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Israel struck Yemen on Monday in what the Houthis said was a joint raid with the United States, a day after the militia claimed missile fire at Israel’s main airport. The Houthi-run Al-Masirah television said six air strikes hit the port of Hodeida, on Yemen’s western coast, and
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President Donald Trump’s education secretary said Monday that Harvard will no longer receive federal grants, escalating an ongoing battle with the prestigious university as it challenges the funding cuts in court. The Trump administration has for weeks locked horns with Harvard and other higher education institutions over claims they
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Ukrainian forces attacked a power substation in Russia’s western Kursk region, the regional governor said early on Tuesday after Russian war bloggers reported a new Ukrainian land-based incursion into the area backed by armored vehicles. Officials on both sides of the border reported deaths from military activity and ordered
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Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth on Monday directed the active duty military to shed 20 percent of its four-star general officers as the Trump administration keep pushing the services to streamline their top leadership positions. Hegseth also told the National Guard to shed 20 percent of its top positions. In a
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UN chief Antonio Guterres is “concerned” by reports that Sudanese paramilitaries for the first time struck Port Sudan, the seat of the army-aligned government during the country’s two-year war, a spokesman said Monday. “The attack on port Sudan is a worrying development threatening the protection of civilians and humanitarian
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Rwanda and Washington are in the early stages of talks to receive immigrants from the United States, the Rwandan foreign minister told state media. Washington has been pushing a mass deportation drive, with President Donald Trump’s administration negotiating highly controversial arrangements to send migrants to third countries. The Great
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As a general amnesty law takes effect in Iraq, the country’s prisons are facing a crisis of overcrowding, housing more than double their intended capacity, the country’s justice minister said in an interview. Justice Minister Khaled Shwani told The Associated Press on Saturday that Iraq’s 31 prisons
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday vowed a response to Yemen’s Houthis and their Iranian backers after the militant group struck the area of Israel’s main airport, wounding six people and prompting several major airlines to suspend flights. The strike came hours before Israel’s army confirmed
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Sudanese paramilitaries on Sunday struck Port Sudan, the army said, in the first attack on the seat of the army-aligned government in the country’s two-year war. The paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF), at war with the regular army since April 2023, have increased their use of drones since losing
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A coalition of more than 300 leading international figures, including UN experts, Nobel laureates, former ambassadors, judges, and human rights advocates, has issued an urgent appeal calling on the United Nations to intervene to stop the execution of political prisoners in Iran. In a statement published Thursday by the Justice
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15 Operations Carried Out by Defiant Youth in Tehran and 13 Other Cities in Response to the Horrific Crime in Bandar Abbas In protest against the horrific crime committed by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) in Bandar Abbas—and despite the regime’s heightened security measures—defiant youth carried
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President Donald Trump is circumspect about his duties to uphold due process rights laid out in the Constitution, saying in a new interview that he does not know whether US citizens and noncitizens alike deserve that guarantee. He also said he does not think military force will be needed to
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke to his Pakistani counterpart on Sunday and offered Russia’s help in resolving tensions between Pakistan and India over Kashmir, the Foreign Ministry said. “Particular attention was paid to the significant rise in tension between New Delhi and Islamabad,” the ministry said in a
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The UAE Foreign Ministry announced Sunday that it will lift a ban on its citizens traveling to Lebanon as of May 7, 2025, following a visit by the Lebanese head of state last week, according to WAM News Agency. The decision comes after a joint statement issued on Thursday, announcing
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The Lebanese Army seized large quantities of Captagon pills in a raid on a manufacturing plant on the Lebanese-Syrian border, the Lebanese News Agency reported on Monday. An army unit, supported by a patrol from the Directorate of Intelligence, seized large quantities of pills in addition to equipment for producing
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Israeli ministers on Monday agreed to ramp up the war against Hamas in Gaza, an official said, with plans to capture more territory in the beleaguered Palestinian enclave and call up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers. The plan, which the official said would be gradual, could mark a significant