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Syria announced a comprehensive ceasefire with Kurdish forces after a meeting on Tuesday between Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa and Kurdish leader Mazloum Abdi that followed deadly clashes in the northern city of Aleppo. Syria’s authorities, who took power last year after overthrowing Bashar Assad, have rejected Kurdish demands for
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The search for victims of last week’s Indonesian school collapse ended on Tuesday with the death toll climbing to 67, an official said. Part of the multi-story Islamic boarding school on Indonesia’s Java island caved in on September 29 as more than 170 students gathered for afternoon prayers.
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A crew member of the Dutch cargo ship that was attacked by Houthis in the Gulf of Aden last week has died of his injuries, the vessel's Amsterdam-based operator Spliethoff said in a statement Monday evening. The company did not release further details about the deceased crew member,
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The first round of Gaza talks between Hamas and mediators have ended in Egypt “amid a positive atmosphere,” Egyptian state-linked media reported early on Tuesday. Al-Qahera News reported the talks will continue on Tuesday, also between Hamas and mediators in the resort town of Sharm el-Sheikh, where an Israeli delegation
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Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Monday denounced the arbitary detention of nine more United Nations workers in Yemen by Houthi rebels, along with the seizure of assets and facilities in areas under Houthi control. “Most recently, the Houthi de facto authorities detained nine additional UN personnel, bringing the total number of
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An aircraft that appeared to be a medical helicopter crashed on a highway in Sacramento on Monday evening, closing the eastbound lanes, according to officials. The crash happened just after 7 p.m., according to officer Mike Carrillo, a spokesperson for the Valley Division of California Highway Patrol. In images
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President Nicolas Maduro said Monday that Venezuela foiled a false flag operation by what he called local terrorists to plant explosives at the US embassy in Caracas and exacerbate a dispute between the two countries over drug trafficking. Speaking on his weekly TV program, Maduro said two sources which he
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Any European Union decision on using frozen Russian state assets to help Ukraine must follow international law and the European Central Bank is “very attentive” to the process, ECB President Christine Lagarde said on Monday. The EU is searching for a way to finance Ukraine’s defense and reconstruction with
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The US government shutdown entered its second week on Monday, with no sign of a deal between President Donald Trump’s Republicans and Democrats to end the crisis. Democrats are refusing to provide the handful of votes the ruling Republicans need to reopen federal departments, unless an agreement is reached
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Afghanistan’s Taliban government has agreed in principle to the repatriation of its nationals from Germany, a German interior ministry spokesperson said on Monday. “The Afghan de facto government has agreed in principle to repatriation by air if the people we are repatriating are identified as Afghan nationals,” the spokesperson
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Police were investigating Monday what they called a hate crime after a mosque was set on fire in an English coastal town. The fire on Saturday night came two days after two men were killed when a knife-wielding assailant attacked their synagogue in Manchester on the holiest day of the
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A 60-year-old man was in custody in Australia Monday after police said he shot up to 50 bullets into a busy Sydney street, wounding more than a dozen people. Police were called on Sunday evening to the city’s Inner West, where the alleged gunman was firing from his property
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At least six patients were killed after a fire broke out in the trauma center of the main government-run hospital in the northwestern Indian city of Jaipur, officials said on Monday. The blaze, suspected to have been caused by a short circuit, started in the intensive care unit (ICU) of
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Rival gunmen shot at each other in a crowded downtown nightlife district in Alabama’s capital city Saturday night, killing two people and injuring 12 others in a chaotic street scene that left authorities trying to find out who started it, police said. The dead included a 43-year-old woman, identified
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Republican and Democratic lawmakers at an impasse on reopening the federal government provided few public signs Sunday of meaningful negotiations taking place to end what has so far been a five-day shutdown. Leaders in both parties are betting that public sentiment has swung their way, putting pressure on the other
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US President Donald Trump said Sunday he was prepared to maintain a nuclear arms treaty between Washington and Moscow, after his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin proposed a one-year extension. “Sounds like a good idea to me,” Trump said at the White House when a reporter asked for his response to