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BEIRUT: The US delivered laser-guided rockets valued at more than $16 million to the Lebanese military on Wednesday, demonstrating what it said was Washington’s “firm and steady commitment”
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BEIRUT: The US delivered laser-guided rockets valued at more than $16 million to the Lebanese military on Wednesday, demonstrating what it said was Washington’s “firm and steady commitment”
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It remained unclear on Wednesday whether President Donald Trump would sign a government funding deal to avoid another partial government shutdown, less than a month after negotiators reached
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Glasgow, Scotland - The UK's decision to quit the EU in the 2016 Brexit referendum may have gone against the grain in Scotland, but it left one-million Scots on
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Twenty members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard were killed in a suicide attack in the southeast of the country on Wednesday. Ten members of the Guard were also
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WARSAW, Poland: The Mideast conference in Poland starting Wednesday offers Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an opportunity to flaunt in public what he has long boasted about happening
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WARSAW, Poland: The Mideast conference in Poland starting Wednesday offers Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an opportunity to flaunt in public what he has long boasted about happening
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WARSAW, Poland: The Mideast conference in Poland starting Wednesday offers Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu an opportunity to flaunt in public what he has long boasted about happening
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In fewer than 20 years, cricket in Afghanistan has gone from being an ordinary sport to holding a special place in the hearts and minds of many people.
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Madrid, Spain - The Spanish government is expected to announce snap elections after the minority Socialist government failed to pass a national budget during a Wednesday vote. Votes against
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Apple and Google are being pressed to remove an app that lets men track their wives and daughters in Saudi Arabia. In a letter addressed to the CEOs
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NEW YORK: The UN counterterrorism chief warned on Monday that recent losses by Daesh extremists “should not lead to complacency at any level,” saying the extremist group remains a
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TUNIS: Officials in Tunisia have been “dragging their feet” on efforts to repatriate Tunisian children of Daesh group members from camps in Syria, Iraq and Libya, Human Rights Watch
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DUBAI: Houthi militia have committed 1,112 violations since the Hodeidah agreement came into force on Dec. 18, 2018, leading to 76 civilian deaths and 492 injuries, according to
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On Wednesday, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) is set to decide reach a verdict on a bid by Iran to recover $2bn in frozen assets that the
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Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has said Silicon Valley companies, including his own, have not done enough to protect victims of online abuse, calling it a "huge fail". Interviewed
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As he turns his gaze to the 2022 elections, Trump's warnings over the United States turning socialist are growing even louder. But polls suggest that the president's message
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ANKARA: Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed Kurdish militant leader labelled the “nemesis” of the Turkish state, remains a highly influential figure in the Kurdish movement despite being cut off
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BEIRUT: Hezbollah urged Lebanon’s new government on Tuesday to negotiate with banks to restructure the country’s massive national debt. The unprecedented call by a Hezbollah member of Parliament
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ANKARA: Turkish authorities detained 729 people in nationwide raids Tuesday over alleged links to a group blamed for a failed coup in 2016, the Ankara public prosecutor’s office
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Two weeks before a second summit between the leaders of the United States and North Korea, the commander of US forces in South Korea has said he has
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Several people have been killed in a stampede at a rally in support of Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari's candidacy days before the country's presidential and legislative elections, his office
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Prime Minister Scott Morrison has said the Australian government would reopen its controversial offshore detention centre on Christmas Island, stepping up the conservative administration's hardline policies towards asylum
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KHARTOUM: Security forces arrested 14 professors who were gathering to protest outside Khartoum University on Tuesday, witnesses said, as anti-government demonstrations neared the end of their eighth week. Doctors
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KHARTOUM: Security forces arrested 14 professors who were gathering to protest outside Khartoum University on Tuesday, witnesses said, as anti-government demonstrations neared the end of their eighth week. Doctors
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JERUSALEM: On a Jerusalem plaza looking up at the Western Wall and the Dome of the Rock, a crowd gathers in front of two guides, listening attentively, a common
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Melbourne, Australia - As a toddler in a children's jail in Melbourne, Brian Morley cried relentlessly. Having been taken from his mother by the police in 1960, when
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