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Hundreds of protesters took to the streets Monday in Bolivia to denounce alleged election fraud and call for an audit after the country’s new center-right president was announced. Rodrigo Paz, a 58-year-old economist, won the second round of voting on Sunday with 54.5 percent of the votes against
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Rebuilding Syria after over a decade of civil war is expected to cost about $216 billion, the World Bank said in an assessment published Tuesday. The cost is almost ten times Syria’s 2024 gross domestic product. Syria’s civil war began in 2011 when mass protests against the government
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The Syrian interior ministry said Monday it seized about 12 million captagon stimulant pills in a raid on a drug smuggling network operating near Damascus. The seizure marks one of the largest drug busts since the transitional authority assumed power in late 2024. Following “precise monitoring and tracking of a
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Hong Kong authorities on Tuesday were preparing to reopen the runway where a cargo aircraft crashed a day ago, but said it would remain out of regular use until wreckage from the accident was fully cleared. The Boeing 747 flown by Turkiye-based ACT Airlines flight from Dubai skidded off to
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A drone attack struck the vicinity of Khartoum International Airport early Tuesday, one day before Sudanese authorities were due to reopen the facility for domestic flights for the first time in over two years. Eyewitnesses told AFP that they heard the sounds of drones over central and southern Khartoum and
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Russia is prepared to expand cooperation with Iran in all areas, the Kremlin said on Monday. Moscow has close relations with Tehran and condemned US and Israeli strikes on Iranian nuclear sites earlier this year that were carried out with the stated aim of preventing Tehran from acquiring a nuclear
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EU countries on Monday agreed to phase out their remaining gas imports from Russia by the end of 2027, breaking a dependency the bloc has struggled to end despite Moscow’s war on Ukraine. Energy ministers meeting in Luxembourg approved a plan by the European Commission to phase out both
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Russian forces on Sunday attacked a coal mine in southeastern Ukraine and an unidentified energy site in the north near the Russian border, the operators of the sites said, adding to a series of recent assaults on Ukraine’s energy network. Private Ukrainian energy firm DTEK said Russian forces launched
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A cargo aircraft skidded off a Hong Kong runway and collided with a security patrol car before both fell into the sea early Monday, killing the two people in the car, authorities said. The plane’s four crew members were unhurt. The Boeing 747, flown by Turkiye-based ACT Airlines, was
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The Israeli military said two soldiers were killed in combat in southern Gaza on Sunday, as it carried out a series of strikes in the area, accusing Hamas of violating the ceasefire. Major Yaniv Kula, 26, and Staff Sergeant Itay Yavetz, 21, “fell during combat in the southern Gaza Strip,
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In a minutes-long strike Sunday inside the world’s most-visited museum, thieves rode a basket lift up the Louvre‘s facade, forced a window, smashed display cases and fled with priceless Napoleonic jewels, officials said. The daylight heist about 30 minutes after opening, with visitors already inside, was among the
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South Korean President Lee Jae Myung said on Monday the country will devote a “larger-than-expected budget” in defense and aerospace research until 2030 as it seeks to build the world’s fourth-largest defense industry. Lee was speaking at South Korea’s largest-ever arms fair, the Seoul International Aerospace & Defense
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Japan’s ruling LDP will sign a coalition deal later Monday, its new partner party said, paving the way for Sanae Takaichi to become the country’s first woman premier and lifting the Nikkei to a new record. The 11th-hour announcement by the Japan Innovation Party (JIP) came just a
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Myanmar’s junta raided one of the country’s most notorious cyberscam centers and seized Starlink satellite Internet devices, it said Monday, after an AFP investigation revealed an explosion in their use in the multibillion-dollar illicit industry. Internet sweatshops where workers scam unsuspecting foreigners with business or romance schemes have
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Gaza’s fragile ceasefire faced its first major test Sunday as Israeli forces launched a wave of deadly strikes, saying Hamas militants had killed two soldiers, and an Israeli security official said the transfer of aid into the territory was halted. The military later said it resumed enforcing the ceasefire,
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French authorities are hunting four thieves for Sunday’s brazen heist at the Louvre where they seized eight priceless and historical pieces of jewelry, Paris’s chief prosecutor said. The four men were a “strike team” who robbed the Louvre’s Apollo Gallery containing France’s crown jewels, wearing masks