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Death toll climbs to 222 in Indonesia tsunami
A tsunami killed at least 222 people and injured hundreds on the Indonesian islands of Java and Sumatra following an underwater landslide ...Hamas rejects Abbas plan to dissolve Palestinian parliament
Hamas on Sunday denounced Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas\'s plan to dissolve the largely defunct Palestinian parliament that it controls, calling it a ...Syrian rebels say U.S. troops remain in key garrison near Iraq
U.S. troops have not left the strategic Tanf garrison on the Iraq-Jordan border following President Donald Trump\'s decision to pull out of ...Turkey says nearly 300,000 Syrians return home after military operations
Nearly 300,000 Syrians have returned to their country after Turkey\'s two cross-border operations in northern Syria, Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu was quoted ...Rescued migrants head for Spain after Italy closes ports
Spain on Saturday authorised a ship carrying hundreds of migrants rescued off Libya to sail to its waters after Italy and Malta ...Thousands protest in Serbia against populist leader Vucic
Thousands of people have rallied in Serbia, the latest protest accusing populist President Aleksandar Vucic of stifling hard-won democratic freedoms and cracking ...Abbas says he will dissolve Palestinian parliament
Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas said Saturday he intended to dissolve the largely defunct Palestinian parliament controlled by his rivals Hamas following a ...Sudan opposition leader says 22 killed in bread protests
Sudan\'s main opposition leader Sadiq al-Mahdi on Saturday blamed "armed repression" for the death of 22 people in days of protests over ...Yemenis fear collapse of UN-backed ceasefire accord
Residents of Yemen\'s flashpoint port of Hodeida and other cities fear a UN-brokered ceasefire could collapse at any moment, saying that after ...Yemen warring parties agree to swap hundreds of prisoners
Yemen\'s Saudi-backed government and the Huthi rebels have agreed to exchange hundreds of prisoners ahead of planned peace talks in Sweden.




