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US President Donald Trump said Thursday he planned to suspend migration from what he called “third world countries,” a day after an Afghan national allegedly shot two National Guard soldiers in Washington. “I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries to allow the US system to fully recover,
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Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban will meet Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday in Moscow, with Orban saying energy will be on the agenda. Hungary — the Kremlin’s closest ally in the European Union — still depends heavily on Russian gas and oil imports despite sanctions after Moscow invaded Ukraine in
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Muslim-majority Turkiye, which is hosting Pope Leo XIV on his first overseas trip as pontiff, is not “a hostile environment” for Christians, the Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople told AFP in an interview. “It is simplistic to see adversaries everywhere and to imagine the pope’s visit as taking sides in
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Syria will build a new oil refinery with a capacity of 150,000 barrels per day, the Syrian energy minister told government-owned Ekhbariya television on Thursday. The channel reported on Sunday that Syria’s Baniyas refinery was operating at a reduced capacity of 95,000 bpd due to degradation in
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Thai border police have apologized for publishing an AI-modified image showing flood relief rescuers in combat gear and wielding automatic weapons in one of the hardest-hit cities in southern Thailand. Thai authorities have been accused of fabricating evidence in some past cases but netizens were split over the latest fakery,
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The toll from days of flooding in Southeast Asia rose on Friday, with at least 90 dead in Indonesia, and a hospital in southern Thailand announcing its morgue was full. Heavy rains across Indonesia, Malaysia and southern Thailand have inundated cities, trapped thousands and caused deadly landslides. Authorities were scrambling
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Rescuers in Thailand readied drones on Thursday to airdrop food parcels, as receding floodwaters in the south and neighboring Malaysia brightened hopes for the evacuation of those stranded for days, while cyclone havoc in Indonesia killed 28. Severe floods after a week of heavy rain have killed at least 33
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Sudan’s army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Burhan, at war with a rival paramilitary group since April 2023, called on US President Donald Trump on Wednesday to bring peace. “The Sudanese people now look to Washington to take the next step: to build on the US president’s honesty and work
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Taiwan has already held preliminary talks with the United States about what weapons it wants to buy as part of a $40 billion supplementary defense budget, Defense Minister Wellington Koo said on Thursday. Taiwan President Lai Ching-te announced the previous day the new spending plan, which runs from 2026-2033, to
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A huge fire still burning in a Hong Kong apartment complex that has killed at least 44 people and left nearly 300 missing may have been spread by unsafe scaffolding and foam materials used during maintenance work, police said on Thursday. Working through the night, firefighters were struggling to reach
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An Afghan national has been accused of shooting two West Virginia National Guard members just blocks from the White House in a brazen act of violence at a time when the presence of troops in the nation’s capital and other cities around the country has become a political flashpoint.
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US President Donald Trump advised Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi not to provoke China over Taiwan’s sovereignty, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday, after a diplomatic spat between Tokyo and Beijing. The row between Asia’s two biggest economies began after Takaichi said that Tokyo could intervene militarily in
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Israel handed over the bodies of 15 Palestinians on Wednesday, a day after Hamas returned the remains of an Israeli hostage. This is the latest exchange as part of a US-brokered ceasefire reached last month, whose first phase is winding down even as violence continues in Palestinian territories. Hamas said
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A magnitude 6.3 quake hit Indonesia’s Sumatra island near Aceh province on Thursday, its geophysics agency said, adding that it was 10 kilometers deep and had no tsunami potential.
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A drone strike on Wednesday targeted an Emirati-owned gas complex in Iraq’s autonomous Kurdistan region, disrupting the gas supply to the region’s power plants, local authorities said. “At 11:30 p.m. (2030 GMT), a drone attacked the Khor Mor gas field facility, cutting off all gas supplies
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Thirteen people were killed in a fire that spread across multiple high-rise apartment buildings in a Hong Kong housing complex, the city’s fire services said Wednesday. Nine people were declared dead on the scene and four others who were sent to the hospital were later confirmed dead, authorities told