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Netanyahu to meet Hillary and TrumpReuters, Jerusalem Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is currently visiting the United States, will separately meet U.S. presidential candidates...
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Yemen accuses Iran for blocking peaceAFP, United Nations Yemen’s president hit out at Iran during his address to the United Nations on Friday, accusing Tehran...
162 bodies recovered from Egypt migrant shipwreck
AFP, Cairo :Rescuers recovered at least 162 bodies from a migrant shipwreck off Egypt’s coast by Friday evening, as the search for victims entered its...
Defying UN, North Korea vows to strengthen nuclear capability
Reuters, United Nations :North Korea vowed on Friday to further strengthen its nuclear weapons capability, in spite of U.N. condemnation and sanctions, and said it...
Wounded Merkel meets Balkan leaders over migrants
AFP, Vienna :German Chancellor Angela Merkel, stung by several setbacks at the ballot box over her refugees policy, was due in Vienna Saturday for potentially...
Splits in May`s Cabinet leave world guessing on Brexit
Divisions in Prime Minister Theresa May’s Cabinet generated confusion over Brexit Friday after a series of mixed messages on how and when Britain will leave...
Obama vetoes bill allowing 9/11 victims to sue Saudi Arabia
President Barack Obama on Friday vetoed a bill allowing 9/11 families to sue Saudi Arabia, risking fierce public backlash and a rare congressional rebuke.Expressing “deep...
Bombing leaves Aleppo `without water`
Intensified attacks on the Syrian city of Aleppo have left nearly two million people without water, the UN says.The UN children’s agency says fierce strikes...
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UK will trigger EU exit talks in early 2017AP, London Britain’s exit talks with the European Union will likely start in early 2017, and could...
India signs deal for 36 French fighter jets to counter China, Pakistan
Reuters, New Delhi :India signed a deal to buy 36 Rafale fighter jets from France on Friday for around $8.7 billion, the country’s first major...
Japanese PM in Cuba to ‘open new page’ in ties
AFP, Havana :Prime Minister Shinzo Abe arrived in Cuba on Thursday for the first-ever visit to the country by a Japanese premier, saying he wants...
ISIS used sulfur-mustard agent in Iraq : US
AP, Washington :The top U.S. general said Thursday that an Islamic State rocket that hit a military base used by hundreds of U.S. troops in...