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Saudi King Earns More Retweets Than Trump, Study Says

Donald Trump may be lighting up Twitter with strange new words and attacks on allies but in the battle for most...

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Five Questions On Trump’s Potential Move of US Israel Embassy

US President Donald Trump faces a Thursday deadline to decide whether to move the US embassy in Israel to the disputed...

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Passenger Plane Overshoots Runway In Eastern Indonesia

A Indonesian passenger plane carrying 146 people skidded off the runway as it landed in the eastern Papua region...

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Former Panamanian Strongman Manuel Noriega Has Died

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega has died at the age of 83 following brain surgery this year. Noriega, who...

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Drug Testing of Welfare Clients Found Only Tiny Number of Users In the U.S.

Drug testing for welfare clients in the United States has led to the disqualification of as few as 0.01 percent of...

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Question On Saudi Democracy Gives State Dept Pause

US officials came out Tuesday to praise and defend President Donald Trump's first Middle East tour, but one question...

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Putin ‘convinced’ Damascus Not Behind April Chemical Attack

Russian President Vladimir Putin, in an interview published Tuesday, said he was "convinced" the Syrian government was...

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Myanmar Military Probing Suspect Civilian Deaths

Myanmar's military said Tuesday it was probing whether troops killed three civilians in the country's violence-wracked...

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Somali Man Buried Alive Neck-Deep and Stoned To Death For Adultery

Somali militants have stoned a man to death after an Islamic court convicted him of adultery. Dayow Mohamed Hassan, 44,...

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Esoko Refutes Allegations of Thwarting Planting For Food and Jobs Project

Esoko, a Ghanaian private company, says it is not thwarting government’s Planting for Food and Jobs project under a...

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Somalia’s Al-Shabab Stones Man To Death For Adultery

Somali militants have stoned a man to death after an Islamic court convicted him of adultery. Dayow Mohamed Hassan, 44,...

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Somalia’s Al-Shabab Court Stones Man To Death For Adultery

A court run by militant Islamists in southern Somalia has stoned a married man to death for adultery. Dayow Mohamed...

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UN Warns 200,000 At Grave Risk In Last Stages of Mosul Battle

Up to 200,000 civilians caught between fanatical jihadists and advancing Iraqi forces are in grave danger in the final...

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Taiwan Steel Plant Opens In Vietnam After Fish Deaths

A Taiwanese steel firm behind a toxic waste dump that killed tonnes of fish in Vietnam last year started operations on...

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Morocco Arrests Leader of Northern Protest Movement

Authorities in Morocco on Monday arrested the fugitive leader of a protest movement that has shaken the country's...

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Morocco Protest Leader Arrested

Authorities in Morocco have arrested the fugitive leader of a protest movement that has shaken the country's northern...

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Macron Explains His Tense Handshake With Trump

French President Emmanuel Macron confirmed that there was indeed a deeper significance to the prolonged handshake he...

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Trump, Feted and Chided Abroad, Returns To Uncertainty At Home

Trump, feted and chided abroad, returns to uncertainty at home Swinging over the green Ionian sea Saturday, his first...

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Trump’s ‘home Run’ Tour Leaves Allies Bewildered

Donald Trump's first trip overseas was supposed to be about building bridges and clarifying his administration's...