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Report: Britain faces longest fall in living standards since 1950s - 11/23/2017

London - Ordinary British people face the longest fall in living standards since the 1950s, if the government's downgraded growth projections prove accurate, a social policy think tank said on...

Despair, rage as relatives learn of Argentine submarine 'explosion' - 11/23/2017

Mar del Plata, Argentina – "Do not leave us alone!" exclaims a young woman at Argentina's Mar del Plata naval base, where relatives of the 44 crew members of a submarine that is believed to have...

500 freed, 40 arrested in anti-human trafficking raids across Africa - 11/23/2017

Paris - Nearly 500 victims of human trafficking have been freed and 40 suspects arrested in an Interpol operation involving raids across Chad, Mali, Mauritania, Niger and Senegal.   Two hundred...

Netanyahu slams deputy for 'offensive' remarks towards US Jews - 11/23/2017

Tel Aviv - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu rebuked his deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely on Thursday after Hotovely said that US Jews don't send their kids to the military and live...

UN expert: Bangladesh is struggling to cope with Rohingya refugees - 11/22/2017

New York - Bangladeshi communities hosting Rohingya Muslim refugees from Myanmar may not be able to cope for much longer, a UN expert on sexual violence in conflict warned on Wednesday.  Pramila...

Putin hosts Erdogan and Rowhani to discuss Syria - 11/22/2017

Moscow - Russian President Vladimir Putin was scheduled to host his Turkish and Iranian counterparts on Wednesday for talks to focus on the peace effort in Syria.   A day before the milestone...

Senior Democratic lawmaker faces ethics probe over sexual harassment - 11/22/2017

Washington - By Anne K Walters, - The senior Democratic lawmaker in the US House of Representatives faces an ethics investigation following a media report that he settled a 27,000-dollar sexual...

PM Hariri arrives in Lebanon two weeks after shock resignation - 11/22/2017

Beirut - Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri has arrived in Beirut, two weeks after announcing his shock resignation in a televised addressed from Saudi Arabia.   He descended from his plane...

Palestinian talks 'must not be allowed to fail,' says UN peace chief - 11/20/2017

New York - The UN’s Middle East peace chief on Monday lauded the reopening of the Gaza Strip’s Rafah crossing to Egypt but said intra-Palestinian talks due to start in Cairo on Tuesday "must not be...

Arab officials slam Iran amid regional tensions - 11/19/2017

Cairo – Saudi Arabia and its allies on Sunday lashed out at alleged Iranian violations in the region amid tensions between Riyadh and Tehran.   Saudi Foreign Minister Adel al-Jubeir told an Arab...
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