Middle East and North Africa
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A Twitter experiment backfires on diplomat at time of heightened concern following death of Italian student
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Umbrella opposition group likely to send delegation to Geneva despite some of most intense fighting since truce began
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Militants, civilians and soldier killed in attacks on police station and army barracks in Ben Guerdane
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Editorial: The press in Turkey is under attack from a government that can’t cope with criticism
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Authorities say Hamas provided training and explosives for cell that assassinated Hisham Barakat last year
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Explosives-laden fuel truck driven into security checkpoint at Hillah, 60 miles south of Baghdad
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Syria, migration, terrorism: the EU’s leaders seem helpless in the face of these interrelated crises. Yet there is a political solution – and it begins with Turkey
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Millions of Syrians stuck in Turkey feel the €3bn offered by Europe as part of an ‘action plan’ will be of little benefit to them
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Booker prize winner Richard Flanagan visits Lebanon, Greece and Serbia to report on the plight of the 5 million Syrians fleeing their country. ‘Forced to choose between life and death,’ he writes, ‘they choose life’
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The Booker prize-winning author visits refugee camps in the Bekaa valley of Lebanon as a guest of World Vision, accompanied by the artist Ben Quilty
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Four gunmen entered home run by Mother Theresa charity claiming they wanted to visit their mothers – then they opened fire
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Doctors say a spike in respiratory diseases is a result of eight months of uncollected waste piled up on country’s streets
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David Cameron, Angela Merkel and François Hollande will ask Russian president to do more to uphold shaky truce
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Senior figures in defence ministry were cut out of discussions in the run-up to the war, according to new book Broken Vows: Tony Blair – The Tragedy of Power
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Around 1 million lives are at risk if the dam breaks, but the US’s alarmist warning about it contains another clear message
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Lead QC charged more than £400,000 to defend ex-PM of Qatar in case alleging he was linked to torture of British citizen
Tehran Bureau Waiting for Trump: watching US elections in Tehran