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AP photographer captures moment bomb hits apartment building in Lebanon

AP photographer captures moment bomb hits apartment building in Lebanon

November 17, 2024
As a bomb descended on a multi-story apartment building in Beirut’s Tayouneh area Friday, hundreds of onlookers gathered in the street at a traffic roundabout several hundred meters (yards) away. Among them was an Associated Press photographer. Hassan Ammar had donned his flak jacket and helmet and rushed to the scene — taking up his […]
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Israeli strike reportedly kills Hezbollah spokesperson as group prepares response to fresh ceasefire proposal

Israeli strike reportedly kills Hezbollah spokesperson as group prepares response to fresh ceasefire proposal

November 17, 2024
The spokesperson of the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah, Mohammed Afif, was reportedly killed in an Israeli strike on Beirut on Sunday. The attack was just the fourth Israeli strike inside Beirut’s city limits since 2006, when a 34-day armed conflict between Israel and Hezbollah took place. Sunday’s strike hit the area, known as Ras al-Nebaa, […]
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Iranian anti-regime activist who died by suicide buried in Tehran

Iranian anti-regime activist who died by suicide buried in Tehran

November 16, 2024
Warning: This story contains descriptions of self-harm that some readers might find distressing Iranian activist Kianoosh Sanjari, who died by suicide this week in protest at political imprisonments by the regime, was buried Friday in the capital Tehran. Sanjari took his own life Wednesday at the age of 42, jumping off a building in downtown […]
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Israel’s war conduct in Gaza ‘consistent with the characteristics of genocide,’ UN Special Committee finds

Israel’s war conduct in Gaza ‘consistent with the characteristics of genocide,’ UN Special Committee finds

November 16, 2024
Israel’s war conduct in Gaza “is consistent with the characteristics of genocide,” including mass civilian casualties and using starvation as a weapon, according to a new United Nations Special Committee report released Thursday. “Through its siege over Gaza, obstruction of humanitarian aid, alongside targeted attacks and killing of civilians and aid workers, despite repeated UN […]
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Young Chinese flock to ‘academic pubs’ as space for free expression shrinks

Young Chinese flock to ‘academic pubs’ as space for free expression shrinks

November 16, 2024
Sipping a hazy beer in a dimly lit Shanghai pub, Liang Xiao found himself immersed in a sociology lecture that astounded him. Beneath a projector screen, a Chinese PhD student at an elite American university was explaining how modern states were built to a crowd of more than 40 young urbanites who packed the tiny […]
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Hospital fire kills 10 newborn babies in northern India

Hospital fire kills 10 newborn babies in northern India

November 16, 2024
Lucknow, India (AP) — A fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies and injuring 16 others, authorities said. The fire occurred late Friday at a hospital in Jhansi city, Uttar Pradesh state. Officials said the blaze spread quickly through the ward, where 55 infants […]
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Zelensky says Ukraine war will end ‘faster’ under Trump presidency

Zelensky says Ukraine war will end ‘faster’ under Trump presidency

November 16, 2024
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky has said Russia’s war in Ukraine will end “faster” when Donald Trump takes over as US president. Speaking in a radio interview with Ukrainian public broadcaster Suspine on Friday, Zelensky said “I believe that the war will end,” adding that there is “no exact date.” However, he said, the war “will […]
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Iran ‘categorically denies’ UN envoy met Elon Musk

Iran ‘categorically denies’ UN envoy met Elon Musk

November 16, 2024
Iran’s foreign ministry denied that a meeting was held between the Iranian ambassador to the United Nations and Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and close ally of US President-elect Donald Trump, Iranian state media reported Saturday. The New York Times reported the meeting took place earlier this week, citing two Iranian officials. But Iran’s […]
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Bad news mounts for Ukraine across the frontlines. But Russia is under pressure too

Bad news mounts for Ukraine across the frontlines. But Russia is under pressure too

November 16, 2024
The bad news keeps coming. Wherever Kyiv looks, Moscow seems to have the advantage. Russia is making gains at key spots along the frontlines of eastern and southeastern Ukraine, while unleashing wave after wave of aerial terror against Ukrainian cities. At the same time, Moscow is preparing to launch a counteroffensive in the southern Russian […]
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Israel pounds southern Beirut as Hezbollah considers fresh ceasefire proposal

Israel pounds southern Beirut as Hezbollah considers fresh ceasefire proposal

November 16, 2024
Intense Israeli strikes targeted areas of Beirut’s southern suburbs Saturday as the Lebanese militant group Hezbollah considered its response to a fresh ceasefire proposal. The strikes marked the fifth straight day of Israeli attacks on the Dayiyeh region of Beirut, a Hezbollah stronghold. Lebanon’s National News Agency said three areas were hit. The Israel Defense […]
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Elon Musk met with Iran’s UN envoy, NYT reports

Elon Musk met with Iran’s UN envoy, NYT reports

November 15, 2024
Elon Musk, the world’s wealthiest person and close ally of President-elect Donald Trump, met with Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations on Monday, the New York Times reported, citing two Iranian officials. The meeting between Musk and Iran’s envoy Amir Saeid Iravani was held at a secret location in New York and lasted more than […]
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Thousands of guns recovered from Caribbean crime scenes came from the US, says government report

Thousands of guns recovered from Caribbean crime scenes came from the US, says government report

November 15, 2024
Nearly three-quarters of firearms recovered in several Caribbean nations with high crime rates were manufactured in the US, according to the US’s Government Accountability Office (GAO). Almost 5,400 firearms recovered from crime scenes from 2018 to 2022 in several Caribbean nations – including Haiti, Jamaica, and Trinidad and Tobago – can be sourced back to […]
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Argentina votes against UN resolution combating online violence against women and girls

Argentina votes against UN resolution combating online violence against women and girls

November 15, 2024
Argentina was the only country to vote against a United Nations resolution promoting the end of all forms of online violence against women and girls. During Thursday’s UN General Assembly session, the South American nation argued that the resolution contained ambiguous terms such as “hate speech,” “misinformation,” and “disinformation” that could be used “abusively” to […]
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Japanese Princess Yuriko, oldest member of imperial family, dies at 101

Japanese Princess Yuriko, oldest member of imperial family, dies at 101

November 15, 2024
Tokyo (AP) — Japanese Princess Yuriko, the wife of wartime Emperor Hirohito’s brother and the oldest member of the imperial family, has died after her health deteriorated recently, palace officials said. She was 101. Yuriko died Friday at a Tokyo hospital, the Imperial Household Agency said. It did not announce the cause of death, but […]
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North Korea to mass produce self-detonating explosive drones, state media reports

North Korea to mass produce self-detonating explosive drones, state media reports

November 15, 2024
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered his country to quickly start mass producing self-detonating explosive drones, calling their development an “essential requirement,” after overseeing a test of the deadly aerial weapon, state media reported Friday. Images published by North Korean state media show Kim and various officials at the launch site. Images show […]
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