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The UAE has condemned an attack that targeted the residence of its head of mission in Khartoum by a Sudanese army aircraft, which resulted in extensive damage to the building. In a statement, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs affirmed that it would submit a formal letter to the League of
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The SpaceX crew that will ferry back in February two astronauts stranded on the International Space Station docked with the orbiting laboratory on Sunday, a live stream of the mission showed. The Falcon 9 rocket took off at 1:17 p.m. (1717 GMT) from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Saturday,
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A forest fire in central Greece has killed two men who were helping firefighters tackle the blaze, authorities said Monday. The fire near Corinth, 140 kilometers (87 miles) west of Athens, has forced several villages to evacuate. Anastasios Giolis, the deputy governor of Corinth, told public broadcaster ERT that two
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The neat brown rectangle of an airstrip stands out against the vast expanse of floodwater all around — a crucial lifeline in this remote corner of South Sudan. The landing strip in Bentiu has been carefully preserved with huge dykes against the waters that have added another layer of devastation to
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The death toll from ongoing sectarian clashes in northwest Pakistan has risen to at least 37, with more than 150 injured in fighting that has raged for a sixth straight day, a local official told AFP on Friday. The Kurram district, formerly a semi-autonomous area, has a history of bloody
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A powerful hurricane was barreling toward Florida on Thursday, with officials warning of “unsurvivable” conditions and a potentially catastrophic storm surge high enough to swamp a two-story house. Tens of thousands of people were without power and roads were already flooded ahead of what is expected to be one of
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New fighting rocked Sudan’s capital on Thursday, as the death toll rapidly increased from the country’s worsening cholera outbreak, officials and Sudanese media said. Sudan’s military launched an operation in the early hours of Thursday aimed at taking control of areas in the capital that had been
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S: Thirteen bodies believed to be of sub-Saharan African migrants have been found dead off Tunisia’s eastern coast, a judicial official told AFP on Wednesday. The bodies were found Tuesday and Wednesday off the coastal towns of Salakta and Chebba, said Farid Ben Jha, the spokesman for the public
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Sri Lanka’s new President Anura Kumara Dissanayake on Tuesday swore in an opposition lawmaker as his prime minister, making her the country’s first woman to head the government in 24 years. Harini Amarasuriya, 54, a university lecturer and activist, comes from a similar background as Dissanayake and both
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Nigerian officials seized 19.4 kg (42.77 pounds) of cocaine worth 4.66 billion naira ($2.93 million) from a passenger who arrived at Lagos airport on a flight from Ethiopia, its anti-drug agency said on Tuesday. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) said it arrested a 48-year
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SpaceX plans to launch about five uncrewed Starship missions to Mars in two years, CEO Elon Musk said on Sunday in a post on social media platform X. Earlier this month, Musk had said that the first Starships to Mars would launch in two years “when the next Earth-Mars transfer
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A former Lebanese diplomat accused of being a financier for the Iranian-backed Hezbollah movement pleaded guilty Friday to evading US financial sanctions against him and his organization, branded as “terrorist” by the US government. Mohammad Ibrahim Bazzi, 60, who holds Lebanese, British and Belgian citizenship, pleaded guilty in a federal
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The Israeli military said it had carried out a targeted strike in Beirut on Friday which security sources in Lebanon said had hit near key Hezbollah facilities in the southern suburbs of the city, marking a sharp escalation of the conflict between the sides. Witnesses heard a blast in Beirut’
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World leaders will descend on the United Nation’s New York HQ from Sunday for the organization’s annual signature gathering against an explosive backdrop of raging wars, growing populism and diplomatic deadlock. The war in Gaza, soaring Middle East tensions, famine conditions in Sudan’s civil war and the
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Lebanon’s Health Minister Firass Abiad said 37 people were killed and 2,931 wounded in a new toll after hand-held devices used by Hezbollah members exploded across Lebanon, in attacks blamed on Israel. Abiad said 25 people were killed on Wednesday and 12 on Tuesday, updating an earlier toll
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Pakistani police arrested the key suspect in the gang rape of a woman polio worker who was assaulted by three men during last week’s vaccination campaign, officials said Wednesday. Two other suspects are still at large. The assault on Thursday in Jacobabad, a district in the southern Sindh province,