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Algeria Army Chief Demands Presidential Poll by Year's End

Algeria's powerful army chief has called for a vote to elect a successor to ousted president Abdelaziz Bouteflika by the end of the year, with a date to be announced in mid-September.

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In Iraq's Baiji, Mines Turn Farms into Killing Fields

One man lost his uncle. Another is mourning for two sons. Farmers and herders in Iraq's Baiji say mines left by the Islamic State group turned their beloved orchards into killing fields.

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Hungary Charges Syrian IS Suspect with Imam Beheading

Hungarian prosecutors on Tuesday charged a Syrian man arrested in Budapest last year of terrorism and crimes against humanity including the beheading of an imam in Syria in 2015.

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UN Probe Alleges War Crimes, 'Endemic Impunity' in Yemen

Horrific rights violations, including killings, torture and sexual violence, are being committed with impunity by all sides in Yemen's brutal conflict, UN war crimes investigators warned Tuesday.

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Israel Lifts Gaza Fuel Restriction after Calm Returns

Israel has lifted a restriction on fuel delivered to Gaza for electricity, a defence official said Monday, a week after cutting the flow by half over a series of violent incidents.

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Presidential Campaigns Start in Tunisia after Essebsi Death

Campaigning for Tunisia's presidential elections opened Monday with 26 candidates vying to replace late leader Beji Caid Essebsi in a vote seen as vital to defending democratic gains in the cradle of the Arab Spring.

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Saudi-Led Airstrikes on Yemen Rebel-Run Prison Kill over 100

Yemen was reeling Monday from the deadliest attack so far this year after multiple airstrikes by the Saudi-led coalition hit a detention center run by the country's rebels the previous day, killing over 100 people and wounding dozens.

By midday, rescue and search teams retrieved 86 bodies but continued to search for more in the rubble of a building complex in southwestern Dhamar province that the Iran-backed rebel Houthis were using as a detention center, Yemen's Red Crescent said.

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Saudi-Led Coalition Says Launched Air Strikes against Huthi Target

The Saudi-led military coalition in Yemen said on Sunday that it launched air strikes against a Huthi military target south of the capital Sanaa, in an attack the rebels alleged killed dozens of people.

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Russia Accuses U.S. of Risking Idlib Truce with Strike on Jihadists

Russia accused the United States Sunday of having "compromised" a fragile ceasefire in the Syrian province of Idlib by launching a missile strike against jihadist leaders there.

The Americans hit the region "without advance notice to Russia or Turkey," which both have troops on the ground in Idlib, the Russian military said. It described the attack as "indiscriminate."

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Tunisia Reveals Final Candidates for Presidential Poll

Tunisia's electoral commission has announced a final list of 26 presidential candidates to stand in a September 15 poll to elect a successor to late leader Beji Caid Essebsi.

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