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Russia carried out a major attack on Ukraine overnight, President Volodymyr Zelensky said Tuesday, a day before representatives of the two countries were due to attend US-brokered talks on ending the 4-year-old all-out war. At least 10 people were wounded in a bombardment of at least five regions of Ukraine
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Syrian Kurdish security forces on Sunday announced a curfew early next week in two cities in the country’s northeast, ahead of the implementation of a recent deal struck with the Islamist-led government in Damascus. Damascus and Kurdish forces reached a comprehensive agreement on Friday to gradually integrate the Kurds’
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Palestinians were on Monday awaiting a full reopening of the Rafah crossing between Gaza and Egypt, after Israel partially reopened it a day earlier, nearly two years after seizing control of the key gateway during the war with Hamas. The resumption of operations in a tightly restricted pilot phase on
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Former British ambassador to Washington Peter Mandelson quit the Labour Party Sunday, seeking to avoid causing it “further embarrassment” after newly released US documents revived scrutiny of his connection to late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. Mandelson, 72, who was sacked as Britain’s ambassador to the United States last year
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said his government will consider applying to join a second possible multi-billion-euro European Union fund for defense projects as his ministers prepare for talks with EU counterparts this week. The European Commission is considering launching a second edition of its SAFE loans scheme as Europe
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Algerian President Abdelmadjid Tebboune on Sunday inaugurated a nearly 1,000-kilometer (621-mile) desert railway to transport iron ore from a giant mine, a project he called one of the biggest in the country’s history. The line will bring iron ore from the Gara Djebilet deposit in the south to
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Germany is “not in equidistance” from the United States and China, and will always be closer to Washington despite recent tensions, German foreign minister Johann Wadephul said in Singapore on Monday. At a lecture hosted by the International Institute for Strategic Studies, Wadephul said the United States remains the most
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Iraq’s judiciary announced on Monday it has begun its investigations into more than 1,300 Daesh group detainees who were transferred from Syria as part of a US operation. “Investigation proceedings have started with 1,387 members of the Daesh terrorist organization who were recently transferred from the Syrian
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Syria said on Sunday it had detained a group behind recent rocket attacks on the Mezzeh military airport in Damascus, with investigators tracing the weapons to Iran-backed Hezbollah. The interior ministry said security units arrested all members of the group, which it said had carried out several strikes on the
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New York police are investigating a possible hate crime after a car crashed into an Orthodox Jewish center on Wednesday, the city’s police commissioner said. Officers arrested a man after he repeatedly drove into the rear door of the Chabad-Lubavitch World Headquarters in Brooklyn, New York Police Commissionner Jessica
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Moscow said Wednesday two Russian crew members of a tanker seized this month by the United States in the Atlantic had been released and were on their way home. US authorities took over the Russian-flagged vessel earlier this month, alleging it was part of a shadow fleet carrying oil from
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Investigators were battling thick fog in the Colombian mountains Thursday to reach the site of a plane crash that killed all 15 people on board, including a politician. Images shared online show the wreckage of the fuselage surrounded by bushes and mud. Locals and farmers were the first to arrive
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Technical talks between the US, Denmark and Greenland over hatching an Arctic security deal are now underway, Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Wednesday. The foreign ministers of Denmark and Greenland agreed to create a working group aimed at addressing differences with the US during a Washington meeting earlier
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer called Thursday for a deeper relationship with China during what he called “challenging times for the world.” The UK leader told China’s leader Xi Jinping that their countries need to work together on global stability, climate change and other issues. “I have long been
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Denmark’s foreign minister said Thursday he was “more optimistic” after technical talks kicked off with the United States over Greenland. “We have had the very first meeting at senior official level in Washington yesterday regarding the Greenlandic issue,” Lars Lokke Rasmussen told journalists at an EU meeting in Brussels.
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Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa met Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin for talks in Moscow on Wednesday, as the Kremlin seeks to secure the future of military bases vital for its operations in the Middle East. Russia was a key ally of Al-Sharaa’s predecessor Bashar Assad during the bloody 14-year Syrian