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Bangkok, Thailand - An aerobics class is under way as a sober-suited Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-ocha walks briskly into central Lumphini Park, accompanied by city officials and a
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ANKARA: As Turkey’s March 31 local elections draw closer, economic issues are becoming a major priority for the country’s voters. While the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) has
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Erdogan’s ‘vile’ comments on Christchurch mosques shootings dismissed as not representative of Muslims JEDDAH: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan was condemned on Wednesday for “vile, offensive and reckless”
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GAZA CITY: Forty animals including five lions are to be rescued from squalid conditions in the Gaza Strip, an animal welfare group said Wednesday.The animals would be taken
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London, United Kingdom - On Thursday, the final EU summit before the UK leaves the EU will take place and tensions are at boiling point. The European Union on
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The European Parliament's centre-right European People's Party (EPP) has indefinitely suspended Hungary's nationalist Fidesz party, in a blow to Prime Minister Viktor Orban just months ahead of European
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Mexico City - Griselda Triana, the widow of slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, was targeted by government-owned spyware less than two weeks after the prominent reporter was killed,
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JERUSALEM: Top US diplomat Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Wednesday to counter Iranian “aggression” as the two met in Jerusalem just weeks ahead of
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JERUSALEM: Top US diplomat Mike Pompeo and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu vowed Wednesday to counter Iranian “aggression” as the two met in Jerusalem just weeks ahead of
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WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that the Daesh’s last bastion in Syria will be “gone” by the end of the day.He showed off maps that illustrate
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Mexico City - Griselda Triana, the widow of slain Mexican journalist Javier Valdez, was targeted by government-owned spyware less than two weeks after the prominent reporter was killed,
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The annual Tour de Langkawi cycling event in Malaysia will now begin on April 6, officials have told local media. The 24th edition of the race was scheduled
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Why would someone confess to a crime they did not commit? While the idea may seem inconceivable to many, more than 12 percent of all overturned wrongful convictions
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Pompeo thanks Saudi crown prince for supporting UN Yemen envoy Griffiths during Middle East tour LONDON: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo thanked Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman
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SALZBURG, Austria: Abdullah Adnan Karam stares down at the computer screen and watches the story of his escape from war-torn Syria to his new home in Austria play
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DUBAI: An employee at a Dubai-based security company was fired and deported for celebrating the deadly New Zealand mosque attacks under a fake identity on Facebook, the group
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UK Prime Minister Theresa May has written to European Council President Donald Tusk to request to delay the UK's departure from the European Union by three months. The UK is
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Several asylum seekers who are being forced to wait in Mexico while their cases wind through US immigration court told a judge on Tuesday that they are afraid
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European Union regulators have fined Google $1.69bn for blocking rival online search advertisers, hitting the US-based tech giant with a third penalty in two years. The punishment on Wednesday brought Google's
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Four Houthis died when landmines they planted detonated in an area west of Taiz, national press agency SPA reported. Yemen’s national army targeted militants who were planting landmines in
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CAIRO: A prominent Egyptian novelist is concerned about a possible lawsuit against him after a Cairo lawyer filed a complaint accusing him of “insulting the president, the armed
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ISTANBUL: In a decade and a half in power, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has often turned to oratory skills that are the envy of his foes to
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New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has said her country will mark one week on from last Friday's attack with a nationwide two-minute silence and a public broadcast
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Authorities in Australia have begun evacuations for the 1,600 residents of Groote Eylandt, an island in the Gulf of Carpentaria, as Tropical Cyclone Trevor approaches. The severe storm
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The most senior security and defence figure in Bangladesh has been accused of using military intelligence agents to abduct and interrogate people to settle a business dispute involving
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DEIR EZZOR, Syria: Warplanes flew near Baghouz in eastern Syria early on Wednesday, a Reuters witness said, as the final remnants of the Daesh group held a narrow
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Four Houthis died when landmines they planted detonated in an area west of Taiz, national press agency SPA reported. Yemen’s national army targeted militants who were planting landmines in
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