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The US government shutdown entered its second week on Monday, with no sign of a deal between President Donald Trump’s Republicans and Democrats to end the crisis. Democrats are refusing to provide the handful of votes the ruling Republicans need to reopen federal departments, unless an agreement is reached
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Afghanistan’s Taliban government has agreed in principle to the repatriation of its nationals from Germany, a German interior ministry spokesperson said on Monday. “The Afghan de facto government has agreed in principle to repatriation by air if the people we are repatriating are identified as Afghan nationals,” the spokesperson
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Police were investigating Monday what they called a hate crime after a mosque was set on fire in an English coastal town. The fire on Saturday night came two days after two men were killed when a knife-wielding assailant attacked their synagogue in Manchester on the holiest day of the
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A 60-year-old man was in custody in Australia Monday after police said he shot up to 50 bullets into a busy Sydney street, wounding more than a dozen people. Police were called on Sunday evening to the city’s Inner West, where the alleged gunman was firing from his property
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At least six patients were killed after a fire broke out in the trauma center of the main government-run hospital in the northwestern Indian city of Jaipur, officials said on Monday. The blaze, suspected to have been caused by a short circuit, started in the intensive care unit (ICU) of
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Rival gunmen shot at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others in a chaotic street scene that left authorities trying to find out who started it, police said. The dead included a 43-year-old woman, identified
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations taking place to end what has so far been a five-day shutdown. Leaders in both parties are betting that public sentiment has swung their way, putting pressure on the other
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US President Donald Trump said Sunday he was prepared to maintain a nuclear arms treaty between Washington and Moscow, after his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin proposed a one-year extension. “Sounds like a good idea to me,” Trump said at the White House when a reporter asked for his response to
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The International Criminal Court (ICC) on Monday hands down its verdict on a feared Sudanese militia chief accused of war crimes and crimes against humanity during brutal attacks in Darfur. Ali Muhammad Ali Abd-Al-Rahman, also known by the nom de guerre Ali Kushayb, faces 31 counts of crimes including rape,
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US President Donald Trump on Sunday urged Hamas and Israeli negotiators gathering in Egypt for crucial talks aimed at ending the war in Gaza to “move fast,” adding that there had been “very positive discussions” with the Palestinian armed group. “There have been very positive discussions with Hamas, and Countries
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Norway’s Oslo airport temporarily paused landings early on Monday after a report of a drone sighting near the airport, news agency NTB reported. Several arriving flights were delayed or diverted after police received a report around midnight that a Norwegian Air pilot thought he saw three to five drones
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An Egyptian antiquities professor and ex-tourism minister is facing off against a Congolese economist who promoted schooling in refugee camps in a race to become the new director of UNESCO. Whoever wins will inherit a world body reeling from the Trump administration’s recent decision to pull the United States
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Local committees in Syria cast their ballots for members of a transitional parliament, with a third of the new lawmakers to be appointed directly by President Ahmed Al-Sharaa. The assembly’s formation is expected to consolidate the power of Sharaa, whose forces led a coalition that toppled longtime ruler Bashar
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Hamas on Sunday called for a swift start to a hostage-prisoner exchange with Israel as negotiators from the two warring sides meet in Egypt for crucial talks aimed at ending the nearly two-year war. Foreign ministers of several countries, including Egypt, said the talks were a “real opportunity” to achieve
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Former Japanese internal affairs minister Sanae Takaichi on Saturday won the race to lead the ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP), and therefore likely become the next prime minister. The winner is expected to replace Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba since the party remains the largest in parliament. However, following the recent
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The government in Azad Kashmir has reached an agreement with a civil rights alliance to end days of unrest in the northern Pakistani region, a Pakistani federal minister announced on Saturday, following the killing of at least nine people in deadly clashes. The clashes erupted after calls for an indefinite