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One person was killed and five others wounded in northeastern France when several masked gunmen opened fire at a wedding ceremony, police sources said on Sunday. Sources suggested that the attack in the northeastern city of Thionville…
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Russian forces destroyed three dozen Ukrainian drones near the border, Moscow's Ministry of Defence said Sunday. "Air defence systems on duty destroyed fifteen UAVs over Kursk region, nine UAVs over Lipetsk region, four UAVs each over…
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JERUSALEM: Israel’s finance minister has extended a waiver that allows cooperation between its banking system and Palestinian banks in the occupied West Bank, the minister’s spokesman said today. The waiver, which was due to expire at…
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KARACHI: An Air Arabia flight en route from Kathmandu to Sharjah made an emergency landing at Karachi Airport after a crew member fell seriously ill. The flight attendant, identified as Anas from Morocco, experienced severe breathing…
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CAIRO: At least five people were killed and 59 others injured Saturday when a bus overturned on a coastal highway in Egypt's northwestern province of Matrouh, the official MENA news agency reported. The motorcoach overturned on the…
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PARIS: French voters cast their ballots on Sunday in the first round of a snap parliamentary election that could usher in the country's first far-right government since World War Two, a potential sea change at the heart of the…
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CAIRO: A senior official of the militant Islamist group Hamas, Osama Hamdan, said on Saturday there has been no progress in ceasefire talks with Israel over the Gaza war. The Palestinian group is still ready to "deal positively" with…
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A Panamanian court on Friday acquitted 28 people charged with money laundering at the center of the "Panama Papers" scandal, the court said. Judge Baloisa Marquinez "acquitted 28 people accused... of money laundering" relating to the…
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PITTSBURG: Working class voters in Rust Belt cities like Pittsburgh used to favor Democrats overwhelmingly, but years of economic hardship and the rise of social issues favoring Republicans have made them a swing constituency again in…
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JABALIA, GAZA STRIP: Explosions, air strikes and gunfire rattled northern Gaza on Saturday, the third day of an Israeli military operation that has uprooted tens of thousands of Palestinians and compounded what the UN called…
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