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Erdogan declares victory in historic Turkey runoff
May 28, 2023
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan declared victory on Sunday in a historic runoff vote that posed the biggest challenge to his 20 years of transformative but divisive rule.The 69-year-old leader overcame Turkey's biggest economic crisis in generations and the most powerful opposition alliance to ever face his Islamic-rooted party to ...
Governor of war-torn Sudan's Darfur region issues call to arms
May 28, 2023
KHARTOUM — The governor of war-torn Sudan's western Darfur region, Mini Minawi, on Su ...
Planet-friendly farming takes root in drought-hit Tunisia
May 28, 2023
CAP NEGRO, Tunisia — Saber Zouani lost his job as a waiter when the COVID pandemic ra ...
Somalia to introduce direct universal suffrage in 2024
May 28, 2023
MOGADISHU — Somalia’s government and federal member states said on Sunday that direct universal suffrage would be introduced with local elec ...
Erdogan closes in on victory in historic Turkey runoff
May 28, 2023
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan closed in on victory Sunday in a historic runoff that posed the biggest challenge to his 2 ...
UN backs Sudan envoy as army seeks to bolster ranks
May 27, 2023
NEW YORK — United Nations chief Antonio Guterres said he was "shocked" by a letter from Sudanese army chief Abdel Fattah Al Burhan, reported ...
Al Shabaab strikes African Union army base in Somalia
May 27, 2023
MOGADISHU — Al Shabaab fighters raided an African Union military base housing Ugandan troops in Somalia on Friday, triggering a fierce ...
Erdogan pays homage to Islamic idol on eve of Turkey vote
May 27, 2023
ISTANBUL — Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan pays homage on Saturday to his executed Islamic predecessor in an attempt to rally his con ...
Egypt unveils ancient mummification workshops and tombs
May 27, 2023
SAQQARA, Egypt — Archaeologists in Egypt have unearthed two human and animal embalming workshops, as well as two tombs, discovered in the Sa ...
New Libyan air strikes against trafficking sites — media
May 27, 2023
TRIPOLI — Libya’s Tripoli-based government on Saturday carried out a fresh round of drone strikes in Zawiya, in the country’s west, as part ...
Palestinians push for release of seriously ill detainee
May 26, 2023
RAMALLAH, Palestinian Territories — The Palestinian Prisoners' Club pressed Thursday for the release of a seriously ill detainee, held for d ...
Sudan's warring parties trade blame over truce breach
May 26, 2023
KHARTOUM — Sudan's warring sides accused each other on Thursday of being behind breaches of the latest ceasefire that was negotiated by the ...
Children in quake-hit Syria learn in buses turned classrooms
May 26, 2023
JINDAYRIS, Syria — In a dusty Syrian camp for earthquake survivors, school pupils line up and wait for a colourful bus to pull up. ...
Mauritania wraps up polls dominated by ruling party
May 27, 2023
Iran names ambassador to S.Arabia after 7-year gap
May 25, 2023
Tunisia court frees radio station boss held in crackdown
May 24, 2023
Turkish strike kills 3 Yazidi fighters in north Iraq — officials
May 24, 2023
Omani novel on water wins top Arabic fiction prize
May 22, 2023
Iran says possible to secure Gulf waters with neighbours
May 22, 2023
Bahrain to resume diplomatic relations with Lebanon
May 22, 2023
Egyptian artisans carve a path to world luxury markets
May 17, 2023
Turkish drone kills three PKK-linked fighters — Iraqi Kurdish security
May 17, 2023
Erdogan ascendant as Turkey heads for historic run-off
May 16, 2023
Israeli army kills Palestinian in West Bank — Palestinian ministry
May 16, 2023
Iraq’s climate migrants flee parched land for crowded cities
May 10, 2023
US criticises Arab League readmission of Assad's Syria
May 10, 2023
HRW slams Iraq failure to compensate Yazidis for lost homes
May 10, 2023
Turkey’s undefeated Erdogan nears knife-edge vote
May 08, 2023
Iraq court sentences to death killer of academic Hisham Al Hashemi
May 08, 2023
Assad opponent Qatar says it will not normalise with Syria
May 08, 2023
Iran seizes second Gulf oil tanker in days as US tensions rise
May 04, 2023
Israeli strikes on Syria kill 7, knock out Aleppo airport — monitor
May 03, 2023
UN leader slams Taliban over women's rights amid stability fears
May 03, 2023
Israeli occupation forces kill Palestinian teen in West Bank raid
May 02, 2023
Iran's Raisi to visit Damascus on Wednesday, in first since Syria war
Apr 30, 2023

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