Lebanon parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as president | Politics News

Lebanon parliament elects army chief Joseph Aoun as president | Politics News

DEVELOPING STORYDEVELOPING STORY, The appointment breaks a deadlock that has left the country without a head of state since October 2022. Lebanon’s army chief Joseph Aoun has been elected as the country’s president after a second round of parliamentary voting, breaking a deadlock that has left the country without a head of state since October […]

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Crowd crush at India’s Tirupati temple kills six as thousands seek entry

Crowd crush at India’s Tirupati temple kills six as thousands seek entry

Dozens of others injured after thousands of devotees queue outside one of the most visited Hindu temples in southern India. At least six people have been crushed to death and dozens injured as a crowd surged at one of the most visited Hindu religious sites at Tirupati town in India’s southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

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Gunfire heard near presidency in N’Djamena – DW – 01/08/2025

Gunfire heard near presidency in N’Djamena – DW – 01/08/2025

Gunshots were heard on Wednesday evening near the presidency in the capital of Chad, N’Djamena. Convoys of military vehicles were seen driving toward the presidency too, the news agency Reuters reported. According to the French AFP news agency, a security source said armed men had attacked the interior of the presidential compound while all roads leading

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How is Sudan’s conflict worsening the humanitarian crisis? | Sudan war

How is Sudan’s conflict worsening the humanitarian crisis? | Sudan war

Half of Sudan’s population faces acute food shortages. Famine is now present in five areas of Sudan – in what a senior United Nations official says is “a humanitarian crisis of staggering proportions”. Millions are displaced and the United States says genocide is taking place. What’s the world doing for the people of Sudan? Presenter:

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Why I’m not giving up on Syria’s disappeared | Close Up | Bashar al-Assad

Why I’m not giving up on Syria’s disappeared | Close Up | Bashar al-Assad

Former Syrian detainee Bassam Ezzedine is on a mission to help prisoners of the fallen regime to find their families. Bassam Ezzedine knows all too well about the cruelty of Syria’s ousted government. After spending time in detention and seeing members of his family disappear, he fled the country as a refugee. But after the

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Italy Says Cecilia Sala, Journalist Detained by Iran, Has Been Released

Italy Says Cecilia Sala, Journalist Detained by Iran, Has Been Released

Cecilia Sala, an Italian journalist who was detained last month in Iran while on a reporting trip, was released and on her way back to Italy on Wednesday, the Italian government said in a statement. “The plane that is taking journalist Cecilia Sala home took off a few minutes ago from Tehran,” the Italian government

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Trump Raises Using Military or Economic Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal

Trump Raises Using Military or Economic Force to Take Greenland and the Panama Canal

President-elect Donald J. Trump refused on Tuesday to rule out the use of military or economic coercion to force Panama to give up control of the canal that America built more than a century ago and to push Denmark to sell Greenland to the United States. In a rambling, hourlong news conference, Mr. Trump repeatedly

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Will Austria’s Freedom Party form a coalition and create stable government? | The Far Right

Will Austria’s Freedom Party form a coalition and create stable government? | The Far Right

Herbert Kickle first far-right leader since World War II to be invited to form a government. Austria could soon join a growing number of European Union countries led by the far right. Months of negotiation led by the conservative Austrian People’s Party ended with no coalition and the president, a left-wing former Greens leader, has

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US authorities seek to identify bodies found in JetBlue wheel well

US authorities seek to identify bodies found in JetBlue wheel well

Workers had found the bodies during a routine inspection after the flight landed in Florida from New York, marking the second such incident in a month. Authorities in the United States have been working to identify two bodies discovered in the wheel well of a JetBlue plane shortly after it landed in the southern state

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