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Protests sweep Iran despite internet shutdown, state TV warns of casualties
Iranian protesters shouted and marched through the streets into Friday morning after a call by the country’s exiled crown prince for demonstrations, despite Iran’s theocracy cutting off the nation from the internet…
- Middle East
Israeli strikes kill 13 in Gaza as Trump expected to announce Board of Peace
Deir al-Balah: Israeli strikes across Gaza killed at least 13 people, according to health officials, as US President Donald Trump was expected to announce the Board of Peace to oversee the fragile…
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Anger, outrage spills onto streets, after ICE agent shoots Minneapolis woman
Minneapolis: As anger and outrage spilled out onto Minneapolis’ streets Thursday over the fatal shooting of a woman the day before by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer, a new shooting by…
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US Vice President on ICE Killing: ‘Tragedy of her own making’
Washington: Vice President J D Vance has blamed a federal immigration officer’s fatal shooting of a Minneapolis woman on “a left-wing network,” Democrats, the news media and the woman who was killed…
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US federal immigration officers shoot and wound 2 in Oregon, say authorities
Portland: Federal immigration officers shot and wounded two people in a vehicle outside a hospital in Portland, Oregon, a day after an officer shot and killed a driver in Minnesota, authorities said.…
- Middle East
Internet, telephone cut off in Iran after protests erupt in Tehran
Internet access and telephone lines in Iran were cut out immediately after protesters took to the steets in Tehran on Thursday night, January 8, over economic conditions in the country. People in…
- Middle East
Israel kills 11-year-old at home in Gaza as post-ceasefire deaths mount
Deir Al-Balah: A relative said Israeli gunfire on Thursday, January 8, killed an 11-year-old girl whose family had returned to a designated safe zone, adding to more than 400 deaths reported since…
- Middle East
What to know about latest tensions in Yemen, parties involved
Sanaa: Yemen is threatening to fracture even further, exposing a growing rift between Middle East powers Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. The latest friction is among members of the Saudi-led…
- Middle East
UAE smuggled wanted Yemen separatist leader out of country: Saudi Arabia
Dubai: Saudi Arabia alleged on Thursday, January 8, that the United Arab Emirates smuggled a separatist leader in Yemen wanted for treason out of the country and flew him to Abu Dhabi.…
- Middle East
Iran says ready to fight back if US or Israel attacks again
Beirut: Iran does not want war with Israel or the United States, but is ready to fight back if attacked again, the country’s foreign minister said on Thursday, January 8. Speaking upon…
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Netanyahu tries to calm tensions after Israeli bus kills ultra-Orthodox boy
Jerusalem: Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged calm after a bus driver ran over and killed a teenage boy on Tuesday, January 6, during a protest in Jerusalem against a law seeking…
- Middle East
Israel clears hurdle to start settlements in West Bank that will split it in two
Israel has cleared the final hurdle before starting construction on a contentious settlement project near Jerusalem that would effectively cut the West Bank in two, according to a government tender. The tender,…
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US to get 30-50 million oil barrels from Venezuela at market price: Trump
President Donald Trump has said on his social media site that “Interim Authorities” in Venezuela would be providing 30 million to 50 million barrels of “high quality” oil to the US at…
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Europe pushes back on Trump calling for US takeover of Greenland
Berlin: Several European leaders pushed back on Tuesday, January 6, on US President Donald Trump’s comments seeking an American takeover of Greenland. The leaders issued a statement reaffirming that the strategic, mineral-rich…
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Maduro arrest: US spent decades pressuring Venezuela leaders over oil wealth
After US special forces swooped into Caracas to seize Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and topple his government, US President Donald Trump said the United States will now “run” Venezuela, including its abundant…
