Europe
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Six years after bombings, Belgium readies for biggest criminal trial
BRUSSELS, Belgium: Belgium’s worst peacetime massacre left 32 dead and hundreds marked for life. Now, six and a half years…
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Putin seeks to use ‘winter as weapon of war’: NATO chief
Bucharest: Russian President Vladimir Putin wants “to use winter as a weapon of war” in his campaign in Ukraine, NATO…
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Less than half of UK population is Christian
LONDON: For the first time, less than half of the population in England and Wales identifies as Christian, according to…
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Ukraine battles to restore power as shelling kills 15
KYIV: Russian shelling of the southern Ukrainian city of Kherson killed 15 civilians, officials said, as engineers across the country…
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Russia ‘will achieve’ Ukraine goals, Putin tells soldiers’ mothers
Moscow: President Vladimir Putin on Friday told a group of mothers of soldiers fighting in Ukraine that Russia will achieve…
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Spain PM sets sights on international role
MADRID: Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez will on Sunday become president of an international socialist grouping, a potential springboard to…
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Foreign university students sold ‘dreams’ in north Cyprus
NICOSIA: Foreign students are big business in northern Cyprus, a tiny, breakaway statelet only recognized by Turkey, but some warn…
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Moscow on red alert after Crimea hit by ‘drone attack’
KYIV: Ukraine’s Russian-annexed Crimean peninsula was targeted by a drone attack, Kremlin-installed authorities said, adding that Moscow’s forces there were…
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EU parliament declares Russia ‘state sponsor of terrorism’
Strasbourg: The European Parliament on Wednesday recognised Russia as a “state sponsor of terrorism”, accusing its forces of carrying out…
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UK top court rejects Scottish independence vote plans
London: Britain’s highest court on Wednesday rejected a bid by the devolved Scottish government in Edinburgh to hold a new…
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Russian, US pressure mounts on Turkey over Syria threat
ISTANBUL, Turkey: International pressure mounted Tuesday on Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan not to launch a threatened ground offensive against…
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Turkish president Erdogan says mulling ground operation in Syria
ISTANBUL, Turkey: Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Monday he was mulling going beyond air strikes and launching a ground…
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