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Lebanon said an Israeli strike on a central Beirut residential and shopping district killed two people, the second such raid targeting the capital Sunday.An earlier strike killed Hezbollah’s spokesman, a security source said.Israel has been heavily bombing Beirut’s southern suburbs, a stronghold of Iran-backed Hezbollah, since all-out war erupted on September 23 but attacks on …

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US President Joe Biden has authorized Ukraine to use long-range American missiles against military targets inside Russia, a US official told AFP on condition of anonymity on Sunday, marking a major policy shift long demanded by Kyiv. The New York Times and The Washington Post, citing unnamed sources, first reported the change, saying it came in …

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EU chief Ursula von der Leyen said Sunday “the devil is always in the details” as she spoke of a budding South America trade deal that France has vowed to block at all costs.Von der Leyen, speaking to Brazil’s Globo News on the eve of a G20 summit she is attending in