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A lawyer for the family of runaway British teenager Shamima Begum, who left London to join ISIL in Syria but now wants to return home, says UK authorities plan
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Egyptian authorities denied entry to a veteran New York Times reporter without explanation, the latest move in the country's crackdown on free speech and the media. David Kirkpatrick,
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The death toll from an attack last week by gunmen in northwestern Nigeria has doubled to more than 130, the Kaduna state governor has said. The attack appeared
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The Trump administration is bypassing the United States Congress to advance the sale of US nuclear power plants to Saudi Arabia, despite concerns it would violate US law
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An Italian Senate committee voted on Tuesday to block an investigation into accusations of kidnapping against Deputy Prime Minister Matteo Salvini over his decision to hold 150 migrants
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Iran has said it has evidence that last week's attack on the Revolutionary Guard was planned inside Pakistan. Pakistan has denied the attack was planned from its territory
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Troop withdrawal in Yemen's Hodeidah could start Tuesday, Wednesday: UN envoy Griffiths LONDON: A redeployment of forces in Yemen's Hodeidah by the warring parties could start "possibly even
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CAIRO: The death toll from a late-night suicide blast near Cairo’s famed tourist market rose to three on Tuesday after a police officer died of his wounds, Egyptian
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NEW YORK: Yemen’s government and the Houthi militias have agreed on the first stage of a mutual pullout of forces from the port city of Hodeidah, a key
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Bangladeshi authorities have blocked almost 20,000 websites as part of an anti-pornography "war", a minister said on Tuesday. Internet providers in the conservative Muslim-majority nation took down pornography
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Abuja, Nigeria - Okiti Erhovwo, a physiologist and relationship coach, planned his wedding for March 9 after considering the scheduled dates of the general elections. The presidential and
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The suicide bomber who killed 27 members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard last week was a Pakistani, a senior commander for the force has alleged. Two other members of
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BEIJING: The foreign ministers of China and Iran met in Beijing on Tuesday amid efforts to preserve the 2015 nuclear deal with Tehran.No details were immediately released about
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DUBAI: Six Houthis were killed and four injured when a landmine they were laying detonated in Al-Dhabbab village, west of Taiz province on Monday, Saudi state-news agency SPA reported.
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KHARTOUM: Sudanese protester Osman Sulaiman has taken to the streets of Khartoum chanting “overthrow, overthrow” almost daily since demonstrations erupted against President Omar Al-Bashir’s iron-fisted rule in December.And
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US Senator Bernie Sanders has announced he is running for the presidency, launching a second bid for the White House after a surprisingly strong run for the Democratic
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Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has said India "levelled allegations against Pakistan without any evidence" after New Delhi accused its spy agency of involvement in last week's deadly attack
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Haute-couture designer Karl Lagerfeld has died aged of 85 at the American Hospital of Paris. Chanel, where Lagerfeld was creative director, confirmed the death of the iconic couterier.
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SINJAR, Iraq: Ever since Daesh visited death and destruction on their villages in northern Iraq nearly five years ago, Yazidis Daoud Ibrahim and Kocher Hassan have had trouble
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AT-TUWANI, West Bank: Young American rabbinical students are doing more than visiting holy sites, learning Hebrew and poring over religious texts during their year abroad in Israel.In a
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AT-TUWANI, West Bank: Young American rabbinical students are doing more than visiting holy sites, learning Hebrew and poring over religious texts during their year abroad in Israel.In a
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Honda has said it plans to close its car factory in western England in 2021, imperiling 3,500 jobs in a fresh blow to the British economy as it
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Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan said on Tuesday India "levelled allegations against Pakistan without any evidence" after New Delhi accused Pakistani spy agency of involvement in last week's
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A policeman has died of his wounds sustained in an explosion that took place in Cairo, raising the death toll in the incident to three, police said on
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NEW YORK: Yemen’s government and the Houthi militias have agreed on the first stage of a mutual pullout of forces from the port city of Hodeidah, a key
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The founder of Chinese telecommunications equipment giant Huawei has said the United States cannot defeat his company's global ambitions. "There is no way the US can crush us,"
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Who still remembers, or cares to remember, or cares at all about the "Salman Rushdie affair"? Thirty years ago, on Valentine's Day, February 14, 1989, the late
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