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Donald Trump became the first US president in 25 years to meet a Syrian leader on Wednesday after he offered sanctions relief in hopes of offering a new path to the war-battered country. Trump, in Riyadh on the first state visit of his second term, met with Ahmed Al-Sharaa, an
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Israel’s army on Wednesday urged Yemenis to stay away from Houthi-held ports, in a likely warning of retaliation after it intercepted a missile fired by the Iran-backed rebels. The Houthis, who say they are acting in solidarity with Palestinians, have repeatedly targeted Israel and shipping in the Red Sea
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A landmark signal of support for the Iranian people’s long struggle for freedom and democracy, the United States House of Representatives, with a commanding bipartisan majority, has passed H.Res. 166, a resolution that not only expresses support “for the Iranian people’s desires for a democratic, secular, and
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Saudi Arabia has signed deals with the US worth more than $300 billion, Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said at the Saudi-US Investment Forum in Riyadh on Tuesday. During an address at the event, Prince Mohammed said the Kingdom was looking at $600 billion of investment opportunities, adding that he
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Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli army will be entering Gaza ‘with full force’ in coming days, adding that ‘no situation where we stop the war’ in Gaza, AFP reported on Tuesday.
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Operations at Belgium’s second largest airport were briefly suspended on Tuesday due to a bomb alert on a Ryanair flight from Portugal, the company running the airport and the airline said. Shortly before 11:00 am (0900 GMT) “a bomb threat was triggered” on board an aircraft that landed
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The United Nations aviation agency said Monday that Russia was responsible for the downing of a Malaysia Airlines jetliner over Ukraine in 2014, leading to the deaths of 298 people. The International Civil Aviation Organization , based in Montreal, said claims brought by Australia and the Netherlands over the shooting down
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The Israeli military said it struck a Gaza hospital housing Hamas militants in a raid Tuesday that, according to the Palestinian group, killed a journalist wounded in an Israeli attack last month. The strike, which Hamas said happened at dawn, ended a brief pause in fighting to allow the release
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US and European diplomats went on a flurry of calls in the hours after US President Donald Trump offered on Monday to join prospective Ukraine-Russia talks later this week, trying to find a path that would bring an end to the war in Ukraine. Trump’s surprise offer to join
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The US military is replacing its B-2 bombers with another type of bomber at a base in the Indo-Pacific that was seen as being in an ideal location to operate in the Middle East, US officials told Reuters on Monday. The Pentagon deployed as many as six B-2 bombers in
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Crouching over a small wood-scrap fire in Sudan’s war-battered Darfur region, Aziza Ismail Idris stirs a pot of watery porridge — the only food her family have had for days. “No organization has come. No water, no food — not even a biscuit for the children,” Idris told AFP, her voice
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US President Donald Trump said Monday he was considering offering sanctions relief to Syria as it seeks to rebuild after a grinding decade-plus civil war. “We are going to have to make a decision on the sanctions, which we may very well relieve. We may take them off of Syria
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US President Donald Trump on Monday left for Saudi Arabia on what he called a “historic” tour of the Middle East that will mix urgent diplomacy on Gaza with huge business deals. Air Force One took off on a journey that will include visits to Qatar and the United Arab
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Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani has warned that postponing the implementation of an agreement between Syria’s new administration and Kurdish-led forces in the northeast would “prolong the chaos” in the country. His remarks came as the Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK, announced it was disbanding, an announcement the Kurdish-led
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Despite his detention thousands of miles away in the International Criminal Court, former Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte appeared to have been elected as mayor in his home city by a landslide, according to preliminary results on Tuesday. At least five candidates backed by his family were also among those leading
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The Trump administration on Monday welcomed a group of 59 white South Africans as refugees, saying they face discrimination and violence at home, which the country’s government strongly denies. The decision to admit the Afrikaners also has raised questions from refugee advocates about why they were admitted when the