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At least 11 people were killed and 30 wounded, including five children, in Russian missile and drone attacks on Ukraine's eastern city of Dobropillia overnight, the Ukrainian Interior Ministry said on Saturday. Russian forces attacked Dobropillia with ballistic missiles, multiple rockets, and drones, causing damage to eight multi-storey
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South Sudanese forces loyal to President Salva Kiir have released the peacebuilding minister, a key ally of First Vice President Riek Machar, a spokesman for Machar said on Friday, after the arrests of senior officials escalated tensions. Between Tuesday and Thursday, security forces arrested or put under house arrest several
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Security forces battled for a second day on Friday to crush a nascent insurgency by fighters from Bashar Assad’s Alawite sect in western Syria, with scores reported killed as the Islamist-led government faced the biggest challenge yet to its authority. Syrian Arab Republic authorities said remnants of the ousted
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The United Nations migration agency says four migrant boats have capsized in waters off Yemen and Djibouti, leaving two people dead and 186 missing. Two of the boats capsized off Yemen on Thursday, said Tamim Eleian, a spokesperson for the International Organization for Migration. Two crewmembers were rescued, but 181
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Syria has imposed a curfew in the northwestern port town of Latakia and the port city of Tartous after fierce clashes between fighters linked to Syria’s ousted leader Bashar Assad and government forces, the state news agency said early on Friday.
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Fierce fighting between Syrian security forces and gunmen loyal to deposed ruler Bashar Assad killed 48 people on Thursday, a war monitor said. The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the clashes in the coastal town of Jableh and adjacent villages were “the most violent attacks against the new authorities
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Russia on Thursday criticized French President Emmanuel Macron for an address this week in which he mulled extending France’s nuclear umbrella to European partners. In a speech to the French nation on Wednesday, Macron called Russia a “threat to France and Europe” and said the French were “legitimately worried”
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Jordanian border forces clashed on Thursday with armed smuggling groups attempting to cross the northern border from Syria into Jordan, the Jordan Armed forces said in a statement. The clashes resulted in the death of four smugglers, while the remaining individuals retreated into Syrian territory. According to the statement, the
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Turkiye plans to build an 8.5-km wall on its western border where neighbors Greece and Bulgaria have already erected their own fences, a local governor said. The barrier is aimed at preventing migrants crossing into EU member states. Turkiye has in the past built walls on its border with
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A Russian missile smashed into a hotel in the central Ukrainian city of Kryvyi Rih late on Wednesday, killing two people and injuring 28, the regional governor said. Serhiy Lysak, governor of Dnipropetrovsk region, said on the Telegram messaging app that a child was among the injured. Several people were
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South Korea’s Air Force said Thursday that one of its fighter jets had accidentally dropped eight bombs in the wrong place during a training exercise, resulting in civilian injuries. “Eight MK-82 general-purpose bombs were abnormally released from an Air Force KF-16 aircraft, landing outside the designated firing range,” the
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Paramilitary shelling of a famine-hit displacement camp near North Darfur’s besieged capital of El-Fasher killed six people on Wednesday, activists in Sudan said. The Rapid Support Forces (RSF), locked in a brutal conflict with the regular army since April 2023, pressed an attack on the Abu Shouk camp, said
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Syrian Foreign Minister Asaad Al-Shaibani said he would take part in a meeting Wednesday of the international chemical weapons watchdog in the Netherlands, nearly three months after Bashar Assad’s ouster. “Today, for the first time in Syria’s history, I am attending the executive council of the Organization for
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Russia staged night-time attacks on energy facilities in the southern Ukrainian region of Odesa, officials said Wednesday, cutting electricity to the Black Sea territory and leaving at least one dead. Moscow has stepped up drone and missile attacks on Ukraine even as rhetoric builds in Washington and Moscow on potential
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Philippine rescuers on Wednesday found the wreckage of a fighter jet and the bodies of two crewmen sent to combat communist rebels in a mountainous region of the country’s south. The FA-50 fighter jet had gone missing a day earlier while on a mission to provide air support for
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Schools and shops closed as residents of a northwestern Pakistani city prepared for the funeral ceremonies on Wednesday for 12 people killed in a twin suicide bombing that targeted a military base the day before. A militant group linked with the Pakistani Taliban claimed responsibility for the bombing in Bannu