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Some 115 alleged members of the Islamic State group suspected of planning attacks during the end-of-year holidays have been arrested in Turkey, Istanbul's prosecutor general said on Thursday.His office said he had ordered the arrest of 137 people, of whom 115 so far have been detained, "fol...
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Scouts marched under a clear blue sky in Bethlehem on Wednesday, as the Palestinian city emerged from the shadow of the war in Gaza to celebrate its first festive Christmas in more than two years.Throughout the Gaza war that began with Hamas's attack on Israel in October 2023, a sombre tone...
At least 12 people died on Wednesday after a boat filled with migrants seeking to reach Europe sank off the coast of Senegal, security sources said.The coastal west African country is one of the main departure points for the thousands of Africans who for years have been taking the perilous Atlantic ...
A major winter storm rolled into California Tuesday, forcing hundreds of evacuations in burn areas while threatening flooding and travel delays through Christmas for much of the state, officials said.A "strong atmospheric river brings heavy rain, snow, and wind to California through Friday,&quo...
AFP, PHNOM PENH: More than half a million people in Cambodia have been displaced from their homes by two weeks of deadly border clashes with neighbouring Thailand, Phnom Penh's interior ministry said Sunday."At present, more than half a million Cambodian people, including women and chi...
US President Donald Trump on Monday filed a lawsuit seeking at least $10 billion from the BBC over a documentary that edited his 2021 speech to supporters ahead of the US Capitol riot.The lawsuit, filed in federal court in Miami, seeks "damages in an amount not less than $5,000,000,000" fo...
Two American troops and a civilian interpreter were killed in central Syria on Saturday after an alleged member of the Islamic State group opened fire on a joint US-Syrian patrol, officials said.US Central Command (CENTCOM) announced the deaths on X after Syria's state media earlier reported an ...
Kyiv, Ukraine: Ukraine on Saturday accused Russia of striking a Turkish vessel transporting sunflower oil in the Black Sea, a day after a Russian attack triggered a fire on a Turkish-owned ship at a Ukrainian port."Russia delivered a targeted strike using a drone against the Turkish vessel '...
Jerusalem: The Israeli military said it would "temporarily" suspend a strike planned for Saturday that was intended to target what it described as Hezbollah military infrastructure in southern Lebanon.A November 2024 ceasefire sought to end over a year of fighting between Israel and t...
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Riyadh, Saudi Arabia: UN chief Antonio Guterres condemned Saturday's "horrific" drone attack on Bangladeshi peacekeepers in Sudan, a strike that killed six people and wounded six others."I strongly condemn the horrific drone attacks that targeted the United Nations peacekeepi...
Iran has seized an oil tanker in the Gulf of Oman, Iranian media said overnight Friday to Saturday, adding that 18 crew members from India, Sri Lanka and Bangladesh were on board."An oil tanker carrying six million litres of contraband diesel fuel has been boarded off the coast of the Sea of Om...
Banteay Meanchey: Cambodia said Saturday that Thailand continued dropping bombs on its territory hours after US President Donald Trump said the neighbours had agreed to stop fighting.The latest clashes between the Southeast Asian neighbours, which stem from a long-running dispute over the colonial-e...
Thailand's Prime Minister dissolved parliament on Friday after three months in office, a royal decree showed, paving the way for general elections early next year.The move comes earlier than expected and during renewed deadly clashes between Thailand and Cambodia along their disputed border.&quo...
Thailand launched air strikes on its neighbour Cambodia on Monday, the Thai army said, with both sides trading blame for the latest eruption of fighting on their disputed border which killed a Thai soldier.After Cambodian troops fired on Thai forces early Monday morning in Ubon Ratchathani province,...
A fire that ripped through an Indian nightclub in the popular tourist resort region of Goa killed 25 people, the state's chief minister said Sunday.Tourists were among the dead in the blaze, which broke out at about midnight at a club in Arpora in the north of the coastal state.Prime Minister Na...
A few dozen early voters in Myanmar's widely criticised elections cast their ballots at the country's embassy in Bangkok on Saturday as polls opened for citizens abroad.Myanmar's junta snatched power in a 2021 coup which plunged the country into a many-sided civil war, but it promises th...
Ten university students died and three were injured in a restaurant fire in southeastern Peru as they gathered for a birthday celebration, police said Friday.The fire broke out on Thursday afternoon in Huancane city in the Andean region of Puno near the Bolivian border. The victims, aged between 17 ...
Ukrainian and US officials will hold a third straight day of talks in Miami on Saturday, with Washington saying the two sides agreed that "real progress" would depend on Russia's willingness to end the war.President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff and son-in-law Jared Ku...
A plane from the United States carrying 172 expelled undocumented Venezuelan migrants arrived Friday in Caracas, after the South American country reauthorized deportation flights to land despite President Donald Trump's declaration that Venezuela's airspace was "closed."The aircraf...
A European Union plan to use frozen Russian assets to fund Ukraine's fight against Russia would have "far-reaching consequences" for the EU, Moscow's ambassador to Germany warned on Friday.His statement came as EU leaders seek more ways to keep Ukraine afloat as it faces increasing...
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