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Kenyans stockpile food and water, police get first aid kits ahead of vote

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Kenyans stockpile food and water, police get first aid kits ahead of vote

Nervous Kenyans stockpiled food and water on Monday and police prepared first emergency aid kits as families headed to their ethnic heartlands on the eve of an election many fear could descend into violence. Opposition leader Raila Odinga, 72, who lost elections in 1997, 2007 and 2013, has already said President Uhuru Kenyatta, 55, can […]

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At least 170 IS fighters killed in army airstrikes, north of Salahuddin

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At least 170 IS fighters killed in army airstrikes, north of Salahuddin

Iraqi F-16 fighter jets. File photo. Iraqi F-16 fighter jets. File photo. Baghdad (IraqiNews.com) At least 170 Islamic State militants were killed in airstrikes launched by the Iraqi army jets in north of Salahuddin province, the Qatari QENA news agency reported. In a statement on Sunday, the Iraqi Defense Ministry said more than 170 IS […]

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‘Big mistake for US to think it’s safe’ – N. Korea hits out after new UN sanctions

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‘Big mistake for US to think it’s safe’ – N. Korea hits out after new UN sanctions

© KCNA / Glook Pressbal Lo  Pyongyang has criticized the new round of UN restrictions against it, promising to respond with “righteous action” and hinting that the US mainland cannot consider itself safe, North Korean state media reported. Sanctions approved by all 15 members of the UN Security Council on Saturday outraged North Korea, which […]

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‘Dangerous precedent’? Israel revokes citizenship of Arab-Israeli terrorist for 1st time

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‘Dangerous precedent’? Israel revokes citizenship of Arab-Israeli terrorist for 1st time

Israel has for the first time in its history stripped an Arab-Israeli of his citizenship. The move is in response to a car-ramming and stabbing attack that left four people injured two years ago. Human rights groups were quick to criticize the measure as setting a dangerous precedent. TrendsPalestinian statehood Alaa Raed Ahmad Zayoud’s Israeli […]

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PHOTOS: Prime Minister of Yemen visits Mokha after its liberation

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PHOTOS: Prime Minister of Yemen visits Mokha after its liberation

Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr visited the town of al-Mokha, west of Taiz province, for the first time since its liberation from Houthi milita. Last week, Yemen’s army regained control of the stragtigical Khalid Bin Al-Walid military camp east of al-Mukha from the Houthi militas. Yemeni Prime Minister Ahmed Obeid bin Daghr visited […]

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Belgium admits it kept quiet about ‘tainted’ eggs recalled in Germany

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Belgium admits it kept quiet about ‘tainted’ eggs recalled in Germany

Photo: DPA Belgian officials admitted Saturday they knew in early June there was a potential problem over insecticide-contaminated eggs but kept it secret because of an ongoing fraud investigation. “We knew since early June there was potentially a problem with fipronil in the poultry sector,” Katrien Stragier, a spokeswoman for Belgium’s food safety agency (AFSCA), […]

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Lavrov details Russia’s response to US sanctions in meeting with Tillerson

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Lavrov details Russia’s response to US sanctions in meeting with Tillerson

Rex Tillerson and Sergey Lavrov held their first meeting since the US Senate voted to impose new sanctions on Russia, which responded with countermeasures. Lavrov said Moscow is ready for normalized relations if the US “pulls back from confrontation.” At a meeting on the sidelines of an ASEAN regional security summit in Manila, US Secretary […]

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Venezuela ‘crushes military rebellion’ near Valencia

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Venezuela ‘crushes military rebellion’ near Valencia

Senior ruling party official says situation under control at Paramacay military base as authorities arrest seven. Troops in Venezuela have put down an attack on an army base near the city of Valencia, officials have said, shortly after a video surfaced of uniformed men declaring a military rebellion there.   Venezuela has been rocked by months of […]

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Album restores worldly sounds of ‘Swinging Mogadishu’

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Album restores worldly sounds of ‘Swinging Mogadishu’

 Sudanese singer Alsarah performs with Kenyan band Afro-Simba at the International Solidarity Concert as part of the Mogadishu Music Festival, in 2013 Somalia is rarely described as on the musical vanguard but there was a time, before its turmoil, when the Horn of Africa nation bustled with an electrifying mix of the world’s sounds. A […]

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Army destroys ISIS positions, kills scores of terrorists in different areas across the country

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Army destroys ISIS positions, kills scores of terrorists in different areas across the country

Provinces, SANA- Army units, backed by the army air force, destroyed gatherings and positions of the ISIS terrorists in the surroundings of Deir Ezzor City. A military source told SANA that the army air force carried out concentrated strikes against gatherings and positions of the ISIS in Talet Alloush at the southern axis of the city, killing […]

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