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The US-backed Syrian Democratic Forces, a militia group led by Kurdish fighters, said on Monday that one of its fighters was killed and another injured in an attack by Daesh in Syria’s eastern Deir el-Zor region. The SDF was the main fighting force allied to the United States in
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Nuclear talks between Iran and the United States “will lead nowhere” if Washington insists that Tehran drop its uranium enrichment activity to zero, Deputy Foreign Minister Majid Takhtravanchi was quoted by state media on Monday as saying. US special envoy Steve Witkoff reiterated Washington’s stance on Sunday that any
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Portugal’s incumbent center-right party won the most seats in the country’s third general election in three years on Sunday but again fell short of a parliamentary majority, while support for the far-right Chega rose. The outcome threatens to extend political instability in the NATO and European Union member
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Indonesian rescue teams were searching for 19 people missing after heavy rain caused a landslide at a gold mine in its easternmost region of Papua, officials said on Monday. Torrential rain triggered a landslide late on Friday in a small-scale mine run by local residents in the Arfak mountains in
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Iran has summoned a British envoy in Tehran to protest the arrest of several of its nationals on charges of spying, state media reported Monday. “Following the unjustified arrest of a number of Iranian nationals in the UK... the British charge d’affaires in Tehran was summoned on Sunday,” the
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At least three people were killed when a blast targeted a police station in the eastern Syrian town of Al-Mayadeen on Sunday, the state news agency said, citing a security source. The explosion also injured several people, the report said, without providing further details.
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British Prime Minister Keir Starmer is set to agree a deal next week to strengthen the country’s post-Brexit partnership with the European Union and to facilitate trade in some food products, his office said on Saturday. Starmer will welcome EU leaders to London on Monday to help reset relations
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Poles are voting Sunday in a presidential election at a time of heightened security concerns stemming from the ongoing war in neighboring Ukraine and growing worry that the US commitment to Europe’s security could be weakening under President Donald Trump. The top two front-runners are Warsaw Mayor Rafał Trzaskowski,
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Portugal’s general election campaign ends on Friday for a vote that Prime Minister Luis Montenegro is expected to win, but with no guarantee he can form a more stable government. Montenegro’s center-right Democratic Alliance (AD) coalition is tipped to win 34 percent of the ballot, ahead of the
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Syria on Saturday announced the formation of a national commission for missing persons and another for transitional justice, more than five months after the ouster of longtime ruler Bashar Assad. Syria’s new authorities have pledged justice for victims of atrocities committed under Assad’s rule, and a five-year transitional
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The Israeli military said Sunday it had intercepted a missile fired from Yemen, where the Iran-backed Houthis claimed launching two missiles at Israel’s main airport. “A missile that was launched from Yemen was intercepted,” the Israeli military said in a statement, adding that air raid sirens had sounded in
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Police in Slovenia are investigating the disappearance of a bronze statue of US first lady Melania Trump that was sawed off and carried away from her hometown. The life-size sculpture was unveiled in 2020 during President Donald Trump’s first term in office near Sevnica in central Slovenia, where Melanija
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A police officer was killed in an “attempted assault” on the office of Libya’s internationally recognized premier, the government said Friday, as protesters took to the streets to demand his ouster. The officer was “targeted while securing the prime minister’s office building,” the Government of National Unity said
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There was a shooting inside a gym, killing two people, with multiple other people injured, Las Vegas police said. One person died as gunfire erupted at the Las Vegas Athletic Club on the city’s west side, Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Undersheriff Andrew Walsh said Friday. “The suspect in this
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Donald Trump labeled former FBI director James Comey a “dirty cop” Friday over a social media post that the US president deemed a veiled call for assassination and which prompted a Secret Service probe. Comey made a now-deleted post on Instagram the previous day that showed an image of “86
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A Russian attack hit a bus with civilians in Ukraine's Sumy region, killing at least eight people and injuring five, the head of the military administration of the region in Ukraine's northeast said on Saturday. "Passengers have been injured," Ihor Tkachenko, head of Sumy&