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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said he would meet his US counterpart Donald Trump on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly next week in comments released on Saturday. Zelensky said he would hold “a meeting with the President of the United States,” adding he would discuss security guarantees for
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Iraq is set to open the country’s first industrial-scale solar plant Sunday in a vast expanse of desert in Karbala province, southwest of Baghdad. It’s part of a new push by the government to expand renewable energy production in a country that is frequently beset by electricity crises
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A volcano in eastern Indonesia has erupted multiple times, spewing a column of ash kilometers into the sky after authorities raised its alert level to the highest, prompting a local airport to suspend operations on Saturday. Mount Lewotobi Laki-Laki, a 1,584-meter-high twin-peaked volcano on Flores island, launched into a
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A cyberattack targeting a service provider for check-in and boarding systems has disrupted operations at several major European airports including London’s Heathrow, Brussels and Berlin, causing flight delays and cancelations, the operators said. The attack has rendered automated systems inoperable, allowing only manual check-in and boarding procedures, according to
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President Donald Trump’s administration escalated its campaign against Harvard University on Friday, placing new restrictions on the Ivy League school’s ability to access federal funds for student aid, citing concerns about the “financial position” of the oldest and richest university in the United States. The Department of Education
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Ukrainian troops pressed on with a frontline counteroffensive around two cities in the east of the country on Friday, with President Volodymyr Zelensky saying heavy losses were being inflicted on Russian forces. Russia said its forces had captured two new villages in their slow advance through Ukraine’s east and
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The bodies of 19 people were recovered after the rubber migrant boat they were in sank off the eastern Libyan coast, the International Organization for Migration said Friday. The boat, which was carrying more than 70 Sudanese and South Sudanese nationals, sailed on Sept. 9 from a beach near the
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Russia fired 40 missiles and around 580 drones at Ukraine in a “massive attack” that killed three and wounded dozens, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Saturday. “Every such strike is not a military necessity but a deliberate strategy by Russia to terrorize civilians and destroy our infrastructure,” Zelensky said on
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There is “absolutely no evidence” that Russia’s President Vladimir Putin wants to negotiate peace in Ukraine, the head of Britain’s foreign intelligence agency said Friday in an outgoing speech. Richard Moore, chief of the Secret Intelligence Service, or MI6 as it is more commonly known, said Putin was
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The Iraqi counterterrorism service said on Friday that a senior Daesh leader was killed in a security operation in Syria carried out in coordination with the US-led international coalition. The commander, Omar Abdul Qader Bassam, known as “Abdul Rahman Al-Halabi,” was the group’s head of external operations and security,
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The United Nations Security Council voted Friday to reimpose deep economic sanctions on Iran over its resurgent nuclear program after Britain, France and Germany called for action. The three European nations are signatories to a 2015 deal known as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) intended to stop Tehran
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France has suspended counter-terrorism cooperation with Mali and ordered two staff members of the Malian embassy and consulate to leave, French sources said, with another source with knowledge of the matter saying the move came after Bamako’s arrest of a French intelligence agent in August. A spokesperson for Mali’
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Iran late Thursday withdrew a draft resolution at the UN nuclear watchdog that called to ban attacks against nuclear facilities after its war with Israel, citing reported US pressure for the last-minute change. In mid-June, Israel launched an unprecedented bombing campaign against Iran, triggering a 12-day war that saw Israeli
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At 14 months, Adut Duor should be walking. Instead, his spine juts through his skin and his legs dangle like sticks from his mother’s lap in a South Sudan hospital. At half the size of a healthy baby his age, he is unable to walk. Adut’s mother, Ayan,
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President Donald Trump, who recently accused Xi Jinping of working to “conspire” against the United States, hopes to finalize the fate of video-sharing app TikTok and make progress on trade talks in a phone call with the Chinese leader on Friday. “I’m speaking with President Xi, as you know,
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With little chance of NATO membership for Ukraine, the country’s Western allies have bought into an alternate strategy for helping it repel Russian aggression: invest billions in Ukraine’s weapons industry so it can better defend itself. If the strategy works, Ukraine’s weapons industry will eventually be able