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Turkiye has sought an international arrest warrant for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, accusing him of "genocide" linked to Israel's interception of an aid flotilla for Gaza, the justice minister announced on Friday. Turkiye has become a virulent critic of Israel's war in Gaza, sp...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 2:59 pm
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Iranian President Masoud Pezeshkian said on Friday it was time to end the months-long Middle East war with the United States because Tehran appeared to be in a stronger position than Washington. Talks between the decades-old foes remain on hold, with both sides in the war started by the US and Israe...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 2:08 pm
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This year's El Niño weather pattern will be the biggest in over a century, warming sea surface temperatures to an "unheard-of" level, Britain's national weather agency predicted on Friday. The El Niño weather pattern is declared when sea temperatures in the tropical eastern Pacific rise 0....
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 9:21 am
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India's top court has ordered tough new steps to protect wild elephant herds as habitat loss and human-elephant conflict intensify, a move welcomed by campaigners on Friday. The world's most populous nation is also home to the majority of Asian elephants, a species listed as endangered by the In...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 9:07 am
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WASHINGTON: Aisha Wahab, a California state senator, has won a special election, becoming the first Afghan American elected to Congress. Wahab, a Democrat and prominent member of the party's progressive wing, defeated fellow Democrat Melissa Hernandez in a closely fought election in California's...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 8:35 am
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JERUSALEM: Israel accused Turkiye of "dangerous adventures in Syria" on Thursday, while Ankara called for a halt to "reckless" Israeli attacks, two days after Israel bombed a Syrian airbase where it said Turkish troops were about to deploy. The attack has brought into focus tensions between ...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 3:28 am
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BRUSSELS: A Belgian university on Thursday suspended a US academic who spearheaded accusations of plagiarism against Jason Arday, the black ex-Cambridge professor found dead last week after resigning over the scandal. Researcher Nathan Cofnas — a self-defined "race realist" who was himself sac...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 3:21 am
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WASHINGTON: The US gross national debt has surged past $40 trillion for the first time, government data showed on Wednesday, outstripping earlier forecasts at a pace fuelled in part by President Donald Trump's invalidated tariffs. The uptick in borrowing is a blow to Trump, who promised to cut pub...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 2:46 am
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DHAKA: Lawmakers in Bangladesh elected ruling party veteran Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir as the country's president on Thursday, a largely ceremonial post left vacant after the early resignation of his predecessor. Alamgir, 78, secretary general of the Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) and local ...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 2:40 am
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FRANKFURT: Germany registered a record of around 14,000 heat-related deaths this summer as Europe struggled through a series of punishing heatwaves, official data showed on Thursday. Around 9,600 of those deaths were recorded in one week in late June when Germany baked in temperatures of over 40C, ...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 2:38 am
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PARIS: France, Italy, Britain and Germany on Thursday piled on mounting international condemnation of a major settlement project in the occupied West Bank, after Israeli authorities opened bidding for more than 1,200 homes in the area. The E1 plan was green-lit by Israel last year and would further...
