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  • Saudi-led air force bombing has “mistakenly” led to the deaths of at least 30 Yemeni fighters loyal to fugitive president Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi, local officials said, adding that the coalition…

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  • Israel and the United States have resumed talks on future defense aid that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu suspended in protest at the Iran nuclear deal, the Israeli ambassador to Washington…

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  • German Chancellor Angela Merkel was on Sunday holding talks with Turkish leaders over ways to resolve the migrant crisis after Turkey expressed disappointment with the European U’s efforts so far…

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  • Syrian troops made advances on Saturday in their offensive to retake territory around the northern city of Aleppo from militants, a monitoring group said.

    The campaign around Aleppo, which…

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  • Turkish police arrested around 50 foreign nationals in Istanbul early Sunday in a sweep targeting militants of the IS group suspected of involvement in last weekend’s Ankara suicide bombings…

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  • At least 14 people have been killed after a ship taking passengers back from a fishing trip sank near Odessa, on the Black Sea coast. Authorities blame owners of the vessel for going out despite…

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  • In his massive recent book, “Neither a Hawk nor a Dove: An Insider’s Account of Pakistan’s Foreign Policy” (Penguin/Viking), 2015, Khurshid Mahmud Kasuri, former foreign minister of Pakistan (2002…

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  • Two teenagers have been arrested and were being questioned Sunday for allegedly raping a child, in the latest incident of sexual violence against a young child in the Indian capital. Police…

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  • US President Barack Obama urged reform of the US criminal justice system Saturday, saying much of it “remains unfair” and that punishments should correspond to the severity of crimes.

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  • Egyptians abroad started voting on Saturday in their country’s first parliamentary elections since the army deposed president Mohamed Morsi more than two years ago. Egyptians living in New Zealand…

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  • Pope Francis will meet slum dwellers and refugees and call for dialogue between Christians and Muslims when he visits Kenya, Uganda and Central African Republic next month, the Vatican said on…

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  • While Saudi Arabia seems to be serious about “cooperating” with Russia in “eliminating” Islamic State in Syria and Iraq, the real motive behind this cooperation and increased engagement with…

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  • At least 15 people headed for a wedding have been killed when a minibus they were riding collided with another bus in southern India, police said Saturday. Ten others were injured in the head-on…

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  • US President Barack Obama expressed concern about the outbreak of violence centered in Beit-ul-Moqaddas, and called on Israeli and Palestinian leaders to tamp down inflammatory rhetoric.

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  • A Kosovo citizen has been arrested in Kuala Lumpur for computer hacking and allegedly providing information about US service members to the Islamic State group, Malaysian and US authorities said.…

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  • The first bus full of migrants arrived at a Slovenian border crossing with Croatia on Saturday, the Slovenian police said, after Hungary shut its border with Croatia late on Friday, diverting them…

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  • Five people have been killed and nine wounded in an attack on a Shia gathering hall in eastern Saudi Arabia, the interior ministry says.

    The killings, in Saihat in Eastern Province on…

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  • Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres said on Friday a US tank entered the grounds of its hospital in the northern Afghan city of Kunduz without permission, damaging the compound that was hit…

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  • Backed by Russian airpower, Syrian government troops on Friday pushed ahead with a massive operation against terrorists in the center and north of the war-torn country, activists and state media…

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  • Turkey shot down a drone on Friday in an incident highlighting the dangers of the multiple air combat operations over Syria.

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  • British Prime Minister David Cameron said he would unveil his long-awaited EU renegotiation demands early next month, amid growing impatience from his European partners. Cameron will lay out the…

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  • At least 30 people have died after two explosions at a mosque near the northeastern Nigerian city of Maiduguri, an emergency official says. One suicide bomber detonated an explosive inside the…

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  • EU leaders approved an action plan with Turkey on Thursday to help stem the flood of migrants in return for concessions from Brussels, including easier visa access.

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  • The bombing campaign in Syria is forcing the terrorists to flee.

    Russian warplanes have destroyed a surface-to-air missile launcher that the Islamic State terrorist group previously…

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  • Israeli security forces deployed massively in Beit-ul-Moqaddas as Israelis armed themselves with everything from guns to broomsticks, rattled by a wave of Palestinian attacks that have shaken the…

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