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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday offered to voluntarily maintain the limits on deployed strategic nuclear weapons set in the 2010 New START accord after it expires in February if the US agreed to do the same. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Putin’s proposal sounded “pretty good,
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Prominent British-Egyptian activist Alaa Abdel Fattah was released from prison in Cairo, his family said on Tuesday, prompting an emotional reunion with his loved ones after a pardon from President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi. Abdel Fattah, 43, was a leading figure in Egypt’s 2011 uprising and an outspoken critic of
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Southern Chinese cities scaled back many aspects of daily life on Tuesday with school and business closures and flight cancelations as the region braced for one of the strongest typhoons in years that has already killed three people and led to the displacement of thousands of others in the Philippines.
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Russia denied on Monday that its aircraft were violating NATO airspace and warned that countries making such accusations risked “escalating tensions.” Three Russian fighter jets entered NATO member Estonia’s airspace on Friday, remaining there for 12 minutes before being escorted out by NATO aircraft, Tallinn said. The MiG-31 jets,
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Germany’s armed forces are planning how to treat a potential 1,000 wounded troops per day should a large-scale conflict between NATO and Russia break out, and amid long-standing warnings by the alliance that Moscow could be capable of launching an attack from 2029. Moscow has rejected any suggestions
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Police in the Philippine capital arrested more than 200 people during clashes with masked protesters that erupted on a day of largely peaceful anti-corruption demonstrations, a spokesperson said Monday. At least 88 minors were among the initial count of 216 taken into custody Sunday as police deployed water cannons and
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South Sudan’s opposition said Saturday it had misidentified a prisoner in a photograph as a bodyguard of its leader who died in custody amid widespread arrests of their supporters. In a statement, the opposition said the leader’s office had been given an old photo and wrongly believed it
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Nepal’s interim government, led by former Chief Justice Sushila Karki, has set up a panel to investigate the violence during anti-corruption protests this month that killed 74 people and forced Prime Minister K.P. Sharma Oli to quit, a minister said on Monday. The demonstrations, which began as a
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Syria is set to hold the selection process for a transitional parliament on October 5, in accordance with a constitutional declaration announced earlier this year, the electoral commission said Sunday. The People’s Assembly of Syria was dissolved by the country’s new authorities who seized power after ousting longtime
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The head of the Kremlin-backed government in annexed Crimea blamed Ukraine on Monday for a deadly drone strike, while Kyiv said a Russian attack had killed three people in the country’s southeast. Sergey Aksyonov said the Ukrainian military had targeted the Crimean resort town of Foros, damaging the grounds
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President Donald Trump hailed slain conservative activist Charlie Kirk as a “martyr for American freedom” on Sunday and vowed at his memorial service to carry on his work, while again accusing what he called the “radical left” for Kirk’s murder. “The violence comes largely from the left,” Trump said
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A Ukrainian drone attack on a resort area of the Crimea peninsula killed three people and injured 16, the area’s top official said, in an attack denounced by Moscow. Sergei Aksyonov, the Moscow-appointed head of Crimea, seized and annexed from Ukraine by Russia in 2014, gave the toll from
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Jordan said it partially reopened its border crossing with the Israeli-occupied West Bank on Sunday, three days after closing it following an attack that killed two Israeli soldiers. “The crossing reopened Sunday for travelers only, while the movement of cargo trucks remains suspended until further notice,” an official statement said.
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Russia has slammed the UN Security Council vote to reimpose economic sanctions on Iran over its nuclear program and warned of a risk of an “escalation of tensions.” “The Russian side has repeatedly pointed out the provocative and illegal nature of the actions of the European countries participating in the
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US President Donald Trump publicly urged his Justice Department on Saturday to take action against his enemies, the latest in a series of moves that critics say have shattered the agency’s traditional independence. In a social media post addressing “Pam” — apparently Attorney General Pam Bondi — Trump fumed over the
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Hundreds of anti-government protesters clashed with police in the Peruvian capital Lima on Saturday, throwing stones and sticks as officers fired tear gas on the demonstrators, AFP journalists reported. The protest, organized by a youth collective called "Generation Z", is part of growing social unrest in Peru against