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China said on Friday that its third and newest aircraft carrier, the Fujian, recently sailed through the sensitive Taiwan Strait to carry out “scientific research trials and training missions” in the South China Sea. Beijing has ploughed billions of dollars into modernizing its military in recent years, a trend that
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Russia said on Friday that it had shot down 221 Ukrainian drones overnight, one of the highest tallies of the more than three-year war. Moscow’s defense ministry said its alert systems had “intercepted and destroyed” the drones, over half of which flew over the regions of Bryansk and Smolensk.
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Qatar’s prime minister will visit the White House on Friday, days after Israel attacked Hamas officials in Doha. Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani is expected to meet US President Donald Trump, Vice President JD Vance and US special envoy Steve Witkoff. He will have a separate sit down with
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi said Thursday that enriched nuclear material remained “under the rubble” of facilities damaged during the recent war with Israel. In a televised interview, Araghchi said “all of our material is ... under the rubble of the bombed facilities,” adding that the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran
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At least 51 people were killed during violent anti-corruption protests in Nepal this week, police said Friday in an updated toll, as the full scale of chaos that toppled the government emerges. Talks continue between the president, protest representatives, key potential figures who may lead an interim administration and the
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US President Donald Trump said Thursday that the alleged incursion of Russian drones into neighboring Poland may have happened by “mistake.” “It could have been a mistake,” Trump told journalists. His remark that seemed to make excuses for Russia followed an ambiguous initial response to the provocative act by Moscow
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A series of reported threats toward historically Black colleges and universities across the US on Thursday led to lockdown orders, canceled classes and heightened security. Authorities did not elaborate on the type of threats that were made and no injuries have been reported. The FBI told The Associated Press that
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The UN’s migration agency is appealing for funds for around 134,000 people who need help in Afghanistan, nearly two weeks after an earthquake killed more than 2,200 people in the country’s mountainous east. Many of the quake-hit Afghans are homeless, sleeping in the open and desperate
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A panel of Brazilian Supreme Court justices sentenced former president Jair Bolsonaro to 27 years and three months in prison Thursday after convicting him of attempting a coup to remain in office despite his 2022 electoral defeat. Bolsonaro, who has always denied any wrongdoing, is currently under house arrest in
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Turkiye has started training and providing consultancy and technical support for Syria’s army under an agreement signed last month, a Turkish defense ministry source said on Thursday. Under the military cooperation accord signed between the two countries’ defense ministries in August, Turkiye has said it will provide Syria’s
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Syria said Thursday that its forces dismantled a cell affiliated with Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah group, a key ally of ousted president Bashar Assad. “Specialized units in cooperation with the general intelligence service... were able to arrest a terrorist cell belonging to the Hezbollah militia that was active” in the
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Israel carried out another round of heavy airstrikes in Yemen on Wednesday, days after Houthi militants launched a drone attack that struck an Israeli airport. At least 35 were killed people and more than 130 were wounded, the Houthi-run health ministry said. Most of those killed were in Sanaa, the
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Rescuers on Thursday searched in rivers and the rubble of devastated villages for survivors of devastating flash floods that struck two provinces in Indonesia a day earlier, as waters began to recede. Torrential rains beginning Monday caused flooding and landslides on the tourist island of Bali and in East Nusa
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The Israeli ambassador to the United States said that if Israel's airstrike in Qatar on Tuesday failed to eliminate senior Hamas leaders, future attempts would be made. The strike has sparked international concern over its potential to derail ongoing efforts to reach a ceasefire in Gaza. “Right now,
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A jury was selected Wednesday in the trial of a man charged with trying to assassinate Donald Trump while he played golf last year in South Florida. The panel of 12 jurors and four alternates was sworn in on the third day of jury selection at the federal courthouse in
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Charlie Kirk, a conservative activist and close ally of President Donald Trump who played an influential role in rallying young Republican voters, was shot and killed Wednesday at a Utah college event in what the governor called a political assassination carried out from a rooftop. A person of interest was