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Singapore’s new leader is now tasked with fortifying the ruling party’s walls and earning back the trust of the public that took a hit by scandals before next year’s general elections

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Gunmen attacked a bus carrying members of the Quds Brigade, a government and Russian-backed faction of mostly Palestinian fighters in Syria

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United States is increasingly denouncing what it says is China's backdoor support for Moscow

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The blasts resounded early Friday in the central province of Isfahan, state media said

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More than one million Rohingya fled Myanmar's Rakhine state to refugee camps in Bangladesh in 2017 after a military clampdown on the Muslim group in which many were killed

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Iran and the United States have had no diplomatic relations since 1980.

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The rapid progress April 18 afternoon propelled the case closer to opening statements and weeks of testimony

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Negotiators are trying to "move forward and put an end to the suffering that the people in Gaza are experiencing and returning the hostages", Sheikh Mohammed said

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After the April 14 attack by Iran, Benjamin Netanyahu’s government as well as the military have promised a forceful response, but the Prime Minister does not have any easy choices before him. 

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Following the floods, questions were raised whether cloud seeding, a process that the UAE frequently conducts, could have caused the heavy rains.

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Dubai’s international airport began diverting all incoming flights

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The Trypilska thermal power station was destroyed by Russian missiles on April 11.

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The head of the Taliban’s political wing, Suhail Shaheen, had told The Hindu that the outfit had constituted a commission with the Justice Minister to restore property to the members of the two minority communities who were deprived of their homes and businesses by strongmen during the previous decades

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