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Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky said early Monday that a suspect had been arrested in the shooting of former speaker of parliament Andriy Parubiy, and had given an initial statement to investigators. A statement from the country's interior minister suggested that Saturday's killing had been carefully planned, supporting ...
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The Chief of Staff of the Israeli army, Eyal Zamir, vowed Sunday to target Hamas leaders abroad after the military killed Abu Obeida, spokesman for the group's military wing, in Gaza the day before. "In the Gaza Strip, yesterday we struck one of Hamas's senior leaders, Abu Obeida. This is not the end; most of Hamas's leadership is abroad, and we ...
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Tourists film eagerly with their phones as a train rumbles just inches away past Hanoi’s railside cafés – establishments that brought lucrative business to a former slum disdained by the government. Authorities have repeatedly tried to shut down the tumbledown quarter of the Vietnamese capital for safety reasons, but a closure now seems ...
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Nawaf Salam Hamas Abu Obeida Gaza Benjamin Netanyahu
Israel's defense minister said on Sunday that the army had killed Abu Obeida, spokesman for the armed wing of Palestinian militant group Hamas, a day after a strike that targeted him. "Hamas terror spokesperson Abu Obeida was eliminated in Gaza," Minister Israel Katz said in a post on X, congratulating Israeli security forces "for the flawless ...
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Pope Leo XIV called Sunday for an end to the "pandemic of arms" as he prayed for "countless" children killed by firearms and in conflicts globally. The US pontiff repeated his calls at the end of the Angelus prayer for a ceasefire in Ukraine following a Russian attack on Kyiv on Thursday in which at least 25 people died, including four ...
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President Xi Jinping gathered the leaders of Russia and India, among dignitaries from around 20 Eurasian countries, on Sunday to kick off a showpiece summit aimed at putting China at the front and center of regional relations. The Shanghai Cooperation Organisation summit is being held in the northern port city of Tianjin until Monday, days before ...
This is Beirut 31/08 12:55 - Reading : 1 minute(s)
Nawaf Salam Hamas Gaza Mohammad Sinwar
Hamas on Sunday confirmed the death of Mohammed Sinwar, its presumed leader in Gaza, more than three months after Israel said it had killed him in an air strike. Pictures released by the Palestinian Islamist group on Saturday showed him alongside other political and military leaders, described as "martyrs of the military ...
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Nawaf Salam Gaza Hamas Abu Obeida
The Israeli military has targeted a building in Gaza where Abu Obeida, spokesperson for Hamas' Ezzedine al-Qassam Brigades, was reportedly located, Israeli media announced on Saturday evening. The military confirmed the attack but did not disclose its target and did not clarify whether its was killed or survived. According to media reports, Abu ...
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The European Union on Saturday urged the United States to "reconsider" its decision to deny visas to Palestinian officials planning to attend next month’s United Nations General Assembly in New York. "We strongly call for this decision to be reconsidered, in light of international law," said EU foreign policy chief Kaja ...
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Nawaf Salam Houthi Movement Yemen
Yemen's Houthi vowed on Saturday to avenge the killing of their prime minister Ahmad Ghaleb Nasser Al-Rahwi and other political leaders in Israeli strikes on Thursday. "We promise to God, to the dear Yemeni people and the families of the martyrs and wounded that we will take revenge," the head of the group's supreme ...
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Dozens of Syrian families from the Alawite minority were forced to leave their neighborhood near Damascus following threats from armed men, residents told AFP on Saturday. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR), an armed group entered the Soumariya district, west of Damascus, on Thursday and pushed Alawite residents out of ...