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Cyclone Dana uprooted trees and power lines after making landfall on India’s east coast, with officials warning of more fierce weather on Friday. Cyclones — the equivalent of hurricanes in the North Atlantic or typhoons in the northwestern Pacific — are a regular and deadly menace in the northern Indian Ocean.
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Turkish air strikes on northern Iraq targeting a group affiliated with Turkiye’s outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) killed five people on Friday, local sources said. The strikes came after a Syria war monitor said Turkish drone strikes had killed 27 civilians in Syria in a 24-hour military escalation, after
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The Israeli military confirmed on Friday that it had struck a border crossing between Syria and Lebanon that it said was being used by Hezbollah to transfer weapons. “Overnight ... the IAF (air force) struck Hezbollah terrorist infrastructure sites at the Jousieh border crossing in the northern Bekaa area (of Lebanon)
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken pledged Friday to work with “real urgency” for a diplomatic resolution in Lebanon and urged Israel to spare civilians, but stopped short of calling for an immediate ceasefire. “We have a sense of real urgency in getting to a diplomatic resolution and the full
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France pledged to provide a $108-million (€100 million) package to support Lebanon at an international conference Thursday, as President Emmanuel Macron said “massive aid” is needed to support the country where war between Hezbollah militants and Israel has displaced a million people, killed over 2,500, and deepened an economic
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Argentine police raided on Wednesday the Buenos Aires hotel where former One Direction star Liam Payne died after falling from his third-floor balcony, a police source told AFP. Police officers from the special investigations and technology divisions were sent to the Casa Sur Hotel by the prosecutor’s office “to
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The UK government renewed its call for an immediate ceasefire between Israel and Hezbollah during the Lebanon Support Conference held in Paris on Thursday. Minister for the Middle East Hamish Nicholas Falconer delivered the UK’s position as the humanitarian crisis in Lebanon continues to worsen. “The situation in Lebanon
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About 146 Rohingya, including children, came ashore in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province on Thursday, an official said, the second wave of arrivals to the Southeast Asian country within a week. A boat carrying 64 men, 62 women and 20 children landed early on Thursday morning, in the Deli Serdang
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Spanish police on Thursday said they had broken up a network suspected of smuggling at least 70 Syrian and Algerian migrants to Spain and made three arrests. The migrants paid the smuggling ring up to 10,000 euros ($10,800) each for trips on small boats from Algeria to Spain
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Portuguese authorities on Wednesday said they had arrested three people after a second night of violence in Lisbon unleashed by police shooting dead a black man. Young rioters from poorer neighborhoods sparked unrest, Portuguese media said, in a rare spike in violence in the southern European country. Police reported three
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Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told Air Force crews on Wednesday that after striking in Iran, the world will understand Israel’s might and its enemies will learn a lesson, according to a video and an X post published by his office. Israel has been planning a response to a
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Iraqi-led strikes and raids killed at least seven Daesh operatives in Iraq, US Central Command said on Wednesday, a day after Baghdad reported the militant group’s commander for Iraq had been killed in a military operation. A Centcom statement did not identify the operatives but said the attacks were
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Lebanon’s Hezbollah group said it fired rockets at an Israeli military intelligence base in the Tel Aviv suburbs Wednesday, following a night of strikes on the group’s south Beirut bastion. Hezbollah fighters launched “a rocket salvo” at “the Glilot base of the military intelligence unit... in the Tel
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NATO countries have confirmed evidence that North Korea has sent troops to Russia, an alliance spokeswoman said Wednesday, warning it would be a major escalation if they head to Ukraine. “Allies have confirmed evidence of a DPRK troop deployment to Russia. If these troops are destined to fight in Ukraine,
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Israel’s security forces have arrested seven Jerusalem residents over allegations they were planning to assassinate Israeli officials and carry out other attacks on behalf of Iran’s intelligence service, the Shin Bet and police said on Tuesday. The incident is the fifth case involving attempted assassinations directed by Iranian
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Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia Al-Sudani said on Tuesday that Daesh’s commander for Iraq had been killed in an operation in the Hamrin Mountains in northeast Iraq.