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Canadian PM Trudeau Wows NY Feminist Crowd

Wildly popular among liberal Americans, Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau wowed the crowd at a women's summit in...

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UN Blocked From South Sudan Town Amid Reports of Killings

UN peacekeepers in South Sudan say they have twice been prevented from accessing the town of Pajok, where the army is...

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Al-Shabab Fighters Offered Amnesty As New Somali President Declares War

Somalia's new president has offered al-Shabab militants a 60-day amnesty amid a declaration of war on the group....

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Damascus Attaches Conditions To UN Inquiry

The Syrian foreign minister has set out conditions for any UN investigation into the deaths of dozens of people from a...

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Iraqi Helicopter Downed In Fight To Retake Mosul

The Islamic State group shot down an Iraqi helicopter operating over Mosul Thursday, as security forces announced they...

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Last Syrian Rebel Stronghold

The northwestern Syrian province of Idlib, site of a presumed chemical attack, is the last remaining rebel bastion...

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Ghana To Turn Water Reservoirs Into Security Zone Areas

Ghana is in the process of turning all water reservoirs into security zones to safeguard the provision of the quality...

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Dead Sea To Come Alive With Concert By Electro Pioneer

The Dead Sea was to come alive with music and an extravagant light show Thursday with a concert by electro pioneer...

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Trump-Putin Relationship Under ‘serious Strain’

In the lead-up to the US election, Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin exchanged warm and fuzzy-sounding phrases such as...

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Mosul Humanitarian Crisis Deepens As Displacement Peaks

The fighting in west Mosul has forced up to 15,000 people to flee their homes every day recently, straining...

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Autopsy ‘shows Chemical Weapons Used In Syria Attack’

Autopsy results have revealed that chemical weapons were used in an attack which killed more than 80 people in Syria's...

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Post-Conflict Analysis Inimical To Promoting Peace

A Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Ibadan, Nigeria, Isaac Olawale Albert, has said the...

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Pressure Mounts For UN Action On Syria ‘chemical Attack’

Western powers pushed ahead Thursday with efforts to take action over the suspected chemical attack in Syria after US...

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NGO Wants Migrant Child Beggars Repatriated Or Integrated

A child-centered civil society group, Child Rights International is calling on the government to repatriate all migrant...

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NGO Wants Migrant Child Beggars Repatriated Or Integrated

A child-centered civil society group, Child Rights International is calling on the government to repatriate all migrant...

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Aung San Suu Kyi: No Ethnic Cleansing of Myanmar Muslim Minority

Aung San Suu Kyi has denied there is ethnic cleansing of the Rohingya Muslim minority in Myanmar, despite widespread...

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Syria Chemical ‘attack’: Trump Condemns ‘affront To Humanity’

US President Donald Trump has condemned the killing of dozens of civilians in northern Syria in an apparent chemical...

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Kofi Annan Backs Fossil Fuels To Light Africa

Former UN Secretary General Kofi Annan has backed African governments’ use of fossil fuels – especially the...

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Trump Condemns ‘affront To Humanity’

US President Donald Trump has condemned the killing of dozens of civilians in northern Syria in an apparent chemical...