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At Indian air raid site, no casualties and a mysterious school
Jaba, Pakistan - Indian air raids launched on Pakistani territory earlier this week destroyed parts of a mostly uninhabited forest and a farmer's field, witnesses and local officials told Al Jazeera, although mystery remains
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Nicaragua frees prisoners before talks with opposition: CPDH
Nicaragua has released dozens of prisoners on Wednesday who were arrested during protests against the government of President Daniel Ortega, before long-awaited peace talks with the opposition, a human rights group said. Authorities gave
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Nigeria’s Buhari wins re-election, challenger rejects vote
Nigeria's president has defended his sweeping win of a second term as free and fair and appealed to a "common love of country" as his top challenger vowed to go to court with allegations
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OIC foreign ministers to map out Islamic road to prosperity
CAIRO: The train accident in Cairo’s Ramses Station on Wednesday is just the latest in a long list of major railway disasters in Egypt that have caused hundreds of deaths in recent decades. And
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Off the rails: Egypt’s deadly record of train accidents
NEAR BAGHOUZ, SYRIA: US-backed forces in eastern Syria scrambled on Wednesday to extract more families from the last sliver of Daesh’s proto-state before delivering a final blow to holdout militants. Several thousand people — fighters
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Qatar Airways complains boycott forced suspension of planned Africa routes
JEDDAH: Foreign ministers representing member states of the influential Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) are meeting to map out a route to prosperity. The 46th session of the OIC’s Council of Foreign Ministers (CFM)
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British government to ask EU to ‘ringfence’ citizens’ rights
London, United Kingdom - The British parliament has passed an amendment to ensure the rights of 3.5 million European Union citizens in the UK and 1.3 million British citizens living in EU countries remain protected,
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Trump and Kim in quotes: From bitter rivalry to unlikely bromance
From hostile to friendly, and at times awkwardly effusive, the relationship between former sworn foes Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un has blossomed into one of the most unlikely diplomatic bromances on the world
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Nigeria’s 2019 election ‘last grasp of the old order’: Moghalu
Abuja, Nigeria - Muhammadu Buhari has comfortably secured a second term as Nigeria's president, according to official results. The 76-year-own, of the All Progressive Congress (APC) party, won 56 percent of of the votes, compared
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From DNC emails to hush money payments: What did Cohen say?
US President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen accused him of breaking the law while in office and said for the first time that Trump knew in advance about a WikiLeaks dump of


