China’s increasing naval power, the country having surpassed the United States as the world’s largest maritime force, is giving Beijing crucial sway
The European Parliament has approved a loan of up to 35 billion euros ($38 billion) for Ukraine's defense and reconstruction
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Israeli forces carried out airstrikes Wednesday on Beirut’s southern suburbs, sending plumes of smoke rising from at least two neighborhoods.
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Israel struck downtown Beirut, killing at least six people, in the first attack on the center of the Lebanese capital since 2006 as Iran's military warned it would launch broader strikes if the Jewish state responds to its October 1 missile attack
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Israeli said its troops had launched a "targeted and precise" ground operation in southern Lebanon aimed at the operations of Iran-backed Hezbollah
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An Israeli airstrike hit an apartment building Monday in Beirut in the first apparent attack inside the city since the eruption of cross-border fighting between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah nearly a year ago. A Palestinian militant group called the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine said Monday’s strike killed at least three
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Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas called on the international community Thursday, particularly the United States, to stop sending weapons to Israel to end the bloodshed in the West Bank and Gaza. Abbas, speaking to the annual meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, singled out the U.S. because of its arms shipments and vetoes of Security
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A federal grand jury in Miami late this afternoon returned an indictment charging Ryan Wesley Routh, 58, of Hawaii, with attempting to kill former President Donald J. Trump at Trump International Golf Club in West Palm Beach, Florida, on Sept. 15. “Violence targeting public officials endangers everything our country stands for, and the Department of
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The European Union, the United States, France and eight other nations called Wednesday for an immediate 21-day cease-fire along the Israel-Lebanon border, saying the conflict there “is intolerable and presents an unacceptable risk of a broader regional escalation.” A joint statement said the cease-fire would allow for negotiations toward a diplomatic settlement consistent with existing
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Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told the United Nations Security Council on September 24 that Russia can only be “forced” into peace, and denounced Iran and North Korea as “accomplices” who have helped Moscow by providing weapons it has used in attacks on Ukraine. Russian President Vladimir Putin has “broken so many international norms and rules
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U.S. investigators are sorting through the social media accounts and other postings of the suspect in the latest apparent assassination attempt of former President Donald Trump, trying to determine a motive and whether anyone else may have been involved. Sheriff’s deputies in Florida arrested 58-year-old Ryan Wesley Routh, stopping him on a major highway late
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