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Netanyahu Vows to Eliminate Iran Threat ‘Once and for All’

World 10 November 2026, Israel, Jerusalem: Caretaker Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu delivers a speech on the sidelines of the opening session of the new Knesset. (dpa)

Netanyahu Vows to Eliminate Iran Threat ‘Once and for All’

Israel's caretaker prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday reiterated his calls for a national unity government with his opponent Gadi Eisenkot, as well…

World Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy holds a press briefing in Copenhagen November 10, 2026. (AFP)

Ukraine’s Zelenskiy Escalates Criticism of SpaceX Over Speed Caps

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy ‌escalated his criticism of SpaceX on Saturday, saying speed restrictions on its military-grade Starshield…

World Jorge Moreira da Silva, Executive Director of UNOPS (United Nations Office for Project Services), and coordinator of the UN Strait of Hormuz Task Force established by the UN Secretary-General, speaks during an interview with AFP on the sidelines of the 31st United Climate Change Conference (COP31), at the media center located on the Antalya Expo Center in Antalya on November 14, 2026. (AFP)

UN Official Urges Iran, US to Let Fertilizers Through Hormuz Strait

Iran and the United States should "immediately" allow fertilizer shipments through the Strait of Hormuz to ease the crisis in some of the most vulnerable…

World US President Donald Trump attends a Veterans Day ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia, US, November 11, 2026. (Reuters)

Report: Trump Tells Advisers He May Hold Off on Iran Attacks Barring New Provocations

President Donald Trump has told senior advisers in recent days that he may hold off on attacking Iran if the US faces no new provocations from Tehran or the…

World US President Donald Trump presents the National Medal of Science to Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk during the "A New Golden Age" summit at the US Institute of Peace, renamed The Donald J. Trump Institute of Peace by the Trump administration, in Washington, DC, US, October 8, 2026. (Reuters)

Trump Is Taking Elon Musk on His Asia Trip, but He Plans to Avoid Talking About Nvidia Scandal

President Donald Trump plans to take the world's wealthiest man, Elon Musk, with him next week when he travels to the Philippines and China. As the head of…


World North Rhine-Westphalia state premier Hendrik Wuest, Solingen mayor Tim Kurzbach and German Chancellor Olaf Scholz pay their respects at the site where three people were killed and several injured in a stabbing attack at a festival, in Solingen, Germany. (Reuters/Jana Rodenbusch)

German Chancellor Vows from Solingen to Prevent Another Stabbing Attack

The German government is under pressure to draw lessons and act after a Syrian migrant from Deir Ezzor killed three people and injured eight others in a fatal…

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World This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Service on August 23, 2024, shows Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy (R) and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi posing at the entrance of the Mariinskyi Palace ahead of their meeting, in Kyiv, amid the Russian invasion of Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / Ukrainian President press-service / AFP) /

Biden, Modi Discuss Ukraine War After PM’s Visit, Situation in Bangladesh 

US President Joe Biden and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Monday discussed the Russia-Ukraine war following Modi's visit to Ukraine, along with the…

World This handout photograph taken and released by the Ukrainian Emergency Service on August 26, 2024 shows rescuers working to extinguish a fire following a missile attack at an undisclosed location in Odesa region of Ukraine. (Photo by Handout / UKRAINIAN EMERGENCY SERVICE / AFP)

Russian Attacks on Ukraine Kill Six in Second Day of Major Strikes, Kyiv Says

Russia launched missile and drone attacks targeting scores of Ukrainian regions and killing at least six people, officials said on Tuesday, a day after Moscow…

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World President of the French far-right party Rassemblement National (RN) and MEP Jordan Bardella (R) and French Member of Parliament and French far-right Rassemblement National (National Rally) RN party's leader Marine Le Pen (L) arrive to attend their meeting with French President at the Elysee presidential palace in Paris, on August 26, 2024. (AFP)

French Far-Right Oppose Leftist Prime Minister, Complicating Calculus for Macron

Leaders from France's far-right National Rally said on Monday their party will block any prime ministerial candidate from the leftist New Popular Front,…

World  A view shows a partially submerged school and madrasa premises amid severe flooding in the Fazilpur area of Feni, Bangladesh, August 26, 2024. (Reuters)

Bangladesh Floods Leave 23 Dead, 5.7 Million People Affected

The death toll from devastating floods caused by relentless monsoon rain and overflowing rivers in Bangladesh has risen to 23, with around 1.24 million…

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Russia Skips UN Meeting Pledging Respect for Humanitarian Law

Switzerland hosted United Nations Security Council members at a meeting in Geneva on Monday to recommit to international humanitarian law, describing an …

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World A still image taken from an undated handout video made available by the Russian Defense Ministry Press-Service on 23 August 2024 shows Russian servicemen firing a 122-mm howitzer D-30 towards Ukrainian positions at an undisclosed location. (EPA/Russian Defense Ministry Press Service Handout)

Kremlin Says There Will Be a Response to Ukraine’s Kursk Attack 

The Kremlin said on Monday that there would have to be a Russian response to Ukraine's incursion into the western Kursk region and that the idea of ceasefire…

World Rohingya refugees shout slogans as they gather to mark the seventh anniversary of their fleeing from neighboring Myanmar to escape a military crackdown in 2017, during heavy monsoon rains in Cox's Bazar, Bangladesh, August 25, 2024. (Reuters)

Rohingya Refugees Mark Anniversary of Their Exodus, Demand Safe Return to Myanmar 

Tens of thousands of Rohingya refugees from Myanmar who live in sprawling camps in Bangladesh on Sunday marked the seventh anniversary of their mass exodus,…

