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Since last week’s shooting of two National Guard members in the nation’s capital by a suspect who is an Afghan national, the Trump administration announced a flurry of policies aimed at making it harder for some foreigners to enter or stay in the country. The administration said it
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Ukraine’s president spoke optimistically Monday about the progress of revising the Trump administration’s peace plan, saying “it looks better” and the work will continue during talks on how to end Russia’s nearly four-year war. President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke after meeting with France’s president, the latest in
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Venezuela does not want “a slave’s peace,” President Nicolas Maduro told thousands of supporters Monday of a US military deployment he said has been “testing” his country for 22 weeks. US President Donald Trump has ramped up pressure on Maduro with a major naval build-up in the Caribbean, bombings
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Hong Kong’s leader announced Tuesday the creation of a judge-led “independent committee” to investigate the devastating fire at an apartment complex that killed 151 people last week. Authorities have said the blaze, which was the city’s worst fire in decades, spread quickly via netting used on exterior scaffolding
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The death toll in deadly flooding and landslides across Indonesia’s Sumatra rose on Tuesday to 631, with one million people evacuated, the disaster agency said. Government agencies and aid groups are rushing to get aid to those affected, while rescuers search for 472 people still listed as missing.
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Hundreds more remained missing across Sri Lanka on Monday, as rescuers continued to battle catastrophic flooding and landslides after Cyclone Ditwah, the worst natural disaster to hit the island in decades. At least 355 people have been confirmed dead by Sri Lanka’s Disaster Management Center, and nearly 400 are
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Jordanian authorities on Monday announced that they had foiled a major drug smuggling operation, seizing 1.2 million illicit pills concealed in a road roller and arresting 10 suspects in a series of raids northeast of the capital, Amman. The anti-narcotics department had been monitoring the drug network for two
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Pope Leo XIV’s visits holy sites in Lebanon on Monday that draw Christian and Muslims as he seeks to recognize the importance of the country’s religious pluralism and also send a message to Christians not to abandon the region. Over the past few decades, hundreds of thousands of
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu appeared in court on Monday for the first time since asking the country’s president for a pardon in his long-running corruption trial, a move backed by close ally US President Donald Trump. Opposition politicians have come out against the request, with some arguing that
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Syrian President Ahmad Al-Sharaa attended a celebration in Aleppo commemorating the first anniversary of the city’s liberation from the regime of Bashar Assad. Aleppo was the first city to rise up against the regime in 2011. Other cities followed suit. The alliance, led by Al-Sharaa, entered Aleppo on Nov.
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US and Ukrainian officials completed roughly four hours of talks Sunday aimed at finding an endgame to the war between Russia and Ukraine, just days before a US envoy is due in Moscow for talks with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Secretary of State Marco Rubio told reporters afterward that the
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A former senior British officer has told a public inquiry that British special forces in Afghanistan appeared to commit war crimes by executing suspects and despite widespread knowledge in the chain of command nothing was done. Britain’s defense ministry (MoD) ordered the inquiry after a BBC TV documentary reported
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Niger’s military regime on Sunday announced it was putting uranium produced by Somair — a subsidiary of French giant Orano before the regime nationalized it in June — on the international market. Uranium mining in Niger is at the center of a standoff between the junta that took power in 2023
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky meets French counterpart Emmanuel Macron in Paris on Monday, seeking to shore up European support as US President Donald Trump expressed optimism of a deal to end Russia’s war in Ukraine. US and Ukrainian negotiators held hours of what both sides called “productive” talks in
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Hong Kong authorities said on Monday they had detained 13 people for suspected manslaughter in a probe into the city’s deadliest fire in decades, pointing to substandard renovation materials for fueling a blaze that has claimed at least 146 lives. Police have completed sweeps of four of the seven
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Russian President Vladimir Putin will hold talks on Ukraine with US envoy Steve Witkoff in Moscow on Tuesday afternoon, the Kremlin said. The pair will meet after American and Ukrainian officials held negotiations on a US plan that Washington wants to be a basis to end fighting between Moscow and