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    Nobel Peace Prize winners warn of nuclear conflict’s rising risk

    Conflicts raging around the world, including in Gaza, are heightening the possibility of a nuclear war, the winner of this year’s Nobel Peace Prize warned, renewing calls for the abolition of nuclear weapons.

    World
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    Netanyahu threatens Lebanon with destruction ‘like Gaza’

    Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned  Lebanon Tuesday it could face destruction “like Gaza” as Israel ramps up its ground offensive against Hezbollah along the southern section of the  Lebanese coast.

    West Asia
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    22 killed in Israeli strikes on central Beirut

    Israel has repeatedly pounded Beirut’s southern suburbs over the last two weeks but Thursday’s raid was only the third time the city center has been targeted killing an unspecified number of civilians.

    West Asia
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    MBS's Crackdown: A Saudi Mother Sentenced For 34 Years For Tweeting

    A Saudi university student who had returned home for a vacation was sentenced to 34 years in prison for following and retweeting dissidents and activists on her personal Twitter account. 

    West Asia
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    PM Modi Pays Homage To Those Who Lost Their Lives During Partition

    Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday paid homage to all those who lost their lives during partition, and applauded the resilience as well as grit of those who suffered during that tragic period of history.

    Southeast Asia
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    Imran Khan Praises India Foreign Policy

    Former Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan has once again commended India for its independent foreign policy as he slammed the West for being critical of India for buying Russian oil.

    Southeast Asia
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    Author Salman Rushdie Off Ventilator

    Author Salman Rushdie has been taken off a ventilator and is able to talk, a day after he was stabbed as he prepared to give a lecture in upstate New York. Rushdie' agent, Andrew Wylie, confirmed the information.

    World
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    Explosive Situation In Gaza Following Friday’s Bloodbath

    Israeli jets have pounded the besieged Gaza Strip for a second day following a wave of air strikes on the coastal enclave that killed at least 15 people, including a five-year-old girl.

    World
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    Tajikistan Puts The Squeeze On Aga Khan-Linked Entities

    Authorities in Tajikistan are putting the squeeze on organizations and companies controlled by the Aga Khan, the Europe-based philanthropist deemed by the Shia Ismailis of the country’s eastern Pamirs region as leader.

    Central Asia
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    Israel Pummels Gaza With Airstrikes, Palestinian Resistance Responds

    The Israeli army continued its offensive campaign on the Gaza Strip into the night of 5 August, killing at least 10 people and injuring dozens more. Palestinian resistance groups launched dozens of rockets in retaliation

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    Supreme Court To Set Up Bench To Hear Pleas Against High Court Order On Hijab

    The Supreme Court on Tuesday said it would set up a bench to hear a batch of pleas challenging the Karnataka High Court verdict refusing to lift the ban on hijab in educational institutions of the state, and added one of

    Southeast Asia
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    Hezbollah Does Not Rule Out ‘War’ With Israel Over Disputed Gas Field

    The Lebanese resistance movement of Hezbollah does not rule out going to war with Israel over the regime’s attempts at impinging on Lebanon’s natural resources.

    West Asia
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    Taliban announce surprise talks with US in Pakistani capital

    The Taliban has said it will meet envoys from the United States for talks next week in Pakistan, even as another round of negotiations is scheduled in Qatar by the end of this month.

    Central Asia
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    Suicide Attack Kills 27 Members of Iran's Revolutionary Guards

    Twenty members of Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards were killed a suicide attack the southeast of the country, Fars news reported on Wednesday.A suicide car bomb targeted a bus carrying members of the Guards.

    West Asia
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    Calls for transparent investigation after murder of Saudi child

    Calls for a transparent investigation have been made after a child's throat was reportedly slit in the Saudi city of Medina in front of his mother late last month.

    West Asia
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    ‘Death to America’ Means Death to US Rulers, Not Nation:Iran's Supreme Leader

    Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei described the US government as the embodiment of evil, violence and warmongering, saying that the Iranian nation will.

    West Asia
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    'Death of a Princess': Adultery and execution in Saudi Arabia

    In 1980, a drama was screened in the UK which was to reshape perceptions of Saudi Arabia, a key Middle East ally. Death of a Princess followed the short life of Princess Mishael, a 19-year-old.

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    Morocco leaves Saudi-led coalition of war on Yemen

    Morocco says it has stopped its involvement in Saudi Arabia's war on Yemen, and recalled its ambassador to the kingdom amid rising tensions between Riyadh and Rabat.

    West Asia
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    India-Pak relationship: ‘Corridor of faith’ to build trust: says Indian diplomat

    High Commissioner of India Ajay Bisaria has said India follows a neighbourhood first policy to engage for mutual benefit with its neighbours and thus its relationship with Pakistan is of key importance.

    West Asia
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    Amnesty calls for halt to arms sales to Saudi-led coalition in Yemen

    CAIRO: An international rights group urged the West on Wednesday to stop supplying weapons to parties to the conflict in Yemen after reports that the arms were ending up in the hands of extremists.

    West Asia
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    Russia to build new cruise, hypersonic missiles to face US

    Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu says Russia must develop new missiles in the next two years in response to the US withdrawal from a Cold War-era agreement.

    World
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    US supports 'dictators, butchers and extremists' in Middle East, says Iran

    The United States supports “dictators, butchers and extremists” in the Middle East, Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif said in a Twitter post Wednesday in a response to US President.

    West Asia
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    Building on Syria war gains, Hezbollah scores political win

    Hezbollah’s bigger role in Lebanon’s new unity government points to a growing appetite to shape state affairs and builds on unprecedented military clout the group is wielding after helping turn the tide in Syria’s war.

    West Asia
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    Iraqi president says Trump did not ask permission to 'watch Iran'

    Iraqi leaders have hit back at Donald Trump after the US president said he plans to keep troops in the country to spy on Iran, with President Barham Salih saying the mission does not have Baghdad's permission.

    West Asia

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