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Somalia’s government said on Monday that it was annulling all agreements with the United Arab Emirates, including port deals and defense and security cooperation, citing evidence the UAE had undermined its national sovereignty. “The Council of Ministers has annulled all agreements concluded with the United Arab Emirates, including those
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From the smoldering wreckage of two catastrophic world wars in the last century, nations came together to build an edifice of international rules and laws. The goal was to prevent such sprawling conflicts in the future. Now that world order — centered at the United Nations headquarters in New York, near
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Protesters and security forces clashed in several Iranian cities on Thursday, with six reported killed, the first deaths since the cost-of-living demonstrations broke out. The protests began on Sunday in Tehran, where shopkeepers went on strike over high prices and economic stagnation, and have since spread to other parts of
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Russia was using ordinary apartment blocks on the territory of its ally Belarus to attack Ukrainian targets and circumvent Kyiv’s defenses. The Kremlin used Belarusian territory to launch its February 2022 invasion of Ukraine and Belarus remains a steadfast ally, though longstanding
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu hailed a government decision Monday to establish a commission of inquiry into the October 7 attack, assuring the public that it would not be subject to political influence. “Today the Ministerial Committee for Legislation approved the bill to establish a special state commission of inquiry,
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Syrian President Ahmed Al-Sharaa will visit Moscow on Wednesday, pro-government Syria TV and a source familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, despite the postponement of an Arab summit there that he had planned to attend.
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The Israeli military said that the seven living hostages earlier freed by Hamas in the Gaza Strip were now in Israeli custody. “We’ve been waiting 738 days to say this: Welcome home,” the Israeli foreign ministry posted on X, identifying the released captives as Guy Gilboa Dalal, Eitan Mor,
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A paramilitary drone strike killed at least 30 people at a displacement shelter in the besieged city of El-Fasher in western Sudan on Saturday, a local activist group said. The resistance committee for El-Fasher said the Rapid Support Forces, which has been at war with the army since April 2023,
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At least two people were killed after an assailant drove a car into pedestrians and stabbed a security guard near a synagogue in England on Yom Kippur, the holiest day on the Jewish calendar, British police said. Greater Manchester Police said the suspect, who was believed to be carrying a
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Yemen’s Houthis said Israeli air strikes hit the capital Sanaa on Tuesday, with an AFP journalist reporting the sound of explosions. “Israeli aggression on the capital Sanaa,” the Houthis’ Al-Masirah television reported on Telegram.
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A “large shark” mauled a surfer to death at a popular Sydney beach on Saturday, Australian police and rescuers said, in a rare fatal attack that led to a string of beach closures. The 57-year-old local man had gone surfing with five or six friends in the Pacific waters off
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President Donald Trump on Wednesday justified the lethal military strike that his administration said was carried out a day earlier against a Venezuelan gang as a necessary effort by the United States to send an unmistakable message to Latin American cartels. Asked why the military did not instead interdict the
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A thousand villages in India’s Punjab state are marooned by deadly floods, with thousands forced to seek shelter in relief camps, government authorities say. Flooding across the northwestern state killed at least 29 people and affected over 250,000 last month, with the state’s chief minister calling it
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Australia expelled Iran’s ambassador on Tuesday, accusing the country of being behind antisemitic arson attacks in Melbourne and Sydney. It marks the first time Australia has expelled an ambassador since World War II. Intelligence services reached a “deeply disturbing conclusion” that Iran directed at least two antisemitic attacks, Prime
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Sri Lanka’s jailed former president, Ranil Wickremesinghe, was hospitalized on Saturday, local media reported, a day after his arrest on allegations that he misused public funds while in office. Wickremesinghe, 76, who led the South Asian island nation during a devastating economic crisis, was arrested and taken into custody
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US envoy Tom Barrack called on Israel to honor its commitments under a ceasefire that ended its war with Hezbollah, after the Lebanese government launched a process to disarm the militant group. Under the truce agreement, weapons in Lebanon were to be restricted to the state and Israel was to