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Tanzanian authorities have deployed the military to buy cashew nuts from farmers to solve a row over prices. President John Magufuli had given traders a Monday deadline to buy the crops at government-approved rates. Farmers had halted sales of their harvests

A member of a Saudi assassination squad phoned a superior shortly after Jamal Khashoggi was murdered and told him “tell your boss” their mission had been accomplished, The New York Times reported. Citing three people familiar with a recording of Khashoggi’s killing collected

Amid growing anger over civilian casualties from the Saudi-led coalition’s air strikes, at least 150 people have been killed in 24 hours of clashes between government loyalists and rebels in Yemen’s flashpoint city of Hodeida, medics and military sources said yesterday.

The Israeli military bombed the studios of Hamas’s television station in the Gaza Strip on Monday after launching at least five non-exploding missiles nearby as warnings to evacuate, Palestinian officials and witnesses said. There was no immediate word of any casualties

Canada and Germany confirmed Monday that Turkey briefed their intelligence services on the recordings of the killing of dissident Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who has been missing since Oct. 2 after entering Saudi Arabia’s Consulate in Istanbul. Canadian Prime Minister Justin

Some teams at the Qatar World Cup in 2022 could be based in Iran, the head of the organizing committee told French Press Agency (AFP) on Monday, saying the idea was “part of the operational plan”. The move would provide a

Ethiopia’s attorney general accused members of the security service of carrying out a grenade attack on a rally attended by the prime minister, as he announced details of a string of investigations that struck at the heart of the establishment. Members

Turkey on Monday slammed the latest comments made by French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian as “unacceptable,” after he accused President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of playing a “political game” in connection with the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. “We find it unacceptable