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Seoul said Friday that US immigration authorities detained a number of South Koreans during a major raid on a battery plant in Georgia, urging Washington not to infringe on its citizens’ “legitimate rights.” On Thursday local time, US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE raided the “site of a (South Korean)
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Lebanon’s Cabinet convened Friday to discuss a plan drawn up by the Lebanese army to disarm the Hezbollah militant group and consolidate weapons in the hands of the state. Upon the arrival of the army chief, Gen. Rudolph Haikal, ministers from Hezbollah’s political bloc as well as the
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US President Donald Trump has grown increasingly pessimistic about the chance of brokering an end to the Russia-Ukraine conflict anytime soon or seeing the leaders of the two countries meet in person, NBC News reported on Friday, citing two senior administration officials. Reuters could not immediately confirm the report.
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The Lebanese government is set to discuss on Friday an army plan to disarm Hezbollah, which the Iran-backed group opposes, accusing the cabinet of playing into the hands of Israel and the United States. In August, under heavy US pressure and fearing Israel would intensify its strikes, Lebanon’s government
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and US President Donald Trump could meet again in the near future, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said in an interview published on Friday. “I have no doubt that if the presidents consider it necessary, their meeting can be organized very quickly. Just as the meeting in
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Sudanese authorities said Thursday they recovered and buried the bodies of hundreds of people who died in a landslide over the weekend in Sudan’s western region of Darfur. Mujib Al-Rahman Al-Zubair, head of the Civil Authority in the Liberated Territories, said in a video address shared with The Associated
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Anutin Charnvirakul, who was confirmed by parliament on Friday as Thailand’s new prime minister, is a cautious and pragmatic politician adept at straddling the country’s political divide. He’s best known for leading a successful campaign to decriminalize cannabis in Thailand. The 58-year-old’s political ambitions have been
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A series of strong aftershocks from a deadly earthquake that hit eastern Afghanistan at the weekend injured at least another 10 people and caused further damage, Taliban authorities said on Friday. Five shallow aftershocks, the strongest measuring at magnitude 5.6, were recorded by the US Geological Survey on Thursday
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Thailand’s parliament was set to choose a new prime minister on Friday, after days of political chaos, in a vote that could be overshadowed by the dramatic departure from the country of its most powerful politician Thaksin Shinawatra. Polarising billionaire Thaksin, the central figure in a tumultuous two-decade battle
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping and Russia President Vladimir Putin chatted about how advances in science could prolong the human life span in a rare hot mic moment in the Chinese capital. The brief exchange was captured on a live news video feed of Xi and Putin as they walked on
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The streets of Indonesia’s capital were quiet on Friday morning after more than a week of sometimes violent protests, as the Muslim-majority country celebrated a holiday marking the Prophet Muhammad’s birthday. Crowds, led by students, workers and rights groups, took to the streets of Jakarta last week to
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A passenger bus veered off a road and plunged into a precipice in a mountainous region in Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and injuring 16 others, a police spokesman said Friday. The accident occurred near the town of Wellawaya, about 280 kilometers (174 miles) east of the capital Colombo, on
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Fifteen people were hospitalized Thursday after a double-decker bus mounted the sidewalk and crashed outside one of London’s busiest railway stations. Police said another two people were treated by medics at the scene of the crash near Victoria Station. None of the injures is believed to be life-threatening. The
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A suspected attack by Yemen’s Houthis targeted a ship in the Red Sea on Thursday, officials said, as the group increased its missile fire targeting Israel. The attack off the coast of Hodeida follows an Israeli strike last week that killed the Houthis’ prime minister along with several officials.
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Russia’s defense ministry said on Wednesday that its troops had captured “about half” of the city of Kupiansk in Ukraine’s northeastern Kharkiv region, but Ukraine’s military denied any such advance. Reuters could not independently confirm the battlefield reports from either side. Kupiansk has been the focus of
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Israel’s defense minister vowed Thursday to inflict the biblical 10 plagues of Egypt on Yemen’s Houthi rebels after they stepped up their missile attacks against Israel. “The Houthis are firing missiles at Israel again. A plague of darkness, a plague of the firstborn — we will complete all 10