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Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump has accused Democratic rival Hillary Clinton of being a "bigot" in his latest appeal to minority voters.Speaking at a Mississippi rally, he said his opponent "sees people of colour only…

The spokesman of the oil company of Al-Khaleej Al-Arabi, Omran Al-Zuway, said the oil production in Hammad oil field had stopped as a group from the Petroleum Facilities Guard (PFG) shut it down.AL-Zuway added that the real…

The Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs in Sudan, Abdulghani Al-Nayeem, summoned the Libyan Ambassador to Sudan Muhammad Amer Soula, in Khartoum.The two officials discussed the conditions of the Sudanese nationals trapped now in…

The US has urged "strong and swift action" after a UN investigation concluded that Syria used chemical weapons against its own people.The year-long inquiry found the government used chlorine gas in attacks in Idlib province in 2014…

A dozen Turkish tanks have rolled across the Syrian border after heavy shelling of an area held by so-called Islamic State.Military sources told Turkish media 70 targets in the Jarablus area had been destroyed by artillery and rocket…

Media sources and local sources from the Wershefana and Azzawiya districts confirmed that on Thursday morning the Coastal Road that links Tripoli to Azzawiya has been reopened after a joint force in the area was formed.“The joint…

A magnitude 6.2 earthquake has struck central Italy, leaving at least 37 people dead and many others trapped under rubble, reports say."Half the town is gone," said the mayor of Amatrice, one of the worst areas affected.A family…

U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry met with Saudi King Salman in the Red Sea city of Jiddah on Thursday ahead of wider talks focusing on the conflicts in Yemen, Syria and Libya with other Gulf Arab officials.The flurry of meetings…

EU navies are to start training the Libyan coastguard in a bid to curb migration from the divided north African nation. The agreement was signed in Rome on Tuesday (23 August) by Italian rear admiral Enrico Credendino, who heads the…