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S.Sudan speaker resigns under pressure over mismanagement 09 Dec 2019 - 10:50 am
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Rockets hit Iraq military complex housing US forces: army 09 Dec 2019 - 10:09 am
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Lebanon's Hariri reemerges as PM candidate as Khatib withdraws 08 Dec 2019 - 06:49 pm
A worker is seen fixing a huge banner depicting Saad al-Hariri in the southern city of Sidon, Lebanon, November 18, 2017. Reuters / Ali Hashisho
Lebanon's Khatib says Sunnis want Hariri to be PM again 08 Dec 2019 - 06:34 pm
Resigned Lebanese prime minister Saad Hariri (R) meets with Samir Khatib, a Lebanese businessman who is the front-runner to form a new government, in the capital Beirut on December 8, 2019.  AFP / SERVICES AFP / ANWAR AMRO
Rouhani says Iran budget set to resist US sanctions by curbing oil dependence 08 Dec 2019 - 09:34 am
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani makes a speech during 26th National Conference on Insurance and Development in Tehran, Iran on December 04, 2019. ( ?ran Cumhurba?kanl??? / Handout - Anadolu Agency/ IRANIAN PRESIDENCY / HANDOUT )
Report: Iranian soldier shot 3 policemen to death 07 Dec 2019 - 07:40 pm
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Iraqi officials raise toll to 25 killed in Baghdad bloodshed 07 Dec 2019 - 05:02 pm
Iraqi protesters mourn and pray at the site where 17 people at least were killed and dozens more wounded overnight at Al-Khilani square in the capital Baghdad, amid ongoing anti-government demonstrations on December 7, 2019.  AFP / SABAH ARAR
Air strikes kill 12 civilians in northwest Syria: monitor 07 Dec 2019 - 04:38 pm
TOPSHOT - Residents check the damage following reported air and helicopter raids by Russian and Syrian regime forces in the town of Al-Bara in the south of Syria's Idlib province on December 7, 2019. / AFP / Omar HAJ KADOUR
United States and Iran swap prisoners in rare act of cooperation 07 Dec 2019 - 03:33 pm
FILE PHOTO: People attend a vigil for Xiyue Wang at Princeton University in Princeton, New Jersey, U.S. September 15, 2017.
Drone targets Al-Sadr's home in Iraq 07 Dec 2019 - 02:48 pm
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'Laugh at what's hurting you': Lebanon cartoonists stir debate 07 Dec 2019 - 02:20 pm
Lebanese cartoonist Mohamad Alameddine works at his studio in the capital Beirut on December 6, 2019. AFP / Joseph Eid
Iran's Zarif says jailed Iranian and Chinese-American will be swapped soon 07 Dec 2019 - 01:55 pm
FILE PHOTO: Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif attends a news conference in Geneva, Switzerland, October 29, 2019. REUTERS/Denis Balibouse
Iraqi officials raise death toll to 25 protesters killed 07 Dec 2019 - 11:12 am
Iraqi demonstrators wave national flags as they take part in an anti-government demonstration in the capital Baghdad's Tahrir Square, on December 6, 2019. AFP / AHMAD AL-RUBAYE
Algeria tries top figures for corruption as opposed election looms 04 Dec 2019 - 06:34 pm
People carry national flags during a protest to demand the removal of of the then president Abdelaziz Bouteflika in Algiers, Algeria, March 29, 2019. Reuters / Ramzi Boudina
UN envoy urges Iraqi leaders to respond to people's demands for change 03 Dec 2019 - 07:54 pm
Iraqi men carry a wounded protester into a Tuk-Tuk during a demonstration against state corruption failing public services and unemployment in central Khellani Square, Baghdad on October 4, 2019. AFP / Ahmad Al-Rubaye
Twenty-three killed in ceramics factory fire in Sudan 03 Dec 2019 - 05:32 pm
A burning gas tank at the scene of a fire at a tile manufacturing unit in an industrial zone in sudan's north Khartoum. December 3, 2019 / AFP / Ebrahim HAMID
16 killed as fire hits Sudan factory: doctors 03 Dec 2019 - 04:04 pm
A Sudanese paramedic walks with a stretcher as others search for victims at the scene of a fire at a tile manufacturing unit in an industrial zone in north Khartoum, on December 3, 2019. AFP / Ebrahim Hamid
Iran state TV says ‘rioters’ shot and killed amid protests 03 Dec 2019 - 08:31 am
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