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Italy has called on the United Kingdom to take in 141 migrants aboard a charity-run rescue boat in the Mediterranean, two days after denying safe harbour to the Gibraltar-flagged
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Lyris Solis Gonzalez didn't realise her classes had been cancelled when she turned up at the University of Engineering (UNI) in Nicaragua's capital Managua on April 19. Until
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Authorities in the United Kingdom have vowed to eliminate rough sleeping in England within the next decade as part of efforts to end a recent surge in the number
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TUNIS: Tunisia’s president on Monday proposed giving women equal inheritance rights despite protests from thousands of people objecting to any challenge to Islamic law.The North African Muslim country,
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SHEBAA, Lebanon: Dozens of Syrian refugees left Lebanon by bus on Monday in the latest of a wave of returns to their war-torn country, Lebanese authorities said.An AFP
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A Taliban assault on the Afghan strategic city of Ghazni has entered its fourth day, with the death toll climbing above 300, including civilians, security forces and Taliban
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From France's National Front to Germany's Alternative for Germany (AfD) to the neo-Nazis of Golden Dawn in Greece, far-right populists are grabbing the headlines and seem to be
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It has been a year since a mudslide on the outskirts of Sierra Leone's capital killed more than 1,100 people, many remain without a shelter.
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BEIRUT: Egypt is yet to prosecute members of the security forces over a bloody 2013 crackdown on protesters that left hundreds dead, Human Rights Watch said Monday, urging
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BEIRUT: Egypt is yet to prosecute members of the security forces over a bloody 2013 crackdown on protesters that left hundreds dead, Human Rights Watch said Monday, urging
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TEHRAN: Iran's defence minister unveiled the next generation of Tehran's Fateh Mobin short-range ballistic missile on Monday, according to conservative news agency Tasnim."As promised to our dear people,
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Thousands of people gathered in Yemen's war-ravaged city of Saada on Monday for the funerals of 51 people, including 40 children, who were killed in air strikes by a Saudi-UAE
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An official Communist Party newspaper said China's campaign of pressure against its Uighur Muslim minority has prevented the Xinjiang region from becoming "China's Syria" or "China's Libya." The
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Jordan's interior minister said on Monday those behind an attack on police supported Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL), and investigations revealed plans for more violence
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ALGHUNDURA: Her scarred hands wrapped in gloves, Malakeh Harbaliyya lifted an infant out of an incubator at a hospital in Syria’s rural north, holding him gently as he
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AMMAN: King Abdullah of Jordan said his country would hold all those accountable for undermining the security of the Kingdom and the safety of its citizens after four security
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Grieving parents were among those burying loved ones in Yemen on Monday after an air raid killed dozens of people, including at least 29 children. On Thursday a
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Turkey's central bank on Monday announced it was taking all necessary measures to ensure financial stability after the collapse of the lira, promising to provide "all the liquidity
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An explosion flattened a residential building in Syria's war-torn northwest, killing at least 36 people including 12 children. The blast brought down the six-storey building in the town
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AMMAN: King Abdullah of Jordan said his country would hold all those accountable for undermining the security of the Kingdom and the safety of its citizens after four security
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AMMAN: King Abdullah of Jordan said his country would hold all those accountable for undermining the security of the Kingdom and the safety of its citizens after four security
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Nayapara camp, Bangladesh - Romeda Begum's victory speech was neither long nor captivating. "It was my first experience talking to a large crowd," said the 26-year-old, recalling the
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I still remember the shock I felt when, at the age of 12, my teacher told me the word "joo" I had just spoken, which I had thought
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The battle for Afghanistan's key city of Ghazni between Taliban fighters and security forces has intensified, with dozens of people reported killed after three days of violence. Politicians from
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Secret Israeli military report reveals drone killed four boys on Gaza beach in 2014 CAIRO: A confidential Israeli military police report has revealed how a drone strike killed
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Erdogan says lira crash ‘political plot’ against Turkey Updated 12 August 2018 August 12, 2018 16:16 ISTANBUL: President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Sunday said the crash of the
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Turkish lira plunges as Erdogan blames crash on ‘political plot’ against Ankara ISTANBUL: The Turkish lira sank to a fresh record low of 7.24 to the dollar in
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