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Catholics flock to pope’s historic mass in UAE Worshippers from far and wide gathered in their tens of thousands to see Pope Francis Updated 3 min 51 sec
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is expected to declare near-total triumph over the Daesh group in Syria in his State of the Union address, but US defense officials are
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Senior Afghan politicians, including former President Hamid Karzai, and a Taliban delegation held 'fruitful' talks about the adoption of a new constitution, interim government and women rights at a
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A US federal probe found foreign meddling and hacking attempts had "no material impact" on the midterm congressional elections last year, despite reported hacking attempts. The statement on
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Good news on the economic front is always welcome. For US President Donald Trump, it arrived just in the nick of time. A week ago and a half
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WASHINGTON: The US urged other countries Monday to bring home hundreds of Daesh fighters captured in Syria, a delicate issue for allies such as France and Britain as President
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TRIPOLI: At least 69 municipal councils out of 120 in Libya may not hold elections in March due to a lack of funding by the UN-backed government, the head
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KHARTOUM: Sudan’s defense minister said on Monday that young people caught up in recent turmoil had “reasonable ambition,” the second apparently conciliatory gesture in three days from a
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ABU DHABI: The curtain fell on the historic visit of Pope Francis to the Arabian Peninsula at a Catholic mass in front of an estimated 180,000 worshippers in
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ABU DHABI: The curtain fell on the historic visit of Pope Francis to the Arabian Peninsula at a Catholic mass in front of an estimated 180,000 worshippers in
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ABU DHABI: The curtain fell on the historic visit of Pope Francis to the Arabian Peninsula at a Catholic mass in front of an estimated 180,000 worshippers in
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Teachers, lawyers, doctors and pharmacists took to the streets of Khartoum and other parts of the country on Tuesday as protests continue against President Omar al-Bashir's rule. Sudanese
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Slated to deliver the annual State of the Union address on Tuesday night, US President Donald Trump will renew calls for a wall on the US-Mexico border, less
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Elizabeth Warren have poked the B-hive. That's B as in billionaire! Higher taxes! On the rich. The two billionaires with presidential ambitions who are associated
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ABU DHABI: It was impossible not to be moved as Pope Francis entered Sheikh Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, ripples of excitement among the worshippers building
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ABU DHABI: It was impossible not to be moved as Pope Francis entered Sheikh Zayed Sports City Stadium in Abu Dhabi, ripples of excitement among the worshippers building
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ISTANBUL: Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said he had not yet seen an acceptable plan for the creation of a safe zone in northeastern Syria, three weeks after US
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Madrid, Spain - Six of the nine jailed Catalan pro-independence leaders have asked for a three-week delay in their trial over the bid to make the region independent from Spain. Lawyers
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The Central African Republic (CAR) initialled a peace deal with 14 armed groups on Tuesday following two weeks of talks in the Sudanese capital, Khartoum. The peace deal
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The Taliban has killed at least 47 people in separate attacks in Afghanistan, despite the beginning of peace talks with Afghan officials in Moscow. The armed group launched
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is expected to declare near-total triumph over the Daesh group in Syria in his State of the Union address, but US defense officials are
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WASHINGTON: President Donald Trump is expected to declare near-total triumph over the Daesh group in Syria in his State of the Union address, but US defense officials are
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MOSUL: Ashraf Al-Atraqji carefully stepped around tufts of weeds sprouting in a mountain of rubble in Iraq’s Mosul, found a seat on a sun-soaked rock, and struck a
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The Taliban have killed at least 21 people in their latest attacks in Afghanistan, despite the beginning of peace talks with Afghan officials in Moscow. Among the dead
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The US president will give his second State of the Union Address on Tuesday. Donald Trump was initially scheduled to deliver his speech in January but Speaker of
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Heavy rain and melting snow caused rivers to burst their banks and cause flooding across Bosnia, damaging houses and blocking roads. A bridge in the capital, Sarajevo, collapsed
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ABU DHABI: He may have arrived at Sheikh Zayed Grand Mosque in a Kia, but surely even this most humble of pontiffs could not fail to have been
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