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Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - For a legion of armchair enthusiasts, the disappearance of MH370 is an opportunity to spin increasingly far-fetched conspiracy theories about what happened to the plane
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Jakarta, Indonesia - Psychologist Jackie Viemilawati wakes up at 5:30am every day to get her eight-year-old son, Noah, ready for school. She makes sure he showers and eats
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Bangkok, Thailand - "The country that points a gun at your throat. Claims to have freedom but no right to choose." Rap Against Dictatorship, a Thai hip-hop group,
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TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday appointed ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, a one-time presidential hopeful, as head of the judiciary, the leader’s website said.Former judge
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TEHRAN: Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Thursday appointed ultra-conservative cleric Ebrahim Raisi, a one-time presidential hopeful, as head of the judiciary, the leader’s website said.Former judge
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‘It’s a challenge’: Raya Al-Hassan, the Middle East’s first female interior minister BEIRUT: “What, it’s been two weeks? Wait, three weeks? No!” Lebanon and the Arab world’s first
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The US House of Representatives on Thursday voted to condemn anti-Semitism, anti-Muslim discrimination and other bigotry against minorities, with Democrats trying to push past a dispute that has
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Rights groups have voiced concern over the targeting of journalists, activists, and lawyers who have aided or represented migrants at the southern border by the United States government.
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Ilopango, El Salvador - Alba Lorena Rodriguez embraced her 11- and 14-year-old daughters as a free woman for the first time in nearly a decade on Thursday. Since
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LONDON: The Houthis have “killed the Stockholm Agreement” that they signed with the Yemeni government in Sweden last December, the Yemeni army’s spokesman Brig. Abdo Abdullah Majali said
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ALGIERS: Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika issued his first warning on Thursday to protesters who have taken to the streets in thousands to demand an end to his 20-year rule,
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The medical charity Doctors Without Borders has criticised the humanitarian response to the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo. It said not enough's been done to
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Israel's Central Elections Committee has disqualified an alliance of Palestinian-Israeli parties from running in next month's election. It follows a petition filed by the prime minister's Likud party
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Human-rights lawyers have urged the International Criminal Court (ICC) to open a preliminary investigation into alleged mass deportations by Syrian authorities, in an attempt to hold President Bashar
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NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria: US-backed Syrian forces prepared for another outpouring of civilians and suspected militants Thursday from the remnants of the Daesh group’s “caliphate,” which is teetering on
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US commander says fight against Daesh ‘far from over’ as suspected members leave Syrian holdout WASHINGTON: The battle against Daesh is "far from over" and the extremists remain unbroken and
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ANKARA, Turkey: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has dismissed US threats to cancel the sale of high-tech F-35 jets to Turkey, saying his country will move ahead with
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North Korea has attacked the ongoing joint military exercises between Seoul and Washington as an "open challenge" to the efforts towards peace on the Korean Peninsula. On Saturday,
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Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said on Thursday he had made mistakes in the handling of a political crisis that could dash his chances of winning re-election in
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Like chronic indigestion that refuses to go away, presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner is back causing much discomfort to the general public. "Kushner meets Saudi's MBS for the first
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BAGHDAD: An official with a mainly Shiite militia organization in Iraq says Daesh militants attacked a bus carrying the group’s forces in northern Iraq, killing six militiamen and
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BENGHAZI, Libya: Libya’s parallel government in the east has sold bonds worth more than $23 billion to fund its wage bill, bypassing the central bank in Tripoli and
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DUBAI: More than 30 Houthi militants, including a commander, were killed by Arab coalition raids aimed at militia reinforcements coming from Imran to the Hajar Front in the
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Multiple explosions have targeted a political gathering attended by Afghanistan's chief executive and a former president in the capital Kabul. The attack has left at least three people
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Every day, thousands of Venezuelan children journey into neighbouring Colombia to attend school. With border crossings closed, they have to find often dangerous routes just to receive an
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In the late 15th century, as Catholic monarchs Ferdinand II and Isabella I pushed to conquer territories in the Iberian Peninsula under Muslim rule, they launched a religious tribunal
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BAGHOUZ: Veiled women carrying babies and wounded men on crutches hobbled out of Baghouz on Wednesday after US-backed forces pummeled the last militant village in eastern Syria. The Syrian
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