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Libyan coast guard intercepts Europe-bound migrants
JERUSALEM: Global financial institutions will attend a US-led conference on the Palestinian economy this month that the Trump administration has cast as an overture to its Middle East peace plan, the International Monetary Fund
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IMF expects global financial turnout at US-led Palestinian conference
JERUSALEM: Global financial institutions will attend a US-led conference on the Palestinian economy this month that the Trump administration has cast as an overture to its Middle East peace plan, the International Monetary Fund
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Life under occupation: Palestinians face land shortage
After 52 years of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, land remains at the heart of the conflict between Palestinians and Israelis. Palestinians say Israeli authorities are denying them
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Infantino re-elected FIFA president for four-year term
Gianni Infantino was re-elected as president of the football governing body FIFA for a four-year term until 2023. The 49-year-old Swiss national was elected by acclamation as the sole candidate at the FIFA Congress
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Syrian fighters burning crops, using food as ‘weapon of war’: UN
GENEVA: Fighters have set fire thousands of acres of wheat and other crops in northwest Syria in a campaign that has turned food supplies in a “weapon of war” and forced hundreds of thousands
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Roadside bomb north of Iraqi capital kills 4 security forces
JERUSALEM: Israel eased the fishing limit off the blockaded Gaza Strip on Tuesday, an official said, a week after cutting it in response to incendiary balloons.The limit has now been restored to a maximum
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Virginia beach shooting: US media coverage quickly fades
Within days of the latest mass shooting in the US, the media moved on. We look at what that means for the gun debate in the US.
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Saudi Arabia, Iran after the summits of discontent
Saudi Arabia hosted three summits last week - a Gulf, an Arab and an Islamic one - with one common goal: Confront and isolate Iran. All other urgent issues in the region, from the
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Israeli strike hits air base in Syria’s Homs: state media
DAMASCUS: Syria on Sunday accused Israel of targeting an air base in Homs province, in the second such attack in 24 hours.“Our air defenses thwarted an Israeli aggression and destroyed two of the rockets
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Iran president rules out talks until US acts ‘normal’
DAMASCUS: Syria on Sunday accused Israel of targeting an air base in Homs province, in the second such attack in 24 hours.“Our air defenses thwarted an Israeli aggression and destroyed two of the rockets


