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Guatemala City - Beatriz Gonzalez was standing a few feet away from the ashes of a ceremonial fire on Thursday. Thirty-nine years ago, the fire was in the Spanish
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DEAD SEA, JORDAN: Top diplomats from Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Egypt and Jordan concluded talks on Thursday aimed at coordinating policy on the multiple conflicts
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Lebanon announced the formation of a government on Thursday eight months after elections and amid heightened fears of a major economic collapse. The Western-backed Prime Minister-designate Saad Hariri
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In her first press conference since a record-long partial government shutdown ended, top Democrat Nancy Pelosi renewed her party's vow that Democrats will not allocate funding to build
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A Kurdish asylum seeker has won one of the most important Australian literature prizes, the Victorian Prize for Literature. However, Iranian Kurd Behrouz Boochani was unable to accept the award personally
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Sudanese President Omar al-Bashir said on Thursday that his country was reopening its border with Eritrea, which has been shut for about a year.Sudan closed the border in
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DUBAI: Thousands of Catholics have been queuing for hours outside UAE churches, eagerly waiting to collect their tickets for Tuesday’s historic papal mass. Pope Francis will be the first
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DUBAI: Thousands of Catholics have been queueing for hours outside UAE churches, eagerly waiting to collect their tickets for Tuesday’s historic papal mass. Pope Francis will be the
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Nairobi, Kenya - After Anne Khasakalla suffered two stillbirths in 2014 and 2015, she looked for a solution that would provide her with better healthcare. Friends told her
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Karen ethnic people have gathered in eastern Myanmar to mark 70 years since the Karen National Liberation Army (KNLA) launched an armed campaign for self-determination against the government. Attempts
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The European Union has announced the setting up of a payment mechanism to secure trade with Iran and skirt US sanctions after Washington pulled out of the landmark nuclear deal last
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DUBAI: Thousands of Catholics have been queuing for hours outside UAE churches, eagerly waiting to collect their tickets for Tuesday’s historic papal mass. Pope Francis will be the first
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UNITED NATIONS: The UN Security Council on Wednesday endorsed the appointment of former Danish general Michael Lollesgaard to head the UN observer mission in war-wracked Yemen, diplomats said.Lollesgaard
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A charity ship carrying 47 rescued migrants docked in the Sicilian port of Catania after a two-week wait with the crew fearing legal action as Italy's far-right interior
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The European Union will set up a payment mechanism to secure trade with Iran and defy US sanctions after Washington pulled out of the landmark nuclear deal. The proposal of
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Six Arab foreign ministers have held a "consultative meeting" in Jordan on Thursday in a bid to unify their stances on regional crises, the Jordanian foreign minister has
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HADERA, Israel: A giant power plant with billowing smoke may not look like the most natural habitat for sea life. But the hot water gushing from an industrial
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VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis said he was looking to write a new page in the history of relations between religions with his visit to the United Arab Emirates
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Germany, France and Britain have officially set up a European mechanism to facilitate non-dollar trade with Iran and circumvent US sanctions, two diplomats said on Thursday.The EU has been
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A Filipina maid was executed in Saudi Arabia after being found guilty of murder. The 39-year-old was put to death on Tuesday and her family was notified the following
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US President Donald Trump called top US intelligence chiefs "extremely passive and naive" on Iran and dismissed their assessments of the threat posed by North Korea a day
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The Sudanese army said it will not allow the state to collapse following weeks of mass protests demanding an end to President Omar al-Bashir's near 30-year rule. Some
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DUBAI: Scientist or terrorist? The choice might seem extreme, but young Arabs are being urged to get involved in fields such as science and technology as part of a
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VATICAN CITY: When Francis becomes the first pope to visit the Arabian peninsula on Sunday, he takes another important step in his efforts to build bridges with Islam
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VATICAN CITY: When Francis becomes the first pope to visit the Arabian peninsula on Sunday, he takes another important step in his efforts to build bridges with Islam
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Mutraw, Myanmar - With a Myanmar government-backed peace process in deadlock, ethnic Karen political leaders and activists have declared thousands of square kilometers of land a "peace park"
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Some 45,000 homes across Sydney's eastern suburbs have been hit by power outages amid a heatwave in the coastal city in southeastern Australia, with media reports of residents being trapped
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