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An Australian state closed two beaches after dead fish and an unusual off-white foam washed ashore while surfers reported feeling unwell, officials said on Tuesday. A microalgal bloom created by unusual weather conditions was suspected to have sickened humans and marine life as well as creating the foam that has
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Shelling by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces killed six civilians, including two children, in Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, a doctor said Monday, as the army inched closer to the capital’s presidential palace. Sunday’s attack also wounded 36 civilians, half of them children, the doctor at
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Iran-backed Houthis on Tuesday claimed their third attack on American warships in 48 hours, despite US strikes targeting the group in Yemen that have sparked mass protests. The Houthis said on Telegram they had targeted the USS Harry S. Truman carrier group with missiles and drones, making the attack the
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A Lebanese professor is back in her home country after she was expelled from the United States for attending the funeral of Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah during a trip to Beirut, her family said Tuesday. Rasha Alawieh, a kidney transplant specialist and professor at the Ivy League Brown University, was
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South Korean police started on Tuesday providing additional security for the leader of the main opposition Democratic Party, after lawmakers had warned of a potential assassination plot targeting Lee Jae-myung, the Yonhap News Agency reported. The move comes after the party had last week urged police to ramp up security
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French police evicted more than 400 migrants on Tuesday who had been squatting inside the Gaite Lyrique theater in central Paris for more than three months. Officers began their operation shortly before 6 a.m. (0500 GMT) at the theater, where hundreds of demonstrators had gathered to protest against the
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Israel launched airstrikes across the Gaza Strip early Tuesday, killing at least 320 Palestinians, including women and children, according to hospital officials. The surprise bombardment threatened to wreck the ceasefire in place since January and fully reignite the 17-month-old war. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he ordered the strikes because
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Lebanese and Syrian defense officials reached an agreement late Monday for a ceasefire to halt two days of clashes along the border, Syria’s state-run SANA news agency reported. The agreement also stipulates “enhanced coordination and cooperation between the two sides,” the statement from the Syrian Ministry of Defense said.
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Tunisia’s national guard said on Monday its forces had rescued 612 migrants and recovered the bodies of 18 others in several operations overnight off the country’s Mediterranean coast. Sharing images of some of those rescued, including women and children, after their boats capsized, the force said they were
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North Korea condemned recent US strikes on Yemen as an act violating international law and a country’s sovereignty and said such a move could never be justified in any way, the North’s state media quoted on Tuesday its ambassador to Yemen as saying. The large-scale US strikes were
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US President Donald Trump warned on Monday that Iran would be held responsible and face “dire” consequences for any further attacks by Yemen’s Houthis after Washington launched a military campaign over the weekend in an effort to deter the group. “Every shot fired by the Houthis will be looked
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Cristiano Ronaldo’s Al Nassr have been drawn to face Yokohama F Marinos from Japan in next month’s quarter-finals of the Asian Champions League Elite with fellow Saudi Pro League side Al Hilal to take on tournament debutants Gwangju FC of South Korea. Al Ahli, the third club from
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The Philippine Senate said Monday it will conduct a formal probe of ex-president Rodrigo Duterte’s arrest and swift handover last week to the International Criminal Court, which is to try him for alleged crimes against humanity. The 79-year-old, the first Asian former head of state charged by the ICC,
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The interim government in Damascus will take part on Monday in an annual international conference to gather aid pledges for Syria, facing dire humanitarian problems and an uncertain political transition after the fall of Bashar Assad. The conference has been hosted by the European Union in Brussels since 2017 — but
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has told the head of the country’s Shin Bet domestic security service Ronen Bar that he plans to bring his dismissal before the government this week, a statement from Netanyahu’s office said on Sunday. There was no immediate comment from Shin Bet or
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The Iran-backed Houthis claimed on Monday to have twice attacked an American aircraft carrier group within 24 hours, calling it retaliation for deadly US strikes. The Houthis initially said they launched 18 missiles and a drone at the “aircraft carrier USS Harry Truman and its accompanying warships” in the Red