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Netanyahu hits back at ‘Turkey’s dictator Erdogan’
CAIRO: Egypt is mourning the deaths of some of its leading scientists on board the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 that crashed on Sunday near the capital Addis Ababa, killing 157 people. The group included Dr.
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Egypt mourns scientists killed in Ethiopian crash
CAIRO: Egypt is mourning the deaths of some of its leading scientists on board the Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737-800 that crashed on Sunday near the capital Addis Ababa, killing 157 people. The group included Dr.
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South Korean singer quits as K-pop sex scandal widens
A burgeoning K-pop sex scandal claimed a second scalp as a singer who rose to fame after coming second in one of South Korea's top talent shows admitted secretly filming himself having sex and
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FBI: Dozens arrested in massive US college admission scam
The US Justice Department arrested nearly 50 people nationwide in a scheme they say involved cheating on exams, bribing coaches and exaggerating athletic ability in order to secure admission to a number of US
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Saudi women’s activists stand trial nearly a year after detention
Several Saudi Arabian women rights activists stood trial on Wednesday for the first time since they were detained last year in a case that has intensified global scrutiny of the kingdom's human rights record
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India’s Prime Minister Modi in 29-tweet pre-election blitz
Prime Minister Narendra Modi launched a charm offensive on Twitter where he reached out to a cross-section of celebrities, that included his political rivals, and urged them to help increase voter turnout in the
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US refuses to ground Boeing 737 MAX 8 after Ethiopia plane crash
The United States said there is "no basis" to ground Boeing 737 MAX aeroplanes, after a second crash involving the model in less than five months killed everyone on board. Despite the aviation giant's assurances
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Egypt mourns scientists killed in Ethiopian crash
BEIRUT: A top UN peacekeeping official on Tuesday moved to scale down the operations of a naval security task force in Lebanon. UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix held talks with Lebanese officials about
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UN in move to scale down naval security task force in Lebanon
BEIRUT: A top UN peacekeeping official on Tuesday moved to scale down the operations of a naval security task force in Lebanon. UN Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations Jean-Pierre Lacroix held talks with Lebanese officials about
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Iraqi admits killing German girl, 14, denies rape
WIESBADEN: An Iraqi man confessed in a German court Tuesday to the murder of a teenage girl which last year inflamed anti-immigrant tensions. He denied raping her. “My vision went black and then it happened,”


