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Sudanese president fires foreign minister after pay remarkSudanese news agency: President al-Bashir fires foreign minister after criticism, comment over halt in salaries
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Rights group: Lebanon evicting Syrian refugees from townsHuman rights group says Lebanese local officials throwing Syrian refugees out of their towns, sending eviction notices
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Palestinians watch a bulldozer raises protective sand berms around the tents at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018. Palestinian activists are moving protest encampments closer to Israel's fence ahead of mass demonstration. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
The Latest: Gaza ministry: Young protesters shot in the headThe Latest: Gaza's Health Ministry says Palestinian youth protesting at Gaza-Israel border shot in the head
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Palestinians watch a bulldozer raises protective sand berms around the tents at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018. Palestinian activists are moving protest encampments closer to Israel's fence ahead of mass demonstration. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
Israeli leaflets tell Gaza residents to shun border protestIsraeli military aircraft drop leaflets urging Palestinians to stay away from Gaza border protest
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This photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA, shows Russian soldiers and Syrian government forces overseeing the evacuation of rebel fighters from the Army of Islam and their families from the town of Dumayr, northeast of Damascus, Syria, Thursday, April 19, 2018. Syrian state media said Thursday that hundreds of rebel fighters in Dumayr, have handed in their weapons and started to leave the area under an evacuation deal moving them to opposition-held areas in the north, effectively surrendering their turf to government forces. (SANA via AP)
Syrian rebels give up Damascus area town to governmentRebels evacuate Damascus-area town, give government another victory in the capital region
The Associated Press14 hours ago
Palestinian protesters set up tents at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018. Palestinian activists are moving protest encampments closer to Israel's fence ahead of mass demonstration. (AP Photo/ Khalil Hamra)
Gaza protest camps moved closer to Israel border fenceOrganizers of mass marches on Gaza's border with Israel have moved protest tent camps closer to the border fence, heightening the risk of more bloodshed
The Associated Press16 hours ago
At least 25 killed in battle for southwest Yemeni provinceYemeni security officials say heavy fighting between Yemeni pro-government forces and Shiite Houthi rebels has killed at least 25 in the last two days in in the southwest
The Associated Press17 hours ago
The Latest: UN, parties discuss chem watchdog work in SyriaU.N. spokesman says discussions are taking place in Syria's capital with all key parties on security arrangements for inspectors from the U.N. chemical weapons watchdog to visit the site of a suspected chemical attack in Douma
The Associated Press17 hours ago
Israel at 70: Satisfaction and grim disquiet share the stageAs Israelis mark 70 years as a country this week, satisfaction and a grim disquiet share the stage
The Associated Press18 hours ago
Iran's defense minister visits Iraq to promote security tiesIran's defense minister has visited a joint intelligence center in the Iraqi capital operated by Iran, Iraq, Syria and Russia
The Associated Press18 hours ago
Rebels in Syria's south brace for onslaught, fear wider warRebels in southern Syria who were once backed by the United States fear a new offensive by President Bashar Assad's forces, one that risks igniting a wider conflict
The Associated Press19 hours ago
Egypt FM warn Ethiopia over Nile River damEgypt's foreign minister has delivered a warning to Ethiopia over a dam it is building on a Nile River tributary
The Associated Press19 hours ago
Video of woman's violent arrest sparks outrage in IranIran has ordered an investigation after a video surfaced showing police pushing and pulling a young woman who was resisting arrest for not adhering to the Islamic dress code
The Associated Press20 hours ago
Egypt exhibiting previously unseen Ptolemaic artifactsEgypt is exhibiting artifacts from the Ptolemaic period for the first time in The Egyptian Museum in Cairo
The Associated Press21 hours ago
Paratroopers drop into the Mediterranean Sea during Independence Day celebrations marking 70 years since the founding of the state in 1948, in Tel Aviv, Israel, Thursday, April 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
Israel celebrates its 70th birthday with parties and BBQ'sIsrael is celebrating 70 years since the modern Jewish state was created
The Associated Press21 hours ago
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AP Online - SportsNBA mourns death of Gregg Popovich's wife, a 'real star'FILE - In this Feb. 23, 2018, file photo, San Antonio Spurs head coach Gregg Popovich watches in the second half of an NBA basketball against the Denver Nuggets, in Denver. The NBA is paying tribute to the wife of San Antonio Spurs coach Gregg Popovich. Erin Popovich died Wednesday, April 18, 2018, at 67, the team said. Her death came after a long illness, the San Antonio Express-News reported. (AP Photo/David Zalubowski, File)
AP Online Top Political Short HeadlinesTrump will skip Barbara Bush funeral, sending first ladyPresident Donald Trump walks down the stairs of Air Force One during his arrival at Palm Beach International Airport in West Palm Beach, Fla., Thursday, April 19, 2018. (AP Photo/Pablo Martinez Monsivais)
AP Online Top Political Short HeadlinesSome GOP officials urge charges for women who get abortionsFILE - This Jan. 9, 2017 file photo shows Idaho Lt. Gov. Brad Little watches the proceedings before the State of the State address inside the house chambers at the state Capitol building in Boise, Idaho. Officials in Republican-dominant states are pushing legislation ahead of midterm elections that would punish both doctors and patients for abortions. Little said at a forum month earlier that he would like to sign such a measure into law but acknowledged that it might not stand up in court. Little later told AP he “probably would” support it but had not seen anything in writing. (AP Photo/Otto Kitsinger, File)
AP Online National NewsSyracuse fraternity suspended after racist videos releasedThis Wednesday, April 18, 2018 photo shows the Theta Tau fraternity house in Syracuse, N.Y. Syracuse University Chancellor Kent Syverud announced the fraternity was suspended over videos with racist, sexist content. Syverud, described the video involving members of Theta Tau, a professional engineering fraternity, as racist, anti-Semitic, homophobic, sexist and hostile to people with disabilities. He said the videos were turned over to the school's Department of Public Safety for possible disciplinary or legal action. (Julie McMahon/The Syracuse Newspapers via AP)
AP Online National News2 black men arrested at Starbucks get an apology from policePhiladelphia Police Commissioner Richard Ross speaks to the media during a news conference, Thursday, April 19, 2018 in Philadelphia. Ross apologized to the two black men who were arrested at a Starbucks, saying that the issue of race is not lost on him and he shouldn't be the person making things worse. (David Swanson/The Philadelphia Inquirer via AP)
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