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United States Donald Trump Politics
Donald Trump promised Tuesday that he is just getting started as he marked the radical and vengeful beginning of a presidency that has shaken the world and destabilized the United States. Basking in the adulation of cheering supporters in Michigan, the 78-year-old touted the "most successful first 100 days of any administration in the ...
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Three people were shot dead in a city north of the Swedish capital on Tuesday, police said, the latest shooting to rock the Nordic nation. Police said they received reports of shots fired in the center of Uppsala, some 60 kilometers (37 miles) north of the capital, Stockholm, and that "a certain number of people have been found with wounds ...
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Syria Conflict Religion Druze SOHR
A Syria war monitor on Tuesday said 14 people, including seven Druze fighters, were killed in sectarian clashes near Damascus, as authorities blamed "gunmen" and vowed to pursue those involved. The overnight clashes, sparked by the circulation on social media of an audio recording deemed blasphemous, were met with condemnation from ...
Bélinda Ibrahim 29/04 18:00 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
United Arab Emirates Abu Dhabi Abrahamic Family Religion Coexistence
In 2023, the Abrahamic Family House was created in the heart of Abu Dhabi. An architectural and spiritual work of art designed to bring Muslims, Christians and Jews together around their shared values. Located on Saadiyat Island, the site features three Houses of Worship—Eminence Ahmed Al-Tayeb Mosque, St. Francis Church, and the Moses Ben ...
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Emmanuel Macron Russia France Cyberattack
France on Tuesday accused Russian military intelligence of being behind a series of cyberattacks against the country over the last decade, including against an organization involved in the 2024 Paris Olympics and Emmanuel Macron's first presidential campaign in 2017. Since 2021, a branch of Russian military intelligence (GRU) dedicated to ...
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Damascus Syria Druze Islamists HTS fighting
Sectarian tensions between the Sunni and Druze communities are alarmingly resurging in Syria. From Homs to the outskirts of Damascus, to Sweida, a Druze heartland south of Syria, several violent incidents have reignited sectarian divisions in a country still deeply scarred by more than a decade of war. Clashes in the Damascus suburb of Jaramana ...
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syria conflict religion judaism
A group of Syrian-American Jews prayed in a synagogue in Damascus on Tuesday, an AFP photographer reported, the latest such visit following the fall of longtime ruler Bashar al-Assad. The trip comes after local community leader Bakhour Chamntoub said unknown assailants broke into and desecrated the tomb of a 17th-century rabbi in Damascus last ...
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One person was killed and two others were injured in an explosion that occurred on Tuesday at the premises of a company located in Isfahan, Iran. The company operates under the supervision of Iran’s National Security Council and specializes in the manufacture of explosives, according to Iranian media reports. The incident comes just three days ...
Hussain Abdul-Hussain 29/04 15:30 - Reading : 4 minute(s)
USA America United States Donald Trump
The Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, an American think tank, believes that “trusting the Americans is a bad idea.” Carnegie’s Michael Young did not qualify what he meant by “the Americans.” Did he mean the US government? Its policies? Or just all of the Americans, wholesale? Young even took a swipe at the May 17, 1983 ...
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Aerial images showing bullet impacts on the walls of buildings in Omdurman, a city neighboring the capital Khartoum, following the war between the Sudanese army and the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).
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us politics education harvard trump
US President Donald Trump's administration said it has launched an investigation into Harvard University and Harvard Law Review for "race-based discrimination" after receiving reports about the prestigious legal journal's selection process for articles. The probe comes as Trump cracks down on US universities on several fronts, alleging widespread ...
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italy turkey diplomacy Meloni Etdogan
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan arrived in Rome for talks with Italy's Giorgia Meloni Tuesday, as the two Mediterranean countries seek to boost trade and cooperation. Meloni and Erdogan will discuss the war in Ukraine and the "situation in the Middle East" before a summit where government ministers are expected to sign a number of deals, ...