Posted on 21 August 2026 | 2:35 am
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United States President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he was launching a major new campaign to target Iran's economy, threatening "tremendous" punishment on any country that helps or does business with the country. The intensified economic pressure campaign comes as the war nears its sixth mo...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 6:14 am
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THE Zhuque-3 rocket lifts off from the Dongfeng Commercial Space Innovation Pilot Zone in northwestern China.—Reuters BEIJING: A Chinese space start-up recovered the first stage of a rocket on land on Wednesday morning, hailed by state media as a first for the country and a "breakthrough"...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 3:14 am
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THE HAGUE: The International Criminal Court on Wednesday lashed out at the United States after Washington slapped sanctions on ICC President Tomoko Akane, calling it a "flagrant attack" on the court's independence. The US sanctioned Akane of Japan and trial lawyer Abdoulaye Seye of Senegal on ...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 3:09 am
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PALESTINIAN emergency personnel carry a victim away from the site of the Israeli strike in Gaza City.—AFP GAZA CITY: An Israeli strike on the municipal police headquarters in Gaza City killed nine people on Wednesday. Israeli attacks in the Palestinian territory have continued despite a cease...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 3:03 am
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TEHRAN: Iran's armed forces warned Gulf countries against assisting the US military on Wednesday, hours after the United Arab Emirates announced it was severing economic ties with Tehran following new attacks on shipping. Despite a recent lull in hostilities between the United States and Iran, the...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 2:58 am
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LISBON: Portugal's president has enacted a law pushed by the far right banning the concealment of faces in public, a measure widely seen as targeting Muslim women wearing a full-face veil. "The face must be considered a central element of human identity and communication," President Antonio Jo...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 2:53 am
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• Search operations still underway after tragedy at illegal Zamboye mining site near town of Baboua• Public prosecutor says landslide believed to have been caused by collapse of 'several underground tunnels' BOUAR: A landslide at an illegal gold mine has killed at least 100 people in the Cen...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 2:24 am
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GRANADA: Granada's treasured Alhambra palace shut with minor damage on Tuesday after a second major earthquake in days sent debris falling and injured three people in the Spanish city, authorities said. The 4.8-magnitude earthquake took place at around 10:38am with its epicentre in the town of Al...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 2:05 am
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PARIS: Peppercorn-sized clumps of human brain cells grown in a lab for a record seven years aged similarly to those inside our heads, suggesting they "recorded the passage of time," scientists said on Wednesday. These tiny clumps called organoids are grown from stem cells by scientists around ...
Posted on 20 August 2026 | 2:05 am
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WASHINGTON: The Trump administration this week tightened US immigration rules further, putting green-card applicants under greater scrutiny, imposing new time limits on foreign students and journalists, and giving immigration officers more power to deny applications. The latest change came on Wednes...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 6:20 pm
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US President Donald Trump said on Wednesday that he planned to meet with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, adding that the country held 57 "very powerful" nuclear weapons. The remarks come as Trump ordered Pentagon officials to cut short joint exercises with the South Korean military, writing in ...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 4:23 pm
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Israel's military will open internal criminal investigations over its troops' killings in Gaza of Hind Rajab in January 2024 and 15 emergency and aid workers in March 2025, it said on Wednesday. The military said the investigation decisions followed probes by its Fact-Finding and Assessment Mech...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 12:36 pm
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ChatGPT creator OpenAI said Tuesday that it was tapping the brakes on development of its most advanced AI model and tightening internal controls, a month after revealing that one of its AI tools carried out an autonomous cyberattack. OpenAI is a key player in the rapid global buildout of artificial ...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 11:04 am
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The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions against International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane of Japan and another senior official as part of Washington's campaign against what it calls a "corrupt and fatally politicised" body. Washington also slapped sanctions on ICC Senior Trial...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 9:06 am
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A fire ripped through a hotel in the Indian city of Kolkata on Wednesday, killing nine people, authorities said, with investigators suspecting a faulty air conditioner may be the cause. "Nine people, including a child, were killed in the fire that broke out early on Wednesday," Anuj Sharma, the ...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 7:28 am
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The Foreign Office (FO) on Wednesday strongly condemned the "unprovoked" attack carried out by Israel on an air base in Syria, saying such acts had the potential to "further undermine regional peace and stability". Syria's state-run Ekhbariya television, citing a military source, said on T...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 6:49 am
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Annual war games between South Korea and the United States will end around a week earlier than planned, both countries said on Wednesday, after US President Donald Trump ordered the "inappropriate and hostile" drills scaled back. Trump said on Sunday that he had told the Pentagon to curtail the ...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 6:03 am
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US President Donald Trump paused the planned rollout of punishing new tariffs on Canadian goods late Tuesday, as both sides indicated they were close to a broader trade agreement after weeks of talks. Trump announced the three-day reprieve from 50-per cent duties on select goods mere hours before a...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 4:38 am
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• Denies talks with Iran, says naval blockade remains in full force, with strait open• Tehran reiterates waterway will stay closed until Washington meets its demands• Araghchi claims US 'begging' for talks on Iran's terms• UAE accuses Iran of firing ballistic missiles• Houthis target...
Posted on 19 August 2026 | 2:35 am