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Israel received the body of one of the last four hostages held in Gaza from the Red Cross on Thursday as part of the ceasefire deal with Hamas, the office of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said. The coffin was handed over in the Gaza Strip to the Israeli army and
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Europe’s top development banks and Ukrainian energy firm Naftogaz signed a deal on Thursday to provide hundreds of millions of euros to secure Ukraine’s natural gas supply amid the ongoing attacks on its infrastructure by Russia. Ukrainian gas imports have risen as the war with Russia batters the
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Turkiye’s president on Thursday defended “the coexistence of two states” on Cyprus, as he hosted the new leader of the island’s Ankara-backed self-proclaimed republic who had backed reunification. In October, the breakaway territory of northern Cyprus — recognized by only Turkiye — voted overwhelmingly for former prime minister Tufan Erhurman
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A riot broke out late Wednesday at a migrant detention center in northern Greece, leaving two police officers injured and 30 migrants arrested, authorities said. The facility where the unrest erupted was holding about 750 migrants of various nationalities, police said. Two officers were treated for injuries after being hit
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Australia’s main opposition said on Thursday it would drop the country’s commitment to achieving net zero emissions by 2050 if it won power. The center-right Liberal Party have agonized in recent weeks over whether to drop the climate pledge, introduced by the party’s former leader Scott Morrison
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The Philippines’ president vowed on Thursday that those behind bogus flood control projects will be arrested before Christmas, days after deadly back-to-back typhoons left swathes of the country underwater. Scores of construction firm owners, government officials and lawmakers — including President Ferdinand Marcos’ cousin Congressman — have been accused of pocketing funds
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Israeli President Isaac Herzog received a letter from US President Donald Trump, urging him to consider granting a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the president’s office said on Wednesday. “While I absolutely respect the independence of the Israeli Justice System, and its requirements, I believe that this ‘case’
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Three migrants drowned when their wooden boat overturned off Greece’s southernmost island of Gavdos on Tuesday and the coast guard is still searching for people reported missing. The people on board moved rapidly to one side of the boat as a vessel from the European Union border agency Frontex
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Airlines canceled 1,200 flights on Tuesday as air traffic control staffing improved significantly ahead of an expected end to a record-setting government shutdown as soon as Wednesday. After airlines canceled 2,400 flights and delayed 9,600 on Monday, airlines delayed just 1,700 on Tuesday, the best performance
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Taiwan evacuated more than 8,300 people ahead of Wednesday’s arrival of a much weakened Typhoon Fung-wong that brought record downpours to the mountainous east coast and unleashed floods that rose neck-high in places. Businesses and schools were shut in most southern areas of the island, with 51 people
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All 20 personnel on board a military cargo plane that crashed in Georgia were killed, Turkiye’s defense minister announced on Wednesday. The C-130 plane had taken off from Azerbaijan and was on its way back to Turkiye when it crashed Tuesday in Georgia’s Sighnaghi municipality, close to the
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Russia on Tuesday denounced as illegal and “unacceptable” US strikes on boats from Venezuela — a Moscow ally — that Washington says are transporting drugs. “This is how, in general, lawless countries act, as well as those who consider themselves above the law,” Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov said in televised remarks,
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A German court on Tuesday sentenced three Syrian men to prison for involvement in a foreign terrorist group during the civil war after a trial that lasted more than a year. The three defendants, identified only partially as Amer Tarak A., Sohail A. and Basel O., received sentences ranging from
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France’s former president Nicolas Sarkozy vowed on Monday that the truth would win out after he was released from prison under judicial supervision ahead of an appeal trial over Libyan funding. Sarkozy, 70, earlier Monday left La Sante prison in Paris — a 20-day experience the former president called a
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Rescuers using backhoes and chainsaws began digging the Philippines out from the devastation of Typhoon Fung-wong on Tuesday, as floodwaters receded in hundreds of villages and the storm’s death toll climbed to 18. Fung-wong, which displaced 1.4 million people, had weakened into a severe tropical storm even as
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A car explosion in the bustling heart of the Indian capital on Monday killed at least eight people and injured another 19, officials said. Police have not given details on the cause, but said that forensic and anti-terrorism agencies were at the site, near the landmark Red Fort. The blast