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TEHRAN: Iranian human rights lawyer Nasrin Sotoudeh has been sentenced to an extra 10 years in jail on top of the five-year term she is already serving, her
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BAGHOUZ: Daesh was close to defeat in its final enclave on Tuesday after ferocious bombardments overnight and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said the offensive to capture
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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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London, United Kingdom - With the clock counting down to Britain's scheduled departure from the European Union, UK legislators have voted down embattled Prime Minister Theresa May's Brexit deal for a second
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Israeli forces have closed all entrances to occupied East Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex amid ongoing confrontation with Palestinian worshippers, a Palestinian official has said. "Dozens of Israeli
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RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian who ran at Israeli troops with a knife in the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday was shot
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JERUSALEM: Israeli police said Tuesday that undercover officers had broken up a drug-dealing network that used a popular messaging app and had connections in the United States, Ukraine
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BAGHOUZ: Daesh was close to defeat in its final enclave on Tuesday after ferocious bombardments overnight and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said the offensive to capture
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China has the world's largest number of internet users, around 829 million according to the government - that is twice the population of the United States. It also
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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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After 16 days of discussions, US and Taliban negotiators have wrapped up their longest round of talks yet hailing progress on some key issues - but without producing
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RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian who ran at Israeli troops with a knife in the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday was shot
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JERUSALEM: Israeli police said Tuesday that undercover officers had broken up a drug-dealing network that used a popular messaging app and had connections in the United States, Ukraine
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BAGHOUZ: Daesh was close to defeat in its final enclave on Tuesday after ferocious bombardments overnight and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said the offensive to capture
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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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Sao Paulo, Brazil - Two former police officers were arrested early on Tuesday morning in Rio de Janeiro over last year's murder of black activist and councilwoman Marielle
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Israeli forces have closed all entrances to occupied East Jerusalem's flashpoint Al-Aqsa Mosque complex amid ongoing confrontation with Palestinian worshippers, a Palestinian official has said. "Dozens of Israeli
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BAGHOUZ: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday 38 Daesh fighters were killed in a US-backed offensive against the extremists’ only remaining enclave in eastern Syria, after
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Yemen’s National Army killed 13 Iran-backed Houthi militants during clashes in Al-Jawf province on Monday. The militia were caught trying to infiltrate national posts in Al-Motoon discrict, according
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JERUSALEM: Israeli police said Tuesday that undercover officers had broken up a drug-dealing network that used a popular messaging app and had connections in the United States, Ukraine
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London, United Kingdom - With just over two weeks until the United Kingdom is due to leave the European Union, the British parliament is heading for a key
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Madhya Pradesh, India - Last July, 34-year-old rickshaw driver Rajkumar Pol was accused of sexually abusing a four-year-old girl he used to take to and from school in
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Singapore and Australia on Tuesday banned the use of Boeing 737 MAX aircraft in their airspace following a deadly plane crash in Ethiopia on Sunday. The Civil Aviation Authority of
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DUBAI: It is more than four years since Daesh terrorists overran large swathes of Syria and Iraq to declare a “caliphate” the size of Britain.Experts say the terror
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CAIRO: Three soldiers and 46 “very dangerous” militants have been killed in clashes in the northern and central Sinai peninsula, Egyptian authorities said on Monday. The military also
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ANKARA: The US plans to demand that allies hosting American troops cover the full cost of their deployment and pay an additional amount, Bloomberg reported on Friday. The idea,
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The Malaysian government is considering whether to shut, sell or refinance national carrier Malaysia Airlines, Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad told reporters on Tuesday. The government was studying options
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