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  • December 13, 2018

    Turkey: 9 killed, 47 injured in high-speed train crash

    At least nine people were killed and 47 others injured when a high-speed train crashed into a pilot engine traveling along the same tracks in the Turkish capital Ankara, transportation and...

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  • December 13, 2018

    Foreign Policy: ‘Saudi Arabia declares war on Muslim congresswomen’

    The American magazine Foreign Policy reported that since the beginning of the mid-term elections in the United States, conservative media outlets have fiercely targeted Somali-American congresswoman Ilhan Omar, who...

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  • December 13, 2018

    Deputy head of southern Turkey police found dead

    A senior police officer was found dead in his car in Turkey’s Mediterranean resort city of Antalya, security sources said today. Ali Karaaslan, the deputy police chief in Antalya,...

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  • December 13, 2018

    21 Daesh fighters escape Iraq jail

    Twenty-one prisoners, most of them members of Daesh jailed on terrorism charges, broke out of a prison in northern Iraq, Kurdish security officials said today. Fifteen were recaptured. The...

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  • December 13, 2018

    Tunisia eight years after Bouazizi’s self-immolation

    December 17 marks the eighth anniversary of what is called the “Arab Spring”, which started in Tunisia before spreading to the rest of the Middle East and North Africa...

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  • December 12, 2018

    Car bombing in Al-Bab and Al-Rai

    READ: White Helmets ‘wiping out the dust of war’ in Syria’s Idlib...

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  • December 12, 2018

    Al-Qaradawi removed from Interpol’s wanted list

    Interpol has removed Yousef al-Qaradawi, head of the Doha-based International Union of Muslim Scholars, from its “wanted” list, reports Anadolu Agency. A source from al-Qaradawi’s office confirmed receiving an...

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  • December 12, 2018

    Saudi Arabia seeks new political bloc in strategic Red Sea region

    Saudi Arabia is seeking an alliance with six countries bordering the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden, a strategic area vital to global shipping and increasingly an arena...

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  • December 12, 2018

    Nazareth preserves its Arab traditions as Christmas nears

    As Nazareth was decked out for Christmas, a group of weavers gathered in the cobblestone alleys of Israel’s largest Arab city, intent on preserving their Palestinian heritage at a...

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  • December 12, 2018

    Lebanese leaders show new optimism on ending government deadlock

    Lebanese leaders expressed fresh confidence on Wednesday about reaching a deal to form a new government, with President Michel Aoun saying results of his efforts to break the months-long...

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