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Up to 2.5 million Turkish referendum votes could have been manipulated: Official observer

Up to 2.5 million Turkish referendum votes could have been manipulated: Official observer

As many as 2.5 million votes could have been manipulated in Sunday's Turkish referendum which ended in a tight 'Yes'…
Pakistan hate speech investigation against clerics after student killed for alleged blasphemy

Pakistan hate speech investigation against clerics after student killed for alleged blasphemy

Pakistani police opened a hate speech investigation involving two Muslim clerics on Sunday after the killing of a university student…
Leader of Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike sent to solitary confinement

Leader of Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strike sent to solitary confinement

Israel's minister of public security says a prominent Palestinian prisoner has been placed in solitary confinement for inciting a large-scale…
Abu Dhabi’s The National newspaper sees layoffs after sale

Abu Dhabi’s The National newspaper sees layoffs after sale

A state-backed newspaper in the United Arab Emirates that was bought by an Emirati who oversees the English soccer club…
UN: Nearly half a million Iraqis have fled Mosul fighting

UN: Nearly half a million Iraqis have fled Mosul fighting

The United Nations says nearly half a million civilians have fled Mosul since US-backed Iraqi forces launched a wide-scale military…
Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails begin hunger strike

Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails begin hunger strike

Hundreds of Palestinians in Israeli jails began a hunger strike on Monday in response to a call by prominent prisoner…
Saudi to shelve, reform billions of dollars of unfinished projects: sources

Saudi to shelve, reform billions of dollars of unfinished projects: sources

Saudi Arabia's government is ordering its ministries and agencies to review billions of dollars' worth of unfinished infrastructure and economic…
Flooding cuts off aid supplies, escape route from west Mosul

Flooding cuts off aid supplies, escape route from west Mosul

Flooding has made all bridges across the Tigris in and out of western Mosul impassable, cutting off aid supplies and…
Erdogan declares referendum victory, opponents plan challenge

Erdogan declares referendum victory, opponents plan challenge

President Tayyip Erdogan declared victory in a referendum on Sunday to grant him sweeping powers in the biggest overhaul of…
Thousands expected to be evacuated in Syria after blast

Thousands expected to be evacuated in Syria after blast

An opposition activist group and a TV station run by Lebanon's Hezbollah say more than 3,000 people are expected to…
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