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Blinken begins latest Middle East tour, set to meet Arab leaders in Cairo
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken has begun a tour of the Middle East by holding talks in Saudi Arabia…
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More than 100 Palestinians killed in 24 hours
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu tells US Republican senators Israel will continue the war to defeat Hamas, with one senator saying,…
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Israeli Supreme Court temporarily halts plan to return Palestinian hospital patients to Gaza after doctors appeal
Israel’s Supreme Court has temporarily halted a government plan to send a group of Palestinian patients being treated in East…
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Biden administration unveils strictest ever US car emission limits to boost EVs
President Joe Biden has announced the strictest regulation on vehicle exhaust emissions ever enacted in the US in a bid…
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Two arrested in Russia’s first LGBTQ+ extremism case
Two employees of an LGBTQ+ club in the Russian city of Orenburg have been arrested on suspicion of being members…
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Third ex-police officer sentenced in Mississippi torture case
A third former Mississippi police officer has been sentenced to 17.5 years in prison for torturing two black men in…
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Ex-wife of Amazon Boss donates $640m to US non-profits
Billionaire philanthropist MacKenzie Scott is giving $640m (£504m) to non-profit organisations, more than double her previously planned donations for the…
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Putin hails illegal annexation of Crimea after claiming election win
Russia’s President Vladimir Putin has hailed the “return” of Crimea to Russia at a concert marking the 10th anniversary of…
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‘Only God can change this place’: Haitians see no end to spiralling violence
“Port-au-Prince is in panic mode,” a friend in the Haitian capital texted me. Residents of Petionville, a wealthier area of…
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Gaza faces famine during Ramadan, the holy month of fasting
When dawn broke last Monday morning, signalling the beginning of Ramadan, it brought a cruel irony for the people of…
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