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Several Maryland boards of elections and an office in a county in California received bomb threats on Friday, state authorities said, adding everyone was safe and law enforcement authorities were conducting probes. Election officials were counting mail-in ballots when the threats came in Maryland. State Administrator of Elections Jared DeMarinis
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The Dutch government is investigating if possible warning signs from Israel were missed in the events leading up to this week’s assaults on Israeli football fans, Justice Minister David van Weel said in a letter to Parliament. “An investigation is still being conducted on possible warning signs from Israel,
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Chinese President Xi Jinping told his Indonesian counterpart that Beijing hopes for a “new chapter” in bilateral relations, as the two leaders met on Saturday. Xi held talks with newly sworn-in President Prabowo Subianto in Beijing, the first stop of the Indonesian leader’s inaugural foreign tour since he took
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The first flight carrying Israelis evacuated from Amsterdam after violent clashes following a football match there landed on Friday at Ben Gurion International Airport, the Israel Airports Authority said. “The plane that arrived in Tel Aviv now has passengers evacuated from Amsterdam,” Liza Dvir, spokeswoman for the airport authority told
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Israel has been rocked by Gallant’s dismissal, with the news setting off mass protests across the country Israel Katz, his replacement, currently serves as foreign minister and is a longtime Netanyahu loyalist and veteran Cabinet minister TEL AVIV: Israeli defense minister Yoav Gallant officially stepped down Friday in a
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South Korea fired a ballistic missile into the sea in a show of force after North Korea’s recent salvo of missile launches, Seoul said Friday. The nuclear-armed North had test-fired what it said was its most advanced and powerful solid-fuel intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) as well as a number
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A fishing boat capsized and sank off the coast of South Korea’s Jeju island Friday, leaving at least two people dead and 12 others unaccounted for, coast guard officials said. Nearby fishing vessels managed to pull 15 crew members out of the water, but two of them were later
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The United Nations has been planning for the possible return of Donald Trump and the cuts to US funding and engagement with world body that are likely to come with his second term as president. There was a sense of "déjà vu and some trepidation" at the 193-member
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said the result of the US election did not matter to his country, state media reported on Thursday, amid heightened tensions with Washington over its support for Iran’s arch-enemy, Israel. Donald Trump’s return to the White House following his election victory this week could
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A US military judge has reinstated plea agreements for 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and two other defendants, an official said Thursday, three months after the deals were scrapped by Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin. The agreements — which are understood to take the death penalty off the table — had triggered
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The Vatican’s secretary of state congratulated US president-elect Donald Trump Thursday, while expressing doubt that the Republican had a “magic wand” to end conflicts quickly as promised during the campaign. “We wish him a lot of wisdom because that is the main virtue of leaders according to the Bible,
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A Greek oil tanker crippled by Yemen’s Houthi militants and towed to avert an environmental disaster began transferring its cargo of over a million barrels on Thursday, the state-run ANA news agency said. The Sounion caught fire and lost power after being attacked on August 21 off the coast
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Germany’s federal prosecutor office said it arrested an American citizen on Thursday who allegedly spied for China. The office said that the suspect, who was only identified as Martin D., was arrested in Frankfurt and that his home was being searched. The accused, who until recently worked for the
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Hezbollah’s chief said Wednesday his group had tens of thousands of combatants ready to fight, adding that nowhere in Israel was off-limits to attacks. “We have tens of thousands of trained resistance combatants” ready to fight, Naim Qassem said in a speech marking 40 days since his predecessor was
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Two pilots were missing in Vietnam after a Russian-made Yak-130 light combat training aircraft crashed on Wednesday in the central province of Binh Dinh, state-affiliated newspapers reported. The incident was initially reported by the websites of VnExpress and state-run Tuoi Tre, citing representatives of the military, but the articles were
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Interpol said Wednesday that a six-day international police operation against human trafficking had led to more than 2,500 arrests and the rescue of over 3,000 potential victims. The operation, called "Liberterra II", took place between September 29 and October 4 and was the largest-ever operation against