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Two Russian divers were found dead, one in the jaws of a shark, after a strong current separated them from their group in a popular Philippine scuba spot, a coast guard official said Friday. Four Russian men aged 18 to 57 were diving Thursday afternoon near the resort area of
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Israel said Thursday that it will implement what it called “safety restrictions” at the Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem’s Old City during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, which begins over the weekend. During Ramadan, hundreds of thousands of Palestinians come to pray at Al-Aqsa, the third holiest site
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Israeli police said a Palestinian man rammed a car into a bus stop in the north of the country on Thursday, wounding 13 civilians in an incident they were treating as a “terror” attack. “At 16:17 today, Israel Police’s emergency dispatch received reports of a ramming attack at
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Three parties announced Thursday that they have reached a deal to form a new centrist Austrian government, five months after an election was won by a far-right party that later failed in an attempt to form an administration. A statement from the conservative Austrian People’s Party, the center-left Social
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EU Council President Antonio Costa on Thursday said he had invited Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky to the special summit of EU leaders on March 6, to discuss future support to Ukraine. “The EU and its member states are ready to take more responsibility for Europe’s security,” Costa said
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The White House on Wednesday denied reporters from Reuters and other news organizations access to President Donald Trump’s first cabinet meeting in keeping with the administration’s new policy regarding media coverage. The White House denied access to an Associated Press photographer and three reporters from Reuters, HuffPost and
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Pope Francis is doing some work in hospital while undergoing various treatments for double pneumonia, a Vatican official said on Thursday. The 88-year-old pontiff was spending his 14th day in Rome’s Gemelli hospital with the severe respiratory infection, which triggered various complications. The Vatican said he had spent a
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In the Syrian region of Kisweh, southwest of Damascus, residents jolted awake by Israeli strikes voiced their fears Wednesday of a fresh escalation after similar attacks had appeared to taper off in recent weeks. Israel said it had targeted military sites containing weapons in the Tuesday night raids, which came
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Lebanon’s government of new Prime Minister Nawaf Salam won a confidence vote in parliament on Wednesday, with 95 votes in the 128-seat chamber.
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Pope Francis has shown a “further, slight improvement” in his medical condition, the Vatican said on Wednesday, in a sign of progress as the 88-year-old pontiff battles double pneumonia. The pope is spending his 13th night at Rome’s Gemelli hospital, the longest hospital stay of his nearly 12-year-old papacy.
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More than 70 members of the Islamist armed group Al-Shabab were killed during an army operation with local forces in Somalia, the information ministry said on Tuesday. Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab has been fighting the federal government for more than 15 years, to try to establish Islamic law in the impoverished country.
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France’s foreign minister said Wednesday that he wanted “all” European countries to cooperate and start cutting back visas available to nationals of countries that refuse to take back illegal migrants expelled by Paris. Jean-Noel Barrot spoke after an Algerian-born man went on a stabbing rampage in the eastern French
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A Sudanese army plane crashed on Tuesday in a residential area near the Wadi Seidna military airport in northern Omdurman killing more than 20 people, including military personnel and civilians, military and medical sources said on Wednesday. The military sources said that the plane crash was most likely due to
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South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol was facing his final impeachment hearing on Tuesday before judges decide whether to formally remove him from office over his disastrous martial law declaration. Yoon’s short-lived suspension of civilian rule plunged democratic South Korea into political turmoil, and he was removed
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Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov landed in Tehran on Tuesday for talks with Tehran’s foreign minister, news agency Tasnim reported.
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‘The Israeli army said on Tuesday an earlier report of suspected aerial targets in the Golan Heights was the result of false identification. The army earlier said it had intercepted the suspected targets. It said the incident has ended and was under investigation.