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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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A fire at a hotel in New Delhi has killed at least 17 people, including a child, according to officials. The blaze erupted in the early hours of
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The political career of Thailand's Princess Ubolratana Rajakanya Sirivadhana Barnavadi lasted only three days, but in that time her declaration that she would be a candidate for prime
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Negotiators in the US Congress say they have reached an "agreement in principle" to fund the government and avoid another partial government shutdown. The emerging agreement was announced
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MOSCOW: Russia and Turkey’s defense ministers agreed on the need to take what they called decisive measures to stabilize the situation in Syria’s Idlib province during talks 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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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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Medan, North Sumatra - Musicians in Indonesia have slammed a new draft law seeking to criminalise content deemed pornographic or blasphemous, saying it could potentially limit freedom of
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Twitter has come under fire by right-wing groups in India after senior executives, including CEO Jack Dorsey, skipped a parliamentary committee meeting where it stood accused of a
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As US President Donald Trump plans a rally in the Texas border city of El Paso, Democratic and Republican negotiators in Congress are struggling to reach a deal
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BEIRUT: The Arab League said on Monday there was no consensus yet among member states that may allow the reinstatement of Syria’s membership which was suspended in 2011
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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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CAIRO: Hundreds of young Egyptians, including actress Mai El Gheity, trudged through the mud on the banks of the River Nile to collect tons of old plastic bags,
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Illinois' attorney general on Monday asked the state's highest court to review what prosecutors consider to be too lenient a sentence for the white Chicago police officer who
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Muslim-American Congresswoman Ilhan Omar "unequivocally" apologised on Monday for a tweet criticising a pro-Israel lobbyist group, after the post prompted a pile-on of criticism from Republicans and many
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Israel and Iran traded threats of mutual destruction on Monday as the Islamic Republic celebrated the 40th anniversary of its revolution. A commander from the Islamic Revolutionary Guard
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GAZA: Two Palestinians including a Hamas policeman suffocated to death from gas in a cross-border tunnel under Gaza’s frontier with Egypt, the enclave’s interior ministry said Monday.Interior ministry
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DUBAI: The UN special envoy to Yemen on Monday said the urgency of accessing grain stores trapped in a frontline position in the port city of Hodeidah was
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Head of the UN observer mission in Yemen arrives in Sanaa to meet Griffith and the Houthis DUBAI: Head of the UN observer mission in Yemen has arrived in Sanaa
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Food aid in a warehouse on the front lines of Yemen's war is at risk of rotting, leaving millions of Yemenis without access to life-saving sustenance, the UN
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Teachers in Denver, Colorado, walked out of their classrooms on Monday after failing to reach a deal with administrators on pay. The educator's strike, the first in the
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The UK economy has slowed to its weakest rate of growth in six years amid mounting uncertainty over Britain's impending departure from the European Union, official figures show
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NEAR BAGHOUZ: Syrian fighters backed by artillery fire from a US-led coalition battled a fierce extremist fightback Monday as they pushed to retake a last morsel of territory
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CAIRO: Egypt’s parliament has put a rush on voting on proposed constitutional amendments that would allow President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to stay in office well beyond his current term,
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CAIRO: Egypt’s parliament has put a rush on voting on proposed constitutional amendments that would allow President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to stay in office well beyond his current term,
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Melbourne, Australia - Members of the Uighur Muslim community in Australia are renewing calls for action from the government amid reports that a number of Australian permanent residents
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The world's insects are on the road to extinction and could vanish in 100 years, according to the first global review of decades of research into insect populations.
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