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Syrian forces seize most of Aleppo province, on eve of Turkey-Russia talks
AMMAN/BEIRUT/ANKARA: Syrian government forces made significant advances yesterday in the country’s northwestern Aleppo province, seizing most of the rebel-held region, state media said, a day before a new round of talks between Turkey and Russia on the escalation in the
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Five killed in Russian hotel after boiling water floods basement
Five people died in the Russian city of Perm today after a hot water pipe exploded in the night and flooded a basement hotel room with boiling water, the regional investigative committee said. At least three other people were taken
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Putin shake-up could keep him in power past 2024 as Cabinet resigns
MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin proposed constitutional changes yesterday that would give him scope to extend his grip on power after leaving the presidency, and picked a new prime minister after Dmitry Medvedev and his cabinet stepped down. Most importantly,
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Russian jets resume bombing of Syria’s rebel-held northwest
Russian jets struck several rebel-held towns in northwest Syria’s Idlib for the first time since a ceasefire agreed with Turkey came into force two days ago, witnesses and rebels sources said. They said the towns of Khan al Subl, Maasaran
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Moscow gets tons of fake snow as New Year gift to fight Russia’s warmest winter
Ahead of New Year festivities, authorities in Moscow dumped artificial snow in several parts of the city centre as the Russian capital is experiencing its warmest December since 1886. Most of the fake snow, however, melted away soon after. The
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Ukraine and Russia agree on full ceasefire by year end
PARIS: Ukraine and Russia have agreed on a full and comprehensive implementation of a ceasefire in eastern Ukraine before the end of 2019, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday. A joint declaration issued by French president Emmanuel Macron, German chancellor Angela
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Russia banned from next Olympics and World Cup soccer
Russia was banned from the world’s top sporting events for four years yesterday, including the next summer and winter Olympics and the 2022 soccer World Cup, for tampering with doping tests. The World Anti-Doping Agency (WADA) executive committee acted after
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Despite ‘wonderful’ meeting, Trump and Erdogan fail to resolve conflicts
WASHINGTON: US President Donald Trump yesterday pushed Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan to walk away from the purchase of a Russian missile defence system, calling it a “very serious challenge” to bilateral ties, even though he described a meeting between
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For Syrian Kurds, a leader’s killing deepens pain of US betrayal
BEIRUT: Kurdish politician Hevrin Khalaf spent the final months of her life building a political party that she hoped would help shape Syria’s future, drawing the attention of US officials who said it would have a say in what happened
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Kurdish-led forces say they have pulled out of Syria border town
BEIRUT/ANKARA: The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) yesterday said they had withdrawn from the border town of Ras al Ain under a US-brokered ceasefire deal, but a spokesman for Turkish-backed Syrian rebels said the withdrawal was not yet complete. Ras
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