Ten thousand Yemeni children have been killed or maimed since a military coalition led by Saudi Arabia intervened in March 2015 after the Iran-aligned Houthi group ousted the government, the United Nations children's agency UNICEF said on Tuesday. "The Yemen conflict has just hit another shameful milestone. We now have 10,000 children who have been killed or maimed since ...

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An Israeli scuba diver has salvaged an ancient sword off the country’s Mediterranean coast that experts say dates back to the Crusaders.

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Israeli scuba diver discovers ancient Crusader sword

JERUSALEM - Israel announced on Tuesday that it approved registration as West Bank residents for some 4,000 Palestinians who have been living for years in the Israeli-occupied territory without official status. The decision affects 2,800 former inhabitants of the Gaza Strip who left the enclave after Hamas Islamist militants seized it in internal Palestinian fighting in 2007, Israel's

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Israel approves West Bank residency for 4,000 undocumented Palestinians

BEIRUT - Lebanon's parliament on Tuesday voted to hold legislative elections on March 27, parliamentary sources told Reuters. The earlier than usual date - elections were originally expected to be held in May - was being debated in order not to clash with the holy Islamic fasting month of Ramadan. It means Prime Minister Najib Mikati's government has just a few months left in office as

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Colin Powell died at age 84 on Monday. He spent much of his life in the military and served in the Reagan, George H.W. Bush and George W. Bush administrations.(Image credit: Bob Pearson/AFP via Getty Images)

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KABUL, Afghanistan (AP) — When the Taliban swept into power, they found Afghanistan’s economy fast approaching the brink and were faced with harrowing predictions of growing poverty and hunger. So they ordered the financial managers of the collapsed former government back to work, with an urgent directive: Do your jobs, because we can’t.

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The economy on the brink, Taliban rely on former technocrats

DUBAI - Qatari Emir Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani has appointed Ali Bin Ahmad Al-Kuwari as finance minister in a government reshuffle, according to a statement issued by the emiri court on Tuesday, following the previous minister's arrest in May. Al-Kuwari had been serving as commerce and industry minister and as acting finance minister before the reshuffle. His predecessor in the finance

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A magnitude 6 earthquake hit the eastern Mediterranean off the Greek island of Karpathos on Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey reported. The tremor was felt on the islands of Crete, Santorini and Rhodes, Greek State TV said. (Reporting by Angeliki Koutantou in Athens, writing by Maher Chmaytelli in Dubai; Editing by Andrew Heavens)

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Magnitude 6 quake hits eastern Mediterranean, USGS reports

Israel does not practice apartheid and neither does it “occupy” the West Bank,  former U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo said during a visit to the area on Sunday.

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Iran backs talks with six major powers that are result-oriented, Iranian hardline President Ebrahim Raisi said on Monday, as Tehran and six powers struggled to overcome snags hampering the resumption of negotiations to revive a 2015 nuclear deal.

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