Saudi mass arrests jolt markets but many see overdue swoop on corruption
All major Gulf stock markets slid on Tuesday on jitters about Saudi Arabia\'s sweeping anti-graft purge, a campaign seen by critics as ...Lebanese PM Hariri resigns, attacking Iran and Hezbollah
Lebanon\'s prime minister Saad al-Hariri resigned on Saturday, saying he believed there was an assassination plot against him and accusing Iran and ...Thousands march against coal ahead of climate conference in Bonn
Thousands of people took to the streets of Bonn on Saturday to call for the phasing out of coal as a source ...Several people killed as truck drives down New York City bike path
A pickup truck struck down multiple people on a bike path in lower Manhattan, killing several and injuring numerous others on Tuesday ...At least 31 dead in central Nepal bus accident
At least 31 people, including 11 children, died when an overcrowded bus swerved off the road and plunged into a river in ...Bombs kill at least 17 people in Mogadishu
Two car bombs killed at least 17 people in Somalia\'s capital Mogadishu on Saturday, police said, and Islamist group al Shabaab claimed ...Rwanda gets first cricket stadium
Rwanda\'s first cricket stadium was inaugurated Saturday by President Paul Kagame as a permanent home for developing the sport in the country.Spanish PM dissolves Catalan parliament and calls fresh elections
The Madrid government sacked Catalonia\'s president and dismissed its parliament on Friday, hours after the region declared itself an independent nation, in ...Spanish parliament approves direct rule over Catalonia
The upper house of Spain\'s parliament on Friday authorized the government of Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy to rule Catalonia directly from Madrid, ...Catalan parliament declares independence as Spanish government imposes direct rule
The Spanish government moved to impose direct rule over Catalonia on Friday, stripping the region of its autonomy less than an hour ...
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