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A French court Thursday acquitted former prime minister Edouard Balladur on corruption charges after he was accused of using kickbacks from an arms deal but handed a suspended jail term … Read More
It seems an unlikely vision, a megacity in the desert with no cars or roads, all run by machines that can recognize your face.
For exhibition curator Eugenie Tsai, KAWS’s characters manage to be light-hearted but also melancholic and introspective. They ‘resonate with all of us in life in general, she said. Not everything … Read More
The United States’s special envoy for Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, has arrived in Doha, sources said on Thursday, where he is set to meet with the insurgent Taliban at a delicate … Read More
The International Organization for Migration says at least 20 migrants are dead after smugglers threw 80 overboard during a voyage from Djibouti in East Africa to Yemen.
Britain, France and Germany have scrapped a U.
A car bomb killed or injured a number of fighters travelling in a convoy of vehicles belonging to Yemen’s main southern separatist forces in the city of Aden Thursday, the … Read More
Tensions between the United States and Iran simmered on Wednesday after a new rocket attack against Iraq’s Ain al-Asad air base that hosts U.S. forces, which U.S. officials told Reuters … Read More
Kuwait’s Emir Sheikh Nawaf al-Ahmad al-Sabah traveled on Thursday to the United States for “usual” medical checks, state news agency KUNA reported without giving further details.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels said they attacked a Saudi oil facility in the port city of Jeddah on Thursday, the latest in a series of cross-border missile and drone strikes the … Read More