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 KATHMANDU (AFP) - Thousands of Nepalese workers in Iraq will be able to keep their jobs after the government lifted a ban on travel to the war-torn country, the employment ministry said on Thursday.Published 2 days, 12 hours, 40 minutes ago |
 TOKYO (AFP) - A Japanese shipping company maintained Thursday that its oil tanker was likely attacked in the Strait of Hormuz a day earlier, dismissing reports it may have been hit by a freak wave.Published 2 days, 12 hours, 47 minutes ago |
 CAIRO (AFP) - Arab foreign ministers will hold crucial talks with Palestinian Mahmud Abbas on Thursday to decide whether he will begin direct negotiations with Israel amid pressure from the United States.Published 2 days, 13 hours, 17 minutes ago |
 WASHINGTON (AFP) - An Al-Qaeda group has claimed responsibility for this week's deadly car bomb attack on Al-Arabiya television's offices in Baghdad that killed four people, US monitors have said.Published 2 days, 18 hours, 52 minutes ago |
 BAGHDAD (AFP) - Iraq's national league will restart on August 3, the Iraqi Football Association (IFA) said on Wednesday, after two weeks of political turmoil.Published 3 days43 minutes ago |
 BAGHDAD (AFP) - French energy infrastructure firm Alstom on Wednesday signed a memorandum of understanding with Iraq to build a power plant in southern Iraq, which is suffering a severe electricity shortfall.Published 3 days, 3 hours, 48 minutes ago |
 GAZA CITY, Palestinian Territories (AFP) - Hamas on Wednesday announced new regulations on shops selling women's clothes as part of a campaign to safeguard "public morality" in its Gaza enclave.Published 3 days, 3 hours, 54 minutes ago |
 SANAA (AFP) - The Yemeni defence ministry has denied that Shiite rebels in the north of the country have captured soldiers from the army's republican guards, the state news agency Saba reported on Wednesday.Published 3 days, 5 hours, 35 minutes ago |
 SANAA (AFP) - The Yemeni defence ministry has denied that Shiite rebels in the north of the country have captured soldiers from the army's republican guards, the state news agency Saba reported on Wednesday.Published 3 days, 5 hours, 35 minutes ago |
 BEIRUT (AFP) - Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is due to visit Lebanon on Friday along with Saudi King Abdullah amid fears of renewed conflict in the tiny Mediterranean country, a government official told AFP.Published 3 days, 5 hours, 42 minutes ago |