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DUBLIN: Ireland, Spain and Norway announced that they would recognise a Palestinian state on May 28, prompting an angry response from Israel which recalled its ambassadors from the three capitals. Dublin, Madrid and Oslo painted the…
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TEHRAN: Iran's Supreme Leader led prayers in Tehran on Wednesday at the funeral of President Ebrahim Raisi as the clerical establishment hurried to organise the election of a successor. The June 28 vote to replace Raisi, killed in a…
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Colombian President Gustavo Petro has ordered the opening of an embassy in the Palestinian city of Ramallah in occupied West Bank. ‘"President Petro has given the order that we open the Colombian embassy in Ramallah, the representation…
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LONDON: British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak called a national election on Wednesday for July 4, saying Britons would be able to choose their future in a vote his Conservatives are widely expected to lose to the opposition Labour Party after…
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BANGKOK: A Singapore Airlines flight from London made an emergency landing in Bangkok on Tuesday due to severe turbulence, officials said, with one passenger on board dead and local media reporting multiple injuries. It was not…
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TABRIZ: Millions of people have taken part in a massive funeral procession for Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi and his companions who were martyred in a helicopter crash in a mountainous area of Iran's northwestern province of East…
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ATHENS: Nine protesters from Germany, Britain, France, Italy and Spain, arrested during a pro-Palestinian demonstration at the University of Athens School of Law last week are set to be deported from Greece, their lawyers said. Police…
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LONDON: WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was given permission to appeal against extradition to the United States after arguing at London's High Court that he might not be able to rely on his right to free speech in a U.S. court. The…
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KALAMATA: The trial of nine accused smugglers opens on Tuesday, nearly a year after a derelict migrant trawler with hundreds on board including nearly 350 Pakistanis sank off the coast of Greece in one of Europe’s deadliest shipwrecks.…
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THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court's prosecutor said he had requested arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, his defence chief and three Hamas leaders over alleged war crimes. ICC prosecutor Karim Khan…
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ATLANTA: US President Joe Biden urged Morehouse College graduates not to give up on democracy in a somber commencement address on Sunday, acknowledging their anger over the war in Gaza while warning about risk to American freedoms. The…
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RIYADH: Saudi King Salman will undergo treatment at Al Salam Palace in Jeddah for a lung inflammation, the state news agency said on Sunday, hours after he underwent medical tests. Citing the royal court, the state news agency said the…
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TEHRAN: Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi was killed in a helicopter crash in mountainous terrain near the Azerbaijan border, officials and state media said on Monday. The charred wreckage of the helicopter which crashed on Sunday carrying…
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PARIS: French police reinforcements have started arriving in New Caledonia as part of a massive operation to regain control of the capital Noumea, the top French official in the Pacific island territory said. The number of police and…
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GAZA: Israel's tanks pushed into the heart of Jabalia in northern Gaza on Thursday, facing anti-tank rockets and mortar bombs from militants concentrated there, while in the south, its forces pounded Rafah without advancing, Palestinian…
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