The U.S. State Department said Secretary of State Antony Blinken will underscore Washington’s “ironclad commitment” to its alliance with the Philippines on Tuesday as he meets with top …
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BY JIM GOMEZ
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3/19/24
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Around 60,000 Israelis who evacuated from cities and towns along the border with Lebanon are grappling with the question of when they will be able to return home. Hezbollah began launching rockets …
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By MELANIE LIDMAN
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3/19/24
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The United States and Japan are sponsoring a U.N. Security Council resolution calling on nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space. U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a …
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By EDITH M. LEDERER
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3/18/24
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Israel is urging the top United Nations court to reject the latest request by South Africa for interim orders to prevent starvation in Gaza. The request is part of a case accusing Israel of breaching …
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By MIKE CORDER
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3/18/24
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The British government hopes one last push can revive its stalled plan to send some asylum-seekers on a one-way trip to Rwanda. A bill aimed at overcoming a U.K. Supreme Court block on the …
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By JILL LAWLESS
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3/18/24
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The West African nation of Gambia could become the first country in the world to reverse a ban on female genital cutting, a practice that experts say is dangerous and has no benefits. Lawmakers are …
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By ABDOULIE JOHN and JESSICA DONATI
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3/18/24
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Croatia's top court rules that the president can't run in the parliamentary election unless he quits
Croatia’s Constitutional Court has ruled that President Zoran Milanović can't run for prime minister or take part in the parliamentary preelection activities of an opposition party unless he …
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3/18/24
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U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken has underscored the need to ensure that technologies sustain democratic values. He said at the third Summit for Democracy in South Korea on Monday that …
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3/18/24
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South Korea suspends the licenses of 2 senior doctors in first punitive steps over doctors' walkouts
South Korean authorities have suspended the licenses of two senior doctors for allegedly inciting the weekslong walkouts by medical interns and residents that have disrupted hospital operations. …
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By HYUNG-JIN KIM
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3/18/24
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North Korea has shipped around 7,000 containers filled with munitions and other military equipment to Russia since last year to help support its war in Ukraine. South Korean Defense Minister Shin …
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By KIM TONG-HYUNG
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3/18/24
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From April 19 to June 1, nearly 970 million Indians are eligible to vote in general elections. The mammoth exercise is the biggest anywhere in the world and will take 44 days before results are …
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By KRUTIKA PATHI
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3/18/24
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Officials say Pakistan has targeted multiple suspected hideouts of Pakistani Taliban inside neighboring Afghanistan. Early Monday's airstrikes came two days after Pakistani militants in a suicide …
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By MUNIR AHMED and RAHIM FAIEZ
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3/18/24
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Millions of Germans have been protesting against the rise of the far-right in huge rallies all over the country for weeks in a row, attending events with slogans such as “Never Again is Now.” …
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By KIRSTEN GRIESHABER
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3/18/24
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Small groups of protesters have taken to the streets in the eastern Cuba city of Santiago decryng power outages lasting up to eight hours across the Caribbean nation. Videos on social media showed …
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By ANDREA RODRÍGUEZ
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3/17/24
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A number of government and aid agencies in Haiti have reported their facilities and aid supplies have been looted as Haiti spirals into another wave of gang violence. Gangs have raged through Haiti …
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3/17/24
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The U.S. is scrambling to assess the future of its counterterrorism operations in the Sahel region of Africa after the ruling junta in Niger announced it was ending military cooperation with …
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By JESSICA DONATI and SAM MEDNICK
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3/17/24
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Vaughan Gething’s election as the next leader of Wales marks a milestone: For the first time, none of the U.K.’s four main governments is led by a white man. It’s a striking moment in a country …
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By JILL LAWLESS
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3/17/24
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A volcano in Iceland has erupted for the fourth time in three months, sending orange jets of lava into the night sky. Iceland’s Meteorological Office said the eruption Saturday evening opened a …
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3/16/24
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Media reports in Latvia say that the country's state security service has started criminal proceedings against an European Parliament lawmaker and a citizen of the Baltic country who is suspected of …
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3/16/24
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Vaughan Gething has won the Welsh Labour Party leadership contest and is set to become the first Black leader of Wales’ semi-autonomous government. Gething is currently Welsh economy minister. He …
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By JILL LAWLESS
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3/16/24
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