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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
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Radio stations across Haiti were jammed with calls just hours after a court in Kenya blocked the deployment of a U.N.-backed police force to help fight gangs in the troubled Caribbean country. Many callers wondered and demanded: What's next? Few know. Uncertainty and fear have been
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NEW YORK: A jury has awarded an additional $83.3 million to former advice columnist E. Jean Carroll, who says former President Donald Trump damaged her reputation by calling her a liar after she accused him of sexual assault. The verdict was delivered Friday by a seven-man, two-woman jury in
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BUENOS AIRES: Argentina’s new President Javier Milei, who has recently embraced Orthodox Judaism, said Friday he would visit Israel as he condemned Hamas’ actions in an address to the Jewish community in Buenos Aires. “In the coming weeks, I will be traveling to the Holy Land,” Milei said in
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MOSCOW: Russia on Thursday opened a “terrorism” investigation over a military plane crash near the border with Ukraine after it accused Kyiv of downing the aircraft, which it said had more than 60 captured Ukrainian soldiers onboard. The Russian defense and foreign ministries have blamed Ukrainian forces for downing the
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Iranian dissidents living inside the Islamic republic and in exile Thursday went on hunger strike to protest the surge of hangings in Iran that included most recently a participant in the 2022 protest movement who activists say had mental health difficulties. Led by jailed 2023 Nobel Peace Prize winner Narges
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Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Health has issued a statement to allay fears about “Disease X,” a hypothetical pathogen that the World Health Organization has discussed in relation to potential threats to humankind. The ministry clarified that the comments by WHO officials at the World Economic Forum in Davos last
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BAMAKO, MALI — An official in Mali says more than 70 people are dead after an informal gold mine collapsed late last week, and a search continues amid fears the toll could rise. Karim Berthe, a senior official at the government's National Geology and Mining Directorate, confirmed the details
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According to the Interior Ministry, 75,000 people took part across the country, with 16,000 protesters turning out in Paris. The hard-left CGT union put the number of protesters nationwide at 150,000. The timing of the protests was critical, coming four days before the Constitutional Council decides on
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BEIJING — At least eight people were killed in a factory explosion in eastern China's Jiangsu province early Saturday morning, state media reported. The blast occurred at 3:38 a.m. local time (1938 GMT on Friday) in the workshop of a metal product factory in Changzhou city, 180
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Prince Harry has withdrawn his libel claim against the Mail on Sunday publisher, Associated Newspapers says. The Duke of Sussex, 39, had sued over an article about his publicly-funded security arrangements when visiting the UK after stepping back as a senior royal. In an article on the Daily Mail website
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Donald Trump will go to court today in an effort to block one of his criminal trials.
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Gabriel Attal promised to be bold and act fast to help the middle class weather the rising cost of living, after President Emmanuel Macron, seeking to breathe new life into his second term, on Tuesday made him France's youngest ever prime minister.