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Egypt on track to achieve its financial targets — finance minister
Palestinian FM calls for two-state solution as 14 injured in calmer Gaza border protest ROME / GAZA: The world must help resolve the Israel-Palestinian issue by backing a two-state solution to avoid the creation
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UAE reviewing clemency request in Briton spy case
LONDON: The United Arab Emirates is reviewing a request for clemency from the family of a British researcher sentenced to life in prison on espionage charges this week, the country’s ambassador to London said
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UN ready to play supervisory role in managing Yemen’s Hodeidah port
ROME / GAZA: The world must help resolve the Israel-Palestinian issue by backing a two-state solution to avoid the creation of an apartheid state, Palestinian foreign minister Riyad Al-Maliki said on Friday.“The Palestinians are
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What does the Matthew Hedges case tell us about the UAE?
Matthew Hedges has spent the last seven months in prison in the United Arab Emirates and now he faces the prospect of staying there forever. The British PhD student was given a life sentence for
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Czech PM survives no-confidence vote amid corruption allegations
Prague, Czech Republic - The Czech Republic's coalition government has survived a vote of no-confidence over a fraud scandal implicating embattled Prime Minister Andrej Babis. The vote on Friday saw only 92 opposition legislators backing the motion, well
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Restarting oil wells in South Sudan has uncertain health effects
South Sudan plans to restart oil wells shut down after they were damaged by rebels five years ago. The oil wells have been leaking and contaminating local groundwater and the government hopes that repairing
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UAE hints at freeing jailed UK academic in ‘amicable solution’
The United Arab Emirates (UAE) is reviewing a request for clemency from the family of British researcher Matthew Hedges, who was sentenced to life in prison recently on espionage charges. The UAE's ambassador to London, Sulaiman
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Deadly blast hits mosque inside Afghan army base
An explosion has ripped through a mosque inside an army base in Afghanistan's volatile eastern Khost province, killing and wounding dozens of soldiers. The explosion targeted members of the 2nd regiment of the Afghan
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Gunmen kill two activists in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province
BEIRUT: Two activists critical of both the regime and militancy were gunned down Friday in Syria’s last major rebel bastion in the northwest of the country, their radio station and a monitor said.Citizen journalist
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Several dead, thousands flee homes in Iraq floods
Gunmen kill two activists in Syria’s rebel-held Idlib province Updated 7 min 52 sec ago November 23, 2018 13:57 BEIRUT: Two activists critical of both the regime and militancy were gunned down Friday in


