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Months before the US military began launching airstrikes against suspected drug vessels, former Justice Department No. 2 official Emil Bove told employees the government should just “sink the boats” rather than prosecute the people on board, three witnesses told Reuters. Bove, the former acting deputy attorney general, made similar remarks
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Indian anti-terrorism investigators on Monday presented in court a suspect linked to last week’s deadly car-bomb in New Delhi, one of two men accused of involvement in the suicide attack. Officials have not disclosed any details on the motives or organizational backing of the alleged attackers, both of whom
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Heavy rain swept central Vietnam on Monday, triggering landslides and floods, killing at least seven, injuring dozens and stranding thousands. The deluges have wreaked widespread destruction across a region already battered weeks ago by floods from record rainfall and the powerful typhoon Kalmaegi. Rainfall through Wednesday is expected to reach
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Gaza’s Hamas rulers said they rejected Monday’s UN resolution which calls for an international force to be deployed in the territory, saying it fails to respect the “demands and rights” of the Palestinians. “This resolution does not meet the level of our Palestinian people’s political and humanitarian
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US President Donald Trump said Sunday he backed lawmakers’ efforts to release more files related to sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, despite his previous opposition to the measure. “House Republicans should vote to release the Epstein files, because we have nothing to hide,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. The
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A Russian missile strike on the eastern Ukrainian city of Balakliya killed three people and wounded 10, including three children, the region’s governor and a regional military official in Kharkiv said on Monday. The overnight attack hit the city center, injuring children born in 2007, 2010 and 2011, Vitali
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Former US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has joined the advisory board of Ukraine’s leading defense company, renowned for its long-range drones capable of striking targets deep inside Russia, as a corruption investigation continues. In an effort to enhance its international reputation, Fire Point is establishing a new factory
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Landslides triggered by heavy rain in Vietnam have killed at least six people and injured more than a dozen, disaster agency officials said Monday, as the country’s flood-hit central belt endured relentless precipitation. A passenger bus was submerged by falling soil and rock in the scenic Khanh Le Pass
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Russian strikes have killed three people in a city in Ukraine’s eastern Kharkiv region, the city military administration chief said on Monday. The Russian army carried out two missile strikes on the center of Balakliya during the night, Vitali Karabanov said in a post on Telegram. “According to preliminary
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The UN Security Council will vote Monday on a resolution endorsing US President Donald Trump’s Gaza peace plan, diplomats said. Last week the Americans officially launched negotiations within the 15-member Security Council on a text that would follow up on a ceasefire in the two-year war between Israel and
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Militants aligned with the Daesh group ambushed Nigerian security forces in northeastern Borno state, killing two soldiers and two anti-militant militia members, sources said Saturday. Fighters from Daesh-West Africa Province (DaeshWAP) opened fire Friday with heavy guns on a motorcycle convoy of Nigerian troops, anti-militant militia and local hunters on
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The situation at the Russian-held Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine remains stable after one external power line had been switched off, the RIA news agency reported on Saturday, citing the plant’s representative. The Dneprovskaya power line supplying electricity to the plant was switched off as a result of
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A prominent Tunisian opposition figure has been hospitalized due to severe dehydration after over two weeks on hunger strike, his family said on Friday. Jawhar Ben Mbarek, co-founder of the National Salvation Front, Tunisia’s main opposition alliance, has been detained since February 2023. His relatives have warned that his
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A landslide on Indonesia’s Java island has killed at least 11 people, an official said Saturday, updating a previous tally as rescuers scrambled to find 12 others who are still missing. The landslide, caused by heavy rainfall, hit three villages in Central Java province on Thursday, burying some houses
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Almost every district in Kyiv came under “massive” attack Friday morning, the Ukrainian capital’s mayor said, with a death reported hours after AFP journalists heard explosions in the city center. Moscow, which launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, has intensified its attacks on infrastructure, particularly targeting Ukrainian
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President Volodymyr Zelensky visited troops near Ukraine’s southeastern front on Thursday, warning of the need to shore up the lines after losing ground in increasingly high-intensity battles far from Russia’s main offensive in the east. Zelensky, whose government is reeling from a corruption scandal, said the situation near