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The United States said Tuesday that it was sending an envoy to the Middle East for talks that aim to finalize a “corridor” for aid to war-ravaged Gaza, where authorities said people are dying of starvation. Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s globe-trotting negotiator, is traveling to the region for
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Iran said on Tuesday 27 inmates were still at large after an Israeli airstrike last month targeted Evin prison in the north of the capital, Tehran, local media reported. The airstrikes were part of Israel’s 12-day bombardment of Iran that killed about 1,100 people, while 28 were left
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A Syrian committee investigating sectarian violence in the country’s Alawite heartland said Tuesday it identified 298 suspects implicated in serious violations that left at least 1,426 Alawites dead in March. The violence unfolded over three days in early March on Syria’s predominantly Alawite coast, where government forces
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The United States announced Tuesday it will again pull out of the UN’s educational, scientific and cultural agency because it believes that its involvement is not in the country’s national interest, and that the agency promotes anti-Israel speech. This decision comes only two years after the United States
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The families of victims of South Korea’s deadliest plane crash on home soil have denounced a government report which blamed the disaster on pilot error, a representative said Tuesday. The Boeing 737-800 was flying from Thailand to South Korea’s southwest on December 29 last year but ended up
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A landslide triggered by torrential monsoon rains swept away cars on a mountainous highway in northern Pakistan, killing at least three people, with more cars buried under the debris, officials said Tuesday. Flashfloods, collapsed buildings and electrocutions have killed more than 180 people since monsoon season arrived in late June.
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Yemen’s Houthis said they targeted Israel’s main airport Tuesday for the second time since Israel struck a rebel-held port a day earlier, with the Israeli army reporting it had intercepted the missile. The Houthis targeted Ben Gurion International Airport “using a ‘Palestine 2’ hypersonic ballistic missile,” according to
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The Kremlin said on Monday that it did not rule out the possibility of a meeting between Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump if the Russian and US presidents were both in Beijing at the same time in September. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov confirmed that Putin would visit China for events
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Israel pounded Yemen’s Houthi-held port of Hodeida with air strikes on Monday for the second time in a month, stoking fears of escalation as it warned Yemen could face the same fate as Iran. Houthi-controlled areas of Yemen have come under repeated Israeli strikes since the militia began launching
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Pakistan has arrested 11 suspects after a video emerged on social media of a woman and a man being shot and killed for marrying against the wishes of their families, in a so-called honor killing, authorities said. The couple, who were not identified, were shot dead on the orders of
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Thirteen people were killed and 20 injured after a bus transporting mine workers in Russia’s far eastern Yakutia region crashed early Monday, authorities said. The driver appeared to have lost control of the vehicle, swerving off the road and sending the bus plummeting 25 meters (82 feet) into a
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Russia launched a new barrage of drones and missiles at Ukraine in an overnight attack on Monday, killing at least one person and causing multiple fires in the capital Kyiv, city officials said. Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said rescuers and medics were working on sites across four districts of the
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A landslide triggered by torrential rain killed at least one person in South Korea, the national fire agency said Saturday. Three people were also missing after the landslide buried two houses in a village in southern Sancheong county, officials said, as heavy rain continued to pound the country. “At least
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Hundreds of Venezuelans swept up in Donald Trump’s immigration dragnet were abruptly freed from a maximum security Salvadoran jail and sent home as part of a prisoner swap Friday, ending a months-long high-profile ordeal. The 252 men were accused – without evidence – of being gang members and flown to the
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US Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that Venezuela freed 10 Americans as well as political prisoners in a deal in which El Salvador released Venezuelans deported there by the United States. “Every wrongfully detained American in Venezuela is now free and back in our homeland,” Rubio said in
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Israeli military said late on Friday that it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen after air raid sirens sounded in several areas across Israel. The Iran-aligned Houthis, who control the most populous parts of Yemen, have been firing at Israel and attacking shipping lanes. Houthis have repeatedly said that their