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Turkey court orders release of hunger-striking Kurdish MP
A Turkish court has ordered the supervised release of an arrested legislator from the pro-Kurdish People's Democratic Party (HDP) who is seriously ill as a result of her 11-week-long hunger strike. Leyla Guven, 55,
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‘Anti-Arab’ Israeli teen charged with killing Palestinian woman
JERUSALEM: Israeli Prosecutors on Thursday charged a 16-year-old Israeli with manslaughter after he allegedly threw a stone at a car in the occupied West Bank and killed a Palestinian woman. Prosecutors announced the indictment
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Rights groups call for access to Saudi detainees
Rights groups have called on Saudi Arabia to grant them access to detainees in the kingdom a day after British lawmakers threatened to publish their own report detailing allegations of mistreatment unless Riyadh allows them
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Singapore vows military training review after actor’s death
Singapore's military has said it will reduce the length, intensity and frequency of its training programmes after an actor in the reserves died from injuries sustained during an exercise overseas, the fifth serviceman to
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Chased by police, Syrian refugee child falls to death in Beirut
Beirut, Lebanon - The sight of street children selling flowers and chewing gum and shining shoes has become as much a part of Beirut's landscape as bullet-ridden mansions and glitzy bars. Most are Syrian
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Death toll from Indonesia floods, landslides jumps to 59
The death toll from floods and landslides in Indonesia's South Sulawesi province has jumped to at least 59, according to authorities, as rescuers raced to find more than two dozen others still missing. Some 3,400 people were
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Threats and abuse: Critics fear effect of new Thailand cyber law
Bangkok, Thailand - Thailand is expected to soon pass a new cybersecurity law which will create a government agency with sweeping powers of search and seizure, triggering concerns for freedom of expression and data security among
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In rural Tunisia, inheritance reform offers women rare boost
JENDOUBA, Tunisia: Tunisian divorcee Latifa counts herself lucky — she has a modest home that boasts a neat vegetable garden, a fig tree, and a pomegranate tree, along with a panoramic view of neighboring
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UN to replace head of Yemen truce monitoring mission
UNITED NATIONS: The head of a United Nations mission tasked with overseeing a peace deal in Yemen’s Hodeidah port city plans to step down next month and will be replaced with a Danish official,
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Yemeni government troops, Houthis clash near Hodeidah
UNITED NATIONS: The head of a United Nations mission tasked with overseeing a peace deal in Yemen’s Hodeidah port city plans to step down next month and will be replaced with a Danish official,


