Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu is under pressure to bring home the captives from Gaza. Calls for a Gaza ceasefire are growing louder in Israel. Three-quarters of a million people came out in major cities on Saturday, demanding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agree to a deal to bring home the remaining captives. But he remains […]
Latvia’s president on Sunday said a Russian military drone had crashed on its territory, adding that airspace breaches had increased along NATO’s eastern borders. The Baltic state, which was once ruled by the Soviet Union but is now an EU and NATO member, has had tense relations with Moscow following independence, and ties have further
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Cheptegei died on Thursday, four days after her partner attacked her in the latest attack on a female athlete in Uganda. A picture of Rebecca Cheptegei appeared on a giant screen after the marathon events at the Paralympic Games in Paris in a tribute to the Ugandan runner who died after she was doused in
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Edmundo Gonzalez is seeking asylum in Spain after he challenged the re-election of Nicolas Maduro. Venezuela has said that opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez has left the country after a day of rising diplomatic tensions and is seeking asylum in Spain. “After taking refuge voluntarily at the Spanish embassy in Caracas a few days ago, [Gonzalez]
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SEATTLE — A day after a 26-year-old American woman was fatally shot while demonstrating against settlements in the West Bank, hundreds gathered in Westlake Park and marched the streets of Seattle. Aysenur Ezgi Eygi was a recent University of Washington graduate. Community members mourning the loss of their own came together to call for justice
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A fire has broken out at a girls’ school in central Kenya just two days after a boarding school inferno killed 21 boys at another school. Firefighters were battling a blaze at a girls’ school in central Kenya, just two days after an inferno killed 21 boys at another school. The latest inferno, reported on
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The daughter of a French woman who was allegedly drugged and sexually assaulted repeatedly by her husband and dozens of other men revealed her own fear of victimhood on Friday. Caroline Darian, 45, testified in an Avignon court against her father, Dominique Pélicot, 71, saying she believes she was also drugged and potentially raped like
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Gildardo Lopez Astudillo’s arrest comes weeks before the 10th anniversary of the students’ disappearance. Authorities in Mexico say they have arrested an alleged cartel chief linked to the decade-old disappearance of dozens of students. Gildardo Lopez Astudillo, the suspected cartel leader, was detained on charges of “organised crime” and taken to the Altiplano maximum security
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Hamas releases heartbreaking video of slain Israeli-American Hersh Goldberg-Polin, family calls it a ‘wake-up call to the world’ New York Post Hamas Releases Video of Hersh Goldberg-Polin Filmed Before He Was Killed – WSJ The Wall Street Journal Hamas’s Release of Hostage Videos Inflames Divisions in Israel The New York Times Mapping Israeli protests since October 7 Al Jazeera
With two months to go before the US presidential election, the candidates are outlining their vision for the world’s biggest economy. Democratic candidate Kamala Harris says she plans to raise taxes on corporations and the wealthy while the Republican hopeful Donald Trump says he’ll slash what he says is unnecessary federal spending. The economy and
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