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The United Nations' atomic watchdog chief, Rafael Grossi, will visit Iran in days for talks with senior officials, Iranian state media reported on Sunday. “The director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency will arrive in Iran on Wednesday at the official invitation of the Islamic Republic of Iran,” the official IRNA news agency ...
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Gaza's civil defense agency on Sunday said 30 people, including 13 children, were killed in two Israeli strikes on two houses in the north of the Palestinian territory. The first strike early Sunday hit a house in Jabalia in northern Gaza, killing “at least 25” people, including 13 children, and injuring more than 30, the civil defense ...
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US warplanes staged multiple strikes Saturday night on Iran-backed Houthi advanced weapons storage facilities in Yemen, the Pentagon said. The facilities contained various weapons used to target military and civilian vessels navigating international waters throughout the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden, according to information provided to AFP by the ...
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Donald Trump’s stunning victory was solidified on Saturday as he claimed Arizona, making a clean sweep of key battleground states, just as Joe Biden pledged a “peaceful” transition of power. The outgoing president will host his fiercest political adversary in the Oval Office on Wednesday to begin preparations for Trump’s historic return to ...
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Qatar’s Foreign Ministry has rejected news reports that it had pulled out of mediation efforts between Hamas and Israel adding that it has “stalled” its efforts until all parties demonstrate “willingness and seriousness” to end the war. In a statement on X, the ministry spokesman Majed Al Ansari said that Qatar ...
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Joe Biden will meet with President-elect Donald Trump at the White House on Wednesday after the US leader pledged an orderly transfer of power following the Republican's decisive election victory. Biden and Trump will meet at the Oval Office at 11:00 am (16:00 GMT), the White House said Saturday, with the clock ticking down to the ex-president's ...
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This is Beirut brings you a daily recap of the war and its repercussions on the region. Here are the main highlights for November 9, 2024.
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Iran on Saturday urged US President-elect Donald Trump to reconsider the "maximum pressure" policy he pursued against Tehran during his first term. "Trump must show that he is not following the wrong policies of the past," Iranian Vice President for Strategic Affairs Mohammad Javad Zarif told reporters on Saturday. These ...
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Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi on Saturday warned that the wars in Gaza and Lebanon, where Israel is battling Tehran-backed groups, could spill over beyond the Middle East. "The world should know that in case of the expansion of war, its harmful effects will not be limited only to the West Asia region; insecurity and instability can ...
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A bombing claimed by Pakistani separatists killed 26 people, including 14 soldiers, at a railway station in the southwestern Balochistan province, a hospital spokesman said on Saturday. The blast hit as passengers waited on a platform at the main railway station in the provincial capital, Quetta. "Fourteen members of the Army and 12 civilians ...
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Gaza's civil defence agency said on Saturday that Israeli air strikes killed at least 14 Palestinians overnight, including women and children, while the Israeli military said it had eliminated dozens of militants in the territory's north. An air strike hit tents housing displaced Palestinians in the southern area of Khan Yunis, killing at least ...
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EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell arrived Saturday in Kyiv to reassure Ukraine of Europe's backing in the first visit by a top Brussels official after Donald Trump's poll win. The volatile Republican's victory in the United States election has set nerves jangling in Ukraine and Europe that Trump could end Washington's support for Kyiv's fight ...