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Bomb hits tourist bus near Egypt’s Giza Pyramids, wounds 17

Photo: Police inspect a car and a bus that were damaged by a bomb, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, March 19, 2019. Egyptian officials say a roadside bomb has hit a tourist bus near the Giza Pyramids. They said Sunday’s blast wounded at least 17 people including tourists. Cairo, May 20 : A roadside bomb hit a tourist bus on Sunday ...

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Saudi Arabia calls urgent Gulf, Arab League meetings over tensions

Saudi Arabia has called for urgent meetings of the regional Gulf Cooperation Council and the Arab League to discuss escalating tensions in the Gulf, the Saudi official news agency said on Saturday. The Saudi Press Agency said King Salman had invited Gulf leaders and Arab states to two emergency summits in Mecca on May 30 to discuss recent “aggressions and ...

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Austrian leader calls an early election amid video scandal

Photo: Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz (Austrian People’s Party) addresses the media during a press conference at the Federal Chancellors Office in Vienna, Austria, Saturday, May 18, 2019. Vienna, May 19 : Austrian Chancellor Sebastian Kurz called Saturday for an early election after his vice chancellor resigned over a covertly shot video that showed him apparently promising government contracts to a ...

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PM Modi performs puja at Kedarnath after meditating for 17 hrs

Prime Minister Narendra Modi Sunday performed puja at the Kedanath shrine after meditating for 17 hours at a holy cave near the temple. He reached the shrine situated at a height of 11,755 feet near the Mandakini river on Saturday and paid obeisance. He also took stock of development work in the temple town. Later in the day, he is ...

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Step by step: Democrats play the long game against Trump

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., meets with reporters at her weekly news conference at the Capitol in Washington, Thursday, May 16, 2019. Washington, May 18 : First came the sternly worded letters. Then the subpoenas. Now the votes to hold Trump administration officials in contempt of Congress. As House Democrats plod ahead investigating President Donald Trump, against unprecedented ...

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Iran’s top diplomat presses efforts to save nuclear deal

Photo: Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi meets Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif at the Diaoyutai State Guesthouse in Beijing, Friday, May 17, 2019.  Tehran, May 18 : Iran’s foreign minister traveled Friday to China on his Asian tour aimed at keeping world markets open to Tehran amid an intense sanctions campaign from the U.S. as tensions across the Persian Gulf ...

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Leaders campaign until the end of Australian election day

Photo: Voters fill in their ballots at Town Hall in Sydney, Australia, in a federal election, Saturday, May 18, 2019. Canberra, May 18 : Political leaders continued frenetic 11th-hour campaigning as Australians vote on Saturday in an election likely to deliver the nation’s sixth prime minister in as many years. Opinion polls suggest the conservative Liberal Party-led coalition will lose ...

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Trump lifts tariffs on Mexico, Canada, delays auto tariffs

Washington, May 18 : Bogged down in a sprawling trade dispute with U.S. rival China, President Donald Trump took steps Friday to ease tensions with America’s allies — lifting import taxes on Canadian and Mexican steel and aluminum and delaying auto tariffs that would have hurt Japan and Europe. By removing the metals tariffs on Canada and Mexico, Trump cleared ...

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India’s ruling party takes election battle to West Bengal

Photo: In this Thursday, May 16, 2019 file photo, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, center, is offered a giant floral garland during an election rally in Mathurapur, south of Kolkata, in the eastern Indian state of West Bengal. Modi has taken his Bharatiya Janata Party’s fight to the state of West Bengal, where it hopes to retain a majority in ...

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Saudis blame Iran for drone attack amid calls for US strikes

Photo : People inspect the site of an airstrike by Saudi-led coalition in Sanaa, Yemen, Thursday, May, 16, 2019. Dubai, May 17 : Saudi Arabia accused Tehran of being behind a drone strike that shut down a key oil pipeline in the kingdom, and a newspaper close to the palace called for Washington to launch “surgical” strikes on Iran, raising ...

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