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ISTANBUL/ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan told Turks on Friday to exchange gold and dollars into lira as the country’s currency plunged as much as 19 percent on worries about
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Yemen is routinely called the world's worst humanitarian crisis. But sometimes an individual event can bring that phrase starkly into focus. That is what happened on Thursday, when
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One person is in custody following a shooting in eastern Canada that left at least four people dead. Two police officers were among those killed early on Friday
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US President Donald Trump has announced a doubling of steel and aluminum tariffs on Turkey, piling economic pressure on the NATO ally after its currency went into a tail-spin.
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ISTANBUL/ANKARA: President Tayyip Erdogan told Turks on Friday to exchange gold and dollars into lira as the country’s currency plunged as much as 19 percent on worries about
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The United Arab Emirates will build an oil pipeline connecting Eritrea’s port city of Assab with Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, an Ethiopian state-affiliated broadcaster said on Friday. Fana
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The United Arab Emirates will build an oil pipeline connecting Eritrea’s port city of Assab with Ethiopia’s capital Addis Ababa, an Ethiopian state-affiliated broadcaster said on Friday. Fana
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While the festivals can prove a windfall for hotel and restaurant owners, many of the workers are low paid or unpaid and the city's most destitute neighbourhoods do
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The Chicago police department has been accused of targeting some of the city's poorest communities with a controversial tactic. Local activists say police are entrapping young black men
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Immigration activists in the US are accusing the president of being a hypocrite. Donald Trump has been critical of the legal practice that gives relatives of citizens preference
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BAGHDAD: Populist Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr retained his lead in Iraq’s May parliamentary election, results of a nationwide recount of votes showed on Friday, positioning him to play
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BAGHDAD: Populist Shiite cleric Moqtada Al-Sadr retained his lead in Iraq’s May parliamentary election, results of a nationwide recount of votes showed on Friday, positioning him to play
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UNITED NATIONS: The UN envoy for Iraq urged its political leaders on Wednesday to listen to the people and seize the opportunity to form “a patriotic, inclusive and
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The worrying lack of water in the dams of the Western Cape of South Africa was well-reported. Cape Town had a "Day Zero", when the water supply to
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International groups have commended Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) President Joseph Kabila for agreeing not to stand for re-election in December, after 17 years in power. The US,
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Grief and anger has gripped Yemen's war-ravaged province of Saada a day after the Saudi-UAE military alliance, backed by the US, bombed a school bus carrying children heading to
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Tens of thousands of Somali refugees have fled back home from war-torn Yemen since an upsurge in fighting in March, the UN said yesterday, adding to three million
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The United Nations on Friday appealed for $1.6 billion to help the millions of people in need of aid in war-torn Yemen, warning of a “looming catastrophe”. The
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قالت صحيفة ” National Interest ” الأمريكية إن هناك 5 أسلحة روسية يجب أن تخشاها الولايات المتحدة الأمريكية، بينها المقاتلة “سو-35” والغواصة “آمور” والدبابة “تي – 90”. وجاء
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Palestinian members of al-Qassam Brigades, the armed wing of the Hamas movement (Reuters / Mohammed Salem) The EU General Court has ordered that the Palestinian militant group Hamas
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A man hurls back a tear gas grenade fired by Israeli forces during a protest by Palestinian students from Bir Ziet University, near Ofer military prison, close to
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