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Top US officials visit Ankara amid tensions on Syria
ANKARA: A delegation of top US officials will visit Turkey on Tuesday to discuss joint plans after the US withdraws from Syria. US National Security Advisor John Bolton, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph
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Netanyahu rejects corruption allegations in live address to Israel
ANKARA: A delegation of top US officials will visit Turkey on Tuesday to discuss joint plans after the US withdraws from Syria. US National Security Advisor John Bolton, Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Joseph
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US gov’t shutdown: How long? Who is affected? Why did it begin?
Key parts of the US government shut down on December 22 after Donald Trump and Democratic politicians hit an impasse over the president's request for $5bn in funding for a wall on the US-Mexico
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Trump plans TV address, visit to border as shutdown continues
US President Donald Trump announced on Monday he would make a prime-time address and visit the US-Mexico border this week as the partial federal government shutdown entered its 17th day after a funding impasse
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Khashoggi case: Saudi refuses to confirm Qahtani’s whereabouts
Saudi authorities are refusing to confirm the whereabouts of Saud al-Qahtani, the former top aide to Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman(MBS), according to the Washington Post. Qahtani was fired in October, just days
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Cyntoia Brown, sentenced to life at the age of 16, gets clemency
Cyntoia Brown, who said she was victim of child sex trafficking, was convicted of murder more than a decade of ago and sentenced to life in prison. On Monday, Tennesseee Governor Bill Haslam granted
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Why has Ukraine’s Orthodox church split from Russia?
The eastern Orthodox church has over 250 million members around the world, with its spiritual leader based in Istanbul. But for followers in Ukraine, there's a new found independence. Churches there have officially cut
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US pullout from Syria to be done in ‘prudent’ way: Trump
RAFAH, Gaza: Hamas employees retook control of the border crossing between Gaza and Egypt on Monday after the Palestinian Authority withdrew its own staff, an AFP journalist and Hamas officials said.The PA’s civil affairs
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Over 800 protesters arrested in Sudan demonstrations: minister
BAGHDAD: Visits by Iraqi officials to Israel announced by the Jewish state stirred controversy Monday in Iraq, where the deputy parliamentary speaker demanded a probe to identify those who crossed a “red line.”Israel’s foreign
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Khamenei aide says US approached him in Kabul seeking talks with Iran
DUBAI: A close aide to Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Monday US officials had approached him during a visit he made last month to Afghanistan to request talks with Tehran, Iran’s


