Middle East and North Africa
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With Barack Obama on his way to a changing Cuba, the left is fast running out of countries to revere
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Ambulances under heavy gunfire as they try to reach wounded, sources say, before soldiers kill five militants
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A US official says soldier was stationed at the Makhmour base outside Mosul; soldier was part of US-led coalition fighting Isis
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At least 19 dead and 25 injured after bus carrying 43 Egyptians overturned on road between Medina and Mecca
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Editorial: Governments and voters worry about the effects of migration but in the end it is the refugees who must always matter most in a refugee crisis
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The 18-year-old is hoping to make the IOC’s Refugee Olympic Athletes team only a year after she was swimming for her life in the Aegean Sea to escape war
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Agreement means all those arriving in Greece from Sunday can expect to be returned to Turkey
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Tank and artillery commanders decorated in Moscow despite Kremlin previously insisting only air force took part in fighting
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Foreign affairs committee is conducting inquiry into UK planning for Libya in the wake of Gaddafi’s downfall
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Toll in raid on market in Houthi area by US-backed, Saudi-led coalition rises to 119, including 22 children
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Loose canon: Isis is losing the war in northern Iraq but the social forces that created it remain unchallenged. Meanwhile the Yazidis remain stranded in exile
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Mohammad Bashir al-Aani and son had been captured after family funeral and held for several months accused of apostasy
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Rashid al-Ajami was originally sentenced to life in prison in 2012 after clip of poem recital was posted on YouTube
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Abdel Fatah al-Sisi points finger of blame at people who want to destabilise country for brutal murder and torture of Giulio Regeni
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The Syrian-Palestinian technology innovator and Wikipedia contributor has been detained for four years by the Syrian security forces, falsely accused of ‘harming state security’
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Tension in Geneva over composition of delegations and idea to form federal Syria with semi-autonomous Kurdish region
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