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Al-Azhar reinstates female student expelled over hug
CAIRO: Egypt’s Al-Azhar University on Monday reversed an earlier decision to expel a student after she was filmed hugging a male friend. A video that went viral earlier this month shows a man bearing a
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Police fire tear gas to disperse protesters in Khartoum
KHARTOUM: Crowds of people chanting “Peace, justice, freedom” returned to the street in the Sudanese capital on Tuesday as authorities deployed hundreds of police to disperse them, witnesses said. They said police fired tear
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Palestinians strike against social security law
RAMALLAH: Thousands of Palestinians in the occupied West Bank joined a strike on Tuesday against their government’s proposed new social security law, fearing the fund will be mismanaged. Much of Ramallah, Hebron and other Palestinian
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New poll sheds light on impact of US government shutdown
Nearly four in 10 adults in the United States say they are either personally affected by the partial government shutdown or they know someone who is, according to a Reuters/Ipsos public opinion poll released
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Head of anti-graft body offers to resign amid Guatemalan crisis
Guatemala City - The head of an international anti-corruption body has offered to step down if the Guatemalan government keeps in place the beleaguered commission it shut down last week. The fate of the UN-backed
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‘We live in a crisis in Honduras’: New US-bound caravan forms
San Pedro Sula, Honduras - It was still dark when hundreds of Hondurans set out for the border with Guatemala as part of new caravan of US-bound migrants and asylum seekers. "The economic crisis
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Gabon’s Bongo returns home after months abroad
Gabon's Ali Bongo has returned in Libreville on Tuesday after months abroad recovering from a stroke, ending an absence that has spurred political turbulence. Returning from Morocco in the early hours of the morning, Bongo
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Can Macron’s open letter save his presidency?
Shaken by weekly protests on the streets of France, sparked by a rise in fuel prices, French President Emmanuel Macron says he wants to turn anger into solutions. Macron's answer is to build a new
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New Israeli military chief pledges to lead ‘innovative’ army
Houthi militants involved in Al-Anad drone attack captured: Yemen Ministry of Interior DUBAI: Yemen’s interior ministry on Tuesday said they had captured members of a Houthi cell involved in last Thursday’s attack on Al-Anad
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UN food aid to Yemen reaches 9.5 million people, shy of target
Houthi militants involved in Al-Anad drone attack captured: Yemen Ministry of Interior DUBAI: Yemen’s interior ministry on Tuesday said they had captured members of a Houthi cell involved in last Thursday’s attack on Al-Anad


