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As the war enters its 855th day, these are the main developments. Here is the situation on Saturday, June 29, 2024. Fighting Ukrainian officials said a Russian missile strike has hit a nine-storey residential building in the central city of Dnipro, killing at least one person and injuring 12 others. Russia’s Ministry of Defence said […]
But the other leaders questioned why Rutte of all people, who will take over as secretary-general of NATO in October, would want to stop the bloc from investing in its security, Tusk told journalists on Friday. “Everybody, almost everybody, loudly reminded Mark Rutte that he will soon take up the role of NATO secretary general,
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Algerian resistance fighters wrote heartfelt letters home in the 1950s. Few arrived but many remained unseen, until now. Algeria lived under French colonial rule for 132 years, from 1830 to 1962. Letters and correspondence provided evidence of Algeria’s long struggle to end French colonial rule in the 1950s. They enabled resistance fighters to send news
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President Aliyev’s New Azerbaijan Party is expected to win a new majority in the oil-rich country’s legislature. Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev has called snap parliamentary elections for September 1 that are unlikely to radically change the legislature’s makeup. On Friday, Aliyev issued a decree ordering the dissolution of parliament, which is dominated by his New
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SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s military on Friday released a video that it said showed a North Korean missile abnormally spiraling early in flight and exploding, a rare publicizing of surveillance footage to dismiss the North’s claim of a successful test. Footage filmed by a thermal observation device with South Korean frontline units showed
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Indervir Singh has worked for the Delhi Fire Services for 32 years but he cannot recall responding to as many fires as this summer. Temperatures in India’s capital, New Delhi, home to about 20 million people, have hit record highs, with the mercury climbing to nearly 50 degrees Celsius (122 degrees Fahrenheit) on several occasions.
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Rabih Daher/AFP/Getty Images Smoke billows during Israeli bombardment on the village of Khiam in south Lebanon near the border with Israel on June 19, 2024. CNN — The US is moving forces closer to Israel and Lebanon amid concerns of escalating cross-border fire, according to two US officials, including forces able to carry out an evacuation of
Iranians are choosing a successor to the late Ebrahim Raisi. Following the sudden death of President Ebrahim Raisi in a helicopter crash last month, voters in Iran are choosing his successor. The Guardian Council initially approved six male candidates from a pool of 80, including one reformist and five hardline conservatives. But some dropped out.
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US debt is on track to reach more than $50 trillion dollars over the next decade. The US is more than $34 trillion dollars in debt. That’s almost equal to its entire gross domestic product (GDP). The figure is bigger than any other nation’s debt, but does that matter when Washington issues the world’s leading
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DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — A ship traveling through the Red Sea on Thursday reported being hit in an attack likely carried out by Yemen’s Houthi rebels, authorities said, the latest in the campaign targeting shipping over the Israel-Hamas war. The ship issued a radio call off the coast of the rebel-held port city
