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A massive explosion and fire at a port in southern Iran has killed four people, authorities said Saturday. Babak Mahmoudi, the head of the country’s rescue organization, made the announcement of the fatalities on state television. Over 500 others have been injured in the blast at the Shahid Rajaei
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Hamas seeks an agreement to end the Gaza war that would include the one-time release of all remaining hostages and a five-year truce, an official from the Palestinian group said Saturday. “Hamas is ready for an exchange of prisoners in a single batch and a truce for five years,” the
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Israel’s military said Saturday it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, whose Houthi militants have launched attacks throughout the Gaza war, as well as a drone approaching “from the east.” “Following the sirens that sounded recently in several areas in Israel, a missile that was launched from Yemen
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Canada holds an election on Monday after a campaign dominated by US President Donald Trump’s trade war. Prime Minister Mark Carney, the Liberal Party leader, is slightly favored in the polls, but the Conservative Party, headed by Pierre Poilievre, has closed the gap in recent days. Here are some
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As the AFC Champions League Elite moves into its quarter-final stage this weekend, Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassr is looking to win the trophy for the first time. Al Nassr has previously won the now-defunct Asian Cup Winners' Cup and Asian Super Cup - both in 1998 - but
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A meeting in Rome between US President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has taken place, a spokesman for the Ukrainian leader said.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday discussed the “possibility” of direct talks with Ukraine in a meeting with a US envoy, the Kremlin said, while President Donald Trump claimed the warring parties were “very close to a deal”. But Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy again rejected suggestions that Ukraine give up
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Top Iranian and US negotiators will meet again on Saturday to hammer out a new deal curbing Tehran’s advancing nuclear program, while US President Donald Trump signalled confidence in clinching a pact that would block Iran’s path to a nuclear bomb. Iran’s Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi will
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The US military said a blast on Sunday near a UNESCO world heritage site in Yemen’s capital city of Sanaa was caused by a Houthi missile and not an American airstrike. The Houthi-run Health Ministry said a dozen people were killed in the US strike in a neighborhood of
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China’s Foreign Minister Wang Yi said Beijing stands on the side of international rules on US-imposed tariffs and opposes protectionism, the Foreign Ministry on Saturday. Speaking on the sidelines of a China-Central Asia foreign ministers meeting in Kazakhstan, Wang said Beijing would seek solidarity with other countries on the
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Pope Francis' funeral begins. Presidents and princes will attend his funeral in St. Peter’s Square, but prisoners and migrants will usher him into the basilica where he will be buried. As many as 200,000 people are expected to attend the funeral, which Francis choreographed himself when he
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Pakistani soldiers fired at Indian posts all along the highly militarized frontier in disputed Kashmir for a second consecutive night, the Indian military said Saturday, as tensions continued to escalate between nuclear-armed rivals following a deadly attack on tourists. The Indian army said in a statement on Saturday that soldiers
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Indian officials said the army had a brief exchange of fire with Pakistani soldiers along their highly militarized frontier in the Himalayan region of Kashmir, as the nuclear-armed rivals ramped up tit-for-tat diplomatic offensive following a deadly attack on tourists in the disputed area. The report of a gunfight comes
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A small police plane crashed into the sea near a popular beach town in Thailand, killing at least five people on board, officials said. The plane was conducting a test flight to prepare for parachute training in Hua Hin district before it crashed around 8 a.m., said Royal Thai
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday criticized China for backing out of a deal to buy new Boeing planes due to tariffs imposed in the rivals’ trade war. “Boeing should default China for not taking the beautifully finished planes that China committed to purchase,” Trump wrote on social media, without
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Algerian authorities rounded up more than 1,800 migrants and left them at the Nigerien border in a record expulsion earlier this month, a Niger-based migrant rights group said Thursday. Alarmphone Sahara, which monitors migration across the region, said the migrants were bused to a remote desert area known as