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French police have apprehended and detained a suspect in an arson attack on a synagogue in a southwestern Mediterranean town that injured a police officer, the country’s acting interior minister said Sunday. Two cars parked at the Beth Yaacov synagogue complex in the seaside resort town of La Grande
Politics
Within a week of unseating Bangladesh’s longest-serving prime minister, the students who drove out Sheikh Hasina were directing Dhaka’s traffic. Decked out in neon vests, their university IDs slung around their necks, they clutch sticks and umbrellas to wave cars this way and that, filling the void after
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The death toll from landslides in Ethiopia earlier this week has risen to 257, and is expected to rise to 500, United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs said on Thursday. On Tuesday, Ethiopia’s National Disaster Risk Management Commission had put the death toll at 229. Following
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Relatives of the 18 dead in an airplane crash in Nepal have yet to hear from the government or the airline on the possible cause of the disaster, they said a day after the small jet went down during take-off at the airport in Katmandu, the capital. The incident has
At least 18 people were killed when a small plane crashed and caught fire while it was taking off from Nepal’s capital Katmandu on Wednesday, officials said. The plane was carrying two crew members and 17 technicians to Pokhara city to repair another aircraft, officials said. “Only the captain
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Hospitals and other health care facilities in war-torn Sudan are facing increased attacks, a World Health Organization (WHO) official said on Wednesday as fighting between the army and paramilitaries rages on. Since the start of the war in April 2023, the WHO has recorded 82 attacks on health care facilities,
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Pakistan plans to ban former Prime Minister Imran Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) party, the information minister said on Monday. The decision was based on a number of factors, including the proven charge that Khan’s PTI had received foreign funds from sources that are illegal in Pakistan, as well
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Twelve schoolchildren and their driver were killed in South Africa on Wednesday when their minibus overturned and caught fire on a road in Gauteng province, officials said. The accident took place a day after schools reopened after the winter holidays. Seven other children were injured in the accident, which took
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Four men were arrested Tuesday on suspicion of trespassing after entering the grounds of Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s home in northern England, police said. North Yorkshire police said the group was detained just after noon and escorted off the property. They were arrested on suspicion of aggravated trespass. A
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Iran's Supreme Leader led prayers in Tehran on Wednesday at the funeral of President Ebrahim Raisi as the clerical establishment hurried to organise the election of a successor, which could further erode its legitimacy amid growing public discontent. The June 28 vote to replace Raisi, killed in a
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A welding operation sparked a huge fire in February at a water park that was under construction at one of Sweden’s biggest amusement centers, causing the death of one person, a newspaper reported Wednesday. “When welding the water slide, a fire started which then spread to the rest of
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The European Commission on Tuesday announced that it was investigating Meta's handling of political advertising on its Facebook and Instagram platforms in the run-up to June's European elections. The EU is particularly wary about Russian attempts to manipulate public opinion and undermine democracy. What are the
Entertainment
US music stars Ashanti and Nelly have revealed they are engaged and are expecting their first child together. The award-winning performers - who first dated over 20 years ago - rekindled their romance last year. They first met at the Grammy Awards in 2003, and dated for a decade before
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UK police said Thursday that they had arrested another man after five migrants, including a child, died this week trying to cross the Channel from France. The National Crime Agency (NCA) said it arrested an 18-year-old from Sudan late Wednesday on suspicion of facilitating illegal immigration and entering the UK
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Taiwan will work with the United States to “safeguard peace and freedom” in the region, the island’s premier said on Monday, after Washington approved billions in military aid for Taipei in the face of an increasingly assertive China. The US House of Representatives on Saturday passed four bills in
Economy
Oil prices steadied on Wednesday as investors eyed concerns around crude and fuel supplies, following Ukrainian attacks on Russian refineries and the potential for a widening of the Israel-Hamas war to more directly include Iran. Brent crude futures for June rose 4 cents to $88.98 per barrel at 8: