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Unvaccinated to show red flags as Samoa battles measles epidemic
Authorities in Samoa have asked unvaccinated families to display a red flag outside their homes on Wednesday to help a mass immunisation drive aimed at halting a measles epidemic that has killed at least 60
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Anger in China as US House passes Uighur crackdown bill
China has reacted angrily after the US House of Representatives passed a bill requiring the Trump administration to toughen its response to Xinjiang, where the more than one million Muslims, mostly ethnic Uighurs, are
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Talks in Baghdad as violence hits Iraq’s shrine cities
ISTANBUL: Turkey will oppose NATO’s plan for the defense of Baltic countries if the alliance does not recognize groups that Turkey deems terrorists, Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday, ahead of a NATO
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Turkey to oppose NATO plan if it fails to recognize terrorism threats: Erdogan
DUBAI: Iranian state television on Tuesday acknowledged security forces shot and killed what it described as “rioters” in multiple cities amid recent protests over the spike in government-set gasoline prices — the first time
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200,000 evacuated as Typhoon Kammuri lashes Philippines
The Philippines evacuated 200,000 people in coastal and mountainous areas amid fears of flooding and landslides, and closed the country's main international airport, as a powerful typhoon hit the Southeast Asian nation. Typhoon Kammuri, the
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NASA satellite finds crashed Indian Moon lander Vikram
A NASA satellite orbiting the Moon has found India's Vikram lander which crashed on the lunar surface in September, the United States space agency has said. NASA made the announcement on Monday, releasing an
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Death toll nears 100 in Syria’s Idlib: monitor
DUBAI: The member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are increasingly moving toward becoming knowledge-based economies, a new report says — with an important caveat. Despite recent progress, the volume of research publications
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GCC countries set their sights on knowledge economy
DUBAI: The member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) are increasingly moving toward becoming knowledge-based economies, a new report says — with an important caveat. Despite recent progress, the volume of research publications
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White House refuses to participate in impeachment hearing
The White House said on Sunday that it would not participate in the first impeachment hearings before the House Judiciary Committee as Democrats prepared to approve a report making the case for President Donald
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Uncertainty remains as Iraq parliament accepts PM’s resignation
Baghdad, Iraq - Iraqi legislators approved Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi's resignation on Sunday during a parliament session held in the capital Baghdad amid weeks of deadly anti-government protests. An embattled Abdul Mahdi had announced on Friday


