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Saudi corruption crackdown stalls kingdom’s private jet industry
A crackdown on corruption in Saudi Arabia has severely dented the kingdom's private jet industry in a sign of the impact the campaign has had on private enterprise and the wealthy elite. Dozens of planes,
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Lebanese security forces arrest three Syrians with links to Daesh in Middle East, Europe
BEIRUT: At a makeshift camp in the Lebanese town of Arsal, refugees are burning their clothes trying to ward off the harsh cold as storms flood their tents.“We have no fuel at all. People
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’I need a blanket’: Lebanon winter storm batters refugee tents
BEIRUT: They always anticipated US support would run out, but President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to rapidly pull US forces out of northeast Syria has nevertheless stunned the Kurds there, who for the past three
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Kurds’ ambitions caught in power games
BEIRUT: They always anticipated US support would run out, but President Donald Trump’s abrupt decision to rapidly pull US forces out of northeast Syria has nevertheless stunned the Kurds there, who for the past three
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US shutdown: Trump ‘walks out’ of meeting over border wall funds
US President Donald Trump walked out of the meeting with top Democrats on Wednesday, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said, after they vowed to not approve funding for a wall on the US-Mexico border.
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Bolsonaro threatens to withdraw Brazil from UN migration pact
Brazil's new far-right President Jair Bolsonaro on Wednesday blasted the UN's global migration pact, a deal he has promised to pull out of, saying decisions about who was able to come into his country
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Is the US facing an immigration crisis?
United States President Donald Trump is refusing to give up his signature campaign promise of building a wall along the country's border with Mexico. But Democrats won't give him the more than $5bn he
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Guatemala court blocks president’s expulsion of anti-graft body
Guatemala City, Guatemala - The Guatemalan Constitutional Court has suspended the decision by President Jimmy Morales's administration to end the mandate of a United Nations-backed anti-corruption commission. The court convened overnight Tuesday after members
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Pompeo says Syria’s Kurdish fighters will be protected
Syria's Kurds will be protected from Turkish military threats, US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo told Kurdish leaders in Iraq's semi-autonomous Kurdistan region on Wednesday during an unannounced trip to Erbil. The top US diplomat earlier met Iraqi leaders in Baghdad
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Pompeo in reassurance mission to Iraq over US Syria pullout plans
BAGHDAD: US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo sought to reassure Iraqi officials on Wednesday that Washington remained committed to fighting the Daesh group, as he tours regional allies troubled by US plans to withdraw


