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Two female employees of a Southern California technical college were shot on campus Friday and taken to the hospital in an incident that authorities attributed to workplace violence. The shooting occurred around 4 p.m. in an office at the Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology campus in Inglewood, where
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When the US and Iran met for nuclear talks a decade ago, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu railed against an emerging deal from the world’s most public stages, including in a fiery speech to Congress seen as a direct challenge to the Obama administration as it was wrapping up
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Bandar Abbas, a bustling port city on Iran’s southern coast, is now a city of ashes, mourning, and unanswered questions. Days after a catastrophic explosion tore through the Shahid Rajaee port, the fires still burn, the air remains choked with black smoke, and families search desperately for loved ones
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A new report by the Henry Jackson Society warns that the Iranian regime’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) poses a growing threat to UK national security and calls for the British government to proscribe the IRGC as a terrorist organisation formally. The report, The Long Arm of Tehran: Why
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Umm Al-Kheir Bakheit was 13 when she first came to Zamzam Camp in the early 2000s, fleeing the janjaweed, the infamous Arab militias terrorizing Sudan’s Darfur region. She grew up, married and had three children in the camp. Now 31, Bakheit fled Zamzam as the janjaweed’s descendants — a
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Israeli strikes targeted the vicinity of Syria’s Damascus, Hama and Daraa countryside late on Friday, Syrian state news agency SANA reported. The strikes on Damascus countryside killed one civilian and injured four others in Hama, SANA added. Israel’s repeated strikes on Syria act as a warning to the
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A gunman has shot dead three people including a child in Thailand’s insurgency-hit south, police said Saturday, as authorities pursued the suspect. The attacker opened fire late Friday in a residential area of Tak Bai district in Narathiwat province, one of three Muslim-majority provinces in Thailand’s far south
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A woman was killed early Saturday in the northern Greek city of Thessaoloniki when a bomb she was carrying exploded in her hands, police said. The 38-year-old woman was apparently was carrying the bomb to place it outside a nearby bank around 5 a.m., police said. Several storefronts and
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At the Port of Los Angeles, the frenetic choreography of cranes unloading containers from Asia has slowed to a tiptoe, and the noise of the busiest docks in the US is quieting. “You could hear a pin drop, it’s very unusual,” Port Director Gene Seroka told AFP. By this
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Top diplomat, foreign aid chief, national archivist and now national security adviser. Marco Rubio’s expanding resume underscores President Donald Trump’s increasing trust in the former Florida senator, officials said. Trump said on Thursday that his national security adviser Mike Waltz would move on to become UN ambassador, weeks
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Lebanon’s top security body on Friday warned Hamas against using the country’s territory for acts that undermine national security, after rocket fire toward Israel sparked retaliatory strikes. The Higher Defense Council said in a statement that it sent the government a recommendation to warn Hamas “against using Lebanese
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The Army is planning a sweeping transformation that will merge or close headquarters, dump outdated vehicles and aircraft, slash as many as 1,000 headquarters staff in the Pentagon and shift personnel to units in the field, according to a new memo and US officials familiar with the changes. In
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Israel’s air force struck near Syria’s presidential palace early Friday hours after warning Syrian authorities not to march toward villages inhabited by members of a minority sect in southern Syria. The strike came after days of clashes between pro-Syrian government gunmen and fighters who belong to the Druze
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Pakistan-administered Kashmir called on residents near the de facto border with the Indian side of the region to stockpile food on Friday as tensions flare between the arch-rivals following a deadly attack last month. India blames Pakistan for the attack by gunmen on civilians at the tourist site of Pahalgam
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China said Friday it is evaluating a US offer for negotiations on tariffs but wanted Washington to show “sincerity” and be ready to scrap levies that have roiled global markets and supply chains. Punishing US tariffs that have reached 145 percent on many Chinese products came into force in April
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A speeding passenger bus slammed into a row of vehicles lined up at a highway toll booth Thursday in the northern Philippines, killing 10 people, including children, police said. More than two dozen others were injured in the multiple-vehicle collision in Tarlac city, north of Manila, at a heavy travel