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The funeral for Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, killed last year in an Israeli strike, will be held on Feb. 23, said the Iran-backed group’s current chief Naim Qassem on Sunday. “After security conditions prevented holding a funeral” during two months of all-out war between the group and Israel that
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Fifteen people, mostly women farm workers, were killed Monday by a car bomb near the northern Syrian city of Manbij where Kurdish-led forces are battling groups backed by Turkiye, state news agency SANA reported. Citing White Helmet rescuers, SANA said there had been a “massacre” on a local road with
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The ceasefire in Gaza saw its smoothest exchange yet of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners on Saturday, and the crucial Rafah border crossing reopened two days before discussions on the truce’s far more difficult second phase begin. And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will meet with US President Donald
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US Democrats picked a 51-year-old progressive activist on Saturday as their new leader, who must rebuild a party still reeling from last year’s crushing presidential defeat — and figure out how best to oppose Republican Donald Trump. “The Democratic Party is the party of working people, and it’s time
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Russia fired dozens of missiles and drones at Ukraine overnight and early Saturday, killing 15 people, Kyiv said. Ukraine and Russia also traded blame for a strike on a boarding school sheltering civilians in the Ukrainian-occupied town of Sudzha in Moscow’s Kursk region, where Kyiv launched a major cross-border
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Syria’s President Ahmed Al-Sharaa arrived in Saudi Arabia on Sunday in his first foreign trip since he assumed power, local media has reported. Syrian state news agency Sana earlier reported the president was accompanied by the country’s foreign minister, Asaad Hassan Al-Shibani. Al-Sharaa will meet Saudi Crown Prince
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The US military has conducted airstrikes against Daesh operatives in Somalia, the first attacks in the African nation during President Donald Trump’s second term. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said Saturday that the strikes by US Africa Command were directed by Trump and coordinated with Somalia’s government. An initial
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US President Donald Trump said on Friday he would be speaking to Russian President Vladimir Putin and said he thinks they will perhaps do something he described as significant. Trump did not elaborate. He made the comments to reports in the White House’s Oval Office. He also said that
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President Donald Trump’s administration launched a sweeping round of cuts at the Justice Department on Friday that appeared to focus on FBI agents and others who worked on cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack by his supporters on the US Capitol. The shakeup, detailed in two memos
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The UN Palestinian relief agency said its humanitarian work across the occupied territories and Gaza was still ongoing on Friday despite an Israeli ban that took effect a day before and what it described as hostility toward its staff. An Israeli law adopted in October bans operations by UNRWA, or
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A medevac plane crashed soon after takeoff in Philadelphia on Friday with a child and five others on board, the air ambulance company that operated it said, adding that it had not confirmed any survivors. Jet Rescue Air Ambulance, based in Mexico and licensed to operate in the US, said
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The UN rights chief said Friday that he was “deeply alarmed” by reports of summary executions of civilians in Khartoum North, allegedly by Sudanese army fighters and allied militia. “Deliberately taking the life of a civilian or anyone not or no longer directly taking part in hostilities is a war
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Egypt President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi congratulated Syria’s new President Ahmed Al-Sharaa, who was appointed on Wednesday by armed factions, and wished him success in achieving the Syrian people’s aspirations, El-Sisi said in a statement on Friday. Sharaa, an Islamist who was once an affiliate of Al-Qaeda, has been
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Sudan’s paramilitary commander Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, in a rare video address on Friday, acknowledged setbacks in the capital Khartoum but vowed to expel the army from the city again. The war since April 2023 between Dagalo’s Rapid Support Forces (RSF) and the army has killed tens of thousands
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Istanbul’s powerful opposition mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, condemned on Friday what he described as “judicial harassment” targeting him, as thousands of supporters demanded justice outside the court. Imamoglu, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s main political rival, spoke after giving a statement in connection with two investigations opened against him earlier
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The Kremlin on Friday declined to comment on reports that North Korean soldiers fighting with Russia’s army had been pulled back from the front line. Western, South Korean and Ukrainian intelligence agencies say Pyongyang had deployed more than 10,000 troops to support Russia’s forces fighting in its