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Syria’s new interim president, Ahmed Al-Sharaa, said he plans to establish a transitional justice committee, in a speech Tuesday after the opening of a national dialogue conference. Sharaa, whose Islamist group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham toppled longtime president Bashar Assad in December, also emphasized the unity of Syria and the
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Elon Musk’s SpaceX is looking to deploy Starlink satellite Internet terminals to speed up the information technology networks that support the US Federal Aviation Administration’s national airspace system, Bloomberg News reported on Monday.
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krainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky hailed his country's “resistance” and “heroism” on Monday on the third anniversary of Russia's invasion as EU leaders arrived in Kyiv in a show of solidarity. He said: “Three years of resistance. Three years of gratitude. Three years of absolute heroism of
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Russia on Monday demanded a full French investigation into explosions at its consulate in Marseille which it said looked like an act of terrorism, state news agency TASS said. There was no word on any casualties, and no immediate information on the extent of any damage. “The explosions on the
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Thousands of foreigners freed from online scam-operating centers in Myanmar are stuck in limbo on the border with Thailand after a multinational crackdown on the compounds run by criminal gangs, three sources told Reuters on Monday. In recent weeks, authorities from China, Thailand and Myanmar have attempted to dismantle scam
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US President Donald Trump said on Saturday he was trying to get money back for the billions of dollars sent to support Ukraine’s war against Russia. His comments came as Washington and Kyiv negotiate a mineral resources deal Trump wants as compensation for the wartime aid his predecessor Joe
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Sudan’s paramilitary Rapid Support Forces and a coalition of political and armed groups have signed a founding charter to establish a parallel government in the war-ravaged country, sources said Sunday. “It’s done,” a source close to the organizers of the signing ceremony, which took place overnight in Nairobi,
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Israel says the release of hundreds of Palestinian prisoners is delayed “until the release of the next hostages has been assured, and without the humiliating ceremonies” at handovers of Israeli captives in Gaza. The statement by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s office came early Sunday as military vehicles that normally
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The Defense Department said Friday that it’s cutting 5,400 probationary workers starting next week and will put a hiring freeze in place. It comes after staffers from the Department of Government Efficiency, or DOGE, were at the Pentagon earlier in the week and received lists of such employees,
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Syria’s new President Ahmed Al-Sharaa met China’s ambassador to Damascus in the first public engagement between the two countries since the overthrow of Bashar Assad in December, Syrian state media said on Friday. China, which backed Assad, saw its embassy in Damascus looted after his fall, and Syria’
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Palestinian militants on Saturday freed two Israeli hostages, among the last live captives eligible for release under the first phase of a fragile truce that is also expected to see Palestinian prisoners released. Freedom for the captives caps an emotional two days in Israel, where the family of another hostage,
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Pope Francis spent another night without incident in hospital, the Vatican said on Friday, after a week in the hospital where the 88-year-old pontiff is being treated for bronchitis and pneumonia. “The night went well, this morning Pope Francis got up and had breakfast,” the Vatican said in a regular
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on Friday that Hamas had handed over the body of a “Gazan woman” the day before and not that of hostage Shiri Bibas as agreed in the truce deal. “In an unimaginably cynical manner, they did not return Shiri to her small children, the
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The Trump administration has ordered senior US military leaders to plan for expansive cuts that could slash the defense budget by eight percent annually, or some $290 billion within the next five years, US media reported Wednesday. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth told the Pentagon to develop the deep reductions, The
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An Israeli group campaigning for the release of hostages held in Gaza said it had received the “heart-shattering” news of the deaths of three members of the Bibas family whose bodies Hamas said it would hand over on Thursday. “We received the heart-shattering news that Shiri Bibas, her children Ariel
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Yemeni Information Minister Moammar Al-Eryani called on Wednesday for the arrest of a group of leaders from Yemen’s Iran-aligned Houthis who he said will attend Lebanese Hezbollah chief Hassan Nasrallah’s funeral in Beirut. Nasrallah, who had served as Hezbollah’s secretary general for more than 30 years, was