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JERUSAELM: Israeli jets intensified attacks on central Gaza on Sunday, as battles raged through the rubble of towns and refugee camps in a war Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said would take "many more months" to end.…
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AHMEDABAD: India has launched an investigation after 303 Indians ended up on a chartered flight that was grounded in France last week over suspected human trafficking, authorities in the western Indian state of Gujarat said. Tipped off…
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Gaston Glock, the reclusive engineer and tycoon who developed one of the world's best-selling handguns, died on Wednesday aged 94. The Austrian won loyal followings among police and military across the world with the weapons that bore…
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TEHRAN:  Iran's Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei led prayers on Thursday at the funeral of Sayyed Razi Mousavi, a senior Revolutionary Guards (IRGC) adviser killed after an Israeli air strike in Syria. Iranian state television said Khamenei…
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BEIRUT: Israeli airstrike outside the Syrian capital Damascus on Monday killed a senior adviser in Iran's Revolutionary Guards, three security sources and Iranian state media said. The sources told Reuters news agency that the adviser,…
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JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has vowed to keep fighting in Gaza until Hamas is destroyed, defying global calls for a ceasefire amid concerns the conflict could spread with US and Iran-aligned forces again attacking…
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PRAGUE: A 24-year-old Czech student shot dead his father, then killed 14 people and wounded 25 others at his Prague university on Thursday before possibly killing himself, police said, marking the country's worst-ever mass shooting. The…
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PARIS: France appointed its first woman domestic intelligence chief, with top police officer Celine Berthon stepping up to head the General Directorate for Internal Security (DGSI). The 5,000-strong organisation plays a key role in…
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CAIRO:  The United States said "very serious" negotiations were taking place on a new Gaza ceasefire and release of more Israeli hostages but prospects for a deal remained uncertain as Hamas insisted it would not discuss anything less than…
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REYKJAVIK: A volcano erupted late on Monday in southwest Iceland, spewing lava and smoke across a wide area after weeks of intense earthquake activity, the country's Meteorological Office said, threatening a nearby town. Fearing a…
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BEIJING: A magnitude-6.2 earthquake jolted a remote and mountainous region on the northern edge of the Qinghai-Tibetan plateau just before midnight on Monday, killing at least 118 people and injuring hundreds, according to Chinese state…
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VATICAN CITY: Pope Francis again suggested Israel was using "terrorism" tactics in Gaza, deploring the reported killing by the Israeli military of two Christian women who had taken refuge in a church complex. At his weekly blessing,…
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JERUSALEM: Israeli forces launched fresh attacks throughout the night across the Gaza Strip as the United Nations Security Council looked set to vote on a demand that Israel and Hamas allow aid access to the Palestinian enclave. One…
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WILMINGTON: President Joe Biden was safe on Sunday night after a car collided with a motorcade SUV that was part of the president's security detail. Biden and First Lady Jill Biden had just left his campaign headquarters when the…
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NEW DELHI: Indian police have filed terrorism charges against four people in connection with a security breach in parliament in which a man jumped into the chamber, shouted slogans and set off a smoke canister. The major security breach…
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