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East Libyan forces make new push to end Islamist resistance in Benghazi
Eastern Libyan forces on Thursday expelled Islamist fighters from one of their last strongholds in the country\'s second-largest city of Benghazi, military ...Scores more Saudis detained in $100 billion corruption sweep
Dozens more people have been taken into custody by Saudi authorities, the kingdom said Thursday, bringing to 201 the number detained in ...Is Lenin still In? The 100 years after the October Revolution
This month marks the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution of October 1917. As we ...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 ...EU pushes for tax blacklist after Paradise Papers leak
The EU pushed on Tuesday for Europe to draw up a blacklist of tax havens after the "Paradise Papers" revealed loopholes used ...Assad says Syria war does not end in Deir al-Zor
Syria\'s army and its allies will keep fighting in Syria after the battle ends in Deir al-Zor province, where Islamic State has ...Syria to join Paris climate pact, isolating US
Syria told the UN climate talks in Bonn on Tuesday that it would join the Paris Agreement, leaving the United States as ...The Czech Elections – fighting for the political and cyber space
The Pirate Party are buccaneering their way into European politics, having found a foothold in the testy soil of Central Europe after ...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 ...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 ...




