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Leader of US Senate calls for election in Israel
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Former Israeli PM testifies in Benjamin Netanyahu graft trial
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Danish, two Austrian-Iranian citizens freed by Iran
Iran released one Danish and two Austrian-Iranian citizens it had been holding after mediation by Oman, and they are being...
- Thanking Belgium, Austrian Foreign Minister Alexander Schallenberg said, "Our years of diplomatic efforts to secure their release have borne fruit."
- The Danish man, who was not immediately identified, had been arrested in Iran in November 2022 on the sidelines of a demonstration for women's rights.
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Court in Lebanon accuses Hezbollah men of killing UN peacekeeper
A military judge has accused five members of the Iran-backed Hezbollah group, only one of whom is in custody, of...
- Footage from surveillance cameras near the scene of the incident "clearly shows the patrol being attacked by armed men from all sides", the court document read.
- Hezbollah has repeatedly denied involvement in the incident, and its security chief Wafic Safa has described the killing as "unintentional".
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Extension of Kurdish parliament unconstitutional, says Iraq supreme court
Iraq's supreme court ruled as unconstitutional the extended mandate of autonomous Kurdistan's parliament, rendering invalid votes taken by the chamber...
- The president of the top federal court in Baghdad, found unconstitutional the year-long extension of the chamber's mandate.
- As a result, decisions taken by the Kurdistan parliament since October 2022 "are constitutionally invalid", the judge said.