of talks with the state, the pro-government Al-Watan newspaper
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BAGHDAD: Three people were killed Tuesday in an explosion at a market in Baghdad, including a woman and child according to a security source.The blast struck in the
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