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West Bank Village Enters Sixth Day of Settler Siege as Families Remain Trapped in Their Homes
West Bank Village Enters Sixth Day of Settler Siege as Families Remain Trapped in Their Homes A standoff in the Palestinian village of Qusra, near Nablus in the occupied West Bank, entered its sixth day on Friday after Israeli settlers established encampments outside three Palestinian homes the previous Sunday and blocked the only access road,…
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7.7-Magnitude Quake Rips Through Flores Island, Killing at Least 20 as Aftershocks Keep Coming
7.7-Magnitude Quake Rips Through Flores Island, Killing at Least 20 as Aftershocks Keep Coming A magnitude 7.7 earthquake struck off the coast of Flores Island in eastern Indonesia’s East Nusa Tenggara province at 5:58 a.m. local time Saturday, with an epicenter roughly 68 kilometers north-northwest of Ende at a depth of 10 kilometers. At least…
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Trump Vows to Claim Strait of Hormuz as “US Territory” Once Iran Is “Defeated”
Trump Vows to Claim Strait of Hormuz as “US Territory” Once Iran Is “Defeated” President Donald Trump told a rally at the Nassau County Police Academy in New York on Friday that he will “pretty soon” declare the Strait of Hormuz a “territory of the United States” once the US finishes “defeating” Iran, which he…
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Sweden Just Made 14-Year-Olds Criminally Liable to Fight Gangs That Recruit Even Younger Kids
Sweden Just Made 14-Year-Olds Criminally Liable to Fight Gangs That Recruit Even Younger Kids Sweden’s parliament voted Thursday to lower the age of criminal responsibility from 15 to 14, with 281 lawmakers in favor — including the opposition Social Democrats — and 66 opposed. The vote is a scaled-back version of the right-wing government’s original…
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Putin Plants a Flag on Islands Japan Says Were Stolen, and Tokyo Is Fuming
Putin Plants a Flag on Islands Japan Says Were Stolen, and Tokyo Is Fuming Russian President Vladimir Putin made his first-ever visit to Iturup, part of the Kuril Islands chain claimed by both Russia and Japan, on Thursday, touring a fish plant, a hospital and a school and meeting with Sakhalin regional governor Valery Limarenko.…
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Turkey’s Jailed Mayor Ditches His Old Party While Erdogan Watches the Opposition Eat Itself
Turkey’s Jailed Mayor Ditches His Old Party While Erdogan Watches the Opposition Eat Itself Jailed Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu announced on Wednesday that he is joining the newly formed New Party, after a Turkish court order stripped his former Republican People’s Party (CHP) ally Ozgur Ozel of the party leadership and reinstated CHP’s divisive former…
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Death Toll Passes 180 as Colombia’s New Government Races Against the Clock on Quake Survivors
Death Toll Passes 180 as Colombia’s New Government Races Against the Clock on Quake Survivors Rescue teams continued digging through collapsed buildings across western Colombia on August 12, two days after a 7.4-magnitude earthquake centered near San Jose del Palmar in Chocó department flattened homes, schools and part of a children’s hospital across the coffee-growing…
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Ukraine’s Overnight Blitz Cripples Russia’s Black Sea Fleet — and Sends Wheat Prices Soaring
Ukraine’s Overnight Blitz Cripples Russia’s Black Sea Fleet — and Sends Wheat Prices Soaring Ukraine launched a massive overnight drone, missile and naval-drone assault on the Russian Black Sea port city of Novorossiysk early on August 12, with President Volodymyr Zelenskyy confirming the strike hit the city’s naval base and grain export terminals. Ukrainian forces…
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US Navy Blasts Iran-Bound Cargo Ship With Hellfire Missiles in Blockade Crackdown
US Navy Blasts Iran-Bound Cargo Ship With Hellfire Missiles in Blockade Crackdown A U.S. Navy MH-60 helicopter fired two Hellfire missiles into the engine room of the Panama-flagged container ship Vela Nova on Tuesday, August 11, disabling its steering gear as it attempted to transit the Gulf of Oman toward an Iranian port in violation…
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Russian Missiles Kill Civilians Across Ukraine as Zelenskyy Says North Korea Supplied the Weapons
Russian Missiles Kill Civilians Across Ukraine as Zelenskyy Says North Korea Supplied the Weapons Russia launched a wave of missile, drone and glide-bomb strikes on Ukrainian cities overnight, killing at least nine civilians, officials said Tuesday. In the southeastern city of Zaporizhzhia, local officials reported six people killed and 19 wounded, and President Volodymyr Zelenskyy…