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Far-right Israeli minister pays surprise visit to jailed Palestinian leader

By Alexander Cornwell TEL AVIV (Reuters) -Israel’s far-right national security minister visited prominent Palestinian Marwan Barghouti in jail and told him “you will not win”, a video showed on Friday, a day after another hardline cabinet member vowed to “bury” the idea of a Palestinian state. Security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir shared the video on his …

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Foreign Islamists petition Syrian state for citizenship

By Timour Azhari (Reuters) -Foreign fighters and others who joined Syria’s civil war from abroad have petitioned the new Islamist-led government for citizenship, arguing they have earned it after sweeping to power with rebels who ousted former leader Bashar al-Assad. The fate of foreign fighters has loomed large since Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took power, …

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In Texas cattle country, ranchers brace for flesh-eating screwworms

By Heather Schlitz and Cassandra Garrison LIVE OAK COUNTY, Texas/TAPACHULA, Mexico/PANAMA CITY (Reuters) -He was only eight years old in 1973, but fifth-generation Texas rancher Kip Dove remembers spending countless days trotting up to sick and dying cattle on horseback that year during the last major outbreak of flesh-eating screwworm. He carried a bottle of …

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Trump says he hopes to ‘save’ Hong Kong democrat Jimmy Lai

WASHINGTON (Reuters) -U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday said he would see what he could do to help “save” detained Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai, even though Chinese President Xi Jinping would not be “thrilled.” “I’m going to do everything I can to save him,” Trump told Fox News Radio’s “The Brian Kilmeade Show” …

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For Shi’ite pilgrims in Iraq’s deserts, suffering strengthens faith

KARBALA, Iraq (Reuters) -Majid al-Kareem is poorly equipped for his 500 km pilgrimage by foot through the scorching deserts of southern Iraq. He wears sandals and black clothes that absorb the heat, and carries a wooden broom handle for a walking stick. But suffering is the point. His journey mourns and glorifies the Muslim Prophet …

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Germany tells Israeli government to stop West Bank settlement construction

BERLIN (Reuters) -Germany on Friday called on the Israeli government to stop settlement construction in the West Bank after Israel’s far-right finance minister said work would start on a plan for thousands of home that would divide the Palestinian territory. Germany “firmly rejects the Israeli government’s announcements regarding the approval of thousands of new housing …

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Protesters in Serbia’s north demolish ruling party offices

BELGRADE (Reuters) -Anti-government protesters demolished the offices of the ruling Serbian Progressive Party (SNS) in the northern city of Novi Sad and clashed with police and SNS supporters in the capital Belgrade on Thursday, a day after violent unrest left dozens injured. In Novi Sad, Serbia’s second-largest city, police and SNS supporters loyal to populist …

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El Salvador’s Bukele swears in military captain as education minister

SAN SALVADOR (Reuters) -El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele on Thursday swore in Karla Trigueros, a captain with the Central American nation’s armed forces, as education minister. “If we want to build the country we deserve, we must break paradigms,” Bukele said in a post on X. In the post, Bukele included photos of the ceremony …

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