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Israel strikes Iran in high-stakes retaliation
Israel launched direct strikes against Iran Saturday morning, in a high-stakes retaliation to Tehran’s ballistic missile barrage earlier this month. The attack, which has now concluded, raises fears the long-running confrontation between the two powerful militaries could escalate into a wider regional war. The Israeli military said it hit “precise” military targets in Iran, as Iranian state media reported several…
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Washington’s Arab allies engage with Iran as US efforts to stem Middle East violence falter
Growing unease over the United States’ inability to de-escalate tensions in the Middle East is prompting some of Washington’s closest Arab allies to significantly increase engagement with its primary regional adversary: Iran. Over the past few months, Arab nations have been leveraging their revived relations with the Islamic Republic to ward off a wider regional war as the US fails…
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Drug Trafficking: Saudi Arabia executes 7 people in one day
Saudi Arabia executed seven people on Wednesday, including five for drug trafficking, the official Saudi Press Agency (SPA) said. The deaths brought the total number of executions carried out this year in the Gulf kingdom to 236, according to an AFP tally based on official statements. Yahya Lutfullah, Ali Azib, Ahmed Ali and Salem Nahari were executed in the southern…
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23 Nobel Prize-winning economists call Harris’ economic plan ‘vastly superior’ to Trump’s
More than half of the living US recipients of the Nobel Prize for economics signed a letter that called Vice President Kamala Harris’ economic agenda “vastly superior” to the plans laid out by former President Donald Trump. Twenty-three Nobel Prize-winning economists signed onto the letter, including two of the three most recent recipients. “While each of us has different views…
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BRICS summit held in Russia’s city of Kazan
The Russian Foreign Ministry was targeted by a severe cyber attack on Wednesday, coinciding with the major BRICS summit taking place in the country, spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said. Earlier Zakharova said that the ministry had been targeted by a large-scale distributed denial-of-service attack (DDoS). “A massive cyberattack from abroad began this morning on the infrastructure of the official website, the…
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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin says North Korea has deployed troops to Russia
Video provided to CNN by the Ukrainian Center for Strategic Communication and Information Security appears to show North Korean soldiers receiving Russian uniforms and equipment at the Sergeevka Training Ground in the Far East of Russia. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said North Korea has deployed troops to Russia, the first senior US official to confirm the development on the…
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Analysis: The West wants Putin isolated. A major summit he’s hosting shows he’s far from alone
Nearly three years after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw Moscow condemned by countries globally, leader Vladimir Putin is staging a summit with more than a dozen world leaders – in a pointed signal from the autocrat that far from being alone, an emerging coalition of countries stands behind him. The three-day BRICS summit, which started Tuesday in the southwestern Russian…
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Moldova backs joining EU by razor-thin margin as president condemns ‘assault’ on democracy
Moldovans have voted by the thinnest of margins in favor of joining the European Union, near-complete results showed Monday, as President Maia Sandu condemned an “unprecedented assault” by foreign actors on the country’s democracy. With more than 99% of votes counted, 50.4% had voted “yes” in the pivotal referendum on whether to enshrine in the country’s constitution a path towards…
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Putin gathers allies to show western pressure isn’t working
The Kremlin describes the summit as one of the “largest-scale foreign policy events ever” in Russia. Imagine you’re Vladimir Putin. The West has branded you a pariah for invading Ukraine, and sanctions aim to cut off your country’s economy from global markets. There’s even an arrest warrant for you from the International Criminal Court. So how do you show that…
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Cameroon’s President Paul Biya appears in public amid health speculation
Cameroon’s 91-year-old President, Paul Biya, has been seen in public for the first time in six weeks, following widespread speculation about his health. Biya’s prolonged absence from the public eye had fueled rumors of his death, but on Monday afternoon, state television aired footage of him arriving at the airport in Yaoundé, the capital, after a flight from Switzerland. The…
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