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Afghanistan’s Supreme Court said Taliban authorities executed three convicted murderers on Friday, bringing to nine the number of men publicly put to death since their return to power, according to an AFP tally. Two men were executed in front of spectators in Qala I Naw, the center of Badghis
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Germany’s Siemens said on Friday that Agustin Escobar, the company’s global CEO for its Rail Infrastructure division, was killed with his family in a New York helicopter crash on Thursday. “We are deeply saddened by the tragic helicopter crash that claimed the lives of Agustin Escobar and his
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A New York City sightseeing helicopter broke apart in midair Thursday and crashed upside-down into the Hudson River, killing the pilot and a family of five Spanish tourists in the latest US aviation disaster, officials said. The victims included Siemens executive Agustin Escobar, his wife, Merce Camprubi Montal, and three
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The Taliban’s morality police have detained men and their barbers over hairstyles, and others for missing prayers at mosques during Ramadan, a UN report said Thursday, 6 months after laws regulating people’s conduct came into effect. The Vice and Virtue Ministry published laws last August covering many aspects
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The Red Cross raised alarm on Thursday at the growing use of drone attacks by warring parties on hospitals, electricity and water infrastructure in Sudan, which it said was contributing to widespread human rights violations. Some 70 percent to 80 percent of hospitals in Sudan were not running and there
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Suspected US airstrikes in Yemen overnight into Thursday killed at least three people, while the death toll in an earlier attack rose to 13 dead, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said. The rebels meanwhile aired footage they said showed the debris left after shooting down yet another American MQ-9 Reaper drone.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Wednesday with CIA chief John Ratcliffe in Jerusalem, a statement from the premier’s office said. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Wednesday evening with the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe, along with the head of the Mossad, Dadi (David)
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Ukraine on Thursday said that a dozen people were wounded in overnight Russian attacks on the capital Kyiv and the southern Black Sea region of Mykolaiv. AFP journalists in the capital heard air raid sirens and explosions ring out over the city during the attack. The air force said that
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Israel’s Foreign Minister Gideon Saar denounced French President Emmanuel Macron’s announcement that Paris could recognize a Palestinian state by June, saying it would be a “prize” for terrorism. “A unilateral recognition of a fictional Palestinian state, by any country, in the reality that we all know, will be
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Oil prices retreated on Thursday as US President Donald Trump ramped up a trade war with China, even as he announced a 90-day pause on tariffs aimed at other countries. Brent futures fell 39 cents, or 0.6 percent, to $65.09 a barrel by 9:30 a.m. Saudi
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Economic ministers of the ASEAN regional bloc committed on Thursday “to not impose any retaliatory measures” against the United States over sweeping tariffs and said they were ready to engage in talks. “ASEAN, being the fifth largest economy in the world, is deeply concerned over the recent introduction of unilateral
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The United States has struck more than 100 targets in Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen since beginning the latest phase of its air campaign against the Iran-backed militia last month, a US defense official said Wednesday. American forces have hammered the Houthis with near-daily air strikes since March 15 in a
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Israel said Wednesday its troops are seizing “large areas” in Gaza and making the Palestinian territory “smaller and more isolated,” as an air strike on a residential block killed at least 23 people. Defense Minister Israel Katz’s comments come weeks into a renewed offensive by the military on the
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Pope Francis met privately with King Charles III and Queen Camilla on Wednesday at the Vatican during the royal couple’s four-day state visit to Italy and on the occasion of their 20th wedding anniversary, the Vatican announced. It was the first known meeting since the pope’s return to
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France plans to recognize a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a UN conference in New York in June on settling the Israel-Palestinian conflict, President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday. “We must move toward recognition, and we will do so in the coming months,” Macron, who this
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Facing a global market meltdown, President Donald Trump on Wednesday abruptly backed off his tariffs on most nations for 90 days even as he further jacked up the tax rate on Chinese imports to 125 percent. It was seemingly an attempt to narrow what had been an unprecedented trade war