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Trump's name and image removed at Dubai development amid incendiary comments

The image and name of American presidential hopeful Donald Trump was gone on Friday from much of a Dubai golf course and housing development...

Turkey to offer work permits for Syrian refugees

Turkey is to grant work permits to Syrian refugees, an official statement said Friday, in a key move which could allow Syrians to build...

Oman says regrets attacks on Saudi missions in Iran

Oman expressed regret on Wednesday at attacks on Saudi diplomatic missions in Iran over Riyadh's execution of a Shi'ite Muslim cleric, but stopped short...

Gulf investors hold back from UK property deals on Brexit fears

Gulf Arab investors, some of the biggest buyers of British real estate, are holding back from new deals because they fear a property price...

Germany to ease deportation rules after Cologne assaults

The German government wants to ease the rules for deporting foreign criminals in the wake of the New Year's Eve assaults in Cologne, two...

Security concerns send Turkish foreign visitor arrivals tumbling

The number of foreign visitors coming to Turkey tumbled 10 percent in February, the biggest drop in a decade, data showed on Tuesday, as...

Syrian regime planes bomb Kurdish-held city

Syrian government warplanes bombed Kurdish-held areas of the northeastern city of Hasaka on Thursday for the first time in the five-year-old civil war, the...

Iran says Gulf states' moves against Hezbollah will harm Lebanon

Iran warned Thursday that its Gulf Arab rivals were jeopardising Lebanon's stability by blacklisting the leading force behind its government, Hezbollah, as a terror...

An elephant returns to Somalia for first time in 20 years

An elephant marched hundreds of kilometres and briefly crossed into Somalia this month marking the first time the animal has been seen in the...

49,000 children dying of malnutrition linked to Boko Haram

The U.N. children's agency warns that some 49,000 children will die of malnutrition in areas once cut off by northeastern Nigeria's Islamic extremist uprising...

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