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Turkish anti-riot police officers use their shields to disperse demonstrators during a protest against the replacement of Kurdish mayors with state officials in three cities, in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on Tuesday. — AFP
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Turkish police use water cannon, batons on Kurdish protesters
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AVEVA launches Unified Operations Center solution
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Sports court postpones Sun Yang hearing till October
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Canadian 11-time world champion says she is no drug cheat
Rodrigo Duterte
August 20, 2019
Duterte warns of 'unfriendly' greeting for uninvited warships
Chief of staff of Sri Lankan army Shavendra Silva, center, attends a news conference in Colombo, Sri Lanka, in this May 16, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
August 20, 2019
Sri Lanka rejects international criticism of new army chief
US Defense Department conducts a flight test of a conventionally configured ground-launched cruise missile at San Nicolas Island, California, in this Aug. 18 file photo. — AFP
August 20, 2019
US missile test will trigger a new 'arms race': Beijing
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Chinese Special Envoy Xie Xiaoyan talks to reporters at the United nations in Geneva, Switzerland, on Tuesday. — Reuters
August 20, 2019
Daesh could re-emerge in Syria, Chinese envoy warns
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Saudi Deputy Minister of Defense Prince Khalid Bin Salman
August 20, 2019
UN envoy applauds ‘tireless’ Saudi efforts in south Yemen
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Members of the Syrian Civil Defense (White Helmets) carry an injured man after removing him from under the rubble of a building that collapsed during reported airstrikes by pro-regime forces in the village of Beinin, north of Maaret Al-Numan, in the northern Idlib province, Monday. — AFP
August 20, 2019
Don't play with fire, Turkey warns Syria
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opinion
Dr. Rayan Tariq Bajouh
Dr. Rayan Tariq Bajouh
August 20, 2019
Haw you obtaining what you want in any time without restrictions or limits
August 20, 2019
Tunisia needs better elected politicians
Tariq A. Al-Maeena
August 20, 2019
Play now, pay later
Hussein Shobokshi
August 20, 2019
Gulf between two projects!
Europe
Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte reacts after delivering a speech at the Italian Senate, in Rome, on Tuesday, as the country faces a political crisis. — AFP
August 20, 2019
Italian PM quits, denounces Salvini for sinking government
This grab from a video taken by Local Team shows migrants rescued for days by NGO Proactiva Open Arms charity ship, being rescued by a Spanish patrol boat after throwing themselves in the water to try and swim to the nearby Italian island of Lampedusa in a desperate move after days stuck on board, on Tuesday. — AFP
August 20, 2019
Spain sends warship to pick up migrants off Italy's coast
French Interior Minister Christophe Castaner shakes hands with a Gendarme as he arrives at the G7 Interministerial command headquarters (Poste de Commandement Interministeriel - PCI) set in the Fall college in Biarritz on Tuesday ahead of the 45th Group of Seven (G7) nations annual summit which will take place from August 24-26, 2019 in the seaside resort of Biarritz. — AFP
August 20, 2019
Five held in France for urging attacks on G7 police
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seen outside 10 Downing Street in London in this Aug. 07, 2019 file photo. — AFP
August 20, 2019
EU rebuffs British PM Johnson's Brexit gambit
A migrant who jumped off the Spanish rescue ship Open Arms is carried on a stretcher, in Lampedusa, Italy, on Tuesday. — Reuters
August 20, 2019
Desperate migrants leap off charity ship near Italy
Asia
Kashmiri protesters on Monday stand at a barricade to block the entrance of a neighborhood in Srinagar, during restrictions after the scrapping of the special constitutional status for Kashmir by the government. — Reuters
August 20, 2019
No phones, no friends: Kashmir children feeling caged
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August 20, 2019
Thai police seek three more suspects in Bangkok blasts
August 20, 2019
Singapore to trial driverless buses booked with an app
Africa
An ambulance waits next to a health clinic to transport a suspected Ebola patient, in Goma in the Democratic Republic of Congo, in this unrelated file photo. — Reuters
August 19, 2019
Police open fire on protesters in D.R. Congo, killing 3
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August 17, 2019
e-visa for Umrah in less than 24 hours
Saudi currency seized from a passenger at Madinah airport. — SPA
August 18, 2019
Four caught trying to smuggle SR3.93 million out of Saudi Arabia
August 19, 2019
Instant labor visa service launched
America
Geoffrey Berman, United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, points to a photograph of Jeffrey Epstein as he announces the financier's charges of sex trafficking of minors and conspiracy to commit sex trafficking of minors, in New York, in this July 8, 2019 file photo. — Reuters
August 20, 2019
Three more women sue Epstein's estate over alleged abuse
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Eric and Lara Trump speak during a campaign rally hosted by US President Donald Trump at the Toyota Center in Houston, Texas, in this Oct. 22, 2018 file photo. — AFP
August 20, 2019
Donald Trump becomes grandfather for 10th time
Salvadorean rape victim Evelyn Hernandez, center, celebrates with her lawyers after being cleared of murder after giving birth to a stillborn baby at home in 2016, at Ciudad Delgado's court in San Salvador, on Monday. — AFP
August 20, 2019
In retrial, El Salvador acquits woman accused of killing her stillborn...
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