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US military accuses Iranian forces of boarding Liberian-flagged civilian ship
DUBAI: For over a billion students around the world, something as mundane as going to school has been abruptly excised from their daily schedule for much of the academic year. Following the spread of
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Thai king stays silent on protesters’ call for reform of monarchy
Thailand's King Maha Vajiralongkorn has called for "order and peace" in the country but stayed silent about the recent anti-government student protests that have urged reforms of the powerful monarchy, as he swore in a
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US contractor told Lebanese port official of chemicals risk
DUBAI: Emirati and Sudanese authorities met to discuss cooperation in energy and infrastructure, state news agency WAM reported. UAE’s Minister of Energy and Infrastructure Suhail Al-Mazrouei, Sudan’s Minister of Energy and Mining Khairy Abdel
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LIVE: New Zealand defers parliament dissolution over coronavirus
The World Health Organization has not received enough information on the Russian COVID-19 vaccine to evaluate it, according to Jarbas Barbosa, the assistant director of its regional branch, the Pan American Health Organization. President
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Israel closes Gaza crossing after Palestinians launch incendiary balloons
DUBAI: The UAE has confirmed 179 new coronavirus cases in the past 24 hours after conducting 58,953 additional tests, state news agency WAM reported.The total number of people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19
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Timeline: How the new coronavirus spread
The World Health Organization (WHO) has declared a pandemic over a new coronavirus which causes an illness known as COVID-19 that has spread to nearly every country. The disease has killed more than 736,000 people and infected
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Egypt mulls law to protect women’s identities as MeToo movement escalates
DUBAI: The Jordanian government will intensify efforts to repatriate nationals, some of whom have been living in tough conditions after losing their jobs due to the coronavirus pandemic. The latest group of about 80
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Beirut police fire tear gas as protesters regroup: Live updates
International leaders joined a virtual donor conference led by France and the UN in the aftermath of the devastating explosion, pledging nearly $300m in humanitarian assistance that will be "directly delivered to the Lebanese
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Is France helping Lebanon, or trying to reconquer it?
BEIRUT: Lebanon’s information minister Manal Abdel Samad on Sunday quit in the first government resignation since a deadly port blast killed more than 150 people and destroyed swathes of the capital. “After the enormous


