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A general view shows the main part of the Palestinian Bedouin village of Khan Al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank. — Reuters
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Israel freezes plans to raze West Bank village
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Maze speech
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Don’t restrict homes to only two floors
A policeman on Sunday speaks over a megaphone asking people to stay away from the railway track after a commuter train travelling at high speed ran over a crowd in Amritsar, India, on Friday. — Reuters
October 21, 2018
Kin of Indian rail mishap victims bemoan lack of state assistance
October 21, 2018
Top Maldives court upholds president’s vote defeat
Election observers watch counting of ballots during parliamentary elections at a polling station in Kabul, Sunday. — Reuters
October 21, 2018
Problems plague Afghan polling centers; casualties surge
Mena
Palestinians load bags atop a taxi before travelling to Egypt through the Rafah border crossing in the southern Gaza Strip. Since mid-May, after five long years in which the frontier was largely closed, Egyptian authorities have opened the crossing several days a week. — AFP
October 21, 2018
Gazans at Egypt border seek to escape blockade
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A vehicle arrives at the Jaber border crossing between Jordan and Syria (Nassib crossing on the Syrian side) on the day of its reopening in the Jordanian Mafraq governorate last week. — AFP
October 21, 2018
At Jordanian border, Damascus seeks to revive regional trade
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A disabled Palestinian is helped as he uses a sling to hurl stones at Israeli troops during a protest calling for lifting the Israeli blockade on Gaza and demanding the right to return to their homeland, at the Israel-Gaza border fence in Gaza. — Reuters
October 21, 2018
Israel reopens people, goods crossings to Gaza after a lull
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opinion
Khalid Al-Suliman
October 22, 2018
Our defenders on social media
Hamoud Abu Taleb
October 22, 2018
Where are our crisis managers?
Muhammad Ahmad Al-Hassani
October 22, 2018
Don’t restrict homes to only two floors
Hussein Shobokshi
October 22, 2018
A book about Gandhi!
Europe
Voting underway during the Polish regional elections, at a polling station in Warsaw, Sunday. — Reuters
October 21, 2018
Polish regional vote test for euroskeptic PiS govt
Protesters participating in an anti-Brexit demonstration, march through central London, Saturday. — Reuters
October 20, 2018
Thousands march in London calling for second Brexit vote
Former Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg speaks at a Unite for Europe rally in central London in this March 25, 2017 file photo. — Reuters
October 19, 2018
Facebook hires British ex-deputy PM as global affairs head
People attend a memorial ceremony before the funeral of victims of an attack on a local college in the city of Kerch, Crimea, on Friday. — Reuters
October 19, 2018
Crimea mourns victims of school massacre
A Cobalt airplane taxis on the tarmac at Larnaca airport on May 30, 2016. — AFP
October 18, 2018
Passengers stranded as Cypriot airline goes bust
Asia
Election posters are seen outside a polling station during the Wentworth by-election in Bondi Beach in Sydney, Saturday. — AFP
October 20, 2018
Australian govt headed for defeat in crucial by-election
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October 20, 2018
Dozens of casualties as bombs rock chaotic Afghan elections
October 20, 2018
Blame game starts as Indian train runs over festival crowd
Africa
Tanzanian businessman Mohammed Dewji sits at his office in Dar es Salaam. — AFP
October 20, 2018
Kidnapped Tanzanian tycoon Dewji freed
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October 18, 2018
The drama will be over soon and Saudis will have the last laugh
October 16, 2018
The lies and deception in the Khashoggi case!
October 17, 2018
Voices of the expatriates among us
America
Donald Trump
October 21, 2018
Crown Prince a strong man: Trump
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Central American migrant, part of a caravan trying to reach the US, holds a child as he goes down from a bridge that connects Mexico and Guatemala to avoid the border checkpoint in Ciudad Hidalgo, Mexico, Saturday. — Reuters
October 21, 2018
Mexico lets caravan women, children in
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President Donald Trump, seen speaking to a crowd of supporters during a rally at the International Air Response facility in Mesa, Arizona Friday, said he agreed that Saturday's explanation and investigation into what had happened to Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was credible. — AFP
October 20, 2018
Trump: Saudi account of Khashoggi death credible
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