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Israel and Lebanon sent new representatives to a military committee monitoring a truce between the countries, top officials from both said on Wednesday, in a move set to expand the scope of talks between the long-time foes. The meeting was a step toward a months-long US demand that the two
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Yemen’s Houthis on Wednesday released mariners held since a July attack on the ship Eternity C in the Red Sea, an assault that killed at least four on board and sank the vessel. The Houthis, who have been targeting ships during the Israel-Hamas war, said via their Al-Masirah satellite
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Emmanuel Macron heads to China on Wednesday for a three-day state visit focusing on trade and diplomatic talks as the French president seeks to enlist Beijing in pressuring Russia toward a ceasefire with Ukraine. Macron will advocate for an agenda of cooperation in economic and trade matters aimed at achieving
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Nouhoun Sidibè was a herder, like his father and grandfather, and took pride in his identity as a pastoralist. That’s until the day armed men descended on his home in northern Burkina Faso and seized all his livestock. Within minutes on that day in 2020, the father of four
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India’s main opposition party said on Wednesday that a government plan to preload a state-run app on smartphones violates the privacy of users and the government needed to explain itself, escalating tensions on a matter that has sparked surveillance fears. The Indian government has confidentially ordered companies including Apple,
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Officials in Indonesia and Sri Lanka battled Wednesday to reach survivors of deadly flooding in remote, cut-off regions as the toll in the disaster that hit four countries topped 1,300. In Indonesia, there is growing frustration among survivors of catastrophic flooding and landslides over the pace of the rescue
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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said any country trafficking illegal drugs into the US could be attacked. “Anybody that’s doing that and selling it into our country is subject to attack,” Trump told reporters during a cabinet meeting at the White House, after raising the issue of cocaine from
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said "some progress" has been made in talks with Russia to end its war with Ukraine, in an interview that aired Tuesday. "And so what we have tried to do, and I think have made some progress, is figure out, what
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South Korean leader Lee Jae Myung said Wednesday the country had overcome an “unprecedented crisis” of democracy one year on from ousted president Yoon Suk Yeol’s declaration of martial law that sparked political turmoil. On December 3, 2024, Yoon suspended civilian rule in South Korea for the first time
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Fighting intensified in southern Sudan’s North Kordofan region on Tuesday as residents in the capital El-Obeid told AFP a paramilitary drone had exploded near an army division headquarters. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) has been battling Sudan’s army since April 2023 — capturing El-Fasher, the last military stronghold
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A prominent Tunisian lawyer was arrested Tuesday, colleagues said, after he was sentenced to five years for plotting against the state in a trial denounced by activists as politically motivated. Ayachi Hammami, a rights activist and staunch critic of President Kais Saied, was among some 40 Tunisian opposition figures sentenced
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Top US negotiators vying to end the war in Ukraine met with Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday in a high-stakes meeting happening as Moscow pressed battlefield advances. Putin, who received Donald Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner and US special envoy Steve Witkoff in the Kremlin, signalled earlier that his
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The Syrian Arab Republic’s state-owned newspaper Al-Thawra Al-Souria (The Syrian Revolution) — previously known as Al-Thawra — was relaunched on Monday under the slogan “A New Identity … A New Era.” The publication is returning to print for the first time since 2020 to offer an integrated platform combining print, digital and
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Syrian security forces on Monday arrested Sami Oubari, former leader of the National Defense Militia in Aleppo, who is accused of committing crimes against civilians while Bashar Assad was president of the country. The Internal Security Forces and the General Intelligence Directorate have been investigating Oubari for alleged abuses and
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US President Donald Trump’s special envoy, Steve Witkoff, and son-in-law Jared Kushner will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday for talks on a possible way to end the deadliest European conflict since World War Two. Trump has repeatedly said he wants to end the war in Ukraine, which
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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) said on Monday that it seized full control of Babanusa, a transport junction in the country’s oil-producing South. In a statement, the RSF said its “liberation” of Babanusa in West Kordofan state — the latest frontline in the war in Sudan — came as