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The UK has warned travelers to Bangladesh that “terrorists are likely to try to carry out attacks” in the South Asian country. In an update to its official travel guidance, the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office cautioned against “all but essential travel” to Bangladesh, highlighting large public gatherings, religious sites
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Flash floods and landslides struck Indonesia’s main Java island earlier this week, killing at least five people, the national disaster agency said Friday, as rescuers race to find seven others still missing. Intense rains triggered flash floods and landslides in the Sukabumi district in West Java province on Tuesday,
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Taiwan President Lai Ching-te said Friday he was “confident” of deeper cooperation with the next Donald Trump administration, a day after his call with US Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson that angered China. Like other world governments, Taiwan has publicly congratulated Trump on his victory in November’s presidential election
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Air strikes targeted a bridge on the highway linking the Syrian cities of Homs and Hama, a war monitor said Friday, as government forces scramble to secure Homs after Islamist-led militants captured Hama and commercial hub Aleppo. “Fighter jets executed several airstrikes, targeting Al-Rastan bridge on (the) Homs-Hama highway... as
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Israeli strikes early on Friday hit two border crossings linking Lebanon with Syria, Lebanon’s transport minister Ali Hamieh said. The strikes hit just across the border on the Syrian side of both the Arida crossing in northern Lebanon and the Jousieh crossing which links to eastern Lebanon, Hamieh said.
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The UN children’s agency on Wednesday launched a $9.9 billion fundraising appeal to provide aid next year for millions of young people impacted by wars and other crises across the globe. “The scale of children’s humanitarian needs is at a historically high level, with more children impacted
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President Joe Biden’s national security adviser warned Wednesday that the United States could quickly run out of munitions in a war with China as he called for more sustained defense production. Jake Sullivan appealed to the incoming administration of Donald Trump to sustain the ramp-up of the domestic defense
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Syrian opposition factions said on Thursday they had started pushing into Hama, a major city where pro-government forces backed by intense Russian air strikes are trying to stave off a new opposition victory and halt the insurgents' lightning advance. Opposition commander Hassan Abdul Ghany posted on social media that
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Donald Trump asked a Georgia appeals court on Wednesday to toss out the only remaining criminal prosecution facing him as he prepares to return to the White House. Trump’s attorney Steven Sadow, in a filing with the court, said the indictment accusing Trump of seeking to overturn the results
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The top US military officer, Air Force General C.Q. Brown, spoke by phone with Russia’s Chief of General Staff Valery Gerasimov last week, the US military said on Wednesday, the first time Brown spoke with his Russian counterpart. “The leaders discussed a number of global and regional security
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Russia’s involvement can be seen in many of the wars currently taking place across the world, said British Foreign Minister David Lammy at a NATO meeting on Wednesday, as he urged NATO allies to ‘get serious’ over defense spending. “We are living in dangerous times,” said Lammy. “And as
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As Ukraine’s military struggles to find enough troops, particularly infantry, to hold off Russia’s much larger army, some units are giving a second chance to those who have absconded from service. Data from the prosecutor’s office shows nearly 95,000 criminal cases have been opened since 2022
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German police commandos carried out a series of pre-dawn raids Wednesday against an alleged Iraqi-Kurdish network accused of smuggling migrants to Britain. More than 500 officers searched locations in multiple German cities in an operation coordinated with Europol and French security service, police said. The network is accused of the
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday the ceasefire in Lebanon was “holding” despite a series of incidents between Israel and Iran-backed militants Hezbollah. “The ceasefire is holding, and we’re using the mechanism that was established when any concerns have arisen about any alleged or purported violations,” Blinken
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Taiwan’s capital will host a rare high level Chinese delegation later this month when a deputy mayor of Shanghai visits for an annual city forum, a trip that will be happening at a time of heightened tensions across the Taiwan Strait. Shanghai Vice Mayor Hua Yuan would visit from
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A visit to Russia by Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian is being prepared, but there is no clarity yet on when it will take place, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov said on Tuesday. Peskov said it was unclear whether the visit would happen this year, but that a date for the trip