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Iran holds emergency council after Israeli airstrike targets Nasrallah
Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, summoned the Supreme National Council to an emergency meeting at his home on Friday night after learning that Israel had targeted his close ally, Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah, in an airstrike in Lebanon, according to three Iranian officials familiar with the meeting. The Israeli military destroyed several residential buildings in the attack, Israeli and…
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UNGA: Jill Biden bids farewell to visiting First Ladies
By Kunle Sanni US First Lady Jill Biden bid farewell to First Ladies from various nations, including Nigeria’s First Lady, Oluremi Tinubu, during a luncheon held on the sidelines of the 79th United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) in New York. At the event, Jill Biden reflected on the bonds she had formed with the visiting First Ladies throughout her tenure,…
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Iran’s Pezeshkian says Tehran ready to work with world powers to resolve nuclear standoff
Iran is ready to end its nuclear standoff with the West, Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian told the United Nations General Assembly on Tuesday, while calling for an end to Russia’s war in Ukraine through dialogue. Iran’s clerical establishment seeks an easing of U.S. sanctions that have crippled the country’s economy. “We are ready to engage with participants of the 2015…
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Zelenskyy says Ukraine’s war with Russia is ‘closer to end’
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy expressed optimism that the war with Russia is “closer to an end” than many might believe, while urging allies to strengthen Ukraine’s military. “The plan for victory is the strengthening of Ukraine,” Zelenskyy said during an interview with Good Morning America co-anchor Robin Roberts. “That’s why we’re asking our friends, our allies, to support us. It’s…
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Russia maintains nuclear test moratorium unless provoked by U.S.
Russia will not conduct nuclear tests as long as the United States refrains from doing so, according to Sergei Ryabkov, Deputy Foreign Minister and President Vladimir Putin’s point man for arms control. This statement follows speculation that the Kremlin might abandon its post-Soviet nuclear test moratorium amidst growing global tensions. As the U.S. and its European allies deliberate on allowing…
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Iranian President says he doesn’t want war with Israel
Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Monday that Iran does not seek a wider war in the Middle East and warned that such a conflict would have no winners. “We don’t want war. We want to live in peace,” Pezeshkian told reporters during a visit to New York for the U.N. General Assembly. “We don’t wish to be the cause…
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Why West Africa is now world’s terrorism hotspot
In a brazen attack just before dawn on September 17, jihadists infiltrated Mali’s capital, Bamako, targeting a police training academy, setting the presidential jet ablaze, and killing dozens of students. The strike was the most daring in a West African capital since 2016 and demonstrated that jihadist groups linked to al-Qaeda and Islamic State, which have predominantly waged rural insurgencies,…
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Hillary Clinton: ‘It would be exhilarating to see Kamala Harris achieve the breakthrough I didn’t’
In this excerpt from her new memoir, the former US presidential candidate admits wondering how she’d feel if another woman ‘broke the highest, hardest glass ceiling’ On 21 July, when Joe Biden announced he was dropping out of the presidential race and endorsing Kamala Harris, the dream of seeing a woman in the Oval Office was suddenly back within reach.…
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Russia’s FSB busts migrant smuggling ring led by Nigerian Professor
Russia’s Federal Security Service (FSB) said Thursday that its agents dismantled a migrant smuggling network allegedly led by a university instructor from Nigeria. “The illegal activities of an interregional group specializing in the paid entry and transit of immigrants from the African continent through Russian territory to EU countries have been thwarted,” the FSB was quoted as saying by the…
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