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A humanitarian group has warned that a ceasefire agreed in Yemen's key port city of Hodeidah is on the verge of collapsing, as a retired Dutch general in
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Ukraine's President Petro Poroshenko will run for a second term in office in the upcoming elections scheduled to take place in April. The 53-year-old, a confectionary magnate and one of
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Italy's Interior Minister Matteo Salvini said he'll allow 49 migrants on board a rescue vessel into the country on condition they will immediately be transferred to the Netherlands.
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Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has blamed two suicide bombers from the armed Abu Sayyaf group, for carrying a deadly attack inside a Catholic church in the southern island
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More than 30,000 people fled the Nigerian town of Rann over the weekend amid fears of renewed attacks by the Boko Haram armed group, according to the United
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LONDON: Iran has no intention to increase the range of its missiles, but will continue working on its satellite technology to improve accuracy, the secretary of Iran’s national
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DAMASCUS: Syria and Iran signed 11 agreements and memoranda of understanding late Monday, including a “long-term strategic economic cooperation” deal aimed at strengthening cooperation between Damascus and one
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DAMASCUS: Syria and Iran signed 11 agreements and memoranda of understanding late Monday, including a “long-term strategic economic cooperation” deal aimed at strengthening cooperation between Damascus and one
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Pakistan's Supreme Court has upheld the acquittal of a Christian woman charged with blasphemy, standing by its earlier verdict that sparked days of protests, death threats and nationwide
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Pakistan is building a security barrier along its north-western border with Afghanistan. A third of the 2,600-kilometre fence has already been completed. Pakistan says it has also installed
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The UN human rights investigator leading the international inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi is meeting Istanbul's chief prosecutor on Tuesday. Special Rapporteur Agnes Callamard, on
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KHARTOUM: President Omar Al-Bashir vowed on Monday to bring peace in the state of South Kordofan where Sudanese forces are fighting rebels, as protesters planned to hold anti-government rallies
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DAMASCUS: Syria and Iran signed 11 agreements and memoranda of understanding late Monday, including a “long-term strategic economic cooperation” deal aimed at strengthening cooperation between Damascus and one
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Earlier this month, India sparked panic among its long-suffering Rohingya refugee population by deporting a family of five to their home country of Myanmar, where they will most
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Malaysia has unveiled an ambitious five-year plan to clamp down on corruption in government, months after a multi-billion-dollar graft scandal brought down the previous administration. The plan, launched
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Hamad al-Mansouri was sitting at a shisha cafe in Beirut watching his national Qatari football team take on South Korea in the quarter-finals of the AFC Asian Cup
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BRUSSELS: Iran is likely to expand its cyber espionage activities as its relations with Western powers worsen, the EU digital security agency said on Monday. Iranian hackers are behind
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DUBAI: Bahrain insisted Monday on the extradition from Thailand of a footballer convicted for a terrorism offense. Hakeem Al-Araibi was jailed in absentia in 2014 for 10 years
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SOUSA: Kurdish-led fighters pressed their assault against the Daesh group in eastern Syria Monday, boxing the extremists into a tiny last pocket of land along the Euphrates River.Bad
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The administration of US President Donald Trump has imposed sanctions on Venezuela's state-owned oil company, Petroleos de Venezuela SA (PDVSA), its harshest economic punishment to date against the
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The US Department of Justice has unveiled sweeping charges against Chinese tech giant Huawei, two of its subsidiaries and a top executive, who are accused of misleading banks about
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A Canadian Jewish organisation has been stripped of its charity status following a government audit which found it provided support to the Israeli armed forces, Canadian Global News
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SOUSA: Syrian opposition activists said on Monday scores of civilians and fighters have evacuated the Daesh’s last major stronghold in Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
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SOUSA: Syrian opposition activists said on Monday scores of civilians and fighters have evacuated the Daesh’s last major stronghold in Syria. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said
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HEBRON, West Bank: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Monday he would eject a foreign force set up to help safeguard Palestinians in a flashpoint city in
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Tokyo, Japan - It is a bare, unheated room whose minimal interior details are confined to a bed, a toilet, an iron-barred window and a door without a
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The United States on Monday imposed sweeping sanctions on Venezuelan state-owned oil firm PDVSA, the toughest US financial measure so far against Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. The move
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