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Amman, the capital of Jordan, is a fascinating city of contrasts – a unique blend of old and new, ideally situated on a hilly area between the desert and the ...
- PARIS: French President Emmanuel Macron on Sunday urged dozens of world leaders marking a century since the end of World War I to come together for a joint “fight for peace.”“Let us build our hopes rather than playing our fears against each other,” he told leaders gathered at the Arc ...
- JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has defended his decision to enable Qatar to bring $15 million into Hamas-controlled Gaza for salaries, saying it would calm tensions and prevent a Palestinian humanitarian crisis.Netanyahu’s remarks late Saturday were his first on the issue since Israel allowed the cash to be transferred ...
- DUBAI: Conditions are ripe for the “swift completion of the process of liberation” of Yemen from the control of the Houthis, the militia’s propaganda chief said a day after deserting the group. Speaking at a news conference in Riyadh on Sunday, Abdelsalam Jaber, the self-styled information minister, accused the Houthis ...
- BAGHDAD/FALLUJA, Iraq: At Baghdad’s grand but half-empty railway station, a single train is sputtering to life. It is the newly revived daily service to Falluja, a dusty town to the west once infamous as a Sunni insurgent stronghold. The driver and conductor assure that the tracks running through Anbar province ...
- ABU DHABI: The fifth Abu Dhabi Strategic Debate (ADSD) kicked off in the UAE capital on Sunday with opening remarks given by the country’s Minister of State for Foreign Affairs Dr Anwar Al Gargash. Gargash praised US President Donald Trump for America’s new sanctions imposed on Iran and condemned the country’s ...
- NASSIB, Syria: Near the recently reopened border with Jordan, former Syrian rebel fighter Bahaa Al-Masri sells date-filled pastries and sesame biscuits to Jordanians flocking across the frontier to snap up bargains.Syrian regime forces retook control of the Nassib border crossing from rebels in July, and last month reopened it after ...
- PARIS: US President Donald Trump and French President Emmanuel Macron insisted they were good friends Saturday after a dustup over their comments about European security threatened to divert attention from a weekend ceremony marking 100 years since the end of World War I. The American and French leaders, who have ...
- YANGON: Myanmar on Saturday denied allegations of a cross-border shooting that raised tensions with Bangladesh ahead of a scheduled start date for the repatriation of Rohingya refugees.The fresh diplomatic row started after a Bangladesh border guard official said that a 15-year-old Rohingya refugee was shot in the elbow on November ...
- NAIROBI, Kenya: Somali hospital and police sources say the death toll from Friday’s bombings outside a hotel in Mogadishu has risen to 53 with over 100 injured.Friday’s attack was the latest in a wave of bombings by Al-Shabab, an Al-Qaeda affiliate which has been fighting to overthrow the internationally-backed Somali ...
- DAMASCUS: A Syrian woman captured by Daesh said her eight-year-old son died in her lap after the extremists shot him and his cousin during a military operation to liberate them more than 100 days after they were kidnapped. Najwa Abu Ammar, 35, was kidnapped with her two sons and daughter and ...
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Myanmar denies border shooting as Rohingya repatriation date nears
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Freed Daesh captive says son died in her lap from militant gunfire
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More sanctions likely on Iranian regime, says US national security adviser
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560 woman register to enter flashpoint Indian temple
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Turkey says it shared recordings of conversations related to Khashoggi with Riyadh, US and others
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