Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas will meet U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken on Friday, a Palestinian official said early on Thursday. Hussein Al-Sheikh, secretary general of the executive committee of …
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Britain’s government on Wednesday proposed banning younger generations from ever buying cigarettes, a move that would give the country some of the world’s toughest smoking rules and hurt the sales …
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INDONESIA: Explosion at hospital near capital, bomb squad on location – Police
by Reutersby Reuters 0 minutes readAn explosion occurred at a hospital near the Indonesian capital Jakarta on Thursday and a bomb squad had been dispatched there, police said. The police were quoted by news website …
Villagers wept for lost relatives in the rubble of their homes on Monday as the death toll from Morocco’s deadliest earthquake in more than six decades rose to almost 2,700 …
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S’AFRICA: Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Zulu prince who roiled in politics, dead at 95
by Reutersby Reuters 1 minutes readMangosuthu Buthelezi, a veteran South African politician, Zulu prince and controversial figure during the apartheid liberation struggle, has died, the presidency said on Saturday. He was 95. The founder of …
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Blinken visits Kyiv in show of support for Ukraine’s counteroffensive
by Reutersby Reuters 1 minutes readU.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Ukraine’s capital Wednesday for an unannounced visit hours after Russia launched a missile attack on the city, in a trip intended to …
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US: Video footage released of police shooting pregnant woman dead
by Reutersby Reuters 2 minutes readA US police department has released body camera footage showing an officer fatally shooting a pregnant black woman in the parking lot of a grocery store two weeks ago, after …
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BRAZIL: Four Nigerians survive 14 days on ship’s rudder before rescue
by Reutersby Reuters 3 minutes readTHE stowaways travelled 5,600km across the Atlantic and ran out of food and water by the 10th day of the journey. On their 10th day at sea, four Nigerian stowaways …
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UKRAINE: One killed in third successive night of Russian attacks on Kyiv
by Reutersby Reuters 0 minutes readAt least one person was killed on Thursday in a third successive night of Russian attacks on the Ukrainian capital Kyiv, the city’s mayor said. Air defences shot down all …
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SUDAN: Air strike on Omdurman kills 22, says health ministry
by Reutersby Reuters 1 minutes readAt least 22 people were killed and scores injured in an air strike by Sudan’s army on western Omdurman, the Khartoum state health ministry said on Saturday, as the war …