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Wildfires that have engulfed Turkiye for weeks threatened the country’s fourth-largest city early Sunday, causing hundreds of people to flee their homes. Overnight fires in the forested mountains surrounding Bursa in northwest Turkiye spread rapidly, bringing a red glow to the night sky over the city’s eastern suburbs.
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Hundreds of Tunisian activists protested in the capital on Friday against President Kais Saied, denouncing his rule as an “authoritarian regime” that has turned the country into an “open-air prison”. Under the slogan “The Republic is a large prison,” protesters marched along Habib Bourguiba Avenue. They demanded the release of
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The Israeli military said a “projectile” was fired from the Gaza Strip toward Israel on Saturday. “A projectile was identified crossing the Gaza Strip from the south and most likely falling in an open area,” the military said in a statement, adding that there were no injuries reported.
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President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Friday that Ukrainian forces were facing fierce fighting around the city of Pokrovsk in the east, a logistics hub near which Russia has been announcing the capture of villages on an almost daily basis. Zelensky, speaking in his nightly video address, said Ukraine’s top
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Thailand and Cambodia clashed for a third day on Saturday, as the death toll from their bloodiest fighting in years rose to 33 and Phnom Penh called for an “immediate ceasefire.” A long-running border dispute erupted into intense conflict involving jets, artillery, tanks and ground troops on Thursday, prompting the
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Negotiators from Moscow and Kyiv discussed the possibility of a direct meeting between Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin during their meeting in Istanbul this week, Zelenskyy said. Ukraine has been pushing for a meeting between the two leaders and has expressed hope that Donald Trump, who
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Hulk Hogan, the mustachioed, headscarf-wearing icon in the world of professional wrestling, has died at the age of 71, Florida police and WWE said Thursday. In Clearwater, Florida, authorities responded to a call Thursday morning about a cardiac arrest. Hogan was pronounced dead at a hospital, police said in a
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French President Emmanuel Macron announced Thursday that France will recognize Palestine as a state, in a bold diplomatic move amid snowballing global anger over people starving in Gaza. Israel denounced the decision. Macron said in a post on X that he will formalize the decision at the UN General Assembly
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The White House pulled out all the stops Wednesday to promote claims that Barack Obama headed a “treasonous conspiracy” against Donald Trump, seeking to redirect public attention from uproar over its handling of the Jeffrey Epstein affair. Trump’s intelligence chief Tulsi Gabbard told a White House press briefing there
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A United Nations report published Thursday said Taliban authorities were committing human rights violations, including torture and arbitrary detention, against Afghans forced to return by Iran and Pakistan. “People returning to the country who were at particular risk of reprisals and other human rights violations by the de facto (Taliban)
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Russian rescuers have found the fuselage of an Antonov-24 passenger plane carrying 49 passengers that disappeared from radar earlier in Russia's far east, the emergencies ministry said Thursday. "An Mi-8 helicopter operated by Rosaviatsiya (Russia's civil aviation authority) has spotted the burning fuselage of the
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Ukrainian and Russian officials could meet in Istanbul on Wednesday for a third round of peace talks, their first meeting in more than seven weeks amid US pressure to reach a ceasefire. Expectations of a breakthrough are low The two sides previously met in May and June, but failed to
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The UK on Wednesday sanctioned more than two dozen people, groups and suppliers accused of helping to smuggle migrants across the Channel, in the first such use of sanctions powers. The move comes as the UK government faces growing pressure to stem the migrant arrivals on small boats from northern
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Turkiye and Britain have signed a memorandum of understanding to allow Ankara to be a user of Eurofighter Typhoon fighters, in a big step toward securing the procurement of the jets over which Turkiye has been negotiating for years. Turkiye has been in talks to purchase 40 of the jets,
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At least 27 people were killed after a Bangladesh Air Force training jet crashed into a college and school campus in Dhaka, officials said on Tuesday, with 88 people, including children, being treated in hospital. The F-7 BGI aircraft crashed soon after it took off at 1:06 p.m.
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Ukraine’s new prime minister, Yulia Svyrydenko, said she will probably seek more financing from the International Monetary Fund, and will speak with US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about new funding, Bloomberg News reported on Tuesday. “If the baseline scenario assumes the war will continue into next year, it is