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Sao Paulo, Brazil - "Woman, black, mother, lesbian, from the favelas, open about sexuality and Rio's problemas, and on top of all this, a human rights activist." That's
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Israel launched air strikes on Gaza hours after rockets were fired near Tel Aviv, raising fears of a major escalation in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Explosions were heard in
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ANKARA: An escalation of heavy air and artillery strikes on Idlib in northwestern Syria on Wednesday night has raised doubts over the future of the Astana deal between Turkey,
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GAZA CITY: Mohammed Ishtayeh, the man charged with forming a new Palestinian government, faces many challenges. Carrying the “heavy legacy” of predecessor Rami Hamdallah, who headed the national
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ANKARA: An escalation of heavy air and artillery strikes on Idlib in northwestern Syria on Wednesday night has raised doubts over the future of the Astana deal between Turkey,
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Venezuela has plunged into a major political crisis amid a growing row over President Nicolas Maduro's future as the country's leader. Maduro started a second term on January
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Members of the US Congress, activists and families of detainees have slammed Saudi Arabia's human rights record while urging the United States government to take action. The murder
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At least six people have died and 31 others wounded when a pedestrian bridge collapsed near Mumbai's main train station, the latest accident to highlight creaking infrastructure in
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BRUSSELS: The United Nations will seek billions of dollars in additional aid for Syria on Thursday, seeking to overcome fatigue among donors after eight years of civil war
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BRUSSELS: International donors pledged nearly $7 billion in aid for 2019 for civilians caught up in Syria's bloody civil war, the EU said Thursday, but the total fell short
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ALGIERS: Algeria's new prime minister said on Thursday he would form a temporary government of technocrats and others to work towards political change in response to weeks of
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Britain's parliament has voted in favour of delaying the UK's departure from the European Union by three months, pending approval of Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal within
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Washington, DC - The US Senate has voted 59-41 to reverse President Donald Trump's emergency declaration to spend $8bn to build a wall on its border with Mexico.
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Eight years ago this week, 15 Syrian teenagers were arrested and tortured for spraying anti-government graffiti on a school wall. That was the beginning of an uprising that
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BRUSSELS: The United Nations will seek billions of dollars in additional aid for Syria on Thursday, seeking to overcome fatigue among donors after eight years of civil war
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BRUSSELS: International donors pledged nearly $7 billion aid for 2019 for civilians caught up in Syria's bloody civil war, the EU said Thursday, but the total fell short of
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BRUSSELS: The UN agency that supports Palestinian refugees said on Thursday it needed $1.2 billion in funding for 2019 as it faced its first full year without US
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Qatari broadcaster beIN Sports has said it will take legal action against the Asian Football Confederation (AFC), accusing the governing body of breaching a multi-million-dollar rights deal by
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Authorities are investigating an errant raid by the United States forces on an Afghanistan military base in the southern part of the country that killed at least five
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Nigerian officials have called off search-and-rescue efforts a day after a building, with a school on the third floor, collapsed in Lagos with an unknown number of people
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ISTANBUL: Turkey and Russia are discussing a “coordination center” to better manage their operations in Syria’s rebel-controlled Idlib province, Turkey’s defense minister said.Regime ally Russia and Turkey, which
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ISTANBUL: Turkey and Russia are discussing a “coordination center” to better manage their operations in Syria’s rebel-controlled Idlib province, Turkey’s defense minister said.Regime ally Russia and Turkey, which
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CAIRO: School bus drivers, rail workers and university students in Egypt face more compulsory drug tests in the wake of last month’s deadly train crash at in Cairo.
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Northern Irish prosecutors on Thursday charged a former British soldier with murder over the "Bloody Sunday" killings of 1972. The evidence was insufficient to charge 16 other former
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The head of the Saudi human rights commission said on Thursday that the kingdom was bringing those accused over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi to justice and
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London, United Kingdom - After rejecting Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal with the European Union for the second time in two months, MPs have now voted against a
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RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: A spokesman for Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas has criticized a US move to no longer refer to the West Bank, Gaza Strip and Golan Heights
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