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Pakistan’s information minister Attaullah Tarar said on Wednesday that talks with the Afghan Taliban failed to yield a “workable solution” despite multiple meetings in Türkiye, accusing Kabul of evading commitments to curb militants and thriving on a “war economy” that risks dragging Afghans into another conflict. Pakistan and Afghanistan
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Polls opened across the Netherlands on Wednesday in a close-run snap election called after anti-Islam lawmaker Geert Wilders brought down the last four-party coalition in a dispute over a crackdown on immigration. The campaign focused on migration, a housing crisis and whether parties will work with Wilders in a new
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In a spot outside Berlin that’s usually a paradise for birdwatchers, volunteers have recovered nearly 2,000 dead cranes in recent days as bird flu has hit the migrating birds hard. Linum, a small village about an hour’s travel from the German capital, is known in summer for
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Vice President JD Vance said Tuesday he believes US military members will be paid at the end of the week, though he did not specify how the Trump administration will reconfigure funding as pain from the second-longest shutdown spreads nationwide. The funding fight in Washington gained new urgency this week
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Ukraine sent drones toward Moscow for the third consecutive night and targeted several other Russian regions, disrupting air traffic throughout the country and threatening an industrial plant in Russia’s south, Russian authorities said on Wednesday. Russian air defense units destroyed a total of 100 Ukrainian drones overnight, including six
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Tuesday ordered the military to carry out intense strikes on the Gaza Strip, after accusing Hamas of violating the US-brokered ceasefire. Minutes later, Hamas said it would delay handing over the remains of another hostage under the terms of the truce deal over what
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The Syrian interior ministry said Monday that it had seized about 11 million captagon stimulant pills that entered the country from neighboring Lebanon in one of the largest busts since the fall of former ruler Bashar Assad. In a statement, the interior ministry said “the anti-narcotics branch in Homs province
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The Hong Kong airport runway involved in a deadly plane crash has restarted operations, authorities said Tuesday, just over a week after two men were killed in the city’s deadliest air incident since 1998. On October 20 a Boeing cargo plane veered off the airport’s northernmost runway during
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Another United Nations staff member has been detained in Yemen, bringing the number of the world body’s employees apprehended in recent days to six, a UN spokesperson said on Monday. The latest detention came after Houthi security forces entered several United Nations offices in Sanaa, Yemen, on Sunday, said
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United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Monday expressed grave concern about the worsening conflict in Sudan and called for the safe delivery of humanitarian aid, a UN spokesperson said. “The Secretary-General strongly condemns reports of violations of international humanitarian law and violations and abuses of human rights in El
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President Donald Trump began one of his busiest days of his Asia trip on Tuesday by warmly greeting the new Japanese prime minister, with plans to later speak to US troops aboard an aircraft carrier and mingle with business leaders. Although Trump is visiting one of America’s most steadfast
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Russian President Vladimir Putin asked North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui during talks in the Kremlin on Monday to tell her country’s leader Kim Jong Un that everything was “going to plan” in bilateral relations. Putin and Kim sealed a strategic partnership treaty last year, which included a
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Billionaire investor and philanthropist Bill Gates called on world leaders on Tuesday to adapt to extreme weather and focus on improving health outcomes rather than temperature reduction targets ahead of the COP30 climate talks in Brazil. COP30 will be held November 10-21 in the port city of Belem in Brazil’
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Notorious paramilitaries said they had seized a headquarters in the center of the besieged provincial capital of North Darfur, the Sudanese military’s last stronghold in Darfur. As fighting continued to rage on Monday in el-Fasher, a medical group said the Rapid Support Forces had killed dozens of civilians and
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A man accused of killing Japan’s former prime minister Shinzo Abe pled guilty Tuesday, three years after the assassination in broad daylight shocked the world. Tetsuya Yamagami, 45, stood accused of murder and violations of arms control laws for allegedly using a handmade weapon to shoot dead Japan’s
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Hamas said Monday it would hand over the remains of a deceased hostage, the 16th since a ceasefire began, shortly after families of missing Israelis called for a suspension of the Gaza truce until all captives’ bodies are returned. A joint team of Red Cross, Egyptian rescue services and a