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The Red Cross raised alarm on Thursday at the growing use of drone attacks by warring parties on hospitals, electricity and water infrastructure in Sudan, which it said was contributing to widespread human rights violations. Some 70 percent to 80 percent of hospitals in Sudan were not running and there
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Suspected US airstrikes in Yemen overnight into Thursday killed at least three people, while the death toll in an earlier attack rose to 13 dead, the Iran-backed Houthi rebels said. The rebels meanwhile aired footage they said showed the debris left after shooting down yet another American MQ-9 Reaper drone.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met on Wednesday with CIA chief John Ratcliffe in Jerusalem, a statement from the premier’s office said. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Wednesday evening with the head of the American Central Intelligence Agency John Ratcliffe, along with the head of the Mossad, Dadi (David)
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Ukraine on Thursday said that a dozen people were wounded in overnight Russian attacks on the capital Kyiv and the southern Black Sea region of Mykolaiv. AFP journalists in the capital heard air raid sirens and explosions ring out over the city during the attack. The air force said that
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France plans to recognize a Palestinian state within months and could make the move at a UN conference in New York in June on settling the Israel-Palestinian conflict, President Emmanuel Macron said Wednesday. “We must move toward recognition, and we will do so in the coming months,” Macron, who this
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An Austrian woman who was brought back alongside her son from a Syrian detention camp went on trial in Vienna on Wednesday, in the first such case in the country. Since the Daesh group was ousted from its self-declared “caliphate” in 2019, the return of family members of fighters that
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King Charles III warned Wednesday that peace can never be taken for granted and hailed Italy for standing by Ukraine, as he made a historic address to parliament in Rome. “Peace is never to be taken, never to be taken for granted,” the 76-year-old monarch said during his third day
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Indian authorities are readying for the extradition from the United States of a man that New Delhi accuses of helping plan the 2008 Mumbai siege that killed 166 people. Tahawwur Hussain Rana, 64, a Canadian citizen born in Pakistan, is due to be extradited “shortly” to face trial, Indian media
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The Iraqi cabinet has set November 11 as the date for a parliamentary election, it said on Wednesday.
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In Kenya’s largest and poorest county, the despair of a beleaguered hospital director is palpable as he explains that the dismantling of American-funded aid means his facility will run out of USAID drugs next month. “From then on, I don’t know,” Ekiru Kidalio said, worried about the lack
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Senior US Defense Department officials are considering a proposal to withdraw as many as 10,000 troops from Eastern Europe, NBC News reported on Tuesday, citing six US and European officials briefed on the matter.
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Bangladeshi police said Tuesday they arrested a lawyer who served as a senior prosecutor at a court that sentenced Islamist leaders to death under the rule of ousted hard-line prime minister Sheikh Hasina. The case is the latest in a string of detentions of people who had held senior positions
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South Korea’s military fired warning shots after North Korean soldiers crossed the rivals’ tense border on Tuesday, South Korean officials said. South Korea’s military said in a statement that about 10 North Korean soldiers returned to the North after South Korea made warning broadcasts and fired warning shots.
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Syria’s interim President Ahmed Al-Sharaa on Monday appointed Abdul Qadir Al-Hasriya as governor of the war-battered country’s central bank, state media reported. State news agency SANA posted a picture of Hasriya taking the oath as the new central bank chief in front of Sharaa, who on Monday led
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The United States has ended emergency food aid for 14 countries, endangering the lives of millions of hungry or starving people, a United Nations agency said Monday. The World Food Program (WFP), which was already grappling with a 40 percent drop in funding for this year, said it had been
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Syria’s President Ahmed Al-Sharaa will make his first visit to the United Arab Emirates and is also scheduled to visit Turkiye next week, the Syrian foreign ministry said in a statement on Sunday, as he continues to garner support for the new administration. Sharaa, who previously visited Turkiye in