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Moscow on Tuesday vowed to retaliate after announcing Ukraine had struck Russian military installations with US-supplied weapons, after President Vladimir Putin had warned Kyiv and the West against the missile attacks.Moscow and Kyiv have been ratcheting up their deadly aerial broadsides with increasingly sophisticated weapons over recent days, spurring fears the conflict could further escalate.Ukraine first …

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Israel’s security cabinet was set to discuss a proposed ceasefire in its war with Hezbollah in Lebanon Tuesday afternoon, as a hail of air strikes encircled south Beirut in what state media called a “belt of fire”.The United States, European Union, United Nations and G7, among others, have pushed for a halt to the long-running …

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Fewer people contracted HIV last year than at any point since the rise of the disease in the late 1980s, the United Nations said Tuesday, warning that this decline was still far too slow.Around 1.3 million people contracted the disease in 2023, according to the new report from the UNAIDS agency.That is still more than …

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Pakistani protesters demanding the release of ex-prime minister Imran Khan on Tuesday killed four members of the nation’s security forces, the government said, as the crowds defied police and closed in on the capital’s centre.Convoys of pro-Khan demonstrators have been marching on Islamabad since Sunday, hauling aside roadblocks and skirmishing with police and paramilitary forces …

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Rescuers on Tuesday recovered four bodies and four survivors a day after a diving boat capsized off Egypt’s eastern coast, Red Sea governor Amr Hanafi said, with eight people still missing.Among the survivors were two Belgians, one Swiss national and one Egyptian, the governor said, bringing the total number of survivors from the vessel to …

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The number of new HIV infections and deaths is falling worldwide, marking significant progress in the fight against the disease.But HIV is far from being stamped out and more needs to be done, health experts warned ahead of World AIDS Day on Sunday.- Uneven progress -Fewer people contracted HIV last year than at any point …

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French prosecutors on Tuesday demanded sentences of up to 14 years for some of the remaining co-defendants of a man charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his wife while she was drugged and unconscious.On Monday, prosecutors requested a maximum 20-year jail term for Dominique Pelicot, who has been on trial in the southern …

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French prosecutors on Tuesday sought sentences of up to 14 years for some of the remaining co-defendants in the trial of a man charged with enlisting dozens of strangers to rape his wife while she was drugged and unconscious.The requests were made one day after prosecutors requested a maximum 20-year jail term for Dominique Pelicot, …

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Russia is carrying out “genocidal activities” by laying landmines on Ukraine’s territory, an official from Kyiv’s defence ministry told a landmine conference in Cambodia on Tuesday.Russian forces were planting landmines in cities, farming households and public transport stations “remotely by means of artillery, helicopters, multiple rocket launch systems and drones”, said Oleksandr Riabtsev.These “genocidal activities” …

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Russia said on Tuesday it was expelling a British diplomat who it accused of espionage and summoned London’s ambassador to the foreign ministry in Moscow.The FSB security service said the diplomat appeared to have carried out “intelligence and subversive work, threatening the security of the Russian Federation”, state news agencies reported.The development came hours after …

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