World FILE - In this photo provided by the Philippine Coast Guard, a Chinese Coast Guard ship, right, uses its water cannons on a Philippine Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) vessel, as it approaches Scarborough Shoal in the disputed South China Sea, on Dec. 9, 2023. (Philippine Coast Guard via AP, File)

Philippines Says China's South China Sea Moves 'Aggressive, Unprofessional and Illegal'

The Philippine government slammed China on Monday for "repeated aggressive, unprofessional and illegal" actions in the South China Sea after a string of…

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World 23 August 2024, US, Glendale: Former President of the United States Donald Trump attends a campaign rally in Glendale, Arizona. Photo: Gage Skidmore/ZUMA Press Wire/dpa

Trump is Expected to Tie Harris to Chaotic Afghanistan War Withdrawal in Speech to National Guard

In a speech Monday to National Guard soldiers in Michigan, former President Donald Trump is expected to promote his foreign policy record and tie Vice…

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World Pakistani security officials stand guard following an attack by criminal gangs, in Rahim Yar Khan district, Punjab province, Pakistan, 23 August 2024. EPA/FAISAL KAREEM

Militant Attacks in Pakistan's Balochistan Kill 39

Separatist militants attacked police stations, railway lines, and vehicles on highways in Pakistan's province of Balochistan, killing at least 39 people,…

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World A local views the destruction following a Russian missile strike in a village outside of Kyiv, 18 August 2024 amid the Russian invasion. EPA/SERGEY DOLZHENKO 60404

Russia Launches Massive Air Attack on Kyiv

All of Ukraine was under fresh air raid alerts during Monday's morning rush hour amid a threat of a massive Russian missile and drone attack, Ukraine's…

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World Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. (AP)

Iran's Foreign Minister Vows 'Definitive' Retaliation against Israel

Iran’s foreign minister again has referenced his country’s planned retaliation over the assassination of Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran. Abbas Araghchi…

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World This picture taken on March 15, 2024 and released from North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on March 16 shows North Korean leader Kim Jong Un inspecting a training of the Korean People's Army at an undisclosed location in North Korea. (Photo by KCNA VIA KNS / AFP)

North Korean Leader Supervises Test of Exploding Drones

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un supervised a demonstration of new exploding drones designed to crash into targets and pledged to spur development of such…

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Suspect in German Stabbing Rampage is Syrian Man, Who Confessed, Authorities Say

A suspect in German police custody following a stabbing rampage in the city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight is a 26-year-old Syrian man,…

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World A man inspects the rubble of a hotel hit by a Russian missile strike, amid Russia’s attack on Ukraine, in Kramatorsk, Donetsk region, Ukraine August 24, 2024.  REUTERS/Thomas Peter

Reuters Staff Hit in Strike on Hotel in Ukraine's Kramatorsk

A member of the Reuters team covering the war in Ukraine was missing and two others were hospitalized after a strike on a hotel in the eastern Ukrainian city…

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World People move the body of a bus accident victim from a hospial in Kahuta, Punjab province on August 25, 2024. (Photo by Aamir QURESHI / AFP)

36 Dead in Two Pakistan Bus Accidents

At least 36 people were killed in two separate bus accidents in Pakistan on Sunday, including 12 pilgrims who had been trying to reach Iran, rescue and police…

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World Pavel Durov, CEO and co-founder of Telegram speaks onstage during day one of TechCrunch Disrupt SF 2015 at Pier 70 on September 21, 2015 in San Francisco, California. (Photo by Steve JENNINGS / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / AFP)

Telegram Messaging App CEO Durov Arrested in France

Pavel Durov, the Russian-French billionaire founder and CEO of the Telegram messaging app, was arrested at Bourget airport outside Paris on Saturday evening,…

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World 25 August 2024, Australia, Sydney: Scenes after a two-vehicle crash in Engadine. Photo: Dean Lewins/AAP/dpa

Four Injured in Sydney Stabbing Attack

Four people including a police officer were injured in a stabbing attack in Sydney early on Sunday, police said, the latest in a series of knife assaults in…

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World Law enforcement officers stand in front of the synagogue following an explosion in La Grande-Motte, France (AFP)

France Opens Terrorism Investigation Following Attack at Synagogue

French police arrested a man suspected of trying to set a synagogue ablaze in the southern French city of la Grande-Motte on Saturday, Interior Minister Gerald…

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World Late in the evening, a man concealed behind police officers turns himself in to the police on the street and claims to be the perpetrator of the attack at a festival in Solingen, Germany, Saturday, Aug. 24, 2024. (Christoph Reichwein/dpa via AP)

German Stabbing Suspect is 26-year-old Syrian Man

The suspect in custody for a stabbing rampage in the western German city of Solingen that killed three people and injured eight is a 26-year-old Syrian man,…

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World A placard reading 'Why?' among flowers and tributes placed on a sidewalk near the scene after a knife attack, in Solingen, Germany, 24 August 2024. (EPA)

ISIS Claims Responsibility for Knife Attack in Germany That Killed 3

The ISIS group Saturday claimed responsibility for a knife attack in Solingen, Germany that killed three people and wounded eight others, according to its Amaq…

World Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. (AP)

Paris Calls on Tehran to Release Hostages Immediately

Paris has demanded that the new Iranian government release the French hostages “immediately” and urged Tehran to pressure its allies to de-escalate tensions in…

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World The Ukrainian national flag waves on top of the Verkhovna Rada (Parliament) building during an official visit by India's Prime Minister Modi, in Kyiv, Ukraine, 23 August 2024. (EPA)

Moscow and Kyiv Swap Prisoners of War as Ukraine Marks Independence Anniversary

Russia and Ukraine exchanged over 100 prisoners of war each on Saturday as Kyiv marked its third Independence Day since Moscow's full-scale invasion. …