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NEAR BAGHOUZ, Syria: A car bombing killed 20 people near the main base of US-backed Syrian forces on Thursday as fighters tried to negotiate the release of civilians
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The International Olympic Committee has suspended all Indian applications to host future events and urged international sports federations not to stage competitions in the country after two Pakistanis
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Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega has said he would resume dialogue with opposition leaders who are calling for early elections, after nearly a year grappling with one of the country's
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The United States will leave around 200 troops in Syria for a period of time, the White House has announced, as President Donald Trump backed away from a complete
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WASHINGTON: The United States will leave “a small peacekeeping group” of 200 American troops in Syria for a period of time after a US pullout, the White House
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RAQQA: Two feet deep, below a plot of farmland outside the Syrian city of Raqqa, lies a large and deadly legacy of Daesh: A mass grave holding an
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LONDON: A Qatar Airways flight from Doha to Lagos, Nigeria was diverted to Khartoum, Sudan for unknown reasons on Thursday. According to data from the aircraft-tracking website FlightRadar24, the Qatar
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North Korea has warned it is facing a food shortfall of some 1.4m tonnes this year and has been forced to almost halve rations, blaming high temperatures, drought,
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Bangkok, Thailand - With Thailand's long-delayed elections just over a month away, a court ruling is expected to deal a major blow to parties loyal to ousted ex-Prime Minister
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The world's largest bee, which had not been documented by scientists since 1981, has been rediscovered by a team of conservationists and international researchers in a remote part of Indonesia.
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PARIS: A top French Daesh jihadist who became notorious after voicing an audio recording claiming responsibility for the November 2015 attacks in Paris has been killed in an overnight
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ISTANBUL: A group of lawyers on Thursday gathered outside Istanbul’s main courthouse to protest against an appeal court’s upholding the convictions of former journalists and executives from opposition
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RAQQA: Two feet deep, below a plot of farmland outside the Syrian city of Raqqa, lies a large and deadly legacy of Daesh: A mass grave holding an
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Sao Paulo, Brazil - The Kayapo, a Brazilian Amazon indigenous group, is mobilising to protect its land rights as the government works to launch an ambitious soy railway project
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A new lawsuit, filed on Thursday, accused US immigration agencies, including Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), of using excessive force, violence and racially profiling workers during a raid
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Last year, on February 21, Slovak investigative journalist Jan Kuciak and his fiancee, archaeologist Martina Kusnirova, were murdered in their home in Vel'ka Maca, a small village 28 miles
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PARIS: A top French Daesh jihadist who became notorious after voicing an audio recording claiming responsibility for the November 2015 attacks in Paris has been killed in an overnight
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SOHAG, Egypt: Nesma Ghanem is hoping for a fourth child even though her doctor says her body can’t handle a pregnancy at the moment. She has three daughters
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Is a spate of terror incidents in Egypt a ‘last dance’ for militants or a failure in security operations CAIRO: Three terrorist attacks in the space of as
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President Nicolas Maduro said Venezuela would shut its border with Brazil on Thursday "until further notice" amid a tense standoff with US-backed opposition leader Juan Guaido over allowing
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The rise of biotechnology means that for more people even the most cutting-edge smartphones are becoming out of date. Having a microchip inserted under the skin is increasingly
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Lahore, Pakistan - Qasim Hussain, a vegetable vendor, was hopeful of celebrating Basant this year after Pakistan's provincial government of Punjab announced the lifting of a 13-year-old ban
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Is a spate of terror incidents in Egypt a ‘last dance’ for militants or a failure in security operations CAIRO: Three terrorist attacks in the space of as
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JERUSALEM: The US ambassador to Israel on Thursday urged deeper business ties between Israeli settlers and Palestinian businessmen in the occupied West Bank, angering Palestinian leaders.David Friedman, who
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British minister emphasizes Saudi Arabia’s important role in Yemen peace process LONDON: British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt highlighted Wednesday the “strategic partnership” between Britain and Saudi Arabia and
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Teachers in Oakland, California, walked out of their classrooms on Thursday in the latest strike by US educators over classroom conditions and pay. The city's 3,000 teachers are
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Two young Saudi sisters in Hong Kong said Thursday they had been intercepted by kingdom officials at the city's airport while attempting to escape to Australia, in the
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