Thousands protest in Tel Aviv against Israeli govt move to expand Gaza war
Demonstrators waved signs and held up pictures of hostages still being held in the Palestinian territory as they called on...
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Accumulating bitcoin a risky digital rush by companies?
London, United Kingdom - US President Donald Trump's media group and Tesla, the electric carmaker owned by tech billionaire Elon...
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Italy’s Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni begins Algeria visit
Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni and several ministers arrived in Algeria on Sunday, state media reported, ahead of meetings with...
- Meloni's predecessor Mario Draghi sealed a string of deals with Algeria's President Abdelmadjid Tebboune in July
- Tebboune said the July deal was worth $4 billion, while an Algerian official said the country would also increase gas exports to Italy
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Power outage across Pakistan brings life to a halt
Islamabad, Pakistan--A massive power breakdown in Pakistan on Monday affected most of the country's more than 220 million people, including in...
- The country's electricity distribution system is a complex and delicate web, and a problem in one section of the grid can lead to cascading breakdowns across the country
- A similar breakdown in January 2021 had plunged the entire country into darkness after fault occurred in southern Pakistan tripping the transmission system of the country
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Erdogan announces elections for May 14 in Turkey
The Turkish leader said that they had agreed on an adjustment to the timetable with its junior right-wing coalition partner...
- The election campaign is due to start on March 10, which would give the Turkish opposition even less time to prepare
- Erdogan had on Wednesday spoken of his intention to bring the election date forward to May 14, recalling the day Turkey held its first free election in 1950
Ronaldo starts with a win after lucrative Saudi move
Ronaldo's league debut had an anticlimactic feel in front of 22,862 fans after he scored twice in this week's lively...
- The Portuguese superstar didn't score but there were promising signs for Al Nassr, who are eyeing domestic and continental silverware
- Ronaldo arrived in oil-rich Saudi Arabia in early January but his debut was delayed while he served a two-match ban for knocking a mobile phone out of a fan's hand
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Lawyers call off strike in Egypt to protest jailing of colleagues
The Egyptian Bar Association has called off a days-long strike held in protest against the jailing of six colleagues, according...
- The move came after an appeals court on Sunday ordered the six be released and scheduled a verdict for February 5
- The association had earlier claimed there was "a clear intention" by authorities to keep the six lawyers in detention "without real justification",
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Building collapse in war-damaged Syria city kills 16
ALEPPO, SYRIA - A building collapsed Sunday in Syria's war-damaged second city of Aleppo, killing 16 people including children, authorities and...
- Video footage shared on state television showed dozens of rescue workers at the site.
- Much of Aleppo was destroyed during Syria's conflict that began nearly 12 years ago and left many of the remaining structures in a decrepit state.
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Iran vows to address high inflation, currency devaluation
Iran's economy has been subject to increasing pressure with fresh sanctions imposed by Western countries over the authorities response to...
- Addressing MPs, Raisi tried to reassure Iranians over the economy which faces a serious crisis due primarily to US sanctions.
- At the end of December, the governor of the central bank resigned after the rial lost around 30 percent of its value in two months.
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Netanyahu removes interior minister after Supreme Court order
Jerusalem, Undefined - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu removed a top minister from office Sunday following a Supreme Court ruling against...
- Leader of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish party Shas, Deri was appointed health and interior minister last month.
- On Wednesday, the Supreme Court ruled that Netanyahu "must remove Deri from his position" due to a tax evasion conviction.
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Arab states boycott meeting hosted by Libya’s unity government
The snub underlines Arab divisions over the Tripoli-based government, whose legitimacy is contested by a rival administration in the war-torn...
- Four members sent lower-ranking ministers or ambassadors while Arab League chief Ahmed Aboul Gheit was also absent.
- The unity government was the product of a United Nations-mediated peace process following the country's last major battle in 2020.
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Iranian women political prisoners urge end to protester executions
PARIS, FRANCE - Thirty women political prisoners in Iran, including a Franco-Iranian academic and the daughter of a former president, on...
- The signatories included Franco-Iranian researcher Fariba Adelkhah.
- Another is former lawmaker Faezeh Hashemi, the daughter of former president Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani.
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Thousands protest in Tel Aviv against Israeli govt move to expand Gaza war
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‘We love life’: Gaza’s war-weary footballers play on
For fans and players, Tuesday's match in the Jabalia refugee camp was a welcome distraction from the pangs of hunger...
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Bangladesh arrest total passes 2,500
What began as demonstrations against politicized admission quotas for sought-after government jobs snowballed into some of the country's worst unrest.
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Paris prepares warm Olympics welcome — except for rats
While the Paris Olympics is set to be a festival of socializing and intermingling, city authorities are keen for visitors...
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The Biden bombshell: a plot twist that roils Trump too
With the Democrat no longer in the race, the Trump operation finds itself pushed into a strategic pivot, forced now...
- For months Trump and his allies have been playing on concerns that the 81-year-old Biden may no longer be fit for office
- He was frequently a target of Republican mockery and scorn at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee
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Israeli settlers beat foreign volunteers in occupied West Bank
Nablus, Palestinian Territories -- Israeli settlers on Sunday attacked a group of foreign volunteers helping Palestinian farmers in the occupied West...
- Eight mainly American volunteers were working with the farmers in an olive grove near the Palestinian village of Qusra when settlers came after them, said David Hummel, an American
- "They started attacking and beating us all with sticks and metal pipes and they were throwing rocks as well at us," he said.
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Iraq to import electricity from Turkey for northern provinces
Baghdad, Iraq -- Iraq said Sunday a new power line will bring electricity from Turkey to its northern provinces as authorities...
- Decades of war have left Iraq's infrastructure in a pitiful state, with power cuts worsening the blistering summer when temperatures often reach 50 Celsius (122 Fahrenheit).
- Many households have just a few hours of mains electricity per day, and those who can afford it use private generators to keep fridges and air conditioners running.