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THE HAGUE: South Africa urged the UN's top court to order a halt to Israel's offensive on Rafah, saying attacks on the southern Gaza city "must be stopped" to ensure the survival of the Palestinian people. South Africa's ambassador to…
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BRATISLAVA: Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico is no longer in a life-threatening condition after he was shot in an assassination attempt when leaving a government meeting on Wednesday, a government minister said. The gunman shot Fico,…
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SKOPJE: North Macedonia's first woman president was inaugurated on Sunday, with the new nationalist leader angering Greece after a speech that did not acknowledge her country's new name. The Balkan nation added "North" to its title in…
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MALMO: Thousands of pro-Palestinian demonstrators protested in the Swedish port city of Malmo on Thursday against Israel’s participation in the Eurovision Song Contest competition. Protesters waving green, white, black and red…
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ABUJA: Prince Harry and his wife, Meghan, arrived in Nigeria on Friday to champion the Invictus Games, which he founded to aid the rehabilitation of wounded and sick service members and veterans, among them Nigerian soldiers fighting a…
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CAIRO: Israeli forces bombarded areas of Rafah on Thursday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu dismissed US President Joe Biden's threat to withhold weapons from Israel if it assaults the southern Gaza city. A senior Israeli official…
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PANAMA CITY: Ramon Fonseca, who co-founded the now defunct law firm linked to the Panama Papers scandal, died overnight in hospital, his lawyer said on Thursday morning. "He had been hospitalized since the start of April," Fonseca's…
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AMSTERDAM: Pro-Palestinian protesters were occupying a University of Amsterdam (UvA) site on Wednesday, a day after police clashed with protesters in the Dutch capital and broke up an earlier encampment at the university. Police said the…
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KYIV: The Kremlin said it had no comment on Ukrainian assertions that Kyiv caught Russian agents plotting the assassination of President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, but said that it was hardly likely to be accurate information. Ukraine's state…
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SYDNEY: Australia said it would raise the amount of savings international students will need to get a visa and warned several colleges of fraudulent student recruitment practices, as part of efforts to rein in record migration. From…
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TORONTO: Three men accused of murdering Canadian Sikh leader Hardeep Singh Nijjar last year in a killing that triggered a diplomatic crisis between Canada and India appeared briefly in a British Columbia courtroom on Tuesday. Karanpreet…
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CAIRO: Palestinian group Hamas agreed to a Gaza ceasefire proposal from mediators, but Israel said the terms did not meet its demands and pressed ahead with strikes in Rafah while planning to continue negotiations on a deal. The…
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LOS ANGELES: Police cleared a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Southern California without making arrests on Sunday following turmoil at universities across the United States over Israel’s war in Gaza. The intervention at…
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JERUSALEM: Israel's military on Monday began ordering residents of Rafah to evacuate the southern Gazan city ahead of an ground assault in the Palestinian enclave. Seven months into its offensive against Hamas, Israel has alleged that…
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JERUSALEM: Israeli authorities raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its office after the government decided to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station's local operations. Video circulated online showed plainclothes officers…
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