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King Charles III’s cancer was caught early and the whole country is hoping for a speedy recovery, British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak said Tuesday, as the monarch’s son Prince Harry reportedly flew from the US to visit his father. Buckingham Palace announced Monday evening that the king has
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Israel has begun investigating possible breaches of the law by its forces during the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, the military said on Tuesday, following reports some Israeli civilians may have been killed by friendly fire in the fighting. The left-wing daily Haaretz said the investigation centered on an incident
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The United Nations agency for Palestinian refugees expects a preliminary report into Israeli claims that a dozen of its employees took part in the Oct. 7 attack on Israel to be ready by early next month, its representative in Lebanon said Tuesday. Israel has accused 12 of UNRWA’s 13,
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An Irish nationalist has made history by becoming Northern Ireland’s first leader as the government returned to work after a two-year boycott by unionists. Sinn Féin Vice President Michelle O’Neill was nominated as first minister in the government that under the terms of the 1998 Good Friday peace
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A fire broke out overnight at a major Russian oil refinery in the southwestern Volgograd region, authorities said Saturday, after a drone strike claimed by Ukraine. Kyiv has launched drone attacks on Russia for months during Moscow’s almost two-year offensive, and a Ukrainian defense source told AFP Kyiv’s
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The US military has launched air strikes against targets in Syria in the first retaliation for a drone attack that killed three soldiers at a remote US base in Jordan, US media reported Friday. The Pentagon did not immediately comment on the reports. Fox News cited an unidentified Defense Department
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President Joe Biden and first lady Jill Biden will join grieving families at Dover Air Force Base on Friday to honor three American service members killed in a drone attack in Jordan, a solemn ritual that has become relatively uncommon in recent years as the US withdrew from conflicts abroad.
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Two French volunteer aid workers were killed in a Russian drone attack in the southern Ukrainian region of Kherson, French Foreign Minister Stephane Sejourne said on Friday, confirming reports from the regional governor and other officials. “Russian barbarity has targeted civilians in Ukraine. Two French aid workers have paid with
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Nearly 100 migrants have died or disappeared in the central and eastern Mediterranean since the beginning of 2024, more than double the toll recorded last year during the same period, the UN migration agency said on Monday. The comment was made during an Italy-Africa Conference in Rome attended by more
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US Secretary of State Antony Blinken warned Monday that Ukraine’s gains over two years of fighting were all in doubt without new US funding, as NATO’s chief visited to lobby Congress. Tens of billions of dollars in US aid has been sent to Ukraine since the invasion in
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Vietnam and the Philippines agreed on Tuesday to boost cooperation among their coast guards and to prevent untoward incidents in the South China Sea, in an announcement during a state visit to Hanoi by President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. The two Southeast Asian countries have competing claims over some parts of
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Talks between European Union countries aimed at agreeing on more aid for Ukraine later this week remain “difficult,” a senior EU official said on Tuesday, despite Hungary having signalled its readiness for a compromise. EU leaders meet on Thursday to try agree on extending 50 billion euros ($54 billion) in
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The far-right AfD party suffered a narrow electoral defeat on Sunday after huge protests swept across Germany against the anti-immigration group over revelations of debates about mass expulsions of immigrants. A candidate from the mainstream center-right CDU won a slim victory over an AfD challenger in a run-off in eastern
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North Korea tested its new strategic cruise missiles for the second time in a week on Sunday, calling it a newly developed submarine-launched cruise missile (SLCM), accelerating its navy’s nuclear armament, state media reported on Monday. Leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of the missile, called “Pulhwasal-3-31,” which
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Pro-Iran fighters were among six dead in an Israeli strike Monday on the Sayyida Zeinab district south of the Syrian capital Damascus, a war monitor said. “Israeli strikes targeted a base belonging to Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guards, killing six people” including pro-Iran fighters, said Rami Abdel Rahman, director
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NEW YORK: UN chief Antonio Guterres pleaded on Saturday for donor states to “guarantee the continuity” of the body’s Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) after several halted funding over accusations of staff involvement in Hamas’ October 7 attack on Israel. “While I understand their concerns — I was myself horrified by