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The Israeli military said Wednesday it struck Yemen’s Sanaa airport for the second time in a month targeting the Houthis. The strike came after the Houthis have fired several missiles at Israel in recent days without causing casualties or damage. There were no immediate reports of casualties or damage
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Israel and Syria are in direct contact and have in recent weeks held face-to-face meetings aimed at calming tensions and preventing conflict in the border region between the two longtime foes, five people familiar with the matter said. The contacts mark a significant development in ties between states that have
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The German army must undergo significant organizational and personnel reforms to effectively utilize increased defense spending, the country’s federal audit institute said on Tuesday in a special report. In March, Germany’s parliament approved plans for a massive spending surge, largely removing defense investment from the rules that cap
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Rouzbeh Parsi, the director of the Middle East program at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs (UI), has stepped down following months of public scrutiny and institutional pressure over his connections to a covert influence network tied to the Iranian regime. Parsi’s resignation comes despite the findings of an
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More than 30 people have been killed in separate attacks in recent days in central Nigeria, a local government official said Monday, the latest raids in a region where herders and farmers often clash over land access. The attacks occurred in three villages between Friday and Sunday, chairman of the
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Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkiye’s foreign minister discussed at a meeting in Moscow efforts to end the war in Ukraine and developments since direct talks between the warring parties, a Turkish Foreign Ministry source said. Turkish Foreign Minister Hakan Fidan is on a two-day visit to Moscow, where
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A woman who turned 21 on the day of Australia’s federal election in May has been declared the nation’s youngest ever senator. And like many female candidates who run for election in Australia, Charlotte Walker wasn’t expected to win. The former union official won the governing center-left
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A large explosion took place at a chemical plant in China’s eastern province of Shandong on Tuesday, state media said, but gave no immediate details of casualties, while unverified social media images showed smoke billowing high over the plant. Emergency services swung in to begin rescue and treatment efforts
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A 53-year-old British man plowed a minivan into a crowd of Liverpool soccer fans who were celebrating the city’s Premier League championship Monday, injuring more than 45 people as shouts of joy turned into shrieks of terror. The driver arrested was believed to be the only one involved and
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A Hamas source said the group had accepted a Gaza ceasefire proposal presented by mediators that reportedly involves the releasing of 10 hostages in two batches and a 70-day truce. The outline of the new potential deal was revealed as Israel ramped up its offensive in the Palestinian territory, and
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Syrian security forces arrested armed members of a Daesh cell near Damascus on Monday accused of preparing attacks against the country. The gang were carrying “light, medium and heavy weaponry” and “explosive devices and suicide vests they were planning to use to destabilize security and stability,” the Interior Ministry said.
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The Israeli military said Tuesday it intercepted a missile and another projectile fired from Yemen, where the Houthis have regularly launched attacks they say are in response to Israel’s offensive in Gaza. “Following the sirens that sounded a short while ago in several areas in Israel, a missile that
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A Palestinian source familiar with negotiations aimed at securing a truce between Israel and Hamas in Gaza said Monday that a new proposal involved the release of 10 hostages, a 70-day ceasefire and a partial Israeli withdrawal. The outline of the new potential deal comes as Israel ramps up its
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Finland’s foreign ministry said on Monday it had summoned the Russian ambassador over suspicions that two Russian military aircraft violated its airspace last week. Finland, which dropped decades of military non-alignment to join NATO in 2023, following Russia’s fully-fledged invasion of Ukraine, has a 1,340-kilometer (830-mile) border
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French President Emmanuel Macron’s office on Monday downplayed an incident in which his wife appeared to push his face away as he arrived in Vietnam to begin a Southeast Asian tour. Footage shot by the Associated Press news agency in Hanoi on Sunday evening shows Macron’s plane door
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The Justice Department has reached a deal with Boeing that will allow the airplane giant to avoid criminal prosecution for allegedly misleading US regulators about the 737 Max jetliner before two of the planes crashed and killed 346 people, according to court papers filed Friday. Under the “agreement in principle,