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Iran supreme leader vows revenge for father's killing
Iran's supreme leader on Saturday vowed revenge for the U.S.-Israeli killing of his father and predecessor, hours after President Donal...
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Middle East
Iran hits back at Trump after he insists truce over
Iran insisted on Saturday it had "kept its word" on a ceasefire with the United States, after President Donald Trump insisted the t...
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U.S. President Donald Trump threatened Wednesday to halt all trade with Spain amid a bitter row over Madrid's defense spending and failure to help Washington with the Iran war.
"Spain is a wasted cause. We don't want to do any trade business with Spain anymore," Trump said as he arrived at a NATO summit in Ankara.
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Three people were killed across Ukraine on Wednesday in overnight Russian attacks, including one in Kyiv, where powerful explosions hit for the second night in a row.
Several explosions were heard shortly after midnight, before authorities issued an air raid alert. It was an unusual sequence of events because warnings typically precede strikes, giving civilians time to find shelter.
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U.S. forces launched strikes on Iran after three commercial vessels were attacked in the Strait of Hormuz, the U.S. military said, sharply escalating a confrontation that has already shaken efforts to end the Middle East war.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he believed both Russia's Vladimir Putin and Ukraine's Volodymyr Zelensky want to get the war "settled", after talking to the two leaders.
"I think they both want to make a deal," Trump told journalists after arriving in Ankara for the NATO summit.
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The death toll in Sri Lanka's prison clash rose Tuesday to 26 — seven prison officials and 19 inmates — with authorities alleging the skirmish was linked to narcotic drugs and gang rivalries but prison welfare groups saying overcrowding and poor conditions had much to do with it, too.
The unrest at the prison in Negombo, about 35 kilometers (22 miles) north of the capital, Colombo, started between inmates on Sunday and turned violent on Monday after the inmates attacked the guards who intervened. Officials said the inmates even tried to break through the main gate, but were stopped.
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U.S. President Donald Trump said Tuesday he was "very disappointed" by the response of NATO allies in Europe to his war with Iran after arriving in Turkey for the alliance's summit.
"I was very disappointed with NATO," Trump told journalists as he met Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
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A landslide in China's northwestern Gansu province killed five people on Tuesday, with rescuers working to locate 12 others still missing, state media reported.
At least 33 people were initially reported missing after the landslide in a village near Gansu's Longnan city, state news agency Xinhua said.
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NATO allies will unveil billions in new contracts to bolster their ability to "defer and defend", Secretary General Mark Rutte said Monday on the eve of the military alliance's summit.
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Britain on Monday unveiled sanctions against seven Russian scientists and two research labs said to have helped develop chemical weapons used in two attacks.
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A series of attacks by Sudan's paramilitary Rapid Support Forces near the western border with Chad have razed multiple villages and displaced thousands of people, according to two survivors and the United Nations.
The RSF has been at war with the Sudanese army since April 2023, and has been accused by the UN of committing repeated massacres against Darfur's non-Arab ethnic groups, including the Zaghawa who inhabit the western villages of North Darfur state.
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