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Israeli troops conducted a series of arrest raids against suspected Hamas militants across the occupied West Bank early Sunday, sparking a pair of gun battles in which five Palestinians were killed and two Israeli soldiers were seriously wounded.It was the deadliest violence between Israeli for...
The Taliban’s takeover of Kabul has deepened the mutual distrust between the US and Pakistan, putative allies who have tangled over Afghanistan. But both sides still need each other.As the Biden administration looks for new ways to stop terrorist threats in Afghanistan, it probably will look a...
German voters are choosing a new parliament in an election that will determine who succeeds Chancellor Angela Merkel after her 16 years at the helm of Europe’s biggest economy.Polls point to a very close race Sunday between Merkel’s center-right Union bloc, with state governor Armin Lasc...
Turkey’s president has said he would consider buying a second Russian missile system in defiance of strong objections by the United States.In an interview with American broadcaster CBS News, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said Turkey would have to decide its defense systems on its own.Speaking...
At least four Palestinian gunmen were killed in shootouts with Israeli security forces during a sweeping West Bank arrest operation cracking down on the Islamic militant group Hamas on Sunday, the Israeli military said.It was the deadliest violence between Israeli troops and Palestinian militants in...
The airport on the Spanish island of La Palma reopened Sunday and authorities allowed some evacuated residents to collect belongings from their homes, as an erupting volcano continued to roar but lava flows remained slow.The island’s government said there had been “no significant inciden...
The Washington state Department of Health says it will immediately start offering booster doses of the Pfizer-BioNTech Covid-19 vaccine to certain people after recommendations from the US Food and Drug Administration and other groups. State health officials said Friday that at least six months ...
Prime Minister Imran Khan sought to cast Pakistan as the victim of American ungratefulness and an international double standard in his address to the United Nations General Assembly on Friday.In a prerecorded speech aired during the evening, the Pakistani prime minister touched on a range of topics ...
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One of the founders of the Taliban and the chief enforcer of its harsh interpretation of Islamic law when they last ruled Afghanistan said the hard-line movement will once again carry out executions and amputations of hands, though perhaps not in public.In an interview with The Associated Press...
Former Catalan leader Carles Puigdemont, who fled Spain after a failed secession bid for the northeastern region in 2017, was detained Thursday in Sardinia, Italy, his lawyer said.Puigdemont, who lives in Belgium and now holds a seat in the European Parliament, has been fighting extradition to Spain...
The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said Friday her country is willing to resume talks with South Korea if conditions are met, indicating it wants Seoul to persuade Washington to relax crippling economic sanctions.Kim Yo Jong’s statement came days after North Korea perfor...
The cinematic escape of six prisoners who tunneled out of an Israeli penitentiary earlier this month shone a light on Israel’s mass incarceration of Palestinians, one of the many bitter fruits of the conflict.Hundreds of thousands of Palestinians have passed through a military justice system d...
The right-wing populist government in Hungary is attracting conservative thinkers from the United States who admire its approaches to migration, LGBT issues and national sovereignty — all matters that have put the country at odds with its European partners, who see not a conservative haven but...
The advance of lava from a volcanic eruption in Spain’s Canary Islands has slowed significantly, raising doubts Thursday about whether it will fan out across the land and destroy more homes instead of flowing into the sea.A giant river of lava slowed to four meters (13 feet) per hour after rea...
President Joe Biden is set to push well-off nations to do more to get the Covid-19 pandemic under control around the world, as world leaders, aid groups and global health organizations sound the alarm about the slow pace of global vaccinations.Biden is convening a virtual vaccine summit on Wednesday...
Many Haitian migrants camped in a small Texas border town are being released in the United States, two US officials said, undercutting the Biden administration’s public statements that the thousands in the camp faced immediate expulsion.Haitians have been freed on a “very, very large sca...
Attackers struck Taliban vehicles in an eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday, witnesses said, killing at least two fighters and three civilians in the latest violence since the group’s takeover of the country in mid-August.In one attack, gunmen opened fire on a Taliban vehicle at a local gas stati...
Ana-Maria Trasnea was 13 when she emigrated from Romania because her single, working mother believed she would have a better future in Germany. Now 27, she is running for a seat in parliament.“It was hard in Germany in the beginning,” Trasnea said in an interview with The Associated Pres...
World leaders will be back at the United Nations for the first time in two years on Tuesday with a formidable agenda of escalating crises to tackle, including the still raging Covid-19 pandemic and a relentlessly warming planet.Other pressing issues are raising US-China tensions, Afghanistan’s...
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party secured victory in parliamentary elections but failed to get the majority he wanted in a vote that focused on the coronavirus pandemic but that many Canadians saw as unnecessary.Trudeau entered Monday’s election leading a stable minority gove...
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