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Israeli airstrikes near city of Aleppo kills several people, Syrian state media say

Beirut: Israeli airstrikes around the Syrian city of Aleppo killed several people early on Monday, Syrian state media reported. The state-run SANA news agency gave no specific toll. It said the strikes

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Iran’s acting top diplomat visits Lebanon in the first official visit since his predecessor’s death

Beirut: Iran’s acting foreign minister arrived in Lebanon Monday, his first official diplomatic visit since his predecessor died in a helicopter crash last month. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that Ali

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Israel tells citizens to avoid travel to Maldives, leave if present there

Jerusalem: Israel has advised its citizens, including those holding an additional foreign passport, to avoid travelling to the Maldives and asked those staying there to leave the Indian Ocean archipelago, a day

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Energy shutdowns hit Ukraine after Russian attacks target infrastructure

Kyivy: Ukraine imposed emergency power shutdowns in most of the country on Sunday, a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on energy infrastructure and claimed it made gains in the eastern Donetsk

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China’s Chang’e-6 successfully lands on rarely explored Moon’s far side to collect samples

Beijing: A Chinese spacecraft successfully touched down on the far side of the Moon on Sunday, in the first endeavour of its kind to collect samples from this rarely explored terrain. The

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Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers for June 28 presidential election

Dubai: Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered Sunday as a possible candidate for the presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation’s

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Hostage families call for a cease-fire deal pushed by Biden. Israel says conditions must be met

Tel Aviv: Families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas called for all parties to immediately accept a proposal detailed by US President Joe Biden to end the nearly 8-month-long war and bring

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The ANC party that freed South Africa from apartheid loses its 30-year majority

Johannesburg: The African National Congress party lost its parliamentary majority in a historic election result Saturday that puts South Africa on a new political path for the first time since the end

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US defence secretary says war with China neither imminent nor unavoidable, stressing need for talks

Singapore: United States Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin told a gathering of top security officials Saturday that war with China was neither imminent nor unavoidable, despite rapidly escalating tensions in the Asia-Pacific

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12 killed in airstrikes in central Gaza as strikes targeting Houthi rebels kill 16

Jerusalem: At least a dozen people were killed in two airstrikes Friday in central Gaza. Two children and four women were among the dead. Palestinians in the border city of Rafah have

Israel confirms its forces are in central Rafah in expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city

Jerusalem: The Israeli military confirmed Friday that its forces are operating in central parts of Rafah in its expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city. Israel launched its ground assault into the

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UN refugee chief says 114 million have fled homes because nations fail to tackle causes of conflict

United Nations: The number of people fleeing their homes because of war, violence and persecution has reached 114 million and is climbing because nations have failed to tackle the causes and combatants

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Donald Trump becomes first former US president to be convicted of felony in hush money trial

Washington: Donald Trump has been found guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records by a grand jury in New York, an unprecedented and historic verdict that makes him the first

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UN chief cites the promise and perils of dizzying new technology as ”AI for Good” conference opens

Geneva: The UN telecommunications agency has kicked off its annual AI for Good conference, hoping to guide business, consumers and governments on ways to tap the promise of the new technology but

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Massive international police operation takes down ransomware networks, arrests 4 suspects

The Hague (Netherlands): Police coordinated by the European Union’s justice agency have taken down computer networks responsible for spreading ransomware via infected emails, in what they called the biggest ever international operation

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2 soldiers are killed in a West Bank car-ramming attack, Israeli military says

Jerusalem: The Israeli military said Thursday that two soldiers were killed in a car-ramming attack in the occupied West Bank. Violence in the West Bank has surged throughout the war in Gaza

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Algeria proposes Security Council resolution demanding Israel halt offensive in Rafah

United Nations: Algeria is circulating a proposed UN Security Council resolution that would demand an immediate cease-fire in Gaza and order Israel to halt its military offensive in the southern city of

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Executions worldwide jumped last year to the highest number since 2015, Amnesty report says

London: The number of executions recorded worldwide last year jumped to the highest level since 2015, with a sharp rise in Iran and across the Middle East, Amnesty International said in a

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US condemns loss of life, but says no policy changes after civilian deaths in Israeli strike

Washington: The White House on Tuesday condemned the loss of life of dozens of civilians as a result of an Israeli airstrike in Rafah, but said it is not planning any policy

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Spain, Norway and Ireland formally recognise a Palestinian state as EU rift with Israel widens

Barcelona: Spain, Norway and Ireland formally recognised a Palestinian state on Tuesday in a coordinated effort by the three western European nations to add international pressure on Israel to soften its devastating

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