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Authorities in Thailand plan to send helicopters on Wednesday to evacuate critically-ill patients from a southern hospital marooned by some of the region’s worst floods in years, as the death toll rose to 33, with more rain expected. Floods have swept through nine Thai provinces and eight states in
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Torrential rains unleashed flash floods and triggered landslides on Indonesia’s Sumatra island, killing at least 10 people and leaving six others missing, police said Wednesday. Rescue teams were struggling to reach affected areas in six regencies of North Sumatra province after the monsoon rains over the past week caused
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Russian forces staged a mass drone attack on the southeastern Ukrainian city of Zaporizhzhia late on Tuesday, triggering fires, injuring at least seven people and badly damaging buildings and vehicles, the regional governor said. Ivan Fedorov, posting on the Telegram messaging app, said the attack had destroyed shops, damaged other
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French authorities have arrested three people on suspicion of spying for Russia and acting to promote its war propaganda, as part of a probe into a French-Russian association, prosecutors said Tuesday. The arrests come as fears of Russian interference across Europe are at a high, with Western capitals pointing the
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Several hundred people protested on Tuesday in Syria’s coastal city of Latakia in the country’s Alawite heartland to protest recent attacks against the minority community, AFP correspondents said. Since longtime ruler Bashar Assad — himself an Alawite — was toppled by an Islamist alliance last December, the community has been
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Trump’s Africa envoy Massad Boulos said on Tuesday neither warring side in Sudan had accepted the latest ceasefire proposal, urging both to agree to the truce presented by Washington on behalf of mediators without preconditions. “We appeal to both sides to accept the humanitarian truce as presented without preconditions,
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Spain’s carrier Air Europa on Monday suspended its flights to and from Venezuela, joining a growing list of airlines after the US Federal Aviation Administration warned of a “potentially hazardous situation” when flying over the country. The five weekly Air Europa flights between Madrid and Caracas will be suspended
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Indian airlines Air India and Akasa Air said on Tuesday they were canceling some flights after ash plumes from a volcano eruption in Ethiopia disrupted operations. Air India said it had canceled 11 flights on Monday and Tuesday to make precautionary checks on aircraft that had flown over some locations
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Afghanistan’s Taliban government on Tuesday accused Pakistan of launching overnight airstrikes in three eastern provinces, killing 10 civilians, including nine children, in a sign of worsening tensions between the two neighbors. Zabihullah Mujahid, the chief spokesperson for the Afghan government, said on X that Pakistan “bombed” the home of
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Gunmen opened fire Monday on the governor of Taiz’s motorcade, killing at least five security officers and wounding two others, authorities said. The attack, targeting Nabil Shamsan, happened on a key road linking Taiz to the rest of the country, Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, a spokesman for the province, told The
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Chinese leader Xi Jinping pressed the ever-sensitive issue of Taiwan in a phone call Monday with US President Donald Trump, as he stressed the need to build on a fragile trade truce between the two superpowers. China’s foreign ministry said the call touched on other issues like Ukraine, but
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Sudan’s top general rejected a ceasefire proposal provided by US-led mediators as “the worst yet,” in a blow to efforts to stop a devastating war that has gripped the African country for over 30 months. In video comments released by the military late Sunday, Gen. Abdel-Fattah Burhan said the
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The southern neighborhoods of Homs are witnessing a heavy security presence as a curfew begins this evening. The measures aim to contain tensions following a murder that occurred earlier in the day in the town of Zaidal, south of the city, where a man and his wife were found killed.
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Three suicide bombers targeted the headquarters of a Pakistani paramilitary force on Monday, killing three personnel and wounding at least five, authorities said. The attackers opened fire as they forced themselves into the headquarters of the frontier constabulary in Peshawar city before blowing themselves up inside the complex, police said.
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The Trump administration insisted Saturday that its Ukraine proposal is indeed official US policy, denying claims by a group of senators that Secretary of State Marco Rubio told them the document under discussion is just a Russian “wish list.” The dispute over the 28-point plan — which cedes Ukrainian territory long
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Almost two dozen children died of malnutrition-related causes within a month in central Sudan where fierce fighting between the country’s military and a paramilitary group has centered, a medical group said. The deaths of 23 children in the Kordofan region underscores the deteriorating humanitarian situation in the northeastern African