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US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, left, meets with Morocco's Foreign Minister Nasser Bourita during his visit to Rabat on Thursday. — AFP
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Pompeo arrives for his first visit to Morocco
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Aramco raises $25.6bn in initial stock offering: Sources
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US says Iran protest death toll may surpass 1,000
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Rejuvenated Ding spoils O'Sullivan's birthday
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Bach wants clear lead from WADA on Russian Olympic status
A demonstrator holds a placard to protest against sexual assaults on women, following the alleged gang rape and murder of a 27-year-old veterinarian in Hyderabad and other recent sexual assaults, during a march in Kolkata on Wednesday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
Alleged Indian rape victim set on fire on way to court hearing
Daily wage laborers wait for work on a street in New Delhi on Thursday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
India's poor fight desperate battle to find work as slowdown bites
Residents collect wood for home use on a flooded rice field caused by Typhoon Kammuri in Ilagan, Philippines, on Thursday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
Typhoon Kammuri death toll hits 13 in Philippines
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a meeting with the Portuguese Prime Minister, not seen, at the Sao Bento Palace in Lisbon, Portugal, on Thursday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
Lawyer to be charged with graft in new woes for Netanyahu
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France's President Emmanuel Macron, center, gestures next to Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, left, and Germany's Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, during a family photo as part of the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London, on Wednesday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
Turkey to host new summit to tackle Syria conflict
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Palestinians watch a film during the opening ceremony of the Red Carpet Human Rights Film Festival in Gaza-Karama Palestine, in front of the abandoned Cinema Amer building in Gaza City, on Wednesday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
Red carpet but no cinema as Gaza film festival forced outdoors
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opinion
December 5, 2019
Climate change and panic
December 4, 2019
Iraq in angry turmoil
Dr. Ghadeer Talal Melibari
December 4, 2019
Doing your best means setting and achieving ambitious goals
Dr. Khaled M. Batarfi
December 3, 2019
Middle East Winter: The people have spoken!
Europe
CRS riot police stand as fire is seen in the background during a rally against the pension overhauls, in Paris, on Thursday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
Paris police use tear gas to disperse rioters at strike protest
Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev gives a live interview on the annual results of the government work to journalists of Russia's television channels in Moscow on Thursday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
Off the radar: Russian TV ignores PM wife's plane scandal
Firefighters extinguish a fire inside a college building in central Odessa, Ukraine, on Wednesday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
14 missing in deadly Ukraine fire
Britain's Prime Minister Boris Johnson dons protective safety wear as he prepares to change a wheel of a Formula One (F1) race car during a Conservative Party general election campaign visit to Red Bull Racing in Milton Keynes, north of London, on Thursday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
UK's Johnson plans for victory with Brexit Party boost
People ride bicycles and electric scooter past the Eiffel tower partially hidden by fog in Paris on Thursday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
Strike snarls France as unions protest pension overhaul
Asia
A passenger aircraft flying across the setting sun in Sydney, as smoke haze continues to hang over the city with more than 50 bushfires still burning across New South Wales. — AFP
December 5, 2019
Sydney smoke crisis 'longest on record'
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December 5, 2019
Samoa shuts down in unprecedented battle against measles crisis
December 5, 2019
Rainbow murals bring some cheer to Delhi slum
Africa
Displaced families flee to higher ground in K'akola village in Nyando sub-county in Kisumu after their houses were flooded in this Dec. 3, 2019 file photo. — AFP
December 5, 2019
At least 265 dead in floods, landslides as rains batter East Africa
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Some industry sources estimated the cost of importing housemaids from the Philippines to be more than SR14,000 and said this contradicts with the ministry's fixed price through its Maaroufah service. — Okaz photo
November 30, 2019
SR8,850 minimum charges set for hiring Filipina maids
Custodian of the Two Holy Mosques King Salman and Crown Prince Muhammad Bin Salman are seen during the inauguration of the Diriyah Gate project in this Nov. 20, 2019 file photo. (SPA)
November 29, 2019
Saudi Arabia celebrates 5th anniversary of King Salman's accession to the throne
Minister of Labor and Social Development Ahmed Bin Suleiman Al-Rajhi speaks at a function in Riyadh, Tuesday. — Courtesy photo
December 4, 2019
Labor Minister issues decision canceling Nitaqat yellow zone
America
Brian Hook, the US pointman on Iran.
December 5, 2019
US says Iran protest death toll may surpass 1,000
Canada's Prime Minister Justin Trudeau gives a press conference in the media center at the NATO summit at the Grove hotel in Watford, northeast of London, on Wednesday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
Canada's minority government faces first test
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US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi speaks about the impeachment inquiry of US President Donald Trump at the US Capitol in Washington on Thursday. — AFP
December 5, 2019
Top Democrat tells House to draft Trump impeachment articles
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