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Yemen suicide bomber targets Aden police chief

A suicide bomber targeted the police chief of Yemen's second city Aden on Thursday in the latest attack against senior officials in the base...

UAE court sentences husband of executed woman to life in prison

The husband of a woman who was executed for killing a U.S. kindergarten teacher in the United Arab Emirates was himself jailed for life...

Hamas hands over Egypt border crossing to Palestinian Authority: AFP

Rafah, Palestinian Territories, Nov 1, 2017 (AFP) - Hamas handed over control of the Gaza Strip's border with Egypt to the Palestinian Authority on...

UNHCR warns against immediate refugee returns to Turkey

The United Nations called on Friday for legal safeguards to be in place before refugees are returned to Turkey under an agreement with the...

Merkel tells Britain no "cherry-picking" in Brexit talks

Chancellor Angela Merkel told Britain on Tuesday it will not be able to not cherry-pick the parts of the European Union it wants, such...

ISIS shows photo of improvised Russian plane bomb

ISIS has said it smuggled a bomb on board a Russian airliner that crashed last month, after discovering a “way to compromise the security”...

Saudi King Abdul Aziz Centre looks to counter extremism

Two Saudi boys, one Sunni, another Shiite, push their desks together and sit side-by-side smiling in a classroom. Then teachers tell the boys their opposing...

Bad Saudi PR fuels riyal devaluation talk

Speculation that Saudi Arabia could devalue its currency may owe more to a poor public relations effort by Saudi authorities than to the economic...

Syria Al-Nusra frees 16 Lebanese servicemen in swap deal

Al-Qaeda's Syrian affiliate on Tuesday freed 16 Lebanese soldiers and police held for more than year in exchange for the release of prisoners and...

Russia's Sechin floats idea of oil output cuts

The head of Russian state-run oil company Rosneft on Wednesday floated the idea of a coordinated output cut by major oil-producing countries to prop...

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