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Spanish warship ordered ships to leave British waters near Gibraltar
LONDON, Feb 18 — A Spanish warship tried to order commercial shipping to leave anchorages in British waters near Gibraltar but was challenged by the British navy and sailed...
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France snubs Trump’s appeal to repatriate IS fighters en masse, for now
PARIS, Feb 18 — France will for now not act on US President Donald Trump’s call for European allies to repatriate hundreds of Islamic State fighters from Syria, taking back...
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Seven killed in new Kashmir battle
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Gunmen kill four soldiers in attack in Pakistan’s Baluchistan
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Shootout wounds five bystanders near New Orleans tourism area
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Gunbattle with militants kills four Indian soldiers and civilian in Kashmir, say police
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Media: Macau police investigate suspected murder at Sands casino resort
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Canberra under pressure to explain lucrative PNG refugee contracts
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N. Korea faces ‘historic turning point’, says state media ahead of summit
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Australia says foreign government behind cyber attack on lawmakers
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European lawmakers invited by Venezuela’s Guaido barred from entering
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US blocks N. Korean air traffic revival ahead of Trump-Kim summit, say sources
MONTREAL, Feb 18 — The United States has blocked efforts by a UN agency to improve civil aviation in North Korea at a time when Pyongyang is trying to reopen part of its...
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Brochez discloses list of HIV-positive Singapore inmates in email; police report lodged
SINGAPORE, Jan 18 — The Singapore Prison Service has lodged a police report against US fraudster Mikhy Farrera Brochez, who it said had emailed a list of 13 HIV-positive inmates...
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British Labour MP Paul Flynn dies at 84
LONDON, Feb 18 — Veteran lawmaker Paul Flynn of the British opposition Labour Party has died at the age of 84, Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn said late yesterday. “I’m...
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Support for Australian government rallies ahead of May election
SYDNEY, Feb 18 — Support for Australia’s conservative government has risen to its highest levels in more than six months, a widely watched poll showed today, boosting Prime...
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Venezuela’s Guaido calls for ‘million volunteers’ in aid standoff
CARACAS, Feb 18 — Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaido set a goal yesterday of enlisting a million volunteers within a week to confront a government blockade that has kept...
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Yemen sides agree deal on first pullback, says UN
UNITED NATIONS, Feb 18 — Yemen’s government and Huthi rebels have agreed on the first phase of a pullback of forces from the key city of Hodeida, in a deal the United Nations...
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Group of 25 Canadian students flees Haiti unrest
OTTAWA, Feb 18 — A group of 25 school students from Quebec and three chaperones were able to leave Haiti yesterday, where they had been stuck due to violent anti-government...
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Top US official discussed Trump removal in 2017, says ex-FBI chief
WASHINGTON, Feb 17 — The US deputy attorney general discussed how many cabinet members would support removing US President Donald Trump from office in 2017, the FBI’s former...
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UK teen who joined IS has given birth in Syria, says family
LONDON, Feb 17 — A runaway teenager who has divided British opinion after joining the Islamic State group in Syria but now wants to return home, has given birth, her family said...
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Iran’s Zarif accuses Israel, US of seeking war
MUNICH, Feb 17 — Iran’s foreign minister today accused Israel of looking for war and warned that its actions and those of the United States were increasing the chances of a...
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India hunting for mastermind of Kashmir bombing
SRINAGAR, Feb 17 — Hundreds of Indian forces were today hunting for the Kashmir chief of the Pakistan-based militant group believed to have masterminded a car bombing on an...
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Eurostar train delays as WWII bomb made safe in Paris
PARIS, Feb 17 — Several Eurostar trains heading for London were cancelled or delayed today in Paris, and 1,800 people temporarily evacuated from their homes, as bomb disposal...
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Kashmiri Muslims evicted, threatened after deadly attack on Indian forces
SRINAGAR, Feb 17 — India has warned against rising communal tensions across the country as Kashmiris living outside their state faced property evictions, job suspensions and...
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Iran summons Pakistan envoy over suicide bombing
TEHRAN, Feb 17 — Iran’s foreign ministry today summoned the Pakistani ambassador after Tehran accused Islamabad of harbouring a jihadist group behind a deadly suicide attack...
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Iran’s Zarif says risk of war with Israel is great
MUNICH, Feb 17 — Iran’s foreign minister accused Israel of looking for war and warned that its behaviour and that of the United States was increasing the chances of a clash in...
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In Syria’s Baghouz, dying palms and a wilting IS ‘caliphate’
BAGHOUZ, Feb 17 — The wilted palms and pomegranate trees at the entrance to Baghouz were struggling to survive, much like diehard Islamic State group fighters in the Syrian...
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IS ‘caliphate’ on brink of defeat in Syria as Trump urges Europe to do more
NEAR BAGHOUZ (Syria), Feb 17 — US-backed fighters in Syria are poised to capture Islamic State’s last, tiny enclave on the Euphrates, the battle commander said yesterday,...
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Netanyahu hands Israel foreign minister role to right-wing rival
JERUSALEM, Feb 17 — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced today he was relinquishing the role of foreign minister and handing it to a right-wing rival from within...
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Japan’s PM nominated Trump for Nobel Peace Prize on US request, says newspaper
TOKYO, Feb 17 — Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe nominated US President Donald Trump for the Nobel Peace Prize last autumn after receiving a request from the US government to...