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A niece of a notorious militant propagandists on trial for joining the Daesh group and taking her children with her apologized to all victims of the militants as well as her family. Speaking in court on Friday, Jennyfer Clain, a niece of Jean-Michel and Fabien Clain, who publicly claimed responsibility
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Istanbul’s jailed opposition mayor said Friday that he was “not afraid” as he denounced the legal case against him as part of a broader campaign of “judicial harassment,” accusing the government of weaponizing the judiciary to silence dissent. Ekrem Imamoglu, a key rival to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,
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Russia has ill intentions toward the whole world and Europe is finally more united in its views on the threat from Moscow, Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk said on Friday. “European allies have never been so united... we need to be vigilant. Russia has ill intentions toward the whole world,
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President Donald Trump on Thursday unveiled a fresh round of punishing tariffs on a broad range of imported goods, including 100 percent duties on branded drugs and 25 percent tariffs on heavy-duty trucks, set to come into force next week. Tariffs have been a feature of Trump’s second term,
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Two teenagers, aged 16 and 17, were shot dead Thursday after gunmen opened fire on a school parking lot in northeastern Brazil, the state government said in a statement. Another three teens, one aged 16 and two aged 17, were wounded in the incident in the town of Sobral in
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Clashes between rival drug gangs claimed at least 10 lives in the second deadly riot in an Ecuadoran prison in days, police in the violence-wracked country said Thursday. Bloody fighting broke out in a prison in the troubled coastal city of Esmeraldas, near the Colombian border, where police said they
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The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces said that an attack on Thursday by Daesh group militants in Syria’s east killed five of its members. IS jihadists, once in control of large swathes of Iraq and Syria, were territorially defeated in Syria in 2019 in a battle spearheaded by the SDF
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Thailand and Cambodia should scale back their military presence along their shared border and work together to de-escalate tensions, Thailand’s new foreign minister told reporters on Thursday. Formally sworn into office along with Prime Minister Anutin Charnvirakul a day earlier, Sihasak Phuangketkeow stressed the need to uphold the ceasefire
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Drones flew over multiple airports across Denmark and caused one of them to close for hours, police said Thursday after a similar incident this week prompted Copenhagen airport to shut. The latest incidents in Danish skies follow similar events in Poland and Romania and the violation by Russian fighter jets
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The White House is telling agencies to prepare large-scale firings of federal workers if the government shuts down next week. In a memo released Wednesday night, the Office of Management and Budget said agencies should consider a reduction in force for federal programs whose funding would lapse next week, is
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The front lines in Ukraine have reached an impasse, as parity in equipment, training and morale between Russian and Ukrainian forces stalls momentum on both sides, nationalist Russian senator Dmitry Rogozin said in an interview. “(The map of the front lines) is moving with enormous difficulty, at a colossal price,
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Kosovo’s acting prime minister on Wednesday called on the international community not to consider Serbia a normal state until it hands over those responsible for a deadly incursion by heavily armed Serb gunmen in 2023. Albin Kurti visited the grave of Afrim Bunjaku, a police officer shot dead in
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At least 20 people were injured on Wednesday after a drone launched from Yemen hit Israel’s Red Sea resort city of Eilat on the border with Jordan and Egypt, the Israeli national ambulance service Magen David Adom said. It said two people were seriously injured while others sustained medium
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Three people have been shot at an Immigration and US Customs Enforcement facility in Dallas, and the shooter is dead from a self-inflicted gunshot wound, the agency’s director said. Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons confirmed the shooting during an interview on CNN on Wednesday. “It could be employees, it
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will hold talks with US Secretary of State Marco Rubio in New York on Wednesday, the Interfax news agency reported, citing Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova.
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A deal to restart Iraq’s Kurdistan oil exports stalled on Tuesday as two oil producing firms asked for assurances their debts would be repaid. The deal between Iraq’s federal and Kurdish regional governments and oil firms is designed to lead to the resumption of exports of about 230,