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Saudi Arabia’s war on journalism
It's been more than a month since the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, which Riyadh has admitted was a "rogue operation". But, given the ensuing geopolitical public relations disaster, one might have thought
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Key Israel minister slams Netanyahu, but won’t quit government
Israeli Education Minister Naftali Bennett has said he will keep his party in government, making an early election less likely. In a dramatic press conference on Monday, Bennett, who heads the far-right, pro-settler Jewish
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Yemeni army advance west of Taiz in operation to cut off Houthi militia supply routes
ASTANA: Russia, Iran and Turkey will hold the next round of talks on Syria's conflict on November 28-29 in the Kazakh capital Astana, Kazakhstan's foreign minister said on Monday."The participants plan to discuss the
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Saudi King Salman silent on Khashoggi in annual Shura address
Saudi Arabia's King Salman bin Abdulaziz has addressed the kingdom's Shura Council but failed to mention the case of murdered Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi. Speaking to the council in a televised address on Monday,
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World Toilet Day 2018
A UN-recognised event, World Toilet Day on November 19, aims to raise awareness about poor sanitation and defecation in the open. An estimated 2.3 billion people worldwide are without toilets to safely dispose of
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Taliban holds talks with US envoy in Qatar
Taliban officials have held three days of talks with the United States' special representative for Afghanistan in Qatar, Zalmay Khalilzad, aimed at renewing the peace process in the war-torn country, an official of the
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My Soviet scar: Confronting architecture of oppression
Georgia was born as an independent post-Soviet republic just four years after me, so in a sense, we grew up together. We both had to learn everything from scratch, make painful mistakes and navigate
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Hong Kong pro-democracy activists plead not guilty
Three leading Hong Kong pro-democracy campaigners have pleaded not guilty to public nuisance charges over their involvement in massive rallies in 2014 calling for political reform in the Chinese territory. The pioneering trio are
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Netanyahu says new Israel elections would be ‘irresponsible’
DUBAI/LONDON: British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt arrived in Tehran on Monday for the first time since taking office to hold talks with Iranian authorities on issues including the future of the 2015 nuclear deal,
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UK’s Hunt lands in Iran to discuss nuclear deal, bilateral issues
DUBAI/LONDON: British Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt arrived in Tehran on Monday for the first time since taking office to hold talks with Iranian authorities on issues including the future of the 2015 nuclear deal,


