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DUBAI (Reuters) – Iran will support Palestinian armed groups as much as it can, Iran’s Supreme Leader said on Wednesday, urging Palestinians to confront a U.S. plan for Israeli-Palestinian peace. … Read More

By Khalil Ashawi AZAZ, Syria (Reuters) – Cold weather, disease and a lack of shelter and medicine threaten hundreds of thousands of civilians as they flee fighting in Idlib province, … Read More

By Josh Smith and John Geddie SEOUL/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – At least three Asian businessmen who attended a meeting of more than 100 international delegates at a Singapore hotel have contracted … Read More

By Duncan Miriri and Katharine Houreld NAIROBI (Reuters) – Wachira Waheire was 25 years old when he was thrown into Kenya’s notorious torture cells for possessing a poster saying hunger … Read More

By Juliette Jabkhiro and Kate Kelland DAKAR/LONDON (Reuters) – An isolation ward stands ready at a hospital in Khartoum, Sudan. Laboratories in Senegal and Madagascar have the testing equipment they … Read More

By Khalid Abdelaziz KHARTOUM (Reuters) – The head of Sudan’s ruling council on Tuesday cast doubt on any rapid normalization of ties with Israel a day after meeting the Israeli … Read More

DUBAI (Reuters) – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani on Wednesday said America was a terrorist and committed terrorist acts, in a speech broadcast live on state TV, pointing to economic sanctions. … Read More

LONDON (Reuters) – Mike Lynch, the British tech billionaire who sold his data company Autonomy to Hewlett Packard, submitted himself for arrest on Wednesday as part of a bid by … Read More

By Ron Bousso LONDON (Reuters) – Climate protesters forced BP <BP.L> to temporarily shut down its London headquarters on Wednesday, the first day in office for the oil and gas … Read More

By Tarek Amara TUNIS (Reuters) – Tunisia’s new government must be broad-based to implement sorely needed reforms, the leader of the largest party in parliament said on Wednesday, in comments … Read More