Middle East and North Africa
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Middle East almost doubles weapons imports, as US and Europe remain the main suppliers and China joins top-tier exporters
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Blast in Mogadishu comes less than a fortnight after election of new president, Mohamed Abdullahi Mohamed
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Israel’s prime minister will be its first serving PM to visit Australia but he is expected to face protests
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Early advances by Iraqi forces meet limited resistance but Isis thought to have prepared ambush points in urban centre
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Extremist Muslim cleric known as ‘blind sheikh’ became notorious figure to US authorities and was for decades the face of radical Islam before 9/11 attacks
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The final interment of the already moribund ‘two-state solution’ would force all concerned to face what is obvious to any honest observer
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Goal of new order is to bolster original initiative against legal and constitutional scrutiny, rather than revise it in a substantive fashion, say sources
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The stories that have left a mark on me are those about real life, says the Guardian’s correspondent in Turkey. So it’s essential to speak the language
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Study commissioned by Médecins Sans Frontières appears to show Russia, working with Syria, carried out February 2016 attack that killed 25 people
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Editorial: The US president’s ditching of the commitment to a two-state solution may not be part of a calculated strategy. That is all the more alarming
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Nikki Haley said US upholds longstanding policy on Israeli-Palestine conflict, as French foreign minister finds Rex Tillerson’s proposal ‘confusing and worrying’
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A large car bomb has killed tens of people and injured many more in Baghdad, Iraq, on Thursday
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Letters: The only reason for Israel and the US to support the idea of two states has been to maintain the Jewish exclusivity of Israel
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According to Houthi insurgents and medical officials five bodies were recovered from the scene, mostly women, and that the toll was likely to rise
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Meeting between the US, France, Britain, Turkey, Saudi Arabia and others seen as opportunity to properly gauge American position
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