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Eyewitnesses reported ambulances ferrying casualties from the scene to nearby hospitals after the attack on Al Rawdah mosque in Bir al-Abed. (Photo: AFP)

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Sinai mosque bomb blast, firing: 235 killed in Egypt's deadliest...

President Abdel Fattah al Sisi convenes an emergency security meeting soon after the attack.

24 Nov 2017 6:12 PM IST

Prince Mohammed bin Salman suggested the Islamic Republics alleged expansion under Ayatollah Ali Khamenei needed to be confronted. (Photo: AFP)

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Saudi crown prince calls Iran's leader Hitler of Middle East'

The Sunni Muslim kingdom of Saudi Arabia and the Shi'ite theocracy Iran are arch rivals.

24 Nov 2017 3:19 PM IST

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. (Photo: AFP)

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PM Benjamin Netanyahu hails fruitful cooperation' between Israel, Arab...

Netanyahu insisted that peace between Israel and Arab countries would happen in the end.'

24 Nov 2017 3:09 PM IST

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Israeli Prime Minister to visit India on a 4-day trip in January

Netanyahu would be received by Modi in Ahmedabad on his arrival on January 14, the sources said.

23 Nov 2017 6:32 PM IST

Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe delivers his speech during a live broadcast at State House in Harare. Zimbabwes President Robert Mugabe has baffled the country by ending his address on national television without announcing his resignation. (Photo: AP)

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Zimbabwe's Robert Mugabe passes deadline to resign; now impeachment

Oppn activists and influential liberation war veterans association announced more demonstrations to pressure Mugabe to...

20 Nov 2017 5:48 PM IST

$A day after government forces ousted the ISIS group from the last town it held in the country, the banner is now just a reminder of the vast \caliphate\ the terrorists once ruled. (Photo: AFP)$ World

Withering Caliphate': ISIS loses grip over last Iraqi town

Local Sunni tribal fighters took up arms and sided with the mainly Shiite government forces to finally take down ISIS.

19 Nov 2017 1:11 PM IST

A worker walks at the construction site of a massive underground cemetery in Jerusalem. (Photo: AP)

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Jerusalem cemetery goes deep underground

It will have room for 22,000 graves, enough to meet city's needs for next decade.

18 Nov 2017 1:21 AM IST

Iran does not recognise the Jewish state and Israeli media reported that the offer was swiftly turned down through the International Committee of the Red Cross. (Photo: AFP)

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Humanitarian sympathy trumps political enmity: Israel offers quake aid...

More than 400 people were killed and tens of thousands left homeless by the earthquake.

15 Nov 2017 8:05 PM IST

The western province of Kermanshah that was hit on Sunday by the 7.3-magnitude quake. (Photo: AFP)

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Iran's devastating earthquake kills 530, injures another 8000

Iran said on Tuesday that rescue operations had ended.

15 Nov 2017 2:16 PM IST

Qatars emir, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al-Thani. (Photo: AFP)

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Qatar much better off without UAE, Saudi alliance, says Emir Sheikh...

4 Arab states severed ties with Qatar for supporting Islamist extremism and fostering close ties with Iran.

15 Nov 2017 12:43 PM IST

A damaged van and buildings following a 7.3-magnitude earthquake at Sarpol-e Zahab in Irans Kermanshah province on Monday. (Photo: AFP)

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Iran-Iraq border quake kills 415

100 aftershocks felt. Over 6,700 injured.

14 Nov 2017 6:13 AM IST

Saad Hariri, 47, announced he was stepping down from his post in a televised address on November 4 from Riyadh. (Photo: AFP)

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'I am free in Saudi, will return very soon,' says resigned Lebanon PM...

Hariri brushed aside rumours that he was under de facto house arrest in the kingdom and said he would land in Beirut 'in...

13 Nov 2017 8:35 AM IST