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South Korea’s president has asked President Donald Trump to become “a peacemaker” and use his leadership to get North Korea to talks to reduce military tensions on the Korean Peninsula, the South’s top diplomat said Friday. Trump “welcomed” the request from President Lee Jae-myung “and he expressed his
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Two migrants died overnight while trying to cross the Channel to Britain, French authorities said Saturday, adding that some 60 others had been rescued. The incident occurred south of the beaches of Neufchatel-Hardelot, when about 100 people were trying to get to the UK on a makeshift boat. About 60
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Iran has recalled its ambassadors to Germany, France and the United Kingdom on Saturday for consultation over the dispute mechanism to reinstate UN sanctions, the country’s Mehr state news agency reported. The move comes after a Russian and Chinese push on Friday to delay the revival of the international
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Former UK prime minister Tony Blair could take a leading role in a transitional authority for Gaza under US-led peace plans, various British media reported on Friday. It follows Blair’s involvement in discussions with the administration of US President Donald Trump and others over the post-war transitional body for
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The UN Security Council on Friday rejected another last-ditch effort to delay the reimposition of sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program a day before the deadline and after Western countries claimed that weeks of meetings failed to result in a “concrete” agreement. The resolution put forth by Russia and
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The people of Seychelles voted Saturday in an election to choose a new leader and parliament, with President Wavel Ramkalawan seeking a second term in Africa’s smallest country. Ramkalawan’s chief political rival, Patrick Herminie of the United Seychelles Party, is a veteran lawmaker and parliamentary speaker from 2007
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An Indonesian archipelago that’s home to three-fourths of Earth’s coral species, a stretch of Icelandic coast with 70 percent of the country’s plant life and an area along Angola’s Atlantic coast featuring savannahs, forests and estuaries are among 26 new UNESCO-designated biosphere reserves. The United Nations
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A niece of a notorious militant propagandists on trial for joining the Daesh group and taking her children with her apologized to all victims of the militants as well as her family. Speaking in court on Friday, Jennyfer Clain, a niece of Jean-Michel and Fabien Clain, who publicly claimed responsibility
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Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor said Friday that he was “not afraid” as he denounced the legal case against him as part of a broader campaign of “judicial harassment,” accusing the government of weaponizing the judiciary to silence dissent. Ekrem Imamoglu, a key rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
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Russia has ill intentions toward the whole world and Europe is finally more united in its views on the threat from Moscow, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday. “European allies have never been so united... we need to be vigilant. Russia has ill intentions toward the whole world,
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President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled a fresh round of punishing tariffs on a broad range of imported goods, including 100 percent duties on branded drugs and 25 percent tariffs on heavy-duty trucks, set to come into force next week. Tariffs have been a feature of Trump’s second term,
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Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, were shot dead Thursday after gunmen opened fire on a school parking lot in northeastern Brazil, the state government said in a statement. Another three teens, one aged 16 and two aged 17, were wounded in the incident in the town of Sobral in
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Infection rates from drug-resistant “nightmare bacteria” rose almost 70 percent between 2019 and 2023, according to a new report from Centers for Disease Control and Prevention scientists. Bacteria that are difficult to treat due to the so-called NDM gene primarily drove the increase, CDC researchers wrote in an article published
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Sudan’s new transitional prime minister has outlined plans for his country to be “reborn in unity” after years of brutal civil war. Kamil El-Tayeb Idris addressed the UN General Assembly in New York on Thursday, months after being appointed by his country’s Transitional Sovereignty Council under President Abdel
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Six Myanmar war widows speak softly of their grief as they walk inside the crumbling walls of Mandalay Palace, fresh arrivals in an earthquake-wracked city strained anew by conflict. “We feel more freedom here,” said one among them, all widows of dead soldiers. She was evacuated from her hometown, which
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Another tropical storm barreled across Philippine islands Friday, causing at least four deaths and new evacuations of tens of thousands of people from landslide- and flood-prone villages long battered by typhoons. Bualoi, which has weakened since making landfall overnight, was the latest of back-to-back storms from the Pacific to threaten