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North Korea’s recent escalation of threats and more tests of weapons aimed at South Korea haven’t done much to upset the calm in the nation’s capital. “We learned to be numb,” said Renee Na, a 33-year-old office worker in Seoul who was one of a dozen South
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It is a full nine months until the presidential election but Donald Trump is already wielding extraordinary influence as he seeks to bend US foreign policy to his ambitions of a return to the White House. The Republican has been a private citizen since leaving office in 2021 but is
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US President Joe Biden’s administration said on Monday he would veto a standalone bill backed by House of Representatives Republicans that would provide aid to Israel, as the White House pushes for a broader measure providing assistance to Ukraine and Israel and providing new funds for border security. “The
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Islamic Resistance in Iraq militants on Saturday targeted the al-Harir air base hosting US forces in northern Iraq, the group said hours after the US carried out retaliatory strikes in Iraq and Syria against Iran-linked targets. President Joe Biden and other top US leaders had been warning for days that
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Hamas officials said Friday that the group is studying a proposed ceasefire deal that would include prolonged pauses in fighting in Gaza and swaps of Israeli hostages for Palestinian prisoners, but at the same time appeared to rule out some of its key components. Osama Hamdan, a senior Hamas official
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The United States announced new sanctions Friday aimed at the Iranian Revolutionary Guard, as Washington prepares retaliation after a strike killing three Americans in Jordan that was blamed on Iran-backed militias. The US Treasury Department said it was imposing sanctions on six officials in the cyber-electronic command of the Iranian
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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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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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The US is reportedly planning to move nuclear warheads to the UK in response to the growing threat from Russia. Senior figures on both sides of the Atlantic have called for preparations to be ramped up in case of a potential war between NATO forces and Russia. To reinforce the
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From Wall Street to Silicon Valley, wealthy donors have thrown tens of millions of dollars at Republican US presidential candidate Nikki Haley in an effort to keep Donald Trump from returning to the White House. They have learned a hard lesson: Big money cannot win the Republican presidential nomination, at
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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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The Philippines and Vietnam will agree to boost coast guard cooperation during a visit to Hanoi next week by Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., officials said, a move that risks angering China. The two Southeast Asian countries have competing claims over swathes of the South China Sea, an important waterway
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ISLAMABAD — Pakistan and Iran agreed Friday to defuse tensions and re-establish full diplomatic ties after their militaries traded unprecedented airstrikes this week against alleged militant camps on each other's territory. According to the Pakistani foreign ministry, the agreement stemmed from a telephone conversation that Foreign Minister Jalil Abbas
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US President Joe Biden has said that attacks on the Houthis will continue even as he acknowledged that the group have not stopped their Red Sea attacks. The US carried out a fifth round of strikes on Yemen on Thursday after a US ship was struck by a Houthi drone.
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Donald Trump will go to court today in an effort to block one of his criminal trials.