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May 17, 2017

Egypt army chief meets with head of US National Guard

Egyptian Defense Minister Sedqi Sobhi on Wednesday held talks in Cairo with General Joseph L. Lengyel, head of the US National Guard, in which the two men discussed regional...

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May 17, 2017

Iranian envoy calls for better trade ties with Turkey

Iran continues to seek better trade relations with Turkey despite regional turmoil, Iranian Ambassador to Turkey Mohammad Ebrahim Taherian Fard said on Wednesday. Addressing a meeting in Ankara to discuss...

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May 17, 2017

Egypt’s Sisi pledges measures to ease strain on poor

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi sought to ease the concerns of Egyptians grappling with rising prices ahead of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan by pledging a raft of...

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May 17, 2017

Qatar says three workers die on army building site

Three workers died and several were injured at a building site in Qatar, which has come under pressure to improve conditions for labourers working on venues for the 2022...

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May 17, 2017

Iran leader denounces ‘unworthy’ election rhetoric in veiled swipe at Rouhani

Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei denounced the heated rhetoric of Iran’s presidential election campaign on Wednesday as “unworthy”, a thinly-veiled rebuke of pragmatist President Hassan Rouhani’s attacks on his...

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May 17, 2017

Russia set to lift barriers to Turkey within week

Trade and travel restrictions left over from a diplomatic spat with Turkey over a year ago will be lifted within a week, Russia’s deputy prime minister said on Wednesday. “Nearly...

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May 17, 2017

Turkey: Workers trapped after methane gas explosion

Two workers were trapped underground after a methane gas explosion in a coal mine in the Mediterranean city of Antalya on Tuesday, local authorities said. Antalya Governor Munir Karaloglu...

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May 17, 2017

Attacks, airstrike kill dozens in Mosul

Dozens of people were killed and many were injured in a spate of suicide bombings and a coalition airstrike in Mosul on Wednesday, according to security officials. A bomber...

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May 17, 2017

Israel’s treatment of Palestinian prisoners ‘could amount to torture’

The mistreatment of Palestinians prisoners in Israeli prisons has been condemned amid speculations that Palestinian prisoners on hunger strike are being force-fed. This is a practice which, a UN...

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May 17, 2017

Shia cleric: Iraq Christians ‘infidels who must convert or be killed’

Almost 200 Iraqi Christian families filed a lawsuit against the head of Iraq’s Shia Endowment, Sheikh Alaa Al-Mousawi, on charges of incitement of sectarian violence against Christians after he...

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