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Canada's inflation rate slows to 4.3% in March
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Canada’s inflation rate slows to 4.3% in March

OTTAWA: Canada’s annual inflation rate slowed to 4.3% in March, matching expectations, as a fall in energy prices helped to keep the consumer price index…

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Kagame: Guinea junta says inspired by Rwanda on Kagame visit
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Kagame: Guinea junta says inspired by Rwanda on Kagame visit

CONAKRY: Guinea‘s junta is inspired by the Rwandan “model”, it said Tuesday, during a visit by President Paul Kagame, one of the first by a…

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Saudi Foreign Minister Visits Assad: Saudi foreign minister visits Assad, further easing Syria's isolation
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Saudi Foreign Minister Visits Assad: Saudi foreign minister visits Assad, further easing Syria’s isolation

DAMASCUS: Syrian President Bashar al-Assad received Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Faisal bin Farhan in Damascus on Tuesday, Syrian state media reported, in the most significant…

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Rival Forces Agree To 24-Hour Cease-Fire: Sudanese army, rival forces agree to 24-hour cease-fire
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Rival Forces Agree To 24-Hour Cease-Fire: Sudanese army, rival forces agree to 24-hour cease-fire

KHARTOUM: A US Embassy convoy came under fire in Sudan, Washington’s top diplomat said Tuesday as he stepped up efforts for a cease-fire between the…

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Tunisia Shuts Offices Of Opposition Party Ennahdha: Tunisia shuts offices of opposition party Ennahdha
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Tunisia Shuts Offices Of Opposition Party Ennahdha: Tunisia shuts offices of opposition party Ennahdha

TUNIS: Tunisian authorities closed the offices of Islamist-inspired opposition party Ennahdha on Tuesday, a day after arresting its leader Rached Ghannouchi, a senior party official…

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Taiwan to buy 400 US anti-ship missiles intended to repel a China invasion
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Taiwan to buy 400 US anti-ship missiles intended to repel a China invasion

TAIPEI: Taiwan will buy as many as 400 land-launched Harpoon missiles intended to repel a potential Chinese invasion, completing a deal that Congress approved in…

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'Almost impossible' to provide aid in Sudanese capital, IFRC says
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‘Almost impossible’ to provide aid in Sudanese capital, IFRC says

GENEVA: The International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies said on Tuesday it was nearly impossible to provide humanitarian services around the Sudanese…

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Ennahda: Tunisia police arrest three prominent officials of Ennahda party
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Ennahda: Tunisia police arrest three prominent officials of Ennahda party

TUNIS: Tunisian police arrested three prominent officials of the main opposition Ennahda party on Tuesday, hours after they detained party leader Rached Ghannouchi, the most…

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Papua: Indonesia dismisses rebel claim of army deaths in Papua
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Papua: Indonesia dismisses rebel claim of army deaths in Papua

JAKARTA: Indonesia‘s military chief on Tuesday dismissed a separatist group claim that they had killed more than a dozen government soldiers who were searching for…

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Russia: G7 ministers stress unity amid tensions with China and Russia
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Russia: G7 ministers stress unity amid tensions with China and Russia

KARUIZAWA: The Group of Seven industrial powers drew together on Tuesday to criticize China’s coercion of Taiwan and Russia‘s threat to station nuclear weapons in…

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