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Warsaw, Poland - A US-led summit on peace and security in the Middle East will take place in Warsaw on Wednesday and Thursday. The meeting was first announced
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Washington, DC - Days away from another possible government shutdown, Maria can't imagine facing another one. The 43-year-old law clerk and mother of one spent the last month
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OMAR OIL FIELD, Syria: US-backed forces pressed the battle to expel diehard militants from the last pocket of land under their control in eastern Syria on Tuesday after
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RAMALLAH: The United States has denied accusations it is pressuring banks to stop dealing with the Palestinian government, whose relations with Washington have been plummeting.Several Palestinian officials have
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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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At least 16 civilians, including seven children, were killed in air attacks launched by a US-backed coalition aiming to capture ISIL's last enclave in eastern Syria. Fighter jets fired
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Lagos, Nigeria - A fear of violence has gripped many in Nigeria days before the presidential and legislative elections on February 16 with at least five deaths reported so far
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Efforts by Russia and China to develop space technologies are challenging US dominance in the space race and threaten to cripple its galactic security supremacy, a new report
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CAIRO: Egypt says archaeologists have uncovered an ancient workshop used to build and repair ships that dates back to the Ptolemaic era (332 B.C.-30 B.C.) in the Sinai
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ISTANBUL: A car bomb exploded at a checkpoint on the outskirts of the Syrian town of al-Rai near the Turkish border on Tuesday, residents and an emergency worker told
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OMAR OIL FIELD, Syria: US-backed forces pressed the battle to expel diehard militants from the last pocket of land under their control in eastern Syria on Tuesday after
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A number of Israeli and international companies are facing the risk of being included on a United Nations blacklist for doing business in Israeli settlements in the occupied
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London, United Kingdom - British Prime Minister Theresa May sought to buy more time to achieve a Brexit deal with the European Union in a statement to MPs
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Politicians have failed to grasp the severity of human impacts on the environment, which have reached a critical stage and threaten to destabilise society and the international economy,
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ISTANBUL: Turkey launched on Tuesday one of its largest operations against alleged supporters of the US-based Muslim cleric accused of leading an attempted coup in 2016, ordering the
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OMAR OIL FIELD, Syria: US-backed forces pressed the battle to expel diehard militants from the last pocket of land under their control in eastern Syria on Tuesday after
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The Berlin International Film Festival is under way. Dozens of films are screened during the Berlinale, a festival known for its political cinema, and the one judged best
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Melbourne, Australia - Friends, family and campaigners are celebrating Hakeem al-Araibi's return home to the Australian city of Melbourne after Thailand freed the refugee footballer who had been
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The people of Nigeria will vote for their new government on Saturday. Nigerian President Muhammadu Buhari won the election in 2015, promising to fight corruption and the armed
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JAKARTA: An Indonesian militant who appeared on a Daesh propaganda video showing the execution of a hostage and was said to be close to the militant group’s leader
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BAGHDAD: Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday for an unannounced trip that he said would emphasize the importance of Iraqi sovereignty and broach
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BAGHDAD: Acting US Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan arrived in Baghdad on Tuesday for an unannounced visit during which he said he would stress the importance of Iraqi sovereignty
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"There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen," Vladimir Ilych Lenin famously said. Sometimes decades get condensed into one single day, which changes
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Australia's conservative minority government has suffered a monumental political defeat after MPs voted on a bill that would allow refugees held in offshore facilities the right to be transferred
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Snowfall in most parts of the Chinese capital, Beijing, has triggered a yellow alert for icy roads. The snowing started early on Tuesday after four days of subzero temperatures.
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BEIRUT: Lebanon will refuse to attend a Middle East security conference expected to focus on countering Iran’s malign role in the region, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said on
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BEIRUT: Lebanon will refuse to attend a Middle East security conference expected to focus on countering Iran’s malign role in the region, Foreign Minister Gebran Bassil said on
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