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Dope-dealing ring on messaging app busted in Israel
JERUSALEM: Israeli police said Tuesday that undercover officers had broken up a drug-dealing network that used a popular messaging app and had connections in the United States, Ukraine and Germany.“After several months of covert
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Turkey slams Israeli PM Netanyahu’s ‘blatant racism’
BAGHOUZ: Daesh was close to defeat in its final enclave on Tuesday after ferocious bombardments overnight and the US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said the offensive to capture the area was nearly over.The beseiged
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Venezuela in crisis: All the latest updates
Venezuela has plunged into a major political crisis amid a growing row over President Nicolas Maduro's future as the country's leader. Maduro started a second term on January 10, following a widely boycotted election
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Confederate statue removed in North Carolina city
A North Carolina city removed a Confederate statue on Tuesday from the grounds of an old courthouse, a rare move in a state where such monuments are largely protected by law. Construction crews in
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Mullah Omar in Afghanistan book claims ‘not credible’: official
New York, USA - Claims that the late fugitive Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar lived near US bases in Afghanistan are "not credible", Afghan national security adviser Hamdullah Mohib said on Monday. Mohib, an
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Australia: Cardinal George Pell to be sentenced on Wednesday
The most senior Catholic figure ever convicted of child abuse will learn on Wednesday how long he will spend in jail. In December, Cardinal George Pell was convicted of five counts of sexually abusing
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Malawi floods kill 30, displace 6,000
Thirty people have died, hundreds injured and more than 6,000 have been displaced by floods in southern Malawi, following days of heavy rains. Floodwaters are still high, and more heavy rains are expected in
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US-backed SDF says 38 Daesh fighters killed in enclave
BAGHOUZ: The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Tuesday 38 Daesh fighters were killed in a US-backed offensive against the extremists’ only remaining enclave in eastern Syria, after the area was pounded in a
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Hard-line Iranian cleric Raisi gets second powerful job in a week
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories: A Palestinian who ran at Israeli troops with a knife in the flashpoint city of Hebron in the occupied West Bank on Tuesday was shot dead by soldiers, Israel’s army said.
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More than a dozen Houthis killed in clashes with government troops
JERUSALEM: Israeli police said Tuesday that undercover officers had broken up a drug-dealing network that used a popular messaging app and had connections in the United States, Ukraine and Germany.“After several months of covert


