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Senator Elizabeth Warren has said she will run for president, adding a fierce advocate of economic populism to an already crowded field of Democrats in the United States
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CAIRO: Nearly six years after the African Union (AU) shut it out in the cold, Egypt will take the organization’s helm — and strengthening multilateral powers is unlikely
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CAIRO: Nearly six years after the African Union (AU) shut it out in the cold, Egypt will take the organization’s helm — and strengthening multilateral powers is unlikely
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BEIRUT: US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian forces said Saturday they have launched a final push to defeat Daesh in the last tiny pocket the extremists hold in eastern Syria.Syrian
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Turkey has condemned China's treatment of its Muslim ethnic Uighur people as "a great cause of shame for humanity" and asked it to close the "concentration camps". In
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A Christian woman acquitted of blasphemy after spending eight years on death row in Pakistan has been transferred from a secret location near the capital to another in
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More than 500 people have died from the latest Ebola outbreak in DR Congo, but a vaccination programme has prevented thousands more deaths, the country's health minister said.
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ALGIERS: Algeria's ruling party FLN has picked President Abdelaziz Bouteflika as its candidate for the April 18 presidential election, party leader Moad Bouchareb said on Saturday.Bouteflika, 81, who
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Moroccan FM says news of ambassadors’ withdrawal from Saudi Arabia, UAE is unfounded The Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs said that the news of his country withdrawing its
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Moroccan FM says news of ambassadors’ withdrawal from Saudi Arabia, UAE is unfounded The Moroccan Minister of Foreign Affairs said that the news of his country withdrawing its
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Six horses have been diagnosed with equine flu, with three confirmed cases in Britain. All of the horses are from the same stable, but the highly contagious virus
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US-backed and Kurdish-led Syrian forces say they have begun the final push to defeat the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS) group in
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In 1979, Ayatollah Khomeini returned to Iran from exile in France. Paris had hoped that Khomeini would bring democracy to Iran in 1979, but relations have soured. Still,
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Russia-backed rebels in eastern Ukraine accuse Kiev's forces of killing four separatists, while Ukraine announced the death of one soldier. Eduard Basurin, a senior rebel representative, told AFP
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At least 72 people have died and several others fallen sick from drinking illegally-brewed liquor containing toxic methanol in several villages in the northern India, officials said. At
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Experts in Italy are working to dismantle a bridge that partially collapsed in the city of Genoa six months ago. Forty-three people were killed in the disaster, which has
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JERUSALEM: A Palestinian suspected of having killed a young Israeli woman has been arrested in a raid in the West Bank city of Ramallah, an Israeli police spokesman
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JERUSALEM: A Palestinian suspected of having killed a young Israeli woman has been arrested in a raid in the West Bank city of Ramallah, an Israeli police spokesman
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Eight people have been killed over the Pacific coast of South America after heavy rain caused flooding and landslides. Three people were killed in Peru when mudslides hit two
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On The Listening Post this week: Heralded as the future of the media, digital news outlets suffer a round of mass layoffs. Plus, the journalistic life of Gabriel
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A former Miss Costa Rica has filed a criminal complaint against Nobel Peace Prize laureate and former President Oscar Arias, adding to a growing number of women lodging
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WASHINGTON: Palestinian officials will not attend next week's US conference hosted by Poland, chief Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat said on Friday after a US official said they had been invited."Regarding statements
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GAZA CITY: Israeli troops shot and killed two Palestinian teenagers on Friday as thousands held demonstrations along the perimeter fence separating Gaza and Israel.Hassan Shalabi, 14, was shot in
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Addis Ababa, Ethiopia - Leaders from across the continent are in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa city to attend an African Union (AU) summit, hoping to find a way to deal with the displacement crisis the
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Karachi, Pakistan - Set up in 2017, the Lyari Girls Cafe is located on the roof of a block of residential flats on a street called Phool Patti
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US President Donald Trump declined to meet a Friday deadline to report to the Senate on whether the White House believes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, also
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DUBAI: As “Sesame Street” celebrates its 50th anniversary, many Arabs are looking back on the influence that the show had on them throughout their childhood, particularly the Arabic
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