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A cholera outbreak in Bukkuyum district of Zamfara state, northwest Nigeria, has claimed at least eight lives and infected over 200 people across 11 communities, residents and local officials said on Thursday, as limited health care access and insecurity exacerbate the crisis. Cholera, a water-borne disease, is not uncommon in
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A US diplomat apologized Thursday for using the word “animalistic” while calling for a gaggle of reporters to quiet down during a press conference in Lebanon earlier this week. Tom Barrack, who is the US ambassador to Turkiye and envoy to Syria and has also been on a temporary assignment
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Thursday that Washington sought direct talks with Iran on ending its nuclear program after European powers moved to restore sanctions on Tehran. Rubio welcomed the Europeans’ “snapback” of sanctions, long pushed by President Donald Trump, but said: “At the same time, the United
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The Israeli military attacked the Houthi-controlled capital of Yemen on Thursday, four days after a deadly round of bombings against the Iran-backed group, both Israel and the militant group said. Israeli forces “struck a Houthi terrorist regime military target in the area of Sanaa,” the military said in a statement.
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The UN Security Council is set to vote Thursday on the future of the blue helmet peacekeeping mission in south Lebanon, which has faced US and Israeli opposition. Some 10,800 peacekeepers have been acting as a buffer between Israel and Lebanon since 1978. But the usual renewal of their
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President Donald Trump’s administration moved Thursday to impose stricter limits on how long foreign students and journalists can stay in the United States, the latest bid to tighten legal immigration in the country. Under a proposed change, foreigners would not be allowed to stay for more than four years
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Israel’s defense minister said Thursday its forces were operating in “all combat zones,” after Syrian state media reported a raid by Israeli ground troops on a site it had already bombed outside Damascus. “Our forces are operating in all combat zones day and night for the security of Israel,
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A mass Russian drone and missile attack on Ukraine’s capital early Thursday killed at least three people and injured 24, local authorities said. Among the dead was a 14-year-old girl, said Tymur Tkachenko, the head of Kyiv’s city administration, citing preliminary information. The numbers are expected to rise.
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A security agency controlled by the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) in Iraq’s semi-autonomous Kurdistan region said on Wednesday that they had uncovered a plot to assassinate PUK leader Bafel Talabani, sharing a video that purported to show six guards saying they had received an order to kill him.
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Germany’s leaders on Wednesday launched a drive to attract more people into voluntary military service as the country scrambles to strengthen its armed forces in the face of growing fears about Russian aggression, a project that some in the governing coalition say doesn’t go far enough. Germany, a
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Just hours after a shooter opened fire through the windows of a Catholic church in Minneapolis, killing two children and wounding 17 people, hundreds crowded inside a nearby school’s gym, clutching one another and wiping away tears during a vigil alongside Gov. Tim Walz and clergy members. Speaking to
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A magnitude 6 earthquake struck in the sea off the northeast coast of Taiwan on Wednesday, the island’s weather administration said, with no reports of damage. The quake briefly shook buildings in the capital, Taipei. The quake, some 20 km (12.4 miles) offshore from Yilan county, had a
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US Envoy to Syria Tom Barrack canceled a scheduled visit to southern Lebanon on Wednesday amid calls for protests, the National News Agency reported. Barrack reportedly arrived by helicopter at the Francois al-Hajj barracks in Marjayoun, where Lebanese army units had been deployed in the area and at Khiam’s
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Intense rains have lashed parts of Pakistan and India and triggered flash floods in Indian-controlled Kashmir’s Jammu region, leaving at least 32 people dead and many missing following a landslide on a Hindu pilgrimage route, news agency Press Trust of India reported Wednesday. The time frame of the flooding
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The US State Department said Secretary of State Marco Rubio will meet Israeli Foreign Minister Gideon Saar in Washington on Wednesday. It released the information in a regular next-day public schedule that said their meeting at the State Department would be held at 1515 ET (1915 GMT). US special envoy
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US President Donald Trump will host a meeting on Wednesday on post-war plans for Gaza, his envoy Steve Witkoff said Tuesday. “We’ve got a large meeting in the White House tomorrow, chaired by the president, and it’s a very comprehensive plan we’re putting together on the next