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Afghanistan: Several killed in Taliban car bomb attack in Ghazni
Taliban fighters killed at least eight security personnel and six civilians in a car bomb attack in central Afghanistan that also wounded nearly 200 people - including dozens of children at a nearby school. The suicide
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Is it the end of populism in Greece?
Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras led his left-wing Syriza party to power in 2015, with promises that offered much hope to the Greek people. But fixing a country facing it's gravest economic crisis in recent
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Turkey’s Erdogan meets head of weakening Tripoli government Sarraj
ANKARA: The confidence of foreign investors in Turkey’s recession-hit economy is at stake following the surprise dismissal of the governor of the Central Bank by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Saturday.The four-year term of Gov. Murat
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Saudi, UAE aid has been deposited and will tackle development: Dagalo
KHARTOUM: Aid from Saudi Arabia and the UAE has been deposited into the Central Bank of Sudan and will be used to develop the country, the deputy chief of the ruling military council Gen. Mohamed Hamdan
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Anti-racists outnumber far-right Proud Boys at DC rally
Washington, DC - Counterprotesters outnumbered members of the far-right Proud Boys group and their supporters at a Saturday rally that took place a few blocks from the White House in Washington, DC. Despite a
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Qatar hosts intra-Afghan summit for peace talks with Taliban
Doha, Qatar - Afghan politicians, civil society activists and journalists are set to meet Taliban representatives in Qatar for an intra-Afghan summit that seeks to find lasting peace in war-torn Afghanistan. Qatar and Germany have sponsored the two-day
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UN Security Council calls for ceasefire in Libya
TEHRAN: Aficionados of Western classical music have carved out a niche for themselves in Iran, where cultural expression remains tightly controlled by strict rules imposed after the 1979 Islamic revolution. And perhaps surprisingly, musicians
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IAEA calls emergency meeting on Iran’s nuclear program
TEHRAN: Aficionados of Western classical music have carved out a niche for themselves in Iran, where cultural expression remains tightly controlled by strict rules imposed after the 1979 Islamic revolution. And perhaps surprisingly, musicians
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Rival rallies held on Venezuela’s independence day
Venezuela's bitterly divided political factions have held competing commemorations of the country's independence, one led by President Nicolas Maduro while the other by the self-proclaimed interim President Juan Guaido. Speaking to a gathering of
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‘Our revolution won’: Sudan’s opposition lauds deal with military
Sudan's ruling generals and a coalition of protest and opposition groups have reached an agreement to share power during a transition period until elections, in a deal that could break weeks of political deadlock since


