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FIFA: Qatar World Cup not under threat

June 19th, 20170 DOHA — FIFA president Gianni Infantino does not believe that the diplomatic crisis which has embroiled 2022 World Cup host nation Qatar will threaten its staging of...

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Lebanese cabinet approves electoral law for parliamentary election next May

June 19th, 20170 BEIRUT — Lebanon is likely to hold long-delayed elections in May 2018, ministers said on Wednesday, after the cabinet approved a new law for a legislative vote that...

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Muslims observing Ramadan saved residents in London high-rise fire

June 19th, 20170 LONDON — Early Wednesday morning, a 24-story high-rise in London caught fire, killing at least 12 people and injuring dozens more. Most people were asleep when the...

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Saudi air strikes kill dozens at Yemen market

June 18th, 20170 SAADA — At least 25 Yemenis were killed when Saudi-led coalition aircraft struck a market in the northern Saada province, a local health official said on Sunday, the...

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50 years later, the 1967 Naksa continues to shape policies and inflict misery

June 10th, 20172 DEARBORN — The 1967 Six Day War was one of the most salient events of the Arab-Israeli conflict, its effect evident through its shaping of Israeli and Arab political...

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Al Jazeera TV says it’s combating cyber attack, not intimidated by Gulf dispute

June 8th, 20170 DOHA ― Pan-Arab satellite network Al Jazeera is combating a large-scale cyber attack but all its entities remained operational, a company source told Reuters on...

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Arab powers sever Qatar ties, citing support for militants

June 5th, 20173 DUBAI ― The Arab world's biggest powers cut ties with Qatar on Monday over alleged support for Islamists and Iran, reopening a festering wound two weeks after...

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Lebanese ministry bans ‘Wonder Woman’ film over Israeli actress

June 2nd, 20171 Lebanon's Interior Ministry banned the new "Wonder Woman" film from cinemas on Wednesday because an Israeli actress plays the lead role, a ministry source and a security...

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Saudi artist reflects the unspeakable through works, exhibitions

June 2nd, 20170 RIYADH — Saudi artist Abdulnasser Gharem spent years pursuing his passion on the side, working a government job as a lieutenant colonel in the Saudi Arabian...

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Trump delays moving U.S. Embassy to Jerusalem by six months

June 1st, 20170 WASHINGTON — President Trump signed an order on Thursday to keep the U.S. Embassy in Israel in Tel Aviv temporarily instead of relocating it to Jerusalem, despite his...

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Morocco arrests activist leading northern protests

May 30th, 20170 RABAT — A leading Moroccan activist was arrested on Monday alongside other protesters caught up in a wave of rallies against official abuses and corruption in the...

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Suicide bomber kills 13, injures 24 at Baghdad ice cream shop

May 29th, 20170 BAGHDAD - On Tuesday, a suicide bomber detonated a rigged vehicle outside of a popular ice cream shop in the Karrada district of Baghdad, killing 13...

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Suicide bombers kill 3 police officers, wound 10 in Indonesia

May 25th, 20171 JAKARTA ― Two suspected suicide bombers killed three Indonesian police officers and injured 10 people on Wednesday night in twin blasts near a bus station in the...

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Jewish nation-state bill: Israel’s precarious identity is Palestine’s nightmare

May 19th, 20170 The Israeli Knesset (parliament) has hurriedly passed a new bill that defines Israel as the "national home of the Jewish people." Although the association between...

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Palestinian killed as settler opens fire during clashes

May 19th, 20171 WEST BANK — A Palestinian man was killed in the occupied West Bank on Thursday when an Israeli settler opened fire as protesters crowded around his car and pelted it...

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U.S. nears $100 billion arms deal for Saudi Arabia

May 19th, 20174 WASHINGTON — The United States is close to completing a series of arms deals for Saudi Arabia totaling more than $100 billion, a senior White House official said on...

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Trump visit seen as long shot to revive Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking

May 19th, 20173 JERUSALEM — Just four months after taking office, Donald Trump will make the earliest foray into Israeli-Palestinian peacemaking by any U.S. president next week. But...

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Syrian government denies U.S. accusation of crematorium at prison

May 19th, 20173 DAMASCUS — The Syrian government on Tuesday denied U.S. accusations that a crematorium had been built at one of its prisons that could be used to dispose of detainees'...

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Spread of fighting, cholera pushes Yemen to collapse

May 19th, 201710 SANAA, Yemen — Spilling into the hallways of crowded Yemeni hospitals, children writhe in pain from cholera. Displaced villagers roam baking hot plains and barren...

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Palestinian killed as settler opens fire during peaceful protest

May 18th, 20179 WEST BANK ― A Palestinian man was killed in the occupied West Bank on Thursday when an Israeli settler opened fire as protesters crowded around his car and pelted it...

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Trump revealed classified intelligence to Russians about ISIS

May 15th, 20170 WASHINGTON ― President Trump disclosed highly classified information to the Russian foreign minister about a planned ISIS operation during their meeting last week, two...

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U.S. to arm Syrian Kurds fighting ISIS

May 10th, 20170 VILNIUS ― Despite fierce opposition from NATO ally Turkey, President Trump has approved supplying arms to Kurdish YPG fighters to support an operation to retake the...

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Macron wins French presidency, to sighs of relief in Europe

May 7th, 20176 PARIS- Emmanuel Macron was elected French president on Sunday with a business-friendly vision of European integration, defeating Marine Le Pen, a far-right nationalist...

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Syrian opposition returns to Astana after Erdogan, Putin summit

May 5th, 20170 SOCHI, RUSSIA — On Wednesday, the leaders of Russia and Turkey publicly re-affirmed their commitment to working together to end the conflict in Syria, despite a gas...

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Thousands protest Yemen president’s discharging of southern leaders

May 5th, 20170 ADEN — Tens of thousands of Yemenis protested in Aden on Thursday against President Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi's discharging of the provincial governor and a cabinet...

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