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Palestinian officials say two killed in West Bank raid

Palestinian officials said Friday Israeli troops killed a teenager and an adult in the occupied West Bank, while the Israeli army said it killed a...

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French police detain intruder at Iranian consulate in Paris

French authorities Friday detained a man suspected of entering the Iranian consulate in Paris and claiming to be carrying explosives, police and...

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French police detain man after alert from Iran consulate in Paris

French authorities on Friday detained a man after receiving an alert from the Iranian consulate in Paris that someone had entered carrying an...

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Three Filipinos dead in UAE floods: officials

Three workers from the Philippines have died in heavy flooding in the United Arab Emirates, Filipino officials announced, as the desert country...

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What we know about reported strike on Iran

Explosions rocked Iran's central Isfahan province on Friday, according to state media, while US officials told American news outlets that Israel...

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Explosions in Iran, US media reports Israeli strikes

Iran's state media reported explosions in the central province of Isfahan Friday, as US media quoted officials saying Israel had carried out...

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IMF chief urges attention to war-ravaged Yemen, Sudan

International Monetary Fund chief Kristalina Georgieva on Thursday drew attention to the suffering in Yemen and Sudan, both plagued by civil wars and...

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Slow recovery as Dubai airport, roads still plagued by floods

Dubai's airport, one of the world's busiest, witnessed major disruption for the third day in a row on Thursday after the heaviest rains on record...

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Beach offers rare respite for war-weary Gazans

Hundreds of Gazans found rare respite at the beach this week from more than six months of traumatising Israeli bombardments in the Palestinian...

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Columbia president grilled over anti-Semitism on campus

Leaders of Columbia University defended the prestigious New York school's efforts to combat anti-Semitism on campus at a fiery congressional hearing...

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Hamas chief Haniyeh to visit Turkey this weekend: Erdogan

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Wednesday he would host a leader of Palestinian militant group Hamas, Ismail Haniyeh, in Turkey this...

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Republican leader finally announces Ukraine, Israel war aid vote

The Republican leader in the House of Representatives announced Wednesday a vote on renewing long-delayed US military aid to Ukraine, as well as to...

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Amnesty accuses US-backed Syria Kurds of torture, other abuses

Amnesty International accused US-backed Kurdish authorities in northeastern Syria Wednesday of resorting to torture and other abuses in their...

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Iran hails 'success' of attack on Israel during military parade

Iran celebrated the "success" of its weekend drone and missile attack on Israel as it staged an annual military parade on Wednesday. The Islamic...

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Dubai reels from floods chaos after record rains

Dubai's giant highways were clogged by flooding and airport passengers were urged to stay away on Wednesday as the glitzy financial centre reeled from...

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Security Council to vote Thursday on Palestinian state UN membership

The United Nations Security Council will vote Thursday on the Palestinians' application to become a full UN member state, several diplomatic sources...

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White House gives cautious nod to Ukraine, Israel bills

The White House said Tuesday that separate aid bills set for a vote in the US House this week appear to meet the long-delayed military needs of...

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Hundreds of Gazans queue for bread at reopened bakery

Hundreds of Palestinians queued for bread at a reopened bakery in Gaza City, after fresh supplies arrived in a heavily blockaded area that has...

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UN agency finds unexploded 1,000-pound bombs in Gaza schools

The UN agency for Palestinian refugees said Tuesday it had found unexploded 1,000-pound bombs inside schools after Israel pulled troops out of...

16.04.2024 4

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Heavy storms soak Gulf as Oman toll rises to 18

Torrential rains and high winds lashed parts of the Gulf on Tuesday as the death toll from storms in Oman rose to 18, many of them children. Flights...

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Israel obstructing access to Hamas attack victims: UN probe

Israel is preventing UN investigators from speaking to witnesses and victims of the October 7 Hamas attack, former UN rights chief Navi Pillay, who is...

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Israel pledges response to Iran strikes as allies push restraint

Israel's armed forces chief has vowed to respond to Iran's unprecedented attack against the country, even after appeals for restraint poured in from...

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Biden to meet Iraqi PM as Middle East tensions soar

US President Joe Biden will meet Iraq's Prime Minister Mohamed Shia al-Sudani at the White House Monday, after Iran's attack on Israel sent tensions...

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Macron says will do everything to avoid Middle East escalation

President Emmanuel Macron said Monday that France would help do everything to avoid an escalation in the Middle East after an unprecedented Iranian...

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Israel, Iran trade accusations at Security Council meeting

Israel and Iran accused one another Sunday at the United Nations of being the main threat to peace in the Middle East, each calling on the Security...

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Middle East, world cannot 'afford more war': UN chief

United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres warned the international community Sunday against deeper descent into conflict, addressing the...

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Gazans flood road north after 'open checkpoint' rumours

Thousands of Gazans flooded the coast road north on Sunday after hearing that several people managed to cross a closed checkpoint towards Gaza City,...

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Israel strikes Hezbollah site in east Lebanon

Israel Sunday struck a Hezbollah site in Lebanon's east near the Syrian border, the Israeli army and a source from the Iran-backed group said, as...

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Hezbollah source says Israel struck position in east Lebanon

A Hezbollah source said Israel struck Sunday one of the Iran-backed group's buildings in Lebanon's east, close to the Syrian border, as tensions...

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Palestinian to bury settler attack victim as West Bank tensions soar

A funeral was expected Sunday for a man Palestinian officials say was killed by Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank, where the murder of an...

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Death of Israeli teenager in West Bank fuels attacks on Palestinians

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday condemned the "heinous murder" of an Israeli teenager in the occupied West Bank as attacks on...

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Hunt for Israel teen resumes in West Bank after settler attacks

The search for a missing Israeli teenager resumed Saturday in the occupied West Bank, where settler attacks on Palestinian villages have left at least...

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Rushdie's first thought on attempted assassin: 'So it's you'

Salman Rushdie, targeted for assassination since 1989 over his writing, had long wondered who would kill him. When he was stabbed almost fatally, his...

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Hunt for Israel teen missing in West Bank turns violent

Israel launched a massive manhunt in the occupied West Bank Friday after an Israeli teenager went missing, with the search party clashing with...

12.04.2024 5

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Argentine court blames 'terrorist state' Iran for 1990s attacks

An Argentine court has blamed Iran for two deadly attacks on Israeli targets in Buenos Aires three decades ago, declaring it a "terrorist state" in a...

12.04.2024 5

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Thousands of Lebanese mourn slain Christian political official

Thousands of Lebanese on Friday mourned a slain Christian political official authorities said was killed by a Syrian gang, with supporters pointing...

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Over 60 members of Gaza family killed in separate Israeli strikes

Gaza's Tabatibi family is in mourning for the second time in less than a month, after separate Israeli bombardments on buildings they were sheltering...

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Israeli forces kill 2 in West Bank: Palestinian agency

Israeli forces shot dead two Palestinians early Friday in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian news agency Wafa reported, but the military said it...

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Apple to fix 'bug' behind Palestinian flag emoji suggestions

Apple on Thursday promised it would stop a Palestinian flag emoji from being suggested to some iPhone users when they type "Jerusalem" in messages....

12.04.2024 6

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Israeli ultra-Orthodox minister breaks ranks on military draft

An Israeli minister said Thursday that after Hamas's October 7 attack, there was no longer a "moral" justification to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jewish men...

11.04.2024 5

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Generation War: children in Sudan today

Amna Ishaq can no longer feed her children "more than once a day and sometimes not at all" after nearly a year of devastating war in Sudan. "We are...

11.04.2024 5

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Israeli strike kills Hamas leader Haniyeh's sons in Gaza

Three of Hamas chief Ismail Haniyeh's sons were killed Wednesday in an Israeli strike in Gaza, the Palestinian leader and Israel's military said, as...

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Gazans mark 'saddest' Eid with little to celebrate or eat

Gazans did their best to celebrate the end of Ramadan in the driving rain on Wednesday, as the war raged on with 14 killed, including children, in a...

10.04.2024 7

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'Unbearable': Gaza families try to identify Al-Shifa dead

Palestinian nurse Maha Sweylem came to the gutted shell of the Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza hoping for yet dreading news of her husband, who she...

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Humanity lost 'moral compass' on Gaza: top UN official

The international community has lost its "moral compass" on war-ravaged Gaza, United Nations Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed said Tuesday....

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'Unbearable': Gaza families try to identify Al-Shifa dead

Palestinian nurse Maha Sweylem came to the gutted shell of the Al-Shifa hospital in northern Gaza hoping yet dreading for news of her husband, whom...

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Lebanon minister vows tighter grip on Syrians after killing of party official

Lebanon's interior minister vowed Tuesday to get tough on Syrians after several were arrested on suspicion of involvement in killing a political...

09.04.2024 6

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Israel blocking more food than other aid in hunger-stalked Gaza: UN

Israel is blocking far more convoys carrying food aid within Gaza, where famine is looming, than convoys carrying other kinds of aid, the UN said...

09.04.2024 6

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Seven Syrians held over murder of Lebanon politician: judicial official

Lebanese security forces have arrested seven Syrians on suspicion of involvement in the abduction and murder of a local politician opposed to the...

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Saudi says Eid al-Fitr holiday to start Wednesday

Saudi Arabia, home to Islam's holiest shrines, announced Monday that the holiday of Eid al-Fitr marking the end of the Ramadan fast will begin on...

08.04.2024 4

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