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Fethullah Gülen, a reclusive US-based Islamic cleric who inspired a global social movement while facing accusations he masterminded a failed 2016 coup in his native Turkiye, has died. Abdullah Bozkurt, the former editor of the Gulen-linked Today’s Zaman newspaper, who is now in exile in Sweden, said Monday that
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Angry residents attacked a railway guard and his post in a town outside Cairo on Monday after a train ran over and killed two children crossing a train intersection that was closed to pedestrians, officials said. A crowd descended on the intersection near the town of Bilaydah in the city
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China said Monday it had lodged a protest with Myanmar authorities after Beijing’s consulate in the city of Mandalay was attacked with an explosive device. “China expresses its deep shock at the attack and sternly condemns it,” foreign ministry spokesman Lin Jian said of the incident that occurred Friday.
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The Israeli military said about 70 projectiles were identified crossing from Lebanon into Israel within minutes on Sunday, following its attack on Beirut. “Following the sirens that sounded between 11:09 (0809 GMT) and 11:12 am in the Western Galilee and Upper Galilee areas, approximately 70 projectiles were identified
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Jordan's Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs Ayman Safadi arrived in Damascus on Sunday to meet Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, the Petra News Agency reported. During the official visit, Safadi will also hold talks with his Syrian counterpart Bassam Sabbagh.
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Cuba’s efforts to restore power to the island were derailed for a third time late on Saturday, Cuban authorities said shortly before midnight, leaving millions in the dark and raising fresh questions over the viability of the government’s bid to reestablish electrical service. Cuba’s national electrical grid
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German authorities said Sunday that they have arrested a Libyan national with suspected ties to the extremist group Islamic State who was allegedly planning a firearms attack on the Israeli Embassy. Police and other security forces detained the man on Saturday evening in Bernau, a town just outside of Berlin,
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Iran’s United Nations mission said Saturday that Lebanon’s Hezbollah group, armed and financed by Tehran, was behind a drone attack on the residence of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. “This action was taken by the Lebanese Hezbollah,” the mission said in response to a question about Iran’s
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Tunisian court sentenced on Friday the prominent official in Ennahda opposition party Noureddine Bhiri to 10 years in prison, on charges of attacking state security and inciting Tunisians against each other, a lawyer told Reuters. Bhiri’s lawyer Monia Bouali, said the trial “was marred by many legal violations due
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At least two people were killed in an Israeli strike near the Christian-majority town of Jounieh, north of Beirut, Lebanon’s health ministry said on Saturday, in the first attack on the area by Israeli forces. The Israeli military was looking into the report of the strike in Jounieh, a
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said on Saturday the death of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar will not halt the “Axis of Resistance” and that Hamas would live on. “His loss is undoubtedly painful for the Axis of Resistance, but this front did not cease advancing with the martyrdom
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A drone was launched toward Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s home in the northern Israeli town of Caesarea on Saturday, his spokesman said, adding that the premier was not in the vicinity and there were no casualties. Earlier, the Israeli military said that a drone was launched from Lebanon
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North Korea said on Saturday it had discovered the remains of a crashed South Korean military drone, suggesting it was on a propaganda mission in the latest confrontation between the two involving cross-border flying objects. “In light of the drone’s shape, the presumptive period of flight, the leaflet-scattering box
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Gunmen killed a Mozambique opposition lawyer and a party official after firing multiple rounds at a car in which they were traveling on Saturday, ratcheting up tensions ahead of protests against a disputed election result, rights groups said. Mozambique’s new opposition Podemos party and its presidential candidate Venancio Mondlane
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An Italian navy ship on Saturday took back to Italy the first 12 migrants from newly opened asylum processing centers in Albania following a court decision in Rome. The court ruling on Friday represents an early stumbling block to a five-year deal between Italy and Albania for Tirana to host
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A senior Hamas official said the Palestinian militant group cannot be eliminated with the killing of its leaders, but stopped short of confirming the death of its chief, Yahya Sinwar. “Hamas is a liberation movement led by people looking for freedom and dignity, and this cannot be eliminated,” Basem Naim,