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Israelis fear for hostages as Netanyahu celebrates ‘crushing blows’ against enemies
As Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu celebrates what he sees as major victories against Hamas and Hezbollah this week, the mood...
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She wanted ‘the world’ for her daughter. Instead, she got a landmark prison sentence
Ruqia Haidari was the baby of the family. The youngest of five children, she was born in Afghanistan in 1999,...
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Myanmar rebels are claiming their biggest victory yet over junta forces. Could it be a turning point in the brutal civil war?
The pounding of sustained gunfire and artillery had rattled Khin Swe’s home in northeastern Myanmar for days, with shelling getting...
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Children of undercover Russian spy couple only learned their nationality on flight to Moscow
The children of two Russian intelligence agents, who were among the detainees released as part of a historic prisoner swap,...
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Famine declared in Sudan’s Darfur region after months of civil war
Famine has officially been declared in at least one refugee camp sheltering hundreds of thousands of people in the Darfur...
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Eight people arrested during latest UK protest after fatal stabbings
Eight people were arrested and three police officers were injured during violent unrest in Britain’s northeast, the latest in a wave...
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Venezuela’s opposition secured over 80% of crucial vote tally sheets. Here’s how they did it
The statement that upended Venezuela came 24 hours after polls closed in the presidential election. With the reassuring tone of...
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UK rocked by far-right riots fueled by online disinformation about Southport stabbings
Far-right demonstrations turned violent for a second night across England Wednesday, in the wake of this week’s mass stabbing in...
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Palestinian homes were destroyed ‘for revenge,’ says Israeli soldier who served in Gaza
Yuval Green, a 26-year-old former paratrooper, is one of a handful of soldiers who have served in Israel’s war against Hamas and...
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What a historic prisoner swap means for Vladimir Putin’s Russia
Russia’s release of Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich, former US Marine Paul Whelan and Russian-American journalist Alsu Kurmasheva is...
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