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Libya’s Red Crescent said it took part in a major rescue operation after two boats carrying close to 100 irregular migrants capsized off the country’s coast, leaving four dead. The four dead were among 26 Bangladeshis traveling aboard one vessel, the organization said. The second boat was carrying
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Representatives of Syria’s civil society held open discussions in Damascus in the presence of officials from the EU and the government. They touched on sensitive topics, including sectarian tensions and ethnic divisions. The EU-organized meetings known as “The Day of Dialogue” are the first to be held in Damascus
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The Democratic Republic of Congo and the M23 rebel group signed on Saturday a framework agreement for a peace deal aimed at ending fighting in eastern Congo that has killed thousands of people and displaced hundreds of thousands more this year. The agreement was signed by representatives from both sides
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The Vatican on Saturday returned 62 artifacts to Indigenous peoples from Canada as part of the Catholic Church’s reckoning with its role in helping suppress Indigenous culture in the Americas. Pope Leo XIV gave the artifacts and supporting documentation to a delegation of the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops
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US President Donald Trump said on Friday he thought Thailand and Cambodia were “going to be fine” after he sought to mediate a flare-up in their border dispute, but the Thai leader continued to demand an apology from Phnom Penh. Thailand this week suspended a US-brokered ceasefire deal and demanded
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It took 16-year-old Mounir Abderahmane 11 days to reach the Tine refugee transit camp in Chad, crossing arid plains after fleeing the bloodshed in the Sudanese city of El-Fasher. When the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) entered the city in late October, Abderahmane was at the Saudi hospital, watching over his
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Lobbyists tied to the fossil fuel industry have turned up in strength at the UN climate talks in the Brazilian Amazon, an NGO coalition said Friday, warning that their presence undermines the process. A total of 1,602 delegates with links to the oil, gas and coal sectors have headed
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The United States has approved $330 million-worth of parts and equipment in its first military sale to Taiwan since US President Donald Trump’s return to the White House, the island’s foreign ministry said Friday. While the United States does not recognize Taiwan’s claim to statehood, Washington is
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Top diplomats from the Group of Seven industrialized democracies publicly showed their consensus on Ukraine and Sudan on Wednesday, but stayed away from contentious issues like the US military strikes on boats in the Caribbean and trade. The foreign ministers of the G7 met with Ukraine’s foreign minister on
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Martha Lucía López released the boat into the river alongside hundreds of others with the faces of missing children, in one last attempt to find her son, or rather, to pray that he would find her. Her son, Sergio Melendro, was one of hundreds of children reported missing when a
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Investigators believe that the theft of several ancient statues dating back to the Roman era from Syria’s national museum was likely the work of an individual, not an organized gang, officials said Wednesday. The National Museum of Damascus was closed after the heist was discovered early Monday. The museum
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Russia said its forces had pushed deeper into the eastern Ukrainian cities of Pokrovsk and Kupiansk on Tuesday, with one video showing Russian soldiers rolling into Pokrovsk on motorbikes and even on the roofs of battered cars and vans. Moscow says taking Pokrovsk, dubbed “the gateway to Donetsk” by Russian
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Australia and Indonesia agreed on Wednesday to sign a security treaty, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, following talks in Sydney with President Prabowo Subianto. “The governments of Australia and Indonesia have just substantively concluded negotiations on a new bilateral treaty on our common security,” Albanese told journalists alongside Prabowo. “This
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Dozens of Indigenous protesters forced their way into the COP30 climate summit venue on Tuesday and clashed with security guards at the entrance to demand climate action and forest protection. Shouting angrily, protesters demanded access to the UN compound where thousands of delegates from countries around the world are attending
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Lebanon released Hannibal Qaddafi, the son of deposed Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi, on bail on Monday after nearly a decade in prison, his lawyer told AFP. “We left, he is free,” Laurent Bayon said, hours after Qaddafi’s bail of $900,000 was paid. The younger Qaddafi, 49, was accused
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Yemen’s Houthi rebels are signaling they’ve stopped their attacks against Israel and shipping in the Red Sea as a shaky ceasefire holds in the Gaza Strip. In a letter to Hamas’ Qassam Brigades published late Monday, the Houthis offered their clearest signal that their attacks have halted. “We