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SEOUL: Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov has met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as the two countries forge closer ties in the face of what they see as a hostile and aggressive US-led Western camp. Russia's state-run news agency…
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The European Union awarded its top rights honour, the Sakharov Prize, to Mahsa Amini, the Iranian Kurdish woman who died in Iranian custody a year ago, and the "Woman, Life, Freedom" movement her death triggered. "The brutal murder of…
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OTTAWA: Canada said it had withdrawn 41 diplomats from India amid fallout from a bitter row over the killing of a Sikh separatist on Canadian soil. New Delhi planned to revoke diplomatic immunity for all but 21 of Canada's diplomats and…
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A video clip of Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef countering British TV talk show host Piers Morgan in an interview for allegedly comparing Israel to the terror group Islamic State or ISIS has gone viral on social media. During his show,…
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CAIRO: Egypt agreed to reopen its border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow aid to reach Palestinians as the humanitarian crisis worsened for the 2.3 million people trapped in the enclave. The region remained volatile in the aftermath…
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NEW YORK: The United States vetoed a United Nations Security Council resolution that would have called for humanitarian pauses in the conflict between Israel and Hamas to allow humanitarian aid access to the Gaza Strip. The vote on the…
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Nobel Prize laureate Malala Yousafzai has once again called for a ceasefire and urged the Israeli government to allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. "I’m horrified to see the bombing of Al-Ahli Hospital in Gaza and unequivocally condemn…
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GENEVA: The International Red Cross and the World Health Organization (WHO) expressed outrage and shock after a hospital in Gaza was destroyed and hundreds were killed. The organizations did not attribute to either the Israelis or Hamas…
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NEW YORK: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has called for an “immediate humanitarian ceasefire” in the Israel-Gaza war. Speaking in Beijing just hours after the bombing of the al-Ahli Arab Hospital in Gaza, Guterres said…
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AMMAN: Jordan has cancelled a summit it was to host in Amman on Wednesday with US President Joe Biden and the Egyptian and Palestinian leaders to discuss the situation in Gaza. Foreign Minister Ayman Safadi said the meeting would be held…
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GAZA: An Israeli airstrike struck a packed hospital compound in central Gaza, killing an estimated 500 people, including patients and displaced Palestinians sheltering inside, according to officials in the besieged Gaza Strip. The death…
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CLIVE: Donald Trump promised that if elected president again he will bar immigrants who support Hamas from entering the US and send officers to pro-Hamas protests to arrest and deport immigrants who publicly support the Palestinian militant…
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WASHINGTON:  President Joe Biden will make a high-stakes visit to Israel on Wednesday as it prepares to escalate an offensive against Hamas militants that has set off a humanitarian crisis in Gaza and raised fears of a broader conflict with…
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BRUSSELS: Two Swedish nationals were shot to death and a third person was wounded in central Brussels on Monday night, and a man who identified himself as a member of the Islamic State claimed responsibility in a video posted online. The…
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CHICAGO: An Illinois man was charged with hate crimes for stabbing a 6-year-old Muslim boy to death and wounding his mother in an attack that targeted them for their religion and as a response to the war between Israel and Hamas. The boy…
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