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Lithuania said Wednesday it had charged 15 people with terrorism offenses over a Russia-backed plot to detonate parcels last year in Germany, Poland and Britain. Prosecutors said that the suspects used delivery companies DHL and DPD to send four packages of explosives hidden in cosmetics containers from the Lithuanian capital
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US President Donald Trump on Wednesday signaled new action against left-wing groups following the assassination of right-wing political activist Charlie Kirk, targeting the anti-fascist antifa movement as a “terrorist organization.” Trump said on Truth Social that he was “designating” the movement as a terrorist organization. “I will also be strongly
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Saudi Arabia and Pakistan on Wednesday signed a joint strategic defense agreement during Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif’s visit to Riyadh. Sharif met with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and signed the Strategic Mutual Defense Agreement that reaffirms the deep ties between Islamabad and the Kingdom. “The agreement states
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Syrian foreign minister Asaad al-Shaibani will meet with US lawmakers in Washington this week to discuss the lifting of remaining US sanctions on his country, Senator Lindsey Graham was quoted as saying by Axios. Al-Shaibani’s visit - the first by a Syrian foreign minister to Washington in more than
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Co-developed by Elbit Systems and Rafael Advance Defense Systems, “Iron Beam” will complement Israel’s Iron Dome, David’s Sling and Arrow anti-missile systems “We anticipate a significant leap in air defense capabilities through the deployment of these long-range laser weapon systems,” the ministry said JERUSALEM: A low-cost, high-power laser-based
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A 3,000-year-old gold bracelet has gone missing from a restoration laboratory of Cairo’s Egyptian Museum, the country’s antiquities ministry said. The bracelet, described as a golden band adorned with “spherical lapis lazuli beads,” dates to the reign of Amenemope, a pharaoh of Egypt’s 21st Dynasty . The
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France was bracing on Thursday for a day of nationwide disruption in a show of anger over President Emmanuel Macron’s budget policies, with unions vowing mass protests, public transport set to be paralyzed in places due to strikes and officials warning of possible disturbances by extremist elements. Prime Minister
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Jimmy Kimmel’s late-night television show has been taken off the air “indefinitely” after the host was criticized for comments about the motives behind the killing of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk, US network ABC said. The stunning decision to suspend one of the United States’ most popular and influential late-night
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Law enforcement were investigating Thursday after a shooting killed three officers and wounded two more in southern Pennsylvania the day before. The violence erupted in rural York County as officers followed up on a domestic-related investigation that began on Tuesday. Police killed the shooter. Hours after the violence, community members
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East Timor police on Tuesday clashed for a second day with protesters angry over a plan to buy SUVs for lawmakers in one of southeast Asia’s poorest nations, whose leader issued a rebuke over the violence. Demonstrators in the capital Dili burned tires, a government vehicle near the parliament
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Hundreds attended funeral services Tuesday for 31 Yemeni journalists who were killed in Israeli airstrikes last week that targeted Iran-backed Houthi rebels in the capital of Sanaa. The strikes last Wednesday followed a drone launched by the Houthis that breached Israel’s multilayered air defenses and slammed into a southern
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The Taliban leader banned fiber optic Internet in an Afghan province to “prevent immorality,” a spokesman for the administration said Tuesday. It’s the first time a ban of this kind has been imposed since the Taliban seized power in August 2021, and leaves government offices, the private sector, public
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New York’s attorney general on Monday proposed regulations for its crackdown on addictive social media feeds for children, including rules for verifying a user’s age. The Stop Addictive Feeds Exploitation (SAFE) for Kids Act, passed last year, prohibits social media companies from showing feeds personalized by algorithms to
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The fields are full but the paddy brown and wilted, and the air thick with the stench of rotting crops and livestock — the aftermath of record monsoon rains that have devastated India’s breadbasket. In Punjab, often dubbed the country’s granary, the damage is unprecedented: floods have swallowed farmlands
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US President Donald Trump arrives in the United Kingdom on Tuesday for a state visit during which the British government hopes a multibillion-dollar technology deal will show the transatlantic bond remains strong despite differences over Ukraine, the Middle East and the future of the Western alliance. State visits in Britain
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DNA on a towel wrapped around a rifle found near where conservative activist Charlie Kirk was assassinated matched that of the 22-year-old accused in the killing, FBI Director Kash Patel said on Monday. Investigators also have used DNA evidence to link the suspect, Tyler Robinson, with a screwdriver recovered from