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“What Assad did is terrible,” says Trump as he mulls Syrian military intervention

  • WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump told members of Congress he is “considering military action in Syria,” after a suspected chemical attack that killed at least 83 people. Trump’s assertion, reported by CNN, came a day after he accused the Syrian regime of gassing its people and pledged tha...
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“The Unforgiven”: Qatar’s Al-Ghufran tribe fights for justice — and right to citizenship

  • JEDDAH: In June, 1995, Qatar’s then Crown Prince Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani deposed his father, Sheikh Khalifa Al-Thani, the ruling emir, in a bloodless coup. Sheikh Khalifa was outside the country when the overthrow took place, and the crown prince quickly gained the allegiance of oth...
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“The Unforgiven”: Al-Ghufran families ‘arbitrarily stripped of Qatari citizenship,’ HRW says

  • LONDON: Members of the Al-Ghufran clan are being deprived of key human rights by the Qatari government, according to a Human Rights Watch (HRW) statement released on Sunday. Some members of the clan remain stateless and are consistently denied their rights to work, access to health care, educ...
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“No smartphone” Juncker pushes EU’s digital future

  • TALLINN: The European Union’s chief executive Jean-Claude Juncker confessed that he still does not own a smartphone on Friday but pledged to help build a “digital future” for the bloc.He was speaking alongside the prime minister of Estonia, which has transformed its post-Soviet economy in part...
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“Iran cannot strike Israel,” Iraqi FM says at Davos

  • Hours before Iraq filed a complaint against Iran to the Security Council, the Iraqi Foreign Minister Fouad Hussein condemned, in an interview with Asharq Al-Awsat, Iran’s attack on Irbil, considering the escalation “an attempt by Iran to export its internal problems.”  Hussein, who was s...
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’Youngest and brightest’ lost in Pacific ferry disaster

  • WELLINGTON: Many children and teenagers are among those missing after a ferry sank in the remote Pacific, official figures have revealed, with victims described as their region’s “youngest and brightest.”...
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’Willing’ to host next SAARC summit, Pakistani foreign minister says at UN meeting

  • ISLAMABAD: Pakistani foreign minister Shah Mahmood Qureshi has said this week the South Asian nation had restated its willingness to host the next summit of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC). A summit of South Asian leaders set for Islamabad in 2016 was called off as...
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’What a brave nation’ — Pakistan’s bus attack hero hails Sri Lanka cricketers’ return

  • LAHORE: Driver Meher Muhammad Khalil became a hero when militants attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team bus on a busy street in Lahore in 2009, holding his nerve under gunfire to whisk them to safety....
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’Up to 12,000’ Afghan Taleban eliminated in 2013: UN

  • KABUL: Up to 12,000 Afghan Taleban fighters have been killed, wounded or captured this year, according to a UN report, which said violence in the wartorn nation was at a three-year high....
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’Top Gear’ spins into more controversy

  • LONDON: Chris Evans, the new host of BBC TV’s popular “Top Gear” motoring show apologized on Monday for a stunt filmed near the Cenotaph war memorial in central London which was widely criticized for showing a lack of respect.Images splashed across the pages of British newspapers showed the show...
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