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9/5/2021 11:32:20 AM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken is due Monday in Qatar, a key player in the Afghan saga and the location of the Taliban's political office, though he is not expected to meet with the militants
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International
8/31/2021 3:55:16 PM
The 27-nation bloc is looking for ways to prevent a repeat of a 2015 refugee crisis fueled by Syria's civil war
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Africa
8/28/2021 8:38:03 PM
The deal will help 'to create one unified security sector that will be dedicated to the people of South Sudan rather than to a political party or political group', Lomuro said
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8/24/2021 9:04:36 PM
On Tuesday, it appeared that warring parties had agreed a deal, as opposition fighters boarded buses to take them to rebel-held territory in the north, the Britain-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
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8/24/2021 6:38:02 PM
An explosion shook the base of an al-Qaida-linked group in northern Syria on Tuesday, killing at least eight gunmen and wounding others, opposition activists said.
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International
8/18/2021 10:32:49 AM
The statue stood in the central Bamyan province, where the Taliban infamously blew up two massive 1,500-year-old statues of Buddha carved into a mountain in 2001
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8/12/2021 7:11:16 PM
Pedersen stressed that immediate, safe and unimpeded humanitarian access must be granted to all affected areas and communities, and that the near siege-like situation must end.
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Africa
8/10/2021 1:57:37 PM
The United Nations says 300,000 people were killed and 2.5 million displaced in the conflict in Darfur, which erupted in the vast western region in 2003
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International
8/8/2021 7:54:23 PM
The withdrawal of foreign forces is due to finish at the end of this month and Crocker said he could not see any circumstance under which the United States would send its troops back
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Africa
8/7/2021 5:46:28 PM
As fighting erupts between rival factions in South Sudan, threatening to destabilise the fragile democracy, we look back at the world's youngest country's bloody first decade, marred by a civil war that claimed 380,000 lives
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Tokyo 2020
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News
8/4/2021 8:44:58 PM
Man Asaad of Syria took the bronze with a total 424kg for his country s first medal since its civil war began a decade ago. Syria s last Olympic medal in any sport was a boxing bronze in 2004.
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Africa
8/4/2021 8:36:24 PM
South Sudan's vice president Riek Machar has been ousted as head of his party and its armed forces, say rival leaders who accuse the rebel-turned-politician of no longer representing their interests
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Africa
8/2/2021 7:15:28 PM
South Sudan on Monday swore in hundreds of lawmakers to a newly created national parliament, a long overdue condition of a fragile peace deal that ended civil war in the young country
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Region
7/26/2021 4:35:41 PM
The soft-spoken, Harvard-educated Mikati began building his Investcom business in the midst of Lebanon's 1975-90 civil war
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7/11/2021 2:40:20 PM
Damascus has repeatedly raised fuel prices in recent years to tackle a financial crunch sparked by the country's decade-long civil war and compounded by a spate of Western sanctions.
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Region
6/16/2021 4:20:40 PM
Lebanon's pound has lost 90% of its value against the dollar since late 2019 in a financial meltdown that poses the biggest threat to stability since the 1975-1990 civil war
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Region
6/3/2021 4:32:16 PM
A flight from Tripoli of Libya's Buraq Air landed late Wednesday in Tobruk, a centre of power of a parallel administration that until recently controlled the east
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Africa
5/27/2021 5:03:17 PM
The crisis ruptured Somalia's fragile security forces and stoked fears of outright civil war, with soldiers deserting their posts in the countryside to fight for their political allegiances in the capital
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World
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Region
5/22/2021 7:45:27 AM
Yemen's civil war, which started in 2014, pits Iran-backed Houthi rebels against an internationally recognised government supported by a Saudi-led military coalition
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Opinion
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5/18/2021 7:00:12 PM
The US failure to approve a UN Security Council Resolution calling for an end to the Israeli offensive against Gaza shows that the Biden administration is not yet pushing seriously for a ceasefire
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