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US deploying carrier, bombers to Middle East to deter Iran: Bolton
Reuters . Washington | Updated at 12:03pm on May 06, 2019
The Trump administration is deploying a carrier strike group and bombers to the Middle East in response to troubling ‘indications and warnings’ from Iran and...
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Trump 100pc supports Israeli escalation in Gaza
Agence France-Presse . Washington | Updated at 11:59am on May 06, 2019
United States president Donald Trump assured Israel on Sunday that it has Washington’s full support after the Jewish state led waves of retaliatory strikes in...
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Ramadan begins in Saudi Arabia Monday
United News of Bangladesh . Riyadh | Updated at 02:36am on May 06, 2019
Ramadan will begin in Saudi Arabia and other Middle East countries on Monday as moon observers said there was no sight of the Ramadan crescent...
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Death toll rises as Israel-Gaza fighting surges
Reuters . Gaza | Updated at 12:00am on May 06, 2019
Rockets from Gaza killed three people in an Israeli city while five Palestinian militants died on Sunday in surging cross-border fighting that included a return...
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With focus on Hodeidah, Yemen’s war rages on elsewhere
Reuters . Aden | Updated at 12:00am on May 06, 2019
With global attention on Yemen focused on a fragile truce in its main port of Hodeidah, fighting between rival forces in the country’s four-year war...
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Palestinian killed in Israeli air strike
Reuters . Jerusalem/Gaza | Updated at 12:00am on May 05, 2019
Gaza militants fired dozens of rockets into Israel on Saturday and an Israeli air strike killed one Palestinian as hostilities flared across the border for...
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10 Bangladeshis killed in Saudi road accident identified
Staff Correspondent | Updated at 06:42pm on May 03, 2019
Ten Bangladeshi workers killed in a road accident in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday were identified by the Bangladesh embassy in Riyadh, said officials on Friday...
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Sixth US, Taliban peace talks begin today
Reuters. Kabul | Updated at 11:56am on May 01, 2019
American and Taliban officials are meeting on Wednesday in Qatar to resume talks aimed at ending a 17-year war in Afghanistan, a Taliban official said....
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Workers on front line against US: Rouhani
Agence France-Presse . Tehran | Updated at 12:00am on May 01, 2019
President Hassan Rouhani called on Iranian workers Tuesday to boost non-oil exports and import substitution, telling them they were ‘on the front line’ against America...
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IS chief refers to Syria defeat
Agence France-Presse . Baghdad | Updated at 12:00am on May 01, 2019
The Islamic State group’s elusive supremo Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi made his first purported appearance in five years in a propaganda video released Monday, acknowledging IS’s...