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More than 150 people have appeared in a Moroccan court for alleged incitement of illegal migration, a government spokesman said on Thursday, after a failed mass attempt to reach Spanish territory. On Sunday, Moroccan police, who fired tear gas, pushed back hundreds of people who headed toward the Spanish enclave
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Portugal’s firefighters have mastered most of the deadly forest fires in the north of the country, according to official data Thursday. And improving weather conditions have raised hopes that they could extinguish the last of the blazes by the end of the day. The wildfires, which sprang up over
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NATO’s current military spending target will not be enough to protect the alliance as it braces for an increasingly assertive Russia, Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg is expected to say in his farewell speech later on Thursday. “We have to be willing to pay the price for peace. The more money,
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About a thousand residents were evacuated in the northern Italian region of Emilia-Romagna after it was hit by torrential rains and severe flooding overnight, local media reported Thursday. Rivers flooded in three of the region’s provinces — Ravenna, Bologna and Faenza — as local mayors asked people to stay on upper
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A militant attack in the Malian capital targeting a military police training camp and a military airport left more than 70 dead and 200 wounded, security sources said Thursday. A security source speaking on condition of anonymity told AFP that 77 people had been killed and 255 wounded in Tuesday’
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Multiple women have accused Egyptian billionaire Mohamed Al-Fayed, the former owner of upmarket London department store Harrods where they worked, of rape and sexual assault, the BBC said on Thursday. The allegations, made in a BBC documentary and podcast, are the latest to be levelled at powerful figures following the
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Authorities have reported 23 deaths so far, with seven each in Poland and Romania, five in Austria and four in the Czech Republic The combination of floods in Central Europe and deadly wildfires in Portugal are joint proof of a “climate breakdown”, the European Union’s head office said WARSAW:
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North Korea fired multiple short-range ballistic missiles on Wednesday toward its east coast, South Korea and Japan said, days after Pyongyang unveiled a uranium enrichment facility and vowed to beef up its nuclear arsenal. The missiles lifted off from Kaechon, north of the capital Pyongyang, at around 6:50 a.
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Deadly wildfires in central and northern Portugal have pushed emergency services to the limit and much-needed reinforcements will arrive on Wednesday from Spain and Morocco, the civil protection authority said. At least seven people have died due to the blazes in the Aveiro and Viseu districts, with dozens of houses
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The FBI and the US Postal Inspection Service on Tuesday were investigating the origin of suspicious packages that have been sent to or received by elections officials in more than 15 states, but there were no immediate reports of injuries or that any of the packages contained hazardous material. The
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The progress in Sudan is threatened by a new offensive by Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) in the southwestern city of Al-Fashir, US secretary of state Antony Blinken said on Wednesday during a visit to Cairo.
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A bus carrying Muslim faithful celebrating the birth of Prophet Muhammad crashed in northern Nigeria’s Kaduna state, killing at least 25 children, an official told AFP Tuesday. Organizers of the religious pilgrimage gave a higher toll of 40, with 31 injured. The accident occurred on Sunday when the speeding
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A top political opponent of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi quit as chief minister of the capital Delhi on Tuesday, days after being released on bail in a corruption case. Arvind Kejriwal, a key leader in an opposition alliance that battled Modi in national elections this year, was detained in
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Days of tribal violence in Papua New Guinea’s mountainous interior have left more than 35 people dead, a police official said on Tuesday. Police Assistant Commissioner Joseph Tondon in Enga province said the death toll from the violence blamed on illegal miners was still being assessed. “There was a
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More than 1,000 firefighters worked through the night to control a cluster of four blazes in the northwestern Aveiro district Authorities have closed several motorways, including a stretch of the main highway linking Lisbon and Porto NELAS, Portugal: Four people have died so far in wildfires raging in central
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A military training camp in Mali’s capital was attacked early Tuesday, the army said. Col. Marima Sagara, deputy director of the army’s communications service, said it received reports of an attack on the gendarme training school in Bamako but had no further information. An Associated Press reporter heard