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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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ABU DHABI: On the margins of the Milken Institute’s second MENA Summit, I had a chance to sit down with Michael Milken. We had a conversation about his journey
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The United States no longer refers to the Golan Heights as an "Israeli-occupied" territory in its latest annual human rights report, published on Wednesday, though the State Department
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A deadly form of plague has broken out on Uganda's border with Democratic Republic of Congo and several people are thought to have died of the disease, the
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The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) say the battle against the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) in Baghouz is as good as
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ABU DHABI: On the margins of the Milken Institute’s second MENA Summit, I had a chance to sit down with Michael Milken. We had a conversation about his journey
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ABU DHABI: On the margins of the Milken Institute’s second MENA Summit, I had a chance to sit down with Michael Milken. We had a conversation about his journey
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CAIRO: Lakhdar Brahimi, the veteran diplomat who is expected to steer Algeria’s political transition after mass protests, has won respect from foreign leaders and his country’s political elite during
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At least 115 people have been killed in Mozambique, Malawi and South Africa after heavy rains affected 843,000 people across southeast Africa, officials and the UN said, prompting
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More than 100 schools in Malaysia were closed after the dumping of toxic waste into a river caused hundreds of people to fall ill, including many children. A
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In the ongoing struggle to reclaim their homeland, the Palestinian Authority has always seen occupied East Jerusalem as the future capital of a Palestinian state, but the situation
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LONDON: A prominent British MP has called for an investigation into Qatar hosting the 2022 World Cup after a poll revealed that more than nine in 10 football
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LONDON: A prominent British MP has called for an investigation into Qatar hosting the 2022 World Cup after a poll revealed that more than nine in 10 football
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AMMAN: The Syrian army, aided by Russian warplanes, attacked rebel-held towns in northwestern Syria on Wednesday in the most extensive bombardment in weeks against the last remaining rebel
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London, England - With just over two weeks to go until the Brexit deadline, the British parliament has signalled that it is strongly against leaving the European Union
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From the US to Australia, a raft of countries and airlines across the world have moved to ground Boeing 737 MAX aircraft following a deadly plane crash in
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Boeing has recommended a temporary suspension of its "entire global fleet" of the 737 MAX aircraft after several countries, including the US, banned their use in the wake
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WASHINGTON: White House advisers recommended on Wednesday that President Donald Trump veto a resolution to end Washington's support for the military campaign in Yemen.The White House statement of
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UNITED NATIONS: Security Council members said envoy Martin Griffiths reported no progress Wednesday in getting the warring parties in Yemen to withdraw their forces from the key port
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AMMAN: The Syrian army, aided by Russian warplanes, attacked rebel-held towns in northwestern Syria on Wednesday in the most extensive bombardment in weeks against the last remaining rebel
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Boeing has recommended a temporary suspension of it's "entire global fleet" of the 737 MAX aircraft after several countries, including the US, banned their use in the wake
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China has put on hold a request by Britain, France and the United States to add the leader of a Pakistan-based armed group behind a suicide attack in
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As the speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, called MPs to "Order! Order!" before the result of yesterday's vote on Theresa May's Brexit Deal was announced,
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WASHINGTON: White House advisers recommended on Wednesday that President Donald Trump veto a resolution to end Washington's support for the military campaign in Yemen.The White House statement of
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ALGIERS: Algeria’s government is ready for dialogue with the opposition, its Deputy Prime Minister said on Wednesday, after President Abdelaziz Bouteflika reversed a decision to seek a fifth
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DUBAI: Karen Pence, the wife of Vice President Mike Pence, is in the UAE for the Special Olympics.She traveled to Abu Dhabi for the start of the Special
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Since March 2011, fighting in Syria has killed an estimated 465,000 people, injured more than one million, and forced about 12 million people - or half the country's pre-war
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