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Ukraine confirms 1st engagement with North Korea troops: South Korea media

SEOUL (Kyodo) — Ukrainian Defense Minister Rustem Umerov has confirmed his country’s military has engaged for the first time with North Korean troops, South Korea’s public broadcaster KBS reported Tuesday. Umerov told KBS in an interview on Monday local time that a “small-scale” engagement had taken place, without detailing when and where the fighting took […]

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Record 600 police officers sacked for misconduct in England and Wales

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Sackings come as UK police chiefs battle to restore public trust following a series of scandals. A record number of police officers have been sacked in England and Wales amid efforts to restore public faith in policing following a series of scandals. A record 593 police officers were fired and banned from returning to the

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Gunmen storm hospital, kill patient and 2 police officers in Mexico

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Gunmen stormed a hospital in Mexico Monday to attack a man recovering from a gunshot wound, killing him and two police officers, authorities said. The attackers shot the man more than 10 times in the central town of Atlixco, then killed police who tried to stop them from fleeing, the public security secretariat in Puebla

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Nigeria president orders release of minors charged over protests

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At least 30 minors were charged with treason and inciting a military coup after they took part in August protests against the rising cost of living. Nigeria’s president has directed that all minors detained during protests against the rising cost of living in August be freed and treason charges against them dropped, Information Minister Mohammed

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Record high air pollution shuts schools in Pakistan’s Lahore | Environment News

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Record high air pollution has forced the authorities in Pakistan’s second-largest city of Lahore to close primary schools for a week and issue work-from-home mandates. The country’s cultural capital held the top spot on a real-time list of the world’s most polluted cities on Sunday after recording its highest-ever pollution reading of 1900 near the

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Risk of the German government collapsing appears higher than ever | articles

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The Lindner paper is just another step in an almost endless list of ever growing tensions within the German government. Up to now, the risk of snap elections had been relatively low as none of the three coalition parties had an interest in earlier elections, given their weak polling results. It now increasingly looks as

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Thousands of Children in Gaza Get 2nd Dose of Polio Vaccine

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Nearly 94,000 children in Gaza City received a second dose of polio vaccine this weekend in an effort that was delayed by intense Israeli bombardment and mass evacuation orders in northern Gaza, the Gazan health ministry said. The second phase of the vaccination campaign was originally set to begin on Oct. 23 across the north

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South Africa’s Sipho ‘Hotstix’ Mabuse on art’s role in resistance | Music

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Decades after the fall of apartheid, the echoes of South Africa’s cultural resistance still ring out, inspiring new generations. During the struggle, artists like Sipho Mabuse used their craft as both a weapon and a lifeline, giving voice to a vision of freedom and dignity. In this edition of Talk to Al Jazeera, we delve

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US Women’s March 2024: Huge rally in DC to back Harris, abortion rights | US Election 2024 News

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Thousands of women have rallied in Washington, DC, in support of Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris and reproductive rights. The vice president has made abortion rights a central plank of her White House bid against Republican Donald Trump, who appeared to have publicly backed the 2022 Supreme Court ruling that took away the constitutional right

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US flies long-range bomber in reaction to North Korea’s ballistic missile test

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SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The United States flew a long-range bomber in a trilateral drill with South Korea and Japan on Sunday in response to North Korea’s recent test-firing of a new intercontinental ballistic missile designed to strike the U.S. mainland, South Korea’s military said. North Korea on Thursday tested the newly developed Hwasong-19

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