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With little chance of NATO membership for Ukraine, the country’s Western allies have bought into an alternate strategy for helping it repel Russian aggression: invest billions in Ukraine’s weapons industry so it can better defend itself. If the strategy works, Ukraine’s weapons industry will eventually be able
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A powerful 7.8-magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Russia’s far eastern Kamchatka peninsula early Friday, rocking buildings and prompting authorities to issue a tsunami alert, later lifted. Videos posted on Russian social media showed furniture and light fixtures shaking in homes, while another showed a parked car
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Britain and Ireland will jointly announce a new framework on Friday to address the legacy of decades of sectarian violence in Northern Ireland and replace a controversial British law that offered amnesties to ex-soldiers and militants. The agreement will fulfil a pledge by Prime Minister Keir Starmer to repeal the
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Marching with thousands of other protesters in Paris, hospital nurse Aya Touré put her finger on the pulse of many who took to streets across France on Thursday against the government of President Emmanuel Macron. “Fed up. Really, really fed up,” she said. “Those people governing us, they have no
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The chair of a US House of Representatives committee on China on Thursday called on the Trump administration to restrict or suspend Chinese airline landing rights in the US unless Beijing restores full access to rare earths and magnets. Representative John Moolenaar, a Republican, also said the US should review
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A Russian guided bomb strike killed five people in the eastern Ukrainian city of Kostyantynivka, near the frontline, the National Police said on Thursday. Police said in a statement on the Telegram app that the strike happened around 10 a.m. (0700 GMT), killing two women and three men and
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The Israeli military has received a report of a shooting at the Allenby Crossing between the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Jordan, and details of the incident were under investigation, the military said on Thursday. Israeli ambulance service said two people were seriously wounded, while Israeli media reported that two alleged
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Gunmen on motorbikes shot dead 22 villagers in western Niger, most attending a baptism ceremony, local media and other sources said on Tuesday. The shootings happened on Monday in the Tillaberi region, near Burkina Faso and Mali, where groups linked to Al-Qaeda and Daesh are active. A resident of the
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Lithuania said Wednesday it had charged 15 people with terrorism offenses over a Russia-backed plot to detonate parcels last year in Germany, Poland and Britain. Prosecutors said that the suspects used delivery companies DHL and DPD to send four packages of explosives hidden in cosmetics containers from the Lithuanian capital
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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signaled new action against left-wing groups following the assassination of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, targeting the anti-fascist antifa movement as a “terrorist organization.” Trump said on Truth Social that he was “designating” the movement as a terrorist organization. “I will also be strongly
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Saudi Arabia and Pakistan on Wednesday signed a joint strategic defense agreement during Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to Riyadh. Sharif met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and signed the Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement that reaffirms the deep ties between Islamabad and the Kingdom. “The agreement states
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Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani will meet with US lawmakers in Washington this week to discuss the lifting of remaining US sanctions on his country, Senator Lindsey Graham was quoted as saying by Axios. Al-Shaibani’s visit - the first by a Syrian foreign minister to Washington in more than
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Co-developed by Elbit Systems and Rafael Advance Defense Systems, “Iron Beam” will complement Israel’s Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Arrow anti-missile systems “We anticipate a significant leap in air defense capabilities through the deployment of these long-range laser weapon systems,” the ministry said JERUSALEM: A low-cost, high-power laser-based
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A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet has gone missing from a restoration laboratory of Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, the country’s antiquities ministry said. The bracelet, described as a golden band adorned with “spherical lapis lazuli beads,” dates to the reign of Amenemope, a pharaoh of Egypt’s 21st Dynasty . The
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France was bracing on Thursday for a day of nationwide disruption in a show of anger over President Emmanuel Macron’s budget policies, with unions vowing mass protests, public transport set to be paralyzed in places due to strikes and officials warning of possible disturbances by extremist elements. Prime Minister
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Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night television show has been taken off the air “indefinitely” after the host was criticized for comments about the motives behind the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, US network ABC said. The stunning decision to suspend one of the United States’ most popular and influential late-night