With Kim, Putin at his side, Xi says world “faced with a choice of peace or war”
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and Russia's Vladimir Putin flanked Xi Jinping at a massive parade of military might...
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Post SCO summit, Kim, Putin at Xi’s side for massive China military parade in Beijing
In unprecedented scenes, Xi shook both their hands and chatted with the pair as they walked down a red carpet...
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Mahmud Abbas urges world leaders to end ‘Israeli aggression’
Cairo, Egypt - Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas on Sunday accused Israel of having "crossed all red lines" in the occupied West...
- "Israeli intransigence and practices have crossed all red lines", he said at an Arab League meeting in Cairo.
- The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has seen at least 43 Palestinians -- including attackers, militants and civilians -- killed this year.
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UN decries aid failure for Syria, warns quake toll could double
A UN convoy with supplies for northwest Syria arrived via Turkey, but the agency's relief chief Martin Griffiths said much...
- Syria's President Bashar al-Assad on Sunday thanked the United Arab Emirates for its emergency response and tens of millions pledged in aid to the quake-hit country.
- Miraculous tales of survival still emerged, though experts caution that hopes for finding people alive in the devastation dim with each passing day.
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Sexting chatbot ban brings AI rules in focus
Given that these bots still make factual blunders, often show bias and could even spout libelous statements, some are clamoring...
- Regulators in Italy last week barred the firm from gathering data after finding breaches of Europe's massive data protection law, the GDPR.
- OpenAI's latest model, GPT-4, is scheduled for release soon and is rumored to be so good that it will be impossible to distinguish from a human.
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Iran’s President Ebrahim Raisi to visit China: state media
On his upcoming trip, Raisi is expected to hold private talks with Xi, and delegations from both countries are due...
- Iranian president will set out for Beijing on Monday evening in response to an official invitation by Chinese President Xi Jinping
- Ebrahim Raisi will also take part in meetings with Chinese businessmen and Iranians living in the country
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In Turkey families race against time to identify quake victims
Monday's 7.8-magnitude tremor struck Kahramanmaras in the country's southeast, unleashing catastrophe in the region and Syria, killing at least 28,000...
- Families -- who cannot reach their loved ones during the rescue work -- check one by one bodies either in bags or wrapped in blankets.
- Turkish Health Minister said on Friday he hoped the missing bodies would be identified and said the government was doing everything it could
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UN relief chief fears Turkey-Syria quake deaths to top 50,000
UN relief chief Martin Griffiths said the death toll from the massive earthquake will "double or more" from its current...
- Officials and medics said 24,617 people were killed in Turkey and 3,574 in Syria. The confirmed total now stands at 28,191
- Turkey's disaster agency said more than 32,000 people from Turkish organizations are working on search-and-rescue efforts
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Thousands protest in Israel against PM Netanyahu’s reforms
Opposing the controversial legal reforms being pushed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing governemnt, thousands of Israeli protested in central...
- Netanyahu returned to power following elections in November, at the head of a coalition with extreme-right and ultra-Orthodox Jewish parties
- A Palestinian was shot dead on Saturday during a clash with Jewish settlers in the occupied West Bank, south of Nablus
UN urges ‘immediate ceasefire’ in Syria to help quake aid
The call came as rescue workers continued their search for survivors in the rubble of the 7.8 magnitude quake that...
- At the session, the council will hear from UN Under-Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs Martin Griffiths, who is to visit Turkey and Syria this weekend
- The rebel-held areas of Syria near Turkey's border are in a particularly dire situation since they cannot receive aid from government-held parts of Syria
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UN estimates 5.3 million people in Syria homeless after quake
The earthquake is estimated to have made some 5.3 million people in Syria homeless, which rocked the region this week,...
- Nearly 23,000 people have died across Turkey and Syria because of the quake, one of the worst disasters to hit the region
- The quake killed more than 3,300 in Syria, according to health ministry figures and a rescue group
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IEA calls special meeting as gas crisis ‘not over’
IEA Executive Director Fatih Birol said the measures taken following Russia's invasion of Ukraine helped European nations whether Russia cutting...
- The meeting, to be held on Wednesday by video conference, is the first such special IEA ministerial meeting recent history
- It will also include ministers from several non-IEA member nations and will look at the global repercussions of the cuts to European gas supplies
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Gaza war rages as US wants to ‘close’ ceasefire agreement
Doha, Qatar - Top US diplomat Antony Blinken said Wednesday that a truce and hostage release deal to end the Gaza...
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Houthis claim attack on merchant ship in Red Sea off Yemen
The Houthis, who are at war with a Saudi-led coalition after ousting the government from Sanaa in 2014, have launched...
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Blinken heads to key mediator Qatar after Hamas seeks tweaks to truce deal
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken was heading on Wednesday to talks in key mediator Qatar after Hamas gave a...
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Blinken in Israel to push ceasefire plan for Gaza
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken will hold talks with key Israeli opposition figures on Tuesday, a day after he...
- On Monday, the UN Security Council adopted a US-drafted resolution supporting a six-week ceasefire plan,
- Four Israeli soldiers had been killed in fighting in southern Gaza yesterday
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Israeli forces kill 4 Palestinians in West Bank
The Israeli military said it shot at a group of four people who attempted to flee in a vehicle and...
- A general strike was called in Ramallah by Palestinian president Mahmud Abbas in response to the killings, along with a pre-planned rally for Palestinians jailed by Israel
- Israel has occupied the West Bank since the 1967 war and hundreds of thousands of settlers have since moved to the Palestinian territory, in breach of international law
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Blinken meets Sisi in Cairo at start of Mideast tour
Blinken said his message to regional governments was that "if you want a ceasefire, press Hamas to say yes" to...
- Blinken said he had a "very good exchange" with Sisi
- The two had also been expected to discuss plans to reopen the Rafah border crossing between Egypt and Gaza