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Nobel laureate Nadia Murad says al-Baghdadi's death is not enough - 10/31/2019

NEW YORK (dpa)- Nobel peace laureate and Yezidi activist Nadia Murad on Wednesday said the killing of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was not enough and called for the thousands of IS...

Lebanon's Hariri says he is resigning amid anti-government protests - 10/29/2019

BEIRUT (dpa)- Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri says he will submit his resignation to President Michel Aoun in response to 13 days of anti-government protests. "I have reached a deadlock ... I am...

Trump Jr criticizes 'leftist' baseball fans for booing his father - 10/29/2019

New York (tca/dpa) - Donald Trump Jr brushed off the boo birds that trashed his father at a Washington Nationals World Series game as a product of the "leftist DC fan base." "I'll take boos from the...

Special summit on fight against Islamic State to be held in November - 10/29/2019

Washington (dpa) - Ministers of a broad international coalition against Islamic State will meet on November 14 for strategy discussions on the continued fight against the Sunni extremists, US...

Journalist stages protest at Hong Kong Police press conference - 10/28/2019

HONG KONG (dpa)- A female news producer subverted a Hong Kong police press conference on Monday by interrupting it to deliver a statement blasting officers' increasingly violent treatment of...

Trump: Islamic State leader al-Baghdadi killed in US raid in Syria - 10/27/2019

Washington -By Sophie Wingate, - US President Donald Trump announced the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi on Sunday, describing in stunning detail how the reclusive terrorist was...

Gantz to meet Netanyahu as he begins efforts to form government - 10/27/2019

Tel Aviv - Israeli centrist leader Benny Gantz is set to meet with incumbent prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv on Sunday evening, after he was tasked with forming the next government....

EU rights prize goes to jailed Uighur activist Ilham Tohti - 10/26/2019

BRUSSELS, Ella Joyner (dpa)- Incarcerated economist and Uighur rights advocate Ilham Tohti is this year's winner of the European Union's Sakharov prize, the president of the European Parliament...

Bangladesh sentences 16 to death for burning teenage girl to death - 10/24/2019

DHAKA, Nazrul Islam (dpa)– Sixteen people including the head of an Islamic school have been sentenced to death for the murder of a teenage girl who was set on fire at her school in Bangladesh after...

Syrian president attacks 'thief' Erdogan during troops visit - 10/22/2019

BEIRUT (dpa)- Syrian President Bashar al-Assad described Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan as a "thief," the state-run news agency SANA reported on Tuesday. ”Erdogan is a thief ... he has robbed...
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