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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
Politics
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The Army is planning a sweeping transformation that will merge or close headquarters, dump outdated vehicles and aircraft, slash as many as 1,000 headquarters staff in the Pentagon and shift personnel to units in the field, according to a new memo and US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
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Greek authorities have arrested a man in the strategic port city of Alexandroupolis on suspicion of photographing supply convoys on behalf of Russia, police said. The suspect, a 59-year-old Greek citizen of Georgian descent, was arrested in the northeastern city on Tuesday and on Friday was taken before an investigating
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Hard-right upstarts Reform UK snatched a parliamentary seat from Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s Labour party on Friday in local elections that dealt a blow to Britain’s two establishment parties. Reform, led by anti-immigrant firebrand Nigel Farage, won the by-election in Runcorn and Helsby in northwest England by just
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Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese says he has a “mountain to climb” in elections Saturday, despite leading the opinion polls, in a contest swayed by living costs and Trump tariffs. Surveys give Albanese’s left-leaning Labour Party a narrow lead over the conservative opposition on a two-party preferred basis. If
Health
Thailand has reported its first anthrax-related death with two infections nationwide, prompting a public health alert after authorities identified hundreds potentially exposed to the deadly bacteria, officials said on Thursday. A 53-year-old man in Mukdahan province, in northeastern Thailand near the border with Laos, died on Wednesday after contracting anthrax,
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In war-ravaged Khartoum donkey carts clatter over worn asphalt, the smell of tomatoes wafts from newly reopened stalls and pedestrians dodge burnt-out cars left by two years of war. Life is slowly, cautiously returning to the Sudanese capital, weeks after the army recaptured the city from the paramilitary Rapid Support
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President Donald Trump’s administration on Thursday named a career diplomat as its top envoy in Ukraine, putting another seasoned hand in charge after turbulence in the wartime relationship. The State Department said that Julie Davis, a Russian speaker who has spent much of her career in the former Soviet
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The Israeli military said Friday it shot down a missile launched from Yemen, an attack claimed by the Arabian Peninsula country’s Iran-backed Houthi militantss. “Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in several areas in Israel, a missile that was launched from Yemen was intercepted” before entering