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Australians will vote in a historic referendum on 14 October to decide whether to enact an Indigenous Voice to Parliament. If approved, the vote would recognise Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people in the country's constitution, and establish a permanent body for them to give advice on laws. The proposal is the...
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North Korea has fired two ballistic missiles off its east coast as Kim Jong Un's sister warned of "using the Pacific as our firing range". The missiles were launched on Monday morning local time and fell into the sea outside Japan's exclusive economic zone, the country's coast guard said. There were no reports of dam...
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Independence Day 2023: 5 Short Speeches In English For Kids Marking the 77th Independence Day 2023, delve into a compilation of five impactful speeches. On this 77th Independence Day in 2023, we celebrate the remarkable journey of our nation. In honor of this occasion, we present five concise speeches that embody our s...
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- Summary - LATEST DEVELOPMENTS: - Announcement on start of truce could come in few hours - Qatar GAZA/JERUSALEM, Nov 23 (Reuters) - The release of hostages under a temporary truce between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants will not happen before Friday, Israel's national security adviser and the U.S. said, dashing...
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A man who lived in the northern outskirts of Buenos Aires was operating as Argentina’s largest Nazi material distributor from his family home, federal police announced Wednesday after an investigation lasting nearly two years. According to the authorities, who arrested the suspect after agents staged an undercover purc...
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Welsh rugby could be included in the list of sports that have to be shown live on free-to-air TV if the Senedd called for it, a UK minister has said. Sir John Whittingdale's comments in the Welsh Parliament come amid concerns more rugby matches could go behind paywalls. Autumn internationals have been shown on Amazon P...
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Afghanistan’s Taliban government announced Friday that China had formally accepted its ambassador to Beijing, hailing the move as an “important chapter” in growing ties between the two neighboring countries. The announcement, yet to be confirmed by China, would make it the first nation to host a Taliban ambassador sinc...
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Budapest says it will not approve any EU support for Ukraine that requires unanimity, including sanctions against Russia, until Kyiv removes a Hungarian bank from its list of "international war sponsors". Hungary confirmed on Wednesday that it is blocking the disbursement of €500 million to reimburse member states that...
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Governments that overregulate artificial intelligence are risking grave and lasting consequences, Omar Al Olama—the world’s first minister of AI—has warned. Subscribe to unlock this article and get full access to Fortune.com Already a member? Login Governments that overregulate artificial intelligence are risking grave...
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ADDIS ABABA (Reuters) -The government of Ethiopia’s Amhara region asked federal authorities on Thursday to “take appropriate measures” in response to intense clashes between local militiamen and the military. The request follows several days of fighting in towns across Amhara, the country’s second-biggest region, betwe...
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BRUSSELS -- Belgian authorities said Wednesday they were “actively” searching for an asylum-seeker of Palestinian origin after media reported that he had threatened an unspecified attack. The Brussels prosecutor's office said it was aware of the threat mentioned in the media and added police forces were out looking for...
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Sept 10 (Reuters) - President Volodymyr Zelenskiy said on Sunday that Ukrainian troops pressing a counter offensive against Russian occupying forces had advanced on the southern front in the past week while there had also been movement near Bakhmut in the east. Zelenskiy's latest comments on the state of the three-mont...
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'New design always comes with delay and additional cost': Dutton argues existing Virginia class nuclear submarines are 'best option' Peter Dutton has warned that selecting a new design for Australia's nuclear submarines "comes with delay and additional cost", arguing America's existing Virginia class submarines are "th...
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Barnaby Joyce launches another attack over PM's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras march, stating Alice Springs deserved 'a little more time' Barnaby Joyce has blasted Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for treating Sydney's Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras parade as "more important" than the crime crisis in Alice Springs. Barnaby Joyc...
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The standoff between gunmen and Kosovo authorities at a monastery near the border with Serbia ended Sunday night, authorities in Pristina said, following a police operation to regain control of the area. “We put this territory under control. It was done after several consecutive battles,” Xhelal Svecla, Kosovo’s minist...
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Azerbaijani troops are on the edge of the separatist stronghold of Stepanakert in Azerbaijan’s Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh, prompting residents to hide in basements in fear, according to a rebel envoy. The development came on Friday, three days after Azerbaijan launched intense fire on ethnic Armenia...
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Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. Grant Peck, Associated Press Grant Peck, Associated Press Leave your feedback BANGKOK (AP) — Thailand’s king on Friday reduced former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra’s eight-...
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At least 60 Russian soldiers are reported to have been killed or wounded by friendly fire as they made a hasty retreat from the village of Opytne, close to Donetsk’s Sergey Prokofiev International Airport in eastern Ukraine. The claim was originally made by Yuriy Mysiagin, a Ukrainian member of parliament, in a Telegra...
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese issues desperate final plea for Indigenous Voice amid flailing support for the proposed body The Prime Minister has mounted a desperate campaign to get the Liberal Party on board with the Voice to Parliament in the face of lacklustre support for the proposed body. Prime Minister Anthony ...
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- Oops!Something went wrong.Please try again later. - Oops!Something went wrong.Please try again later. DEIR AL-BALAH, Gaza Strip (AP) — Israeli media say the Hamas militant group has released the first batch of hostages under a cease-fire deal Friday, including 13 Israelis who have been held in the Gaza Strip for near...
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Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. Issam Adwan, Associated Press Issam Adwan, Associated Press Leave your feedback GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip (AP) — Over 180,000 Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are packed into U.N. sh...
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A Paraguayan government official has been replaced after it was revealed that he signed a memorandum of understanding with representatives of a fugitive Indian guru’s fictional country, who also appear to have duped several other officials in the South American country. Arnaldo Chamorro was replaced as chief of staff f...
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Editor’s Note: This report includes details of sexual assaults and violence. Cries pierced the air as a car full of women and children crossed into Chad from war-torn Sudan. A woman, in the late stages of pregnancy, lay in the backseat, lifeless and soaked in blood. Her children wailed at her feet. “I sat next to her i...
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LANDI KOTAL: Taking law into their own hands once again, a group of local tribal clerics has banned music in weddings along with dancing of the transgender persons in Khyber tribal district of KhyberPakhtunkhwa (K-P). A group of 26 clerics gathered on Friday and unanimously announced the decision, adding that local cle...
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- Ukraine is firing an artillery shell that lays mines built to destroy tanks. - The US has sent Ukraine over 10,000 of these rounds along with the 155mm howitzers that fire them. - These mine-laying artillery shells are designed to force desperate choices. The Russian troops defending the front lines against Ukraine's...
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The West African nation is a hub for those trying to enter Europe via neighboring Libya and Algeria. Why did Niger revoke the law? According to a statement from the government, junta leader General Abdourahmane Tchiani signed the order repealing the 2015 law as it "did not take into account the interests of Niger and i...
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Venezuela takes control of gang-run prison that had pool and a disco President Nicolas Maduro congratulates security forces for dismantling facility which had become the "centre of conspiracy and crime" for Tren de Aragua gang. Venezuela has seized control of a prison from the hands of a powerful gang with internationa...
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Double your support for intelligent, in-depth, trustworthy journalism. Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press Ken Moritsugu, Associated Press Leave your feedback BEIJING (AP) — China’s top diplomat welcomed four Arab foreign ministers and the Indonesian one to Beijing on Monday, saying his country would work with “our brother...
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"Our land is drying up and our water is polluted," says Nati Machaca, one of the protesters manning a roadblock in the village of Purmamarca, high in the Andes mountains. Ms Machaca is a spokeswoman for the indigenous groups living in Jujuy, a province in northern Argentina. Jujuy is located in what has become known as...
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July 20 (Reuters) - Iraq's president said late on Wednesday he would summon the United States ambassador to Baghdad over critical remarks by a U.S. State Department spokesperson regarding the Iraqi government's treatment of a top Iraqi Christian leader. State Department spokesperson Matthew Miller on Tuesday criticized...
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Another entire junta battalion surrendered to the Brotherhood Alliance in northern Shan State on Tuesday, the 33rd day of Operation 1027 – the coordinated offensive in northern Myanmar led by three ethnic armies that has proven that the junta’s heavily armed military is far from invisible. The offensive has also inspir...
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Keir Starmer has continued to resist calls to sack rebel frontbenchers who have demanded a ceasefire in Gaza. The Labour leader tried to reclaim the initiative amid a growing revolt among activists, MPs and shadow ministers over his stance on Israel’s offensive in the Strip. Israel’s Defence Forces have launched a grou...
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By Alice Taylor | EURACTIV.com Est. 5min 26-09-2023 (updated: 26-09-2023 ) Content-Type: News News Based on facts, either observed and verified directly by the reporter, or reported and verified from knowledgeable sources. While the death toll was one officer and three terrorists on Sunday, this increased to five on Mo...
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The Shin Bet and the IDF on Sunday night disclosed a video showing Hamas bringing back two foreign hostages, a Thai man and a Nepalese man, to Al-Shifa Hospital on October 7. One video shows a group of Hamas terrorists dragging a man into one of the hospital entrances, clearly against his will since he openly resists, ...
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HONG KONG, July 6 (Reuters) - Police in Hong Kong arrested a man on Thursday suspected of links to pro-democracy activists based abroad, picking him up at the city's international airport a day after arresting four others for various national security offences. Police had issued arrest warrants days earlier for eight p...
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While the whereabouts of an American nurse and her young child reportedly kidnapped in Haiti late last week are still a mystery, the alarming surge of abductions taking place in the country demonstrates a clear and growing danger for both foreign travelers and Haitian citizens. The efforts to locate Alix Dorsainvil and...
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Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson to file complaint to Australian Communications and Media Authority over ABC's Alice Springs coverage Liberal Senator Sarah Henderson has indicated she will file a complaint to a major media authority against the ABC over its “distorted” reporting of a community meeting in Alice Springs. ...
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ISLAMABAD (AP) — Gen. Pervez Musharraf, who seized power in a bloodless coup and later led a reluctant Pakistan into aiding the U.S. war in Afghanistan against the Taliban, has died, officials said Sunday. He was 79. Musharraf, a former special forces commando, became president through the last of a string of military ...
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The Israeli ambassador to the US says he is hopeful a deal for the release of a significant number of hostages will be reached "in the coming days". Michael Herzog told ABC "serious efforts" were being made, but that the fewer details he revealed, "the better the chances of such a deal". Hamas took an estimated 240 peo...
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NEW YORK -- It has been 25 years since the body of Matthew Shepard was discovered in Laramie, Wyoming. The gay college student had been tied to a fence post, tortured and left to die. The murder drew national attention to violence against gay people, and attracted the interest of theater director Moisés Kaufman, who tu...
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Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of the Armenian capital after Azerbaijan launched a full-scale military assault on the disputed region of Nagorno-Karabakh. The demonstration came amid rising discontent with Armenia’s prime minister, Nikol Pashinyan, the inaction of Russian peacekeepers and the failure...
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- Summary - ECOWAS bloc gives ultimatum to Niger's new military leaders - Pro-coup protesters burn French flags in Niamey - Military takeover was Sahel region's fourth since 2020 NIAMEY/ABUJA, July 30 (Reuters) - West African nations imposed economic and travel sanctions on Niger's new military leaders on Sunday, threa...
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Rishi Sunak's Cabinet away day in the Elizabethan splendour of Chequers was meant to be the latest step in the new Prime Minister's drive to show the country that the grown-ups are back in charge.Detailed presentations were organised on each of his five pledges and ministers were sworn to secrecy in a bid to prevent pr...
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SEOUL, South Korea -- A U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carrier arrived in South Korea on Thursday in a demonstration of strength against North Korea, as the North’s leader reaffirmed his push to bolster ties with Russia. The USS Ronald Reagan and its battle group came to the southeastern South Korean port of Busan after...
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BUCHAREST, Aug 27 (Reuters) - One person died and 57 were injured after two explosions at a liquefied petroleum gas station in the Romanian town of Crevedia near the capital Bucharest on Saturday. After the first explosion, the fire spread to two fuel tanks and a nearby house, leading authorities to evacuate everyone w...
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Economy Economic Collapse: What Can Other Countries Learn From Pakistan's Classic Economic Downfall? Pakistan's economic crisis is one of the world's most unusual economic collapses. A country that is completely reliant on foreign aid and remittances from Pakistanis working abroad was doomed to fail economically. Over ...
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Thousands of people have died and thousands more have been injured since the militant group Hamas launched an unprecedented surprise attack on Israel on Oct. 7 and Israel retaliated with a bombing campaign and total siege of the neighboring Gaza Strip, leaving the region on the verge of all-out war. Click here for upda...
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In context: The sudden rise and advancement of artificial intelligence systems over the last few months have brought fears of its potentially harmful effects on society. Not only might AI threaten human jobs and creativity, but smart machines' use in warfare could have catastrophic consequences. To address this danger,...
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Greece's conservative New Democracy are set to win Sunday's elections but are well short of the majority for an outright victory, an initial exit poll suggests. Prime Minister Kyriakos Mitsotakis's party is heading for 36-40% of the vote. Predecessor Alexis Tsipras's centre-left Syriza is well behind on 25-29%. If neit...
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On the surface, Joe Biden gave Israel a clear green light to continue its military campaign in Gaza on Wednesday night, and endorsed its claim that Hamas has been using the al-Shifa hospital as a command and control headquarters. His remarks in San Francisco after a meeting with Xi Jinping will delight Benjamin Netanya...
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Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. Samya Kullab, Associated Press Samya Kullab, Associated Press Leave your feedback KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Ukrainian military commanders said Friday that their troops had recapture...
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A Russian naval ship has been damaged in a Ukrainian naval drone attack in the Black Sea, Ukrainian sources say. The assault reportedly occurred near the Russian port of Novorossiysk, which is a major hub for Russian exports. Russia's defence ministry said it had repelled a Ukrainian attack on its naval base there whic...
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NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! It was the summer of 1979, and I was 29 years old. Laurie, my wife, and I were excited to spend two weeks exploring Spain. Our adventures led us to a medieval city nestled on the northern tip of Africa’s coast called Tétouan in Morocco.   Tétouan was a city of locals, not tou...
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The state funeral for Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s longest-reigning monarch whose rule spanned seven decades, is taking place in London. Read the Order of Service. The Queen died on Sept. 8 at the age of 96, prompting an outpouring of grief across the UK and around the world.  King Charles III, the late monarch’s son ...
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US and Western officials are being careful not to weigh in on the events unfolding in Russia because of how Russian President Vladimir Putin could weaponize any perceived involvement by the west in the escalating crisis, sources familiar with the administration’s thinking told CNN. Officials across the administration c...
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Sierra Leone police arrest senior military officers over plot to undermine democracy Sierra Leonean authorities have arrested high-ranking military officials following credible intelligence that they were working to undermine the nation’s democracy and plotting to unleash violence on its citizens. “In that regard, seve...
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North Korea has fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Japan's government has said. The defence ministry confirmed it was launched on Saturday, flew for 66 minutes and landed in the Sea of Japan. It comes after Pyongyang showed off its massive military might in a parade that included more than a dozen ICBM...
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The main opposition leader in Seychelles, Patrick Herminie, has been charged with witchcraft, along with seven others. Police say the case is related to the discovery of two bodies exhumed from a cemetery on the island of Mahé. He has denied the charges, telling local media that his prosecution is a "political show" t...
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Hundreds of Afghans who risked their lives to work with the UK in Afghanistan and fled the Taliban are now stuck in neighbouring Pakistan as they wait to be relocated to the UK. Some have told the BBC their days are spent living in fear, as Pakistan starts a crackdown on migrants without visas after cross-border tensio...
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Inheritance tax could be scrapped in Tory bid for votes Downing Street is holding talks about scrapping inheritance tax as part of a “totemic” offering to voters before the general election. The Times has been told that there is a “live” discussion among senior figures in No 10 about abolishing the levy as the Conserva...
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Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has hit out at the Prime Minister’s response to the Alice Springs crisis, accusing him of not listening to Indigenous voices.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese touched down in the beleaguered Central Australian town on Tuesday to announce a spate of measures aimed at easing rising crime ra...
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The death of a well-known actress, killed in crossfire in the north of Khartoum, has shocked residents of Sudan's capital as they hear of more and more friends and relatives caught up in the fighting. Asia Abdelmajid, who turned 80 last year, was famous for her theatre performances - first coming to prominence in the 1...
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Iran called on the French government Sunday to “end the violent treatment of its people” following a wave of rioting triggered by the police killing of a teenager. Foreign Ministry spokesman Nasser Kanaani on Twitter also urged Iranian citizens to “refrain from making unnecessary trips to France” and told those already...
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WASHINGTON -- Fencing and construction workers greet visitors to the Lincoln Memorial, signaling that — for the moment — the monument to the nation’s 16th president is a work in progress. And so is the nation Abraham Lincoln saved and the dream that Martin Luther King Jr. envisioned at its steps nearly 60 years ago at ...
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Fawaz Qafisha cracked his front door open a few inches, stuck his head through the gap and squinted against the sun. The street outside was almost completely dead, save for an Israeli soldier who was sitting on a garden chair placed opposite Qafisha's house, facing the front door. Before Qafisha had even adjusted his e...
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Labor has won a by-election in the federal seat of Aston in Melbourne's outer eastern suburbs. The result is considered a major blow for the Liberal Party, which now only holds five federal seats across Melbourne. Aston has long been safe Liberal territory. Two hours into vote counting, the ABC's chief election analyst...
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has inspected Russia’s hypersonic ‘Kinzhal’ missiles as well as strategic, nuclear-capable bombers in the latest stop on his tour of Russian space, military and other technological facilities in the country’s Far East, according to Russian-language news media reports. Oleg Kozhemyako, th...
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Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR for NPR toggle caption Sisters, wives, mothers, cousins of the community gather and mourn at the Qusra wake for for four of the six men killed in Qusra, Palestine. Tanya Habjouqa/NOOR for NPR Sisters, wives, mothers, cousins of the community gather and mourn at the Qusra wake for for four of the six...
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Spain is holding a highly unusual election next Sunday at the height of a scorching summer, after four years of left-wing rule. Current Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez called the vote in response to a dismal performance at the May local elections in which his Socialist party came second to main rival, the conservative Po...
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Subscribe to Here’s the Deal, our politics newsletter for analysis you won’t find anywhere else. Thank you. Please check your inbox to confirm. Mike Corder, Associated Press Mike Corder, Associated Press Raf Cassert, Associated Press Raf Cassert, Associated Press Leave your feedback THE HAGUE, Netherlands (AP) — Dutch ...
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Finland will slash spending, cut immigration and tighten up citizenship rules under a new four-party coalition government including the far-right Finns party and headed by the conservative leader Petteri Orpo. The coalition of Orpo’s National Coalition party (NCP), the Finns, the Swedish People’s party (RKP) and the Ch...
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HAVANA, July 10 (Reuters) - Cuba on Monday accused the U.S. government of bearing "direct responsibility" for the protests that rocked the Caribbean island two years ago, marking the largest demonstrations since Fidel Castro's 1959 revolution. "The United States has a direct responsibility for the disturbances of July ...
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Antisemitic and Islamophobic hate crimes in London have soared amid the Israel-Hamas war, the British capital’s Metropolitan Police force said Friday The Met, the UK’s biggest police force, said there had been 218 antisemitic offenses in London between October 1 and 18, compared to 15 in the same period last year, a ri...
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Two Ukrainian missiles have targeted a bridge linking Russia to the annexed Crimean peninsula, Moscow says. Videos on social media show plumes of smoke rising near Kerch bridge. Russia's defence ministry said S-200 missiles had been used and shot down causing no damage. Ukraine has not commented on the alleged attack. ...
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SEOUL, SOUTH KOREA - The United States flew nuclear-capable bombers to the Korean Peninsula on Friday in its latest show of force against North Korea, days after the North staged massive anti-U.S. rallies in its capital. The long-range B-52 bombers took part in joint aerial drills with other U.S. and South Korean fight...
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Previous missile and rocket tests have demonstrated that North Korea can send satellites into space, but many experts question whether it has cameras sophisticated enough to use for spying from a satellite because only low-resolution images were released after past launches. During his visit to the country’s aerospace ...
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Nov 24 (Reuters) - The European Union is dealing with an increase in legal and illegal arrivals by migrants, prompting some member states to temporarily re-introduce border controls within what is normally a zone of free movement. The bloc's Schengen rules allow such action "as a last resort" in cases that are deemed s...
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Russian and Ukrainian forces are reporting intense fighting along the border of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and southern Zaporizhzhia regions as Kyiv’s military attempts to break through the front lines and recapture territory in an ongoing counteroffensive. The new reports came as Russian missiles attacked the central U...
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Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky appears to have confirmed that his country's long-awaited counter-offensive against Russia has started. "Counteroffensive and defensive actions are taking place," he said on Saturday. But he added that he would not talk in detail about which stage the counter-offensive was in. Ukr...
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The U.S. is beefing up its use of fighter jets around the strategic Strait of Hormuz to protect ships from Iranian seizures, a senior defense official said Friday, adding that the U.S. is increasingly concerned about the growing ties between Iran, Russia and Syria across the Middle East. Speaking to Pentagon reporters,...
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- Oops!Something went wrong.Please try again later. A U.S. Department of Defense official confirmed with Fox News that the Pentagon is in the planning phase of sending Iron Dome missile defense systems to Israel as the country continues to fend off missiles fired at Israel from the Gaza Strip by Hamas terrorists. "The ...
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Elements of two Ukrainian Marine Brigades have crossed the Dnipro River and captured two villages three to four kilometers inland, but the strength of the bridgehead and Kyiv’s future plans for operations on the left bank of Ukraine’s biggest water obstacle are still unclear. Russian Telegram channels led by the Kremli...
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Idlib, Syria – A top armed opposition group operating in Syria’s last rebel stronghold says it will continue to carry out operations against the Syrian government as government forces and their ally Russia ramp up aerial attacks on the region. A recent uptick in violence, particularly over the past week, has targeted I...
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GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Several thousand people briefly took to the streets across the Gaza Strip on Sunday to protest chronic power outages and difficult living conditions, providing a rare public show of discontent with the territory’s Hamas government. Hamas security forces quickly dispersed the gatherings. Marches...
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Justin Trudeau and Giorgia Meloni spar publicly over LGBTQ rights at G7 summit In an unusual display of open disagreement, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and his Italian counterpart Giorgia Meloni on Friday took public potshots at each other. The spat happened as the two world leaders were attending the Group o...
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A gunman who shot dead two Swedish football fans in Brussels last Monday had escaped from prison in Tunisia. Belgian prosecutors say Abdesalem Lassoued had been sentenced to 26 years in prison in 2005, reportedly for crimes including attempted murder. He escaped in 2011, managed to board a small boat and arrived illega...
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Several of Monday's papers give details of the new powers which the government is reported to be considering to deal with protests. The Sun says the prime minister wants to make it easier to ban marches and demonstrations, after what happened on Armistice Day. It says "clambering on statues" and using fireworks at prot...
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Hundreds of civilians are confirmed to have died already in Syria in a magnitude 7.8 earthquake that has toppled houses in every city and village across northern Syria and southern Turkey. Thousands are still stuck under the rubble. 3000 White Helmets volunteers are on the ground searching for survivors and pulling the...
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NATO allies have gathered at RAF Lossiemouth to take part in the biannual Formidable Shield exercise, which aims to improve joint live-fire, integrated air and missile defence interoperability. The exercise, which will run until May 26, is the largest of its kind to be held by NATO this year and involves more than 20 s...
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SEOUL, Nov 28 (Reuters) - After decades of satellite surveillance by foreign governments and analysts, North Korea has sent its first spy satellite on a global orbit with a message to the world: we can watch you too. On Tuesday North Korean state media said leader Kim Jong Un had reviewed spy satellite photos of the Wh...
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Hussein Malla/AP toggle caption Sudanese soldiers from the Rapid Support Forces unit are shown south of Khartoum, Sudan, on June 29, 2019. The U.S. imposed sanctions Sept. 6, 2023, on a Sudanese Rapid Support Forces paramilitary commander for acts of violence and human rights abuses committed by his troops in their con...
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The exit polls from Poland's election have Eurocrats grinning like Cheshire cats. After years of estrangement and antagonism, Poland's centrist opposition Civic Coalition, has a simple message for Brussels: "We, the fifth-largest country in the EU fold, are back!" The fact that they're led by former European Council ch...
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Brits fed up of the weather and their salaries could be snatched by a team of Aussies coming over with a view to nabbing skilled workers. Australians in one of the country's most sun-drenched cities are coming over later this month in a bid to get some of us to move there for work - where we could be earning up to thre...
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Prime Minister Anthony Albanese under fire for spending more time at the Australian Open than in Alice Springs amid crime crisis Anthony Albanese is under fire for how much time he spent at the Australian Open after a short trip to Alice Springs, with critics drawing parallels to his predecessor’s infamous trip to Hawa...
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The citizens of Poland have voted. A government that combined conservative Catholicism with “soft” Euroscepticism (they won’t leave the European Union but they despise it) will now likely be replaced by a government led by a passionate EU advocate. This will be as radical and wrenching as Donald Trump’s assumption of U...
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By Sarah Easter On August 19, it will have been two years since the government changed in Afghanistan. Life is now both completely different than it ever was, and also the same. Below are three scenes from life in this new Afghanistan, where women and girls are forced to confront disproportionate challenges in the face...
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Drivers in New South Wales will be offered the chance to buy carbon offsets when they renew their car registration in a step critics have described as a “gimmick” that could undermine efforts to cut transport emissions.The NSW treasurer and energy minister, Matt Kean, announced the scheme on Friday saying it would give...
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North Korea launched two missiles from a submarine in the waters of the Sea of Japan Sunday morning local time, according to the state-run news agency KCNA. The “strategic cruise missiles” were launched from a “8.24 Yongung” submarine, according to KCNA – the same vessel used to test North Korea’s first submarine-launc...
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Thousands of people mounted furious protests after dozens of copies of the Holy Quran were burned in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, leaving several officers injured, police said on Monday. Police said they fired rubber bullets and tear gas to disperse a crowd of “at least 10,000 people” overnight from Sunday to Monday as ...
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