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Hamas had yet to respond Tuesday to Donald Trump on his plan for Gaza, while Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the Israeli military would stay in most of the territory after he gave the US president his backing. The plan calls for a ceasefire, release of hostages by Hamas within
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President Donald Trump will on Tuesday speak at a rare gathering of hundreds of senior US military officers summoned, without public explanation, from around the world to meet at a base near Washington. No official reason has been given for the highly unusual meeting at Quantico. It comes as the
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Security forces fired teargas to disperse hundreds of young protesters in Madagascar’s capital who took to the streets again on Tuesday despite the president’s decision to partly yield to their demands by dissolving the government. Andry Rajoelina went on state television late on Monday and said he wanted
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German police arrested on Tuesday a Syrian man suspected of committing crimes against humanity, including killing and torturing, as a militia leader in 2011 in Aleppo, prosecutors said. The Syrian national, identified only as Anwar S. in line with German privacy laws, is suspected of being head of the “shabiha
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Militants set off a powerful car bomb outside the headquarters of Pakistan’s paramilitary security forces in the southwestern city of Quetta on Tuesday, killing at least eight people and wounding several others, authorities said. Before detonating their vehicle, four attackers who were inside the car stepped outside and engaged
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The German nongovernmental organization Sea-Watch said on Monday that one migrant drowned and three others were rescued in the Mediterranean off the Libyan coast after their dinghy capsized during a chase by the Libyan coast guard. On Sunday, a patrol boat from the Libyan coast guard intercepted a crowded dinghy
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Ukraine said on Tuesday that a Russian overnight drone strike had killed a family of four in the northeastern Sumy region. Oleg Grygorov, the head of the regional military administration, said Russian forces had hit a residential building in the village of Chernechchyna, in the Krasnopillia community. “A couple with
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US airlines warned on Monday that a partial federal government shutdown could strain American aviation and slow flights, as air traffic controllers and security officers would be forced to work without pay and other functions would be halted. Airline trade group Airlines for America, which represents United Airlines, Delta Air
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US President Donald Trump said Monday that he had Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s backing for a wide-ranging Gaza peace plan that would bring an immediate ceasefire. The plan, which Trump has circulated to Arab leaders, was released after Trump met Netanyahu in Washington. Trump told a press conference that
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Lingering heavy rains from a former typhoon caused more flooding and landslides in Vietnam, raising the death toll to 19 in the country with more missing. Rainfall topped 30 centimeters (nearly a foot) in parts of Vietnam over the past 24 hours, the national weather agency said Tuesday. It warned
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The Jordanian Anti-Narcotics Department has dismantled a criminal gang connected to drug trafficking networks in the Middle East and arrested 14 suspects in the city of Madaba. The Public Security Directorate conducted raids on various sites where large quantities of drugs were stored for sale and distribution, following weeks of
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Migrants seeking to settle in the UK will have to have a job, not claim benefits, and undertake community work under plans to be unveiled by the interior minister on Monday. Currently, those with family in Britain and who have lived there for five years qualify for “indefinite leave to
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Russia’s air defense units destroyed 84 Ukrainian drones overnight, RIA news agency reported on Monday, citing Russian defense ministry data.
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The Israeli military said it struck weapons depots belonging to the armed group Hezbollah in southern Lebanon on Sunday. “A short while ago, the IDF (Israeli military) struck Hezbollah weapon storage facilities in southern Lebanon. These weapon depots were used by the terrorist organization to advance and carry out terror
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Vietnam plans to evacuate more than 250,000 residents from coastal areas on Sunday ahead of the arrival of Typhoon Bualoi, which is expected to lash the country’s steel-producing central belt. The storm — the 10th to affect Vietnam this year — is currently at sea generating winds of 130 kilometers
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Hundreds of South Korean public services remained offline on Monday after a fire at a data center disrupted government websites and exposed vulnerabilities in the country’s digital infrastructure. Authorities said 62 government services had been restored out of about 647 systems affected by the fire which broke out during