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10 things the Trump administration did in 2018 that you may have missed
Washington, DC - This year was full of a lot of surprises from US President Donald Trump and his administration From a number of high-level departures to his recent decision to pull US troops out
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Two-year-old Yemeni boy whose mother sued US to see him dies
The two-year-old son of a Yemeni woman who sued the Trump administration to let her into the country to be with the ailing boy has died, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has announced. Abdullah
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The events that shook Palestinian territories in 2018
Over the past year, Palestinians have experienced no respite from the Israeli occupation, let alone a breakthrough of ending it. Although no full-scale war broke out in 2018, as some had expected, it did
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Houthis begin withdrawal from Yemen’s Hodeidah port: UN
DUBAI: The Houthi militia have begun to withdraw from the port of Hodeida, the country's key aid lifeline, under an agreement reached in Sweden earlier this month, a UN official said Saturday.The official, who requested
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Egyptian forces kill 40 suspected militants after tourist bus bombed
CAIRO: Egypt’s Interior Ministry said on Saturday that security forces killed 40 militants in three separate incidents in North Sinai and Giza, a day after a bombing on a Vietnamese tourist bus in Giza killed
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2018 – the year Iraq’s political battle lines were redrawn
BAGHDAD: Thousands of followers of Muqtada Al-Sadr gathered on a recent Friday evening in Tahrir Square, central Baghdad, to show their support. They were there to praise the Shiite cleric, who has become a
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2018: A year of media suppression and rights abuses in Pakistan
Sneaky, sinister and Orwellian are just some of the words Pakistani journalists and human rights defenders used to describe the censorship and growing clampdown on dissent, mainstream and social media in their country over the past year.
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Desperate journeys: Three years since migrant influx in Germany
It's three years since more than one million refugees and migrants entered Germany. Angela Merkel once said that integrating so many new people would be one of the biggest challenges that modern Germany has
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Russia, Turkey to coordinate on Syria: Foreign ministers
Russia and Turkey have agreed to coordinate ground operations in Syria after last week's announcement of a United States' military withdrawal, Turkish and Russian foreign ministers said. "We paid special attention to new circumstances which appeared
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Thousands of illegal buildings razed in Greece
Greece is demolishing thousands of illegal buildings in an effort to bring the rule of law to the construction industry. Previous governments have tended to avoid the issue, even offering periodic amnesties to illegal


