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Azerbaijan proposes principles of peace before deal with Armenia

Azerbaijani President Ilam Aliyev said that the text of the treaty was 80 to 90 percent ready [Getty] Azerbaijan is proposing to sign a document with Armenia on the basic principles of a future peace treaty as an interim measure as they wrangle over a broader deal, a senior Azerbaijani official said on Sunday. Both […]

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Israel’s latest airstrikes in Gaza kill at least 15 including children

Israel has been waging a brutal war on Gaza for more than nine months [Majdi Fathi/NurPhoto/Getty-archive] Israeli airstrikes killed at least 15 people including women and children overnight in Gaza, according to hospital officials and a body count by an Associated Press journalist on Sunday. The latest strikes occurred as Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu prepared

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Iraq arrests 39 suspected members of outlawed ‘Sacrificers’ sect

Ashura is a period of mourning in remembrance of the seventh-century martyrdom of Prophet Mohammad’s grandson, Imam Hussein, who was killed in the Battle of Karbala in modern-day Iraq in 680 AD. [Getty] Iraq‘s National Security Service announced on Saturday the arrest of 39 suspects linked to an outlawed religious movement known as the al-Qurban Group, or

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LeBron rescues USA from South Sudan shock in Olympic warm-up

South Sudan’s basketball team nearly delivered a stunning upset to a United States team of NBA superstars on Saturday before losing 101-100 in an Olympics warm-up game in London. LeBron James, 39, the all-time NBA scoring leader, registered a game-high 25 points, including the deciding points on a driving layup with eight seconds remaining at

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Biden drops out of 2024 race, endorses Harris

Joe Biden on Sunday dropped out of the US presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s new nominee, in a stunning move that upends the 2024 race for the White House. The 81-year-old Biden stepped aside after weeks of pressure from Democrats following a disastrous debate performance, throwing the election

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Biden drops out of 2024 race, endorses Harris

Joe Biden on Sunday dropped out of the US presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s new nominee, in a stunning move that upends the 2024 race for the White House. The 81-year-old Biden stepped aside after weeks of pressure from Democrats following a disastrous debate performance, throwing the election

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Biden drops out of 2024 US election race against Trump

Joe Biden has dropped out of the US presidential election race [Demetrius Freeman/The Washington Post/Getty-archive] US President Joe Biden announced on Sunday that he was dropping out of his re-election battle with Donald Trump, in a historic move that plunges the already turbulent 2024 White House race into uncharted territory. “It has been the greatest

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Israeli Channel 13 axes show critical of Netanyahu

Protesters are demanding press freedom after the channel’s most-watched programmed, run by a Netanyahu critic, was cancelled [GETTY] A group of protesters demonstrated outside an art gallery in the UK after a TV network owned by the country’s second wealthiest man cancelled a program to appease Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Protesters are accusing the owner

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Israeli Channel 13 News axes show critical of Netanyahu

Protesters are demanding press freedom after the channel’s most-watched programmed, run by a Netanyahu critic, was cancelled [GETTY] A group of protesters demonstrated outside an art gallery in the UK after a TV network owned by the country’s second wealthiest man cancelled a program to appease Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Protesters are accusing the owner

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Netanyahu faces pressure from Likud MPs to reject US Gaza deal

Netanyahu faces pressure from the US to accept the deal and pressure from his own party to reject it [Getty] Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is coming under pressure from MPs of his own party to reject the current US ceasefire plan with Hamas, according to reports in the Israeli media on Saturday. Eight Likud

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