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An attack at one of the world’s most famous beaches killed 16 people, including a child, Australian officials said Monday, after two gunmen opened fire at a Hanukkah celebration on Sydney’s Bondi Beach. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese called it an act of antisemitic terrorism. Hundreds of people had
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The Islamic Military Counter Terrorism Coalition has concluded an advanced training program in Niger on combating terrorist financing and money laundering. Held in Niamey, the five-day program aimed to strengthen member states’ capacity to counter financial crimes linked to terrorism, the Saudi Press Agency reported on Saturday. Some 25 trainees
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Colombia’s National Liberation Army (ELN) guerrilla group ordered civilians in areas under its control on Friday to stay home for three days as it carries out military exercises in response to “intervention” threats from US President Donald Trump. The ELN, the oldest surviving guerrilla group in the Americas, controls
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Cambodia shut its border crossings with Thailand on Saturday, after Bangkok denied US President Donald Trump’s claim that a truce had been agreed to end days of deadly fighting. Violence between the Southeast Asian neighbors, which stems from a long-running dispute over the colonial-era demarcation of their 800-kilometer (500-mile)
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Spanish police on Saturday said they had thwarted a criminal gang that flew helicopters to smuggle hashish into the country from Morocco, in a rare operation against aerial drug trafficking. The helicopters were capable of transporting between 500 and 900 kilograms of drugs, which were stored in rural estates and
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At least two people were killed in a drone attack in Russia’s southwestern Saratov region and parts of Ukraine went without power following targeted assaults on energy infrastructure, local authorities said Saturday, as US-led peace talks on ending the war press on. The drone attack damaged a residential building
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Devastating floods and landslides have killed more than 1,000 people in Indonesia, rescuers said Saturday as the Southeast Asian nation grapples with relief efforts. The disaster, which has hit the northwestern island of Sumatra over the past fortnight, has killed 1,003 people, while 218 remain missing, the National
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South Sudan has sent its troops to neighboring Sudan to guard the strategic Heglig oil field near the border, its military head said on Thursday, days after the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF) took control of it. Heglig houses the main processing facility for South Sudanese oil, which makes up
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The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Thursday called for an investigation into an air strike on a hospital in Myanmar that killed at least 30 people, including patients. Volker Turk said such attacks may amount to a war crime. More than 70 people were also injured in
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What caused an Air India Boeing 787-8 Dreamliner to crash, killing 260 people? Six months on, investigators have yet to provide clear answers, fueling disputes between pilots, the airline and the manufacturer. As required by international law, India’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau (AAIB) published a preliminary report one month
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US President Donald Trump on Thursday signed an executive order on artificial intelligence that will attempt to preempt a growing number of state laws governing the technology with a national standard. “We want to have one central source of approval,” Trump told reporters, flanked by top advisers, including Treasury Secretary
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Debris from a Ukrainian drone hit an apartment block northwest of Moscow, injuring seven people as it set off a fire, Russian authorities said Friday. The night-time attack at Tver, some 180 kilometers from the Russian capital, came amid a heightened drone campaign by Ukraine as peace efforts drag on.
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Back in 2018, President Donald Trump disputed having used the epithet “shithole” to describe some countries whose citizens emigrated to the United States. Nowadays, he embraces it and pushes his anti-immigrant and xenophobic tirades even further. Case in point: during a rally in the northeastern state of Pennsylvania on Wednesday
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A Myanmar military air strike killed more than 30 people at a hospital, an on-site aid worker said Thursday, as the junta wages a withering offensive ahead of elections beginning this month. The junta has increased air strikes year-on-year since the start of Myanmar’s civil war, conflict monitors say,
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Bolivian law enforcement officials on Wednesday arrested former President Luis Arce as part of a corruption investigation, opening an uncertain chapter in the country’s politics a month after the inauguration of conservative President Rodrigo Paz ended 20 years of socialist rule. A senior official in Paz’s government, Marco
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Portugal braced on Thursday for its first general strike in 12 years, as unions urge action against the right-wing minority government’s planned workers’ rights reforms. Widespread disruption is expected for public transport, schools, courts and hospitals, as workers protest against a draft law aiming to simplify firing procedures, extend