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Billions of tonnes of meltwater flowing into the world's oceans from the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets could boost extreme weather and destabilise regional climate in a matter
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It has been turbulent days in the US state of Virginia. The three top elected officials of the state are embroiled in scandals involving race and sexual assault.
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Warsaw, Krakow - Poland - A wave of Poles moved to the United Kingdom after their country joined the European Union in 2004. Now, in the wake of Brexit
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Harrison Ford, Saad Hariri and Christine Lagarde among big names attending Dubai’s World Government Summit DUBAI: Actor Harrison Ford, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and IMF Chief Christine Lagarde
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Harrison Ford, Saad Hariri and Christine Lagarde among big names attending Dubai’s World Government Summit DUBAI: Actor Harrison Ford, Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri and IMF Chief Christine Lagarde
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JERUSALEM: Seeking re-election under a cloud of criminal investigations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks to be channeling his inner Donald Trump in an angry campaign against perceived
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A pro-Israel think-tank, the Middle East Forum, organised an event on Wednesday in Washington DC where speakers criticised Qatar for supporting Palestinian issues. Speakers at the Forum - set
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Violence between organised criminal gangs and the government in Mexico are being blamed for the disappearance of about 40,000 people. More than a thousand graves have already been
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The United Nations has warned against using aid as a pawn in Venezuela after the United States sent food and medicine to the country's border, and accused President
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JERUSALEM: Seeking re-election under a cloud of criminal investigations, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu looks to be channeling his inner Donald Trump in an angry campaign against perceived
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JERUSALEM, RAMALLAH: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s toughest election rival voiced openness on Wednesday to a future removal of settlements from the occupied West Bank, sparking debate over diplomacy
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GENEVA: Senior Iranian figures said on Wednesday that Syria was a top foreign policy priority and American troops should withdraw, as planned by US President Donald Trump. “Whether they
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A key US lawmaker has asked whether Congress should consider adding restrictions on weapons sales to the Saudi-UAE coalition in Yemen after a recent investigation said that US-made
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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday reassured coalition partners that the withdrawal of US troops from Syria was not "the end of America's fight" and called
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The last four years were the hottest since global temperature records began, the United Nations has confirmed, in an analysis that it said was a "clear sign of
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UNITED NATIONS: The United States blocked a draft United Nations Security Council statement on Wednesday that would have expressed regret at Israel’s decision to eject a foreign observer
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BAGHDAD: Iraq’s most powerful Shiite cleric joined criticism on Wednesday of President Donald Trump’s plan to keep US troops in Iraq to counter Iran. Iraq wants good relations
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ALGIERS: No matter who wins Algeria’s presidential election, 29-year-old cardiologist Moumen Mohamed plans to seek his fortune elsewhere. He is one of a growing number of young, educated Algerians
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The board of one of Hinduism's holiest temples has said it now supports allowing women of menstruating age to enter the ancient shrine in southern India, reversing its
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Rescue teams are searching for survivors after an eight-storey residential building collapsed in the Turkish city of Istanbul, killing at least two people. It was not immediately clear how
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Inspired by a similar crackdown in the Philippines, the president of Sri Lanka has said a decades-old moratorium on the death penalty will end within months with the hanging of drug
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CAIRO: Egyptian opposition parties have formed a coalition against proposed changes to the constitution that would allow President Abdel-Fattah El-Sisi to stay in office well beyond the end of
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BEIRUT: Doctors at two Cairo hospitals will pin blue ribbon badges to the clothing of newborn baby girls on Wednesday as they launch a campaign to persuade parents in
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ALGIERS: No matter who wins Algeria’s presidential election, 29-year-old cardiologist Moumen Mohamed plans to seek his fortune elsewhere. He is one of a growing number of young, educated Algerians
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San Antonio Secortez & Guatemala City - The plantations' outer edges begin fewer than 20km from where seven-year-old Jakelin Caal is buried. The deep green rows of oil
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Testimony by US President Donald Trump's former lawyer Michael Cohen before the House Intelligence Committee has been postponed until later this month, the panel said on Wednesday, the
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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that the World Bank Group should be led by US Treasury official David Malpass, a Trump loyalist and critic of multilateral
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