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On this week's The Listening Post: Taxes, inequality and media silence - a viral video brings all of these issues under the spotlight. Plus, a look at power,
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THE HAGUE, Netherlands: The global chemical weapons watchdog said Friday it found “reasonable grounds” that chlorine was used as a weapon in a deadly attack on the Syrian
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ALGIERS: Tens of thousands of people in cities across Algeria called on President Abdelaziz Bouteflika to leave office on Friday in the biggest anti-government demonstrations there since the
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Beirut, Lebanon - Tucked in a market square in downtown Beirut, the Paname Cafe caters to those with a taste for luxury. A large modern art sculpture sits
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The global chemical weapons watchdog has concluded that chlorine was likely used in an attack on the Syrian town of Douma last April. Inspectors at the Organisation for
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NASA and SpaceX are counting down to the launch of a new astronaut capsule on a week-long trip to the International Space Station and back, a key step
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DEIR EZZOR: Kurdish-led troops launched a final assault on Friday against diehard Daesh fighters clinging to the last sliver of their “caliphate” in eastern Syria. The Syrian Democratic
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KHARTOUM: Sudanese President Omar Al-Bashir has handed his powers as chief of the country’s ruling party to his newly appointed deputy, the party said late Thursday, weeks into
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Lebanese government faces first public dispute between Future Movement and Hezbollah BEIRUT: Former Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has responded to a campaign launched by Hezbollah accusing him of
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Benjamin Netanyahu is the first sitting Israeli Prime Minister to be put on official notice of a planned prosecution on charges of bribery, fraud and breach of trust.
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Syrian-Kurdish led forces are launching an assault on the last area still controlled by the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL or ISIS) armed group in Syria. The
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Saudi Arabia has stripped a son of deceased former al-Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden of his citizenship, the Saudi Foreign Ministry said in a statement published by state
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Lebanese government faces first public dispute between Future Movement and Hezbollah BEIRUT: Former Lebanese Prime Minister Fouad Siniora has responded to a campaign launched by Hezbollah accusing him of
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GAZA CITY: Israeli troops on Friday shot and wounded 17 Palestinians during a protest on the Gaza-Israel border, where rallies have been held for nearly a year, the
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GAZA CITY: Israeli troops on Friday shot and wounded 17 Palestinians during a protest on the Gaza-Israel border, where rallies have been held for nearly a year, the
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Cucuta, Colombia - Thousands of Venezuelans in search of food and medicine have entered Colombia through informal crossings after main border bridges were closed during last week's attempted aid delivery.
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The parents of an American college student who died following months of detention in North Korea rebuked US President Donald Trump on Friday, saying Kim Jong Un "and
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Srinagar, India-administered Kashmir - There is a running joke in Kashmir about India's differing statements regarding its rule in the disputed region. The joke, a part of Kashmiri
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Tens of thousands of protesters marched through Algeria on Friday against ailing President Abdelaziz Bouteflika's bid for a fifth term, the largest demonstrations in years. Police helicopters circled overhead as
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The Canadian government said on Friday it would allow an extradition hearing to proceed against the chief financial officer of Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, who was detained in
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At least 23 Afghan soldiers were killed in an attack on a military base in Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, officials said. The pre-dawn assault on Shorab military
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GENEVA: At least 84 people, two thirds of them children, have died since December on their way to al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria after fleeing Daesh in the
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GENEVA: At least 84 people, two thirds of them children, have died since December on their way to Al-Hol camp in northeastern Syria after fleeing Daesh in the
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The 1994 attack on the AMIA Jewish community centre killed 185 people and injured more than 300. A court in Argentina has cleared former President Carlos Menem of
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In the United States, Washington is still reeling after the testimony of President Trump's former lawyer, Michael Cohen, and its potentially devastating effect on the president. At a
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Sudan's embattled President Omar al-Bashir quit his position as chairman of the ruling party after more than two months of protests against his nearly three-decade rule, the party
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Historians in Georgia are fighting, what they say, the censorship of Soviet archives. Between the 1920s and 50s, tens of thousands of Georgians were executed or exiled by
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