State election officials were set to certify the stunning upset victory of Democrat Doug Jones in the US Senate race in Alabama on Thursday despite a last-minute legal challenge by defeated Republican candidate Roy Moore.

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Iraqi authorities have extended through February an international flight ban slapped on the autonomous Kurdish region in response to a controversial independence vote, an airport official said on Thursday. Baghdad severed Iraqi Kurdistan's air links

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Renowned novelist Ronit Matalon, known for her explorations of Israeli society, died Thursday at the age of 58 after battling cancer, media reports and officials said. President Reuven Rivlin mourned her death and called her

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Russian President Vladimir Putin warned Thursday that armed criminals could be "liquidated on the spot," calling the blast that tore through a Saint Petersburg supermarket and wounded 14 people an "act of terror." On Wednesday

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Taiwan has had to scrap 200,000 new passports after an embarrassing design blunder mistakenly swapped an image of an airport in Washington for the island's main airport. The head of consular affairs resigned and another

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South Korea's 2015 deal with Japan over Tokyo's wartime sex slavery was "seriously flawed", President Moon Jae-In said Thursday, telling officials to re-examine the controversial agreement. The issue of women forced into sexual slavery for

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US President Donald Trump on Thursday said he was "very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea" and that such moves would prevent "a friendly solution" to the crisis over Pyongyang's

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The United States and Turkey on Thursday turned the page on a visa crisis triggered nearly three months ago by the arrest of a staff member at the American mission in Ankara, but relations between

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The following were the fluctuations observed during the day: ================================================================================= Current Session Prior Day Open High Low Last Time Set Chg Vol Set ================================================================================= Mar'18 78.74 79.45 78.60 78.73 13:47 - -0.22 18514 78.95 Dec

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The following were the fluctuations observed during the day: ================================================================================= Current Session Prior Day Open High Low Last Time Set Chg Vol Set ================================================================================= Mar'18 78.74 79.45 78.60 78.73 13:47 - -0.22 18514 78.95 Dec

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