US announces deal for Qatar air force facility in Idaho housing F-15 fighter jets, pilots
The announcement comes soon after President Donald Trump signed an executive order vowing to defend the Gulf Arab state against...
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Nearly one in six children in Gaza acutely malnourished: study
The study, the most detailed look so far at child hunger in Gaza, analysed data on more than 200,000 children...
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Saudi Arabia and Iran invited to Moscow-led defense bloc’s military drills
Moscow, Russia -- Collective Security Treaty Organization (CSTO) member states have invited observers from Saudi Arabia, Iran, China and Mongolia...
- China and Mongolia are the other two countries invited to monitor the Combat Brotherhood-2023 drills in Belarus, CSTO Joint Staff Chief Colonel General Anatoly Sidorov said.
- Combat Brotherhood, a joint operational and strategic exercise, will be held in Belarus on September 1-6.
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Turkey’s Erdogan to visit Russia for talks with Putin
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is to visit Russia "soon" for talks with Vladimir Putin on reviving a deal to...
- Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told reporters that a meeting was being prepared "intensively", without giving a time or place for the talks.
- Erdogan has used his good relations with Russia and Ukraine to try to bring the two sides into formal peace talks.
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Israel strikes force closure of Syria airport: state media
Israel has launched hundreds of air strikes in the last 12 years of civil war in Syria, primarily targeting Iran-backed...
- Syrian transport ministry official said the damage centred on the only functioning runway
- The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the strikes also targeted an adjacent military airport
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Members of US Congress make rare visit to Syria’s rebel area
The Republican delegation comprising French Hill, Ben Cline and Scott Fitzgerald entered Syria from Turkey through the Bab al-Salama border...
- The Congress members met with Raed Saleh, the director of the White Helmets rescue group
- The meeting stressed "the importance of continuing cross-border aid in light of the growing humanitarian needs"
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Libyan FM ‘suspended’ over talks with Israeli counterpart
Prime Minister Abdulhamid Dbeibah said that Najla al-Mangoush, the foreign minister, has been temporarily suspended and will be subject to...
- Although the Libyan foreign ministry called the meeting a chance encounter, news of it led to street protests in many Libyan cities
- Israel has managed to normalize relations with several Arab countries in recent years as part of US-backed deal
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Egypt, Ethiopia restart talks over dam construction
Cairo, Egypt - Egypt announced on Sunday that negotiations had resumed over Ethiopia's controversial mega-dam, after agreeing last month to reach...
- The massive $4.2-billion Grand Ethiopian Renaissance Dam (GERD) has been at the center of a regional dispute ever since Ethiopia broke ground on the project in 2011
- For years at loggerheads over the issue, Egyptian President al-Sisi and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed had agreed in July to finalize a deal within four months
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Iran says European countries willing to buy our drones
TEHRAN, IRAN - A number of European countries have asked to purchase Iran’s unmanned aerial vehicles, the spokesperson for the...
- A spokesperson for the Iranian Defense Ministry said Tehran is prepared to export military drones after fulfilling its domestic needs,
- Political and security considerations will be taken into consideration before finalizing such deals, the spokesperson added.
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Tehran exports goods worth $7.2bn to West Asia in 4 months from March 2023
TEHRAN, IRAN - Iran exported $7.2 billion worth of products to West Asian countries in the first four months of...
- Comprehensive strategic five-year plans have been defined for the West Asian countries with a focus on trade infrastructure.
- The plans include organizing and development of transportation platforms, banking exchanges, customs and standards.
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The fight over a ‘dangerous’ ideology shaping AI debate
Paris, France - Silicon Valley's favorite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of...
- Silicon Valley's favorite philosophy, longtermism, has helped to frame the debate on artificial intelligence around the idea of human extinction.
- But increasingly vocal critics are warning that the philosophy is dangerous, and the obsession with extinction distracts from real problems associated with AI like data theft.
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Years of coal plant expansion torment Turkey’s villagers
Villagers and environmental activists have been locked in clashes with the police in the southwestern Mugla province since their plant...
- An AFP tour of five Turkish coal-fired power plant villages witnessed the high human cost of relying on the outdated, highly polluting energy source.
- Turkey was the last among the G20 economies to ratify the Paris Climate Accords, doing so only after the environment became a top issue in the wake of deadly wildfires.
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Yemen rebels say targeted Israel army site, US warships in Red sea: statement
Yemen's Huthis said they targeted a military site in Israel and attacked two US destroyers in the Red Sea Monday,...
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Netanyahu meets Trump for tariff and Gaza talks
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu met Donald Trump at the White House on Monday, becoming the first foreign leader to...
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Turkey’s main opposition leader urges elections ‘in November at the latest’
The leader of Turkey's main opposition party on Sunday called for expected elections to be held "at the latest in...
- Addressing President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, CHP party leader Ozgur Ozel said: "In November at the latest, you will come to confront our candidate,"
- Ozel hailed the demonstrations triggered by last month's arrest of Imamoglu, Istanbul's popular opposition mayor who is widely considered Erdogan's greatest political threat
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Zelensky slams US lack of response to Putin truce rejection
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on Sunday lamented the lack of a US response to Russia's refusal to sign "a full,...
- Russia mounted a "massive" missile and drone attack on Ukraine overnight that also wounded seven people, Zelensky said
- Ukraine has agreed to an unconditional truce in the more than three-year-long war proposed by the United States
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Thousands rally in Morocco at pro-Palestinian protest
Tens of thousands of people demonstrated in Morocco's capital on Sunday against the conflict in the Gaza Strip where Israel...
- The largest pro-Palestinian protest in the capital Rabat for several months was called by the Islamist-dominated coalition the Justice and Development party
- Protesters were accompanied by chanting and the beating of drums as they marched down the city's Mohammed V Avenue near parliament