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Israel hails Johnson win as defeat for anti-Semitism 13 Dec 2019 - 05:47 pm
Algerian protesters rally as election goes ahead 12 Dec 2019 - 07:04 pm
Demonstrators shout slogans during a protest to reject the presidential election in Algiers, Algeria December 12, 2019. The sign reads:
New rocket attack targets Iraq base housing US troops 12 Dec 2019 - 11:39 am
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Somali security forces kill 5 al Shabaab fighters to end hotel siege 11 Dec 2019 - 08:51 am
An ambulance carrying an injured person from an attack by Al Shabaab gunmen on a hotel near the presidential residence arrives to the Shaafi hospital in Mogadishu, Somalia December 10, 2019. Reuters/Feisal Omar
Angry protesters attack Lebanese city's municipality 10 Dec 2019 - 05:50 pm
FILE PHOTO: Lebanese protesters celebrate the resignation of Saad Hariri in the southern city of Sidon on October 29, 2019 on the 13th day of anti-government protests. AFP / Mahmoud Zayyat
Heavy rain causes floods, paralyzes Lebanon's capital 09 Dec 2019 - 07:15 pm
Cars are stuck after breaking down on a flooded road due to heavy rain, at the southern entrance of the Lebanese capital Beirut on December 9, 2019. / AFP / Anwar AMRO
Lebanon protesters scuffle with lawmaker's bodyguards 09 Dec 2019 - 06:33 pm
File photo:  Riot police stand guard behind barbed-wire next to the Government Palace during ongoing anti-government protests in downtown Beirut, Lebanon, October 24, 2019. Reuters / Alkis Konstantinidis.jpeg
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