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December 9, 2018

US wants to continue support for Saudi-led coalition in Yemen

The United States wants to continue support to the Saudi-led coalition in Yemen’s war and will remain engaged in efforts to combat Iranian influence and extremist militancy in the...

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December 9, 2018

Australia urges Thailand to release refugee Bahrain footballer

Australia’s Foreign Minister Marise Payne has urged Thai authorities on Sunday to release a footballer who holds a refugee status in Australia and who has been detained in Bangkok...

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December 9, 2018

Libyan state oil firm scrambles to keep El Sharara oilfield open amid ‘occupation’

Libyan state security on Saturday threatened to shut down production at the giant El Sharara oilfield but the field remains open, state oil firm NOC said, denouncing what it...

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December 9, 2018

Israel says fired at Hezbollah operatives on Lebanon border

Israeli soldiers at the Lebanese border opened fire at suspected Hezbollah activists on Saturday, the military said, the first such incident since Israel launched a crackdown on cross-border tunnels...

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December 9, 2018

Netanyahu briefs Putin on anti-tunnel operation on Lebanese border

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu briefed Russian President Vladimir Putin on Israel’s operation along its border with Lebanon, allegedly on tunnels it said were dug by Hezbollah, the Kremlin...

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December 9, 2018

Egypt says police kill 2 gunmen behind November attack on Christians

Egyptian police killed two gunmen who carried out last month’s attack on a bus carrying Christians in Minya governorate to the south of Cairo, the interior ministry said on...

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December 9, 2018

Stolen ‘Gypsy Girl’ mosaics return to Turkey after decades in US

Missing fragments from one of Turkey’s most striking ancient treasures, the haunting, wide-eyed “Gypsy Girl” mosaic, have returned home more than half a century after they were plundered and...

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December 9, 2018

Yemen food survey finds majority in ‘dire’ crisis, famine a danger

Yemen’s war and the ensuing economic collapse has left 15.9 million people, 53 percent of the population, facing “severe acute food insecurity” and famine was a danger if immediate...

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December 9, 2018

Women to get equal representation on UAE advisory council

United Arab Emirates federation president Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan has decided that women should make up half of its semi-elected advisory body when it is renewed next year,...

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December 9, 2018

US accuses Huawei CFO of Iran sanctions cover-up

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd’s chief financial officer faces US accusations that she covered up her company’s links to a firm that tried to sell equipment to Iran despite sanctions,...

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