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The classrooms at a school building in Abtaa, in Syria’s southern province of Daraa, have turned into living quarters housing three or four families each. Because of the lack of privacy and close quarters, the woman and children sleep inside, with the men bedding down outside in the courtyard.
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The United Nations’ nuclear watchdog said Tuesday that its inspectors found traces of uranium at a site in Syria believed to be part of a clandestine nuclear program by the former government. Syria under former President Bashar Assad was believed to have operated an extensive undeclared nuclear program, which included
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The reports of chemical weapon use have sparked widespread alarm among Sudanese civilians, especially after visible signs of such weapons emerged in several areas. This detailed account, focused on Sennar and Jabal Moya, presents direct testimonies from residents who have endured the devastating impact of these weapons on their health
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Dilek Kaya İmamoğlu: “People who could be acquitted at their first hearing are being deprived of their freedom for months” Seraf Özer: “28.26% of voters are being imprisoned along with their elected mayors”
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As Russia held its Victory Day parade this year, hackers backing the Kremlin hijacked an orbiting satellite that provides television service to Ukraine. Instead of normal programing, Ukrainian viewers saw parade footage beamed in from Moscow: waves of tanks, soldiers and weaponry. The message was meant to intimidate, and it
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Eighty years after the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, many of the remaining elderly Japanese survivors are increasingly frustrated by growing nuclear threats and the acceptance of nuclear weapons by global leaders. The US attacks on Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945, and three days later on Nagasaki killed more
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Rome, July 31, 2025 — The third Free Iran World Summit convened in Rome, drawing an international coalition of political leaders, diplomats, and human rights advocates who voiced support for regime change in Iran. The summit focused on condemning Tehran’s mass executions, denouncing crimes against humanity, and backing the National
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The Australian government announced YouTube will be among the social media platforms that must ensure account holders are at least 16-years-old from December, reversing a position taken months ago on the popular video-sharing service. YouTube was listed as an exemption in November last year when the Parliament passed world-first laws
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More than two years have passed since Sudan plunged into a civil war that has caused what aid organizations have described as one of the world’s worst displacement and hunger crises. The conflict between the Sudanese military and the Rapid Support Forces paramilitary group continues largely in the vast
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Despite billions of dollars in international support, Somalia’s army has melted in the face of a months-long offensive by the Al-Qaeda-linked Al-Shabab insurgency, and donors are running out of patience. Using hundreds of fighters and a vehicle packed with explosives for a suicide attack, Al-Shabab retook the town of
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At least 25 children were among the 27 people killed when a Bangladesh Air Force plane crashed into a college and school campus in the capital city of Dhaka on Monday. Here is a look at what happened. HOW DID THE CRASH OCCUR? The fighter aircraft took off at 1:
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The top United Nations court will on Wednesday hand down a landmark global legal blueprint for tackling climate change that also sets out top polluters’ responsibilities toward the countries suffering most. The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has been tasked with crafting a so-called advisory opinion on countries’ obligations to
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Russian authorities have confiscated assets worth some $50 billion over the past three years, underscoring the scale of the transformation into a “fortress Russia” economic model during the war in Ukraine, research showed on Wednesday. The conflict has been accompanied by a significant transfer of assets as many Western companies
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More than 17 million people in conflict-torn Yemen are going hungry, including over a million children under the age of 5 who are suffering from “life-threatening acute malnutrition,” the United Nations humanitarian chief said Wednesday. Tom Fletcher told the UN Security Council that the food security crisis in the Arab
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Dozens of times a year, Rebun Kayo takes a ferry to a small island across from the port of Hiroshima in search of the remains of those killed by the atomic bomb 80 years ago. For the 47-year-old researcher, unearthing even the tiniest fragments on Ninoshima Island is a sobering
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Nearly 450,000 Afghans have returned from Iran since the start of June, the United Nations’ migration agency said on Monday, after Tehran ordered those without documentation to leave by July 6. From June 1 to July 5, 449,218 Afghans returned from Iran, a spokesman for the International Organization