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World must revise stance on Saudi to end GCC crisis: analysts
London, England - The international community must revise its stance towards Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman to end the current Gulf crisis, experts of international law and Middle East politics told a conference in London on Thursday.
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Afghanistan: 29 security forces killed in multiple attacks
At least 37 people have been killed in night-time attacks across four provinces of Afghanistan, officials said. Twenty-nine police officers and members of the Afghan national army were killed in Taliban attacks in the
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Has Netanyahu won?
In this week's UpFront, we talk to Dore Gold, the former Israeli ambassdor to the United Nations (UN) and a close adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, about the political stalemate with the Palestinians
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Erdogan says Turkey came under ‘economic attack’
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has blamed an economic "attack" for the country's currency crisis. In a speech to officials from the ruling AK Party in Ankara on Friday, Erdogan said Turkey had "faced
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South Africa poverty levels increasing
Fourteen million South Africans are now living in extreme poverty, surviving on less than a $1.25 a day. Government statistics show that poverty levels have increased since 2011. It is predicted South Africa will
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Hurricane Florence edges closer with life-threatening storm surge
The outer reaches of Hurricane Florence began lashing coastal North Carolina with heavy winds and flooded roads on Thursday ahead of an expected landfall that will bring walls of water and lingering downpours to
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Two Koreas open first liaison office since World War II
North and South Korea have opened a liaison office on the North's side of the heavily militarised border to facilitate better communication and exchanges ahead of their leaders' summit in Pyongyang next week. Friday's opening
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Letters to a Serial Killer
On November 28, 2006, 16-year-old Kamal Masri rode his bike to football practice in Malmo, Sweden, the city to which, many years earlier, his parents had moved from Lebanon. An hour later, his family
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European court rules against Britain over mass surveillance
Britain's mass surveillance programme has violated people's right to privacy, Europe's human rights court ruled on Thursday. Judges voted six to one the effort by its intelligence agency GCHQ for obtaining data from communications providers
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Putin attends Russia’s Vostok 2018 war games
Vladimir Putin says Russia's armed forces will continue to be strengthened, as they undertake their largest war games since the fall of the Soviet Union. For the first time, Chinese troops joined the week-long


