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US poor and minority areas turning into ‘pharmacy deserts’
More and more minority neighbourhoods in US cities are becoming what healthcare experts call "pharmacy deserts". From Oregon on the west coast to Baltimore on the east, local drug stores are closing up shop
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Palestine TV offices in Gaza ransacked by gunmen
GAZA: The Gaza offices of President Mahmoud Abbas’s official Palestine Television station were attacked and ransacked on Friday, adding to tensions between his Palestinian Authority and the hardline Hamas movement which rules the territory.Rafat
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Protests across Khartoum call on Al-Bashir to step down
CAIRO: Police on Friday used tear gas to disperse anti-government demonstrations across Sudan's capital, where two weeks of street protests there and elsewhere in the country are keeping pressure on autocratic President Omar Al-Bashir
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Turkey: Pompeo comment on Kurds shows ‘worrying lack of knowledge’
QAMISHLI, SYRIA: Syrian Kurdish leaders aim to secure a Russian-mediated political deal with the Bashar Assad regime regardless of US plans to withdraw from their region, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters. The Kurdish-led
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In Paris, a son remembers a father lost to far-right violence
At age nine, Said Bouraam knew only the mountains. In the small Moroccan town of Amalou, where he and his younger sister lived, dry, brown peaks roses on every horizon. At that age, Said
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‘No revenge’: Martin Fayulu on DRC elections and corruption
One year ago Martin Fayulu was barely known beyond the Democratic Republic of the Congo's capital Kinshasa - until he was nominated as the presidential candidate of the opposition Lamuka coalition. Fayulu's campaigns have been
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Canada charity used donations to fund Israeli army projects: CBC
The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) has published an expose on a Jewish charity in Canada, which has been under investigation for using its donations to build infrastructure for the Israeli forces in violation of the country's tax
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‘Tense period’: Pressure mounts as DR Congo awaits vote results
The Democratic Republic of Congo's ruling coalition has accused the country's Catholic Church of behaving in an "irresponsible and anarchic" way after the church said it knew the winner of last Sunday's presidential election.
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Pompeo to push for GCC unity, press Saudis on Khashoggi on visit
US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo will call for GCC unity and emphasize the need for accountability and credibility in the investigation of the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi during a trip to the Middle East
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Lebanon on strike over Cabinet deadlock
QAMISHLI, SYRIA: Syrian Kurdish leaders aim to secure a Russian-mediated political deal with the Bashar Assad regime regardless of US plans to withdraw from their region, a senior Kurdish official told Reuters. The Kurdish-led


