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Gulf states cut Iran links as coronavirus cases rise
Feb 25, 2020
DUBAI/ TEHRAN — Gulf countries announced new measures Tuesday to cut links with Iran to prevent coronavirus spreading after the confirmation of 20 new cases, all of them people returning from the Islamic republic.Iran said Tuesday its coronavirus outbreak, the deadliest outside China, had claimed 15 lives and infected nearly 100 others — including ...
Fleeing the bombs, Syrians set up camp underground
Feb 25, 2020
TALTUNAH, Syria — In a field dotted with olive trees in embattled northwestern Syria, ...
Jailed French academic Adelkhah hospitalised in Iran — lawyer
Feb 25, 2020
TEHRAN — French-Iranian academic Fariba Adelkhah, jailed in Iran since last year, has ...
Egypt's ex-president Hosni Mubarak died at 91
Feb 25, 2020
CAIRO — Egypt's former president Hosni Mubarak, who ruled for three decades before he was ousted amid the Arab Spring protests in 2011, died ...
UN warns of 'bloodbath' risk in northwest Syria
Feb 24, 2020
GENEVA — Fighting in northwest Syria is coming "dangerously close" to encampments with around a million displaced people, risking an imminen ...
WHO tells world to brace for 'potential pandemic' as coronavirus spreads
Feb 24, 2020
BEIJING — The World Health Organisation warned countries on Monday to be ready for a "potential pandemic" as new deaths and infections in Eu ...
Libyans propose ceasefire, slam international inaction
Feb 24, 2020
GENEVA — Libya's warring sides have hashed out a draft ceasefire agreement, the UN said Monday, even as Libyan leaders decried international ...
Islamic Jihad says it ends Gaza rocket fire at Israel after two-day flare-up
Feb 24, 2020
GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories — Gaza group Islamic Jihad announced the end of its "military response" against Israel on Monday after a ...
Iraqi lawmakers schedule confidence vote amid US calls for protection
Feb 24, 2020
BAGHDAD — Iraqi lawmakers on Monday scheduled a confidence vote for the government of prime minister-designate Mohammad Allawi later this we ...
Iran's neighbours impose travel bans as coronavirus toll rises
Feb 24, 2020
TEHRAN — Iran's confirmed death toll from the new coronavirus rose to eight on Sunday, the highest outside China, sending neighbouring count ...
Grave of slain Iraq commander, a new anti-US magnet
Feb 24, 2020
NAJAF, Iraq — A minibus stopped outside the world’s largest cemetery in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf. ...
Saudi-led coalition says Yemen rebel depots hit in Sanaa
Feb 24, 2020
RIYADH — The Saudi-led coalition said it launched air raids Sunday targeting ballistic missile and drone depots in Yemen's capital of the Ir ...
Ladder to safety: Syrians eye escape over Turkey border
Feb 24, 2020
KAFR LUSIN, Syria — Abu Jabber has a plan to escape ongoing violence in northwest Syria: He has built a ladder from rusty metal for him and ...

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