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Syria’s leader Ahmed Al-Sharaa on Friday urged insurgents from ousted president Bashar Assad’s Alawite minority to lay down their arms or face the consequences after the fiercest attacks on the war-torn country’s new rulers yet. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights reported that “311 Alawite civilians were
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US President Donald Trump raised the prospect of imposing large-scale US sanctions on Russia on Friday, days after pausing military aid and intelligence support to Ukraine, and he called on both countries to get on with negotiating a peace deal. Trump’s threat of banking curbs and tariffs followed a
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At least 12 people were injured in a shooting at a pub in Toronto and the suspect remained at large, police said early on Saturday. Four victims had non-life-threatening injuries and the extent of injuries to the rest was not known, the police said in a post on X that
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At least 11 people were killed and 30 wounded, including five children, in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's eastern city of Dobropillia overnight, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on Saturday. Russian forces attacked Dobropillia with ballistic missiles, multiple rockets, and drones, causing damage to eight multi-storey
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South Sudanese forces loyal to President Salva Kiir have released the peacebuilding minister, a key ally of First Vice President Riek Machar, a spokesman for Machar said on Friday, after the arrests of senior officials escalated tensions. Between Tuesday and Thursday, security forces arrested or put under house arrest several
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Security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar Assad’s Alawite sect in western Syria, with scores reported killed as the Islamist-led government faced the biggest challenge yet to its authority. Syrian Arab Republic authorities said remnants of the ousted
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Clashes between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to former President Bashar Assad in the country’s coastal region have left more than 70 people dead and an area outside government control, a war monitor said Friday. Government forces sent major reinforcements overnight to the cities of Latakia and Tartus
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The United Nations migration agency says four migrant boats have capsized in waters off Yemen and Djibouti, leaving two people dead and 186 missing. Two of the boats capsized off Yemen on Thursday, said Tamim Eleian, a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration. Two crewmembers were rescued, but 181
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Violent winds toppled power lines Friday as a tropical cyclone inched toward Australia’s eastern coast, swelling rivers, sparking evacuation orders and leaving 80,000 homes without electricity. Tropical Cyclone Alfred was 125 kilometers east of Brisbane by Friday afternoon, crawling toward the densely populated coastline at “walking speed,” government
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On a lush green hilltop on Israel’s northern border with Lebanon, Carmela Keren Yakuti proudly shows off her home in Dovev, which she fled more than 16 months ago over fears of a Hezbollah attack. “Now that everyone is back, it’s an amazing feeling,” said Yakuti, 40, standing
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A South Korean court canceled the arrest warrant of impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol on Friday, but he remains behind bars with the prosecution likely to appeal. Yoon’s lawyers filed a request to cancel his arrest warrant last month, arguing his detention was unlawful because the prosecution had waited
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Nine Egyptians freed after being held for 19 months by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces arrived in Egypt to celebrations on Thursday morning as the Sudanese army advanced in Khartoum. “Praise be to God. A new age begins for us today. Our life starts anew from today,” said Ahmed
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Russia will seek a peace deal in Ukraine that safeguards its own long-term security and will not retreat from the gains it has made in the conflict, President Vladimir Putin said on Thursday in comments to relatives of soldiers killed there. Putin also took an indirect swipe at French President
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Syria’s new authorities launched a sweeping security operation Friday after clashes with fighters loyal to former president Bashar Assad, the biggest challenge to their rule so far, left at least 71 people dead. The violence saw the fiercest attacks on the country’s authorities since Assad was ousted in
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Syria has imposed a curfew in the northwestern port town of Latakia and the port city of Tartous after fierce clashes between fighters linked to Syria’s ousted leader Bashar Assad and government forces, the state news agency said early on Friday.
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Fierce fighting between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to deposed ruler Bashar Assad killed 48 people on Thursday, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes in the coastal town of Jableh and adjacent villages were “the most violent attacks against the new authorities