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Islamist suspect detained in Germany tested ricin on hamster
A Tunisian detained in Germany on suspicion of planning an Islamist-motivated attack produced ricin and tested the lethal toxin on a hamster, prosecutors said on Friday. ...
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Pakistan's Khan leads in projected partial poll results as opponent cries foul
Pakistani cricket hero-turned-politician Imran Khan led in projected partial results of a general election on Thursday, as the party of his jailed chief rival, ousted Prime Mini...
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Berlin project 'upcycles' refugee boats into bags
When Abid Ali risked his life in a rubber dinghy in 2015 as he fled Pakistan for Europe, he didn't think that three years later he would be making bags, backpacks and sneakers o...
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
U.S. commanders say Afghan strategy boosting peace hopes
Increasing prospects of peace talks with the Taliban show the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan is working, despite continuing violence and insurgent control of wide areas of the cou...
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
U.N. court orders UAE to lift measures against Qataris
The United Arab Emirates was ordered by the highest U.N. court on Monday to immediately allow Qatari families affected by a dispute between the countries to reunite, imposing th...
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Rare secular candidate in Pakistan hounded by angry mobs
It began with a audience members asking Pakistani parliamentary candidate Jibran Nasir to declare his religion at a public forum, a request he politely refused on the grounds it...
MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Damascus condemns White Helmet evacuation as 'criminal operation'
The Syrian government on Monday condemned the evacuation of hundreds of Syrian White Helmet rescue workers and their families with the help of Israeli soldiers, calling it a "cr...
AEROSPACE AND DEFENSE
Israel rebuffs Russian offer to keep Iranian forces from Golan: official
Israel rebuffed on Monday a new Russian offer to keep Iranian forces in Syria away from the Golan Heights ceasefire line, an Israeli official said, complicating Moscow’s bid t...
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