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Kenya is aiming to complete its full deployment of a stabilization force in violence-torn Haiti by January, President William Ruto said Thursday, as Haiti’s leader suggested making it a UN peacekeeping mission. The three-month-old security force to combat spiraling insecurity in the Caribbean nation is currently a Kenyan-led multinational
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At least 46 people, including 37 children, drowned in the Indian state of Bihar while bathing with their mothers in rivers to observe the Hindu festival of Jivitputrika, local disaster management authorities said on Friday. The three-day festival, also known as Jitiya, which started on Wednesday is focused on the
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Israel’s far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich on Thursday rejected a proposal for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon and called for the “crushing” of the Lebanese armed group Hezbollah. The United States, European Union and other allies including several Arab states issued a joint call for a 21-day ceasefire in
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Saudi's aid agency KSrelief's Masam Project dismantled 1,338 explosives in various governorates of Yemen reported state news agency SPA on Wednesday. This included three anti-personnel explosives, 35 anti-tank explosives, and 1,300 unexploded ordnances. Since the project's inception, a total of 462,289
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The Taliban said Thursday it was absurd to accuse them of gender discrimination and other human rights violations, as four countries vow to hold Afghanistan’s rulers accountable under international law for their treatment of women and girls. Australia, Canada, Germany and the Netherlands are set to start legal proceedings
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Prime Minister Keir Starmer has said that he will meet EU chief Ursula von der Leyen in Brussels next week as part of his plans to “reset” UK relations with the EU after Brexit. The UK’s departure from the European Union after five decades of membership in 2020 has
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The US, France and other allies jointly called Wednesday for an “immediate” 21-day ceasefire to allow for negotiations in the escalating conflict between Israel and Hezbollah that has killed more than 600 people in Lebanon in recent days. The joint statement, negotiated on the sidelines of the United Nations General
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Four soldiers from the UAE Armed Forces were killed and nine others were injured in “an accident”, the country’s ministry of defense said Wednesday. The military statement, posted on the state news agency WAM, said the soldiers died in “an accident while carrying out their duty in the country”
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Britain is moving troops to Cyprus in position to help evacuate nationals trapped in Lebanon, while Prime Minister Keir Starmer called for diplomacy and an immediate ceasefire to bring Israel and Hezbollah back from the brink. After Israeli airstrikes brought Lebanon’s deadliest day since the end of a 1975-1990
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Members of Britain’s governing Labour Party dealt Prime Minister Keir Starmer a blow on Wednesday, rejecting his decision to cut payments that offset winter heating costs for millions of retirees. The vote on the final day of Labour’s annual conference is not binding, but it’s a setback
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The European Union said Tuesday it expected Tunisia to investigate allegations that police have beaten and raped migrants, putting further scrutiny on an EU deal with the country to stem irregular migration. The 27-nation bloc has struck controversial migration agreements with Tunisia and other African countries with questionable human rights
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The Israeli military said it was carrying out “extensive” air strikes in south Lebanon and the eastern Beqaa Valley on Wednesday after Hezbollah fired a ballistic missile that reached the Israeli city of Tel Aviv. “The IDF (Israeli military) is currently conducting extensive strikes in southern Lebanon and the Beqaa
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An Israeli airstrike on the southern suburbs of Beirut on Tuesday killed a Hezbollah commander who was a leading figure in its rocket division, two security sources in Lebanon said, as fears of a full-fledged war in the Middle East mounted. The sources identified the commander who was killed as
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Iran said Tuesday it believes the remaining workers trapped by an explosion at a coal mine in the country’s east have died, bringing the death toll in one of its worst industrial disasters to at least 49. A provincial emergency official, Mohammad Ali Akhoundi, gave the death toll in
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At least 15 people have been killed in clashes between two tribes in northwestern Pakistan, a local official said Tuesday, as a deadly feud over land is reignited. With heavy weapons including mortar shells, the violence hit Kurram district near the border with Afghanistan where the same tribes fought in
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A group of South Sudanese lawyers filed a case to the country’s top court on Monday challenging the president’s postponement of elections and extension of the transitional government’s term for two years. Ten days ago, President Salva Kiir’s office announced an extension of the transitional period