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A fghanistan airdropped commandos on Wednesday to pull survivors from the rubble of homes in mountainous eastern areas ravaged by earthquakes this week that have killed 1,400, as it ramped up efforts to deliver food, shelter and medical supplies. The first earthquake of magnitude 6, one of Afghanistan’s
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Rescue teams were struggling to reach a remote mountain village in Sudan’s Darfur region on Tuesday after a devastating landslide buried almost the entire community killing more than 1,000 people. Heavy rain triggered the disaster on Sunday, flattening the village of Tarasin in the Jebel Marra range, the
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The Israeli military said on Wednesday it intercepted a missile launched from Yemen, as sirens were activated in Tel Aviv and several other areas across the country. Yemen’s Iran-backed Houthis have been launching missiles and drones thousands of kilometers up north toward Israel, in what the group says are
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German security authorities are warning people against becoming “disposable agents” as worries mount about Russia using social media to find recruits for spying and sabotage in or against Germany. Western officials have accused Russia and its proxies of staging dozens of attacks and other incidents across Europe since the full-scale
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A court in Iraqi Kurdistan sentenced opposition leader Shaswar Abdulwahid to five months in prison on Tuesday, his lawyer and party said. The businessman-turned-politician heads the New Generation party, which holds 15 of the 100 seats in the northern region’s parliament, and nine of 329 seats in Iraq’s
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At least 20 people are missing after violent Indonesia protests sparked by lavish perks for lawmakers that have widened to include anger against police, a rights group said Tuesday. At least six people have been killed since protests rocked Southeast Asia’s biggest economy last week, intensified by footage spreading
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Around 2,000 North Korean soldiers deployed to help Russia fight Ukraine are estimated to have been killed, Seoul’s spy agency said Tuesday, according to a lawmaker. In April, Seoul’s National Intelligence Service “said the number of war dead was at least 600. But based on updated assessments,
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At least 1,000 were killed in a landslide that destroyed a village in the Marra Mountains area of western Sudan, leaving only one survivor, The Sudan Liberation Movement/Army said on Monday. The landslide struck on August 31 after days of heavy rainfall, the group led by Abdelwahid Mohamed
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Since the fall of Bashar Assad’s government in December, some 850,000 Syrian refugees have returned home from neighboring countries and the figure could reach 1 million in the coming weeks, a top official with the UN refugee agency said Monday. Deputy High Commissioner of UNHCR Kelly T. Clements
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Yemen’s Houthi militants said Monday they launched a missile at an oil tanker off the coast of Saudi Arabia in the Red Sea, potentially renewing their attacks targeting shipping through the crucial global waterway. Houthi military spokesman Brig. Gen. Yahya Saree claimed responsibility for the launch in a prerecorded
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North Korea said Monday leader Kim Jong Un inspected a new weapons factory that’s key to his plan to accelerate mass production of missiles in a weekend visit before he departs for a major military parade in China. North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency did not disclose
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Shelling by Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces killed at least seven people and wounded 71 others in El-Fasher, a medical source said Sunday, as the paramilitary group launched its fiercest offensive yet on the besieged city. El-Fasher, the last major city in the vast western Darfur region still under army
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A man was arrested on Monday after ramming his car into the gates of the Russian consulate in Sydney, Australian police said. Police said that officers responded shortly after 8 a.m. (2200 GMT) to reports of an unauthorized vehicle parked in the driveway of an address on Fullerton Street
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Ukrainian former parliamentary speaker Andriy Parubiy was shot dead in the western city of Lviv on Saturday and a search was under way for the killer. The Prosecutor General’s office said a gunman had fired several shots at Parubiy, killing him on the spot. The attacker fled and a
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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met with the families of soldiers killed fighting for Russia against Ukraine and offered condolences for their “unbearable pain,” state media said Saturday. Pyongyang has not confirmed the number of its soldiers that died fighting for Russia, though Seoul estimates around 600, with thousands
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Australian police battled severe alpine weather on Saturday on the fifth day of a search for a gunman who escaped into dense bush after allegedly shooting dead two officers and injuring another at a rural property in Victoria state. Hundreds of officers were in the field searching for 56-year-old Dezi