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Iran’s top security chief pledged in Beirut on Wednesday that Tehran will continue backing Lebanon, days after the Lebanese government ordered the army to devise a plan to disarm the Iran-backed Hezbollah militia. Ali Larijani, head of Iran’s National Security Council, said Tehran rejects the disarmament plan and
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Europe and Ukraine’s leaders will speak to US President Donald Trump at a virtual meeting on Wednesday ahead of his summit with Russia’s Vladimir Putin, as they try to drive home the perils of selling out Kyiv’s interests in pursuit of a ceasefire. Trump hosts Putin, a
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A 15-minute walk from the White House, Tony and Mike stood on the sidewalk near the spot where a man was killed on Monday, the 100th murder of the year in Washington. The shooting broke out just a few hours after President Donald Trump announced a federal takeover of the
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Many children in Yemen are dying from hunger rather than direct conflict, the UN Security Council was told on Tuesday, with half of the country’s children under the age of five suffering from acute malnutrition. UN Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Joyce Msuya said the situation underscored the need
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Ukraine has retaken two villages in its eastern region of Sumy, Kyiv’s military said, adding to recent small territorial gains along the border with Russia ahead of peace talks at a summit of the US and Russian leaders set for Friday. US President Donald Trump said on Monday that
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The United States has designated a Baloch separatist group as a foreign terrorist organization, the State Department said, a move hailed Tuesday by Pakistani officials. The designation of the Balochistan Liberation Army and its fighting wing, the Majeed Brigade, blamed for deadly attacks in insurgency-hit Balochistan province, coincides with the
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Power production at France’s Bugey 3 nuclear reactor in the east of the country is expected to be reduced by 500 megawatts (MW) on Wednesday, data from operator EDF showed on Tuesday, as high river temperatures reduce the plant’s ability to intake cooling water. A heatwave throughout France
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Malaysia, Bangladesh and some regional partners will send a joint delegation to Myanmar to push for peace and humanitarian aid for Rohingya refugees, the Southeast Asian nation’s Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim said on Tuesday. Bangladesh shelters more than 1 million Rohingya refugees in camps in its southeastern district of
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Iranian authorities have seized a foreign tanker accused of smuggling fuel in the Gulf waters and arrested its 17 crew members, local media reported Monday. “Police border guards in Hormozgan province seized a tanker named Phoenix, flying the flag of a third country, in Iranian territorial waters,” ISNA news agency
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Syria’s interior ministry on Monday said it would hold accountable those responsible for the apparent killing of an unarmed man at a hospital during violence last month in Druze-majority Sweida province, after a purported video of the incident emerged. “We condemn and denounce this act in the strongest terms
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Malnutrition has claimed the lives of at least 63 people, mostly women and children, in just one week in Sudan’s besieged city of El-Fasher, a health official said on Sunday. The official said the figure only included those who managed to reach hospitals, adding that many families buried their
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President Donald Trump pledged on Sunday to evict homeless people from the nation’s capital and jail criminals, despite Washington’s mayor arguing there is no current spike in crime. “The Homeless have to move out, IMMEDIATELY. We will give you places to stay, but FAR from the Capital. The
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A new round of Moscow’s shelling and drone attacks killed five people in Ukraine Sunday, authorities said, while Kyiv hit an oil refinery in Russia’s Saratov region. There was no reduction in hostilities on the frontline, even as the United States and Russia agreed to hold a summit
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Downpours on Japan’s southern main island of Kyushu caused flooding and mudslides, injuring a number of people and impacting travel during a Buddhist holiday week. Several people were reported missing. The torrential rain that began late last week left one person missing and four others injured in the southern
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Two Indian soldiers and a suspected militant have been killed in one of longest gunfights in Indian-controlled Kashmir, officials said Saturday. The fighting began on Aug. 1 after Indian troops laid a cordon in southern Kulgam district’s Akhal forested area following a tip that a group of insurgents was
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President Volodymyr Zelensky on Saturday warned that “decisions without Ukraine” would not bring peace and ruled out ceding territory to Russia. “Ukrainians will not give their land to the occupier,” he said on social media, as US President Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin prepare to hold a summit