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Turkiye is working with the United States and Arab mediators to secure safe passage for Hamas fighters who are holed up in tunnels in the Israel-controlled area of Gaza, a Palestinian source, a Hamas official and Turkish officials said on Monday. The fate of about 200 fighters has complicated efforts
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A second migrant removed to France under Britain’s “one in, one out” deal with Paris has returned to the UK, officials said Monday, raising fresh doubts about the scheme’s effectiveness. The man was “detected by biometrics and detained immediately,” a spokesperson for the interior ministry, known as the
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US envoy Jared Kushner met with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem on Monday as Washington pressed efforts to ensure the fragile Gaza ceasefire holds. The truce, in effect since October 10, has largely halted the war that erupted after Hamas’s surprise attack on Israel on October 7,
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The Jordan Hashemite Charity Organization sent an aid convoy to Syria on Sunday. The JHCO, in coordination with the Ministry of Foreign and Expatriate Affairs and the Jordan Armed Forces, sent 16 trucks loaded with prefabricated homes, as well as medical supplies and medicines. Hussein Shibli, secretary-general of the JHCO,
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Israel said the remains it received on Sunday from Hamas were those of Lt. Hadar Goldin, an Israeli officer killed more than a decade ago in the 2014 Gaza war. Goldin was the 24th deceased hostage whose remains have been returned by Hamas since the start of the ceasefire on
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Palestinian militant group Islamic Jihad handed over the body of a deceased hostage on Friday as part of the Gaza ceasefire between Israel and Hamas. The Israeli military said in a statement on Saturday it had confirmed the body was that of Lior Rudaeff following an identification process. Israeli Prime
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Indonesian authorities said Saturday they were investigating a student over their alleged involvement in explosions that wounded nearly 100 people at a school in the capital Jakarta. The blasts hit a school mosque in North Jakarta just as people were gathering for Friday prayers, sparking panic among worshippers. The national
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A fire at a perfume depot in northwestern Turkiye on Saturday morning killed six people and left one person injured, officials said. The cause of the blaze in Kocaeli province was not immediately known. The fire broke out around 9 a.m. local time, with local media reporting it was
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Tanzanian authorities charged hundreds of people with treason over demonstrations around disputed polls last month, in a major escalation of political tension as the country reels from violence in which an unknown number of people were killed. In addition to dozens criminally charged a day earlier in Dar es Salaam,
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Spanish police arrested 13 suspected members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang, seized a stash of illegal drugs and dismantled two drug laboratories, authorities said Friday. The arrests were made in five cities in the first operation in Spain to dismantle a suspected cell of the Venezuelan prison gang,
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Nearly 100 people have been recorded as abducted or disappeared in Syria since the start of the year, with reports of new enforced disappearances continuing, the UN human rights office said on Friday. “Eleven months since the fall of the former government in Syria, we continue to receive worrying reports
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An end to fighting in Sudan still seems far off despite the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces, fighting the army for more than two years, endorsing a truce proposal. The government, backed by the army, has yet to respond to US-led international mediators, and explosions rocked the army-controlled capital Khartoum on
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As French police race to track where the Louvre’s stolen crown jewels have gone, a growing chorus wants a brighter light on where they came from. The artifacts were French, but the gems were not. Their exotic routes to Paris run through the shadows of empire — an uncomfortable history
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A Belgian jihadist accused of acts of genocide against the Yazidi religious minority in Iraq and Syria — and presumed killed in conflict — went on trial in absentia Thursday in Brussels. Sammy Djedou, a former fighter with the Daesh group, or Islamic State, was reported by the Pentagon to have been
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Traffic was halted at the Gothenburg-Landvetter Airport on Sweden’s west coast on Thursday after one or more drones were observed at the airport, authorities said. Drones have caused major disruption across Europe in recent months, forcing temporary airport closures in several countries. Some officials have blamed the incidents on
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African Union election observers said late Wednesday that the integrity of Tanzania’s recently concluded elections was “compromised,” citing incidents of “ballot stuffing at several polling stations.” President Samia Suluhu Hassan won the October 29 poll with 98 percent of the vote, according to the electoral commission, but the opposition,