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US exempts Indian-backed port in Iran from sanctions
Eminent Egyptologist leads team to discovery of ‘vital ramp system’ at Great Pyramids LONDON: A UK academic from the University of Liverpool has led a team to the monumental discovery of a 4,500-year-old ramp
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Eminent Egyptologist leads team to discovery of ‘vital ramp system’ at Great Pyramids
ANKARA: The US is offering millions of dollars in rewards for information over the whereabouts of three leaders of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), a top American official said after a visit to
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Erdogan rejects joint US-Kurdish patrols near Syria border
ANKARA: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said on Tuesday that joint US-Kurdish patrols just over the Turkish border with Syria were unacceptable and he expected US President Donald Trump to stop them. Erdogan, set
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Rashida Tlaib, Ilhan Omar first Muslim women elected to Congress
Palestinian-American Rashida Tlaib and Somali-American Ilhan Omar have become the first Muslim women elected to US Congress. Tlaib took Michigan's 13th congressional district in a race in which she was the sole major party
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Explaining US midterm elections 2018
US voters go to the polls on Tuesday to take part in midterm elections that will help define the remainder of President Donald Trump's term in office. In the House of Representatives, all 435
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Is China persecuting its Uighur Muslim minority?
The United Nations says it resembles "a massive internment camp, shrouded in secrecy." But China says the facility is a "vocational education and employment training centre." More than a million Uighur Muslims are believed
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Egypt: Artifacts discovered in Cairo could be 4,000 years old
Archaeologists working at a dig in Cairo have found several fragments of stone slabs with inscriptions that could be 4,000 years old, Egypt's Ministry of Antiquities said. Some of the limestones date to the 12th
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Basketball underfunded in the UK despite popularity
Basketball is the second-most popular sport in the United Kingdom for teenagers in disadvantaged urban areas. But it is one of the worst funded. The national champions are from Leicester, and they want to
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US offers rewards for info on PKK chiefs wanted by Turkey: official
TEHRAN/MOSCOW/ANKARA: Iranians already struggling to get by amid spiraling prices fear even more hardship is on the way with the restoration of crippling US sanctions, which Russia and Turkey say are not legitimate. Russian
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Iranians fear more hardships as US sanctions begin to bite
TEHRAN/MOSCOW/ANKARA: Iranians already struggling to get by amid spiraling prices fear even more hardship is on the way with the restoration of crippling US sanctions, which Russia and Turkey say are not legitimate. Russian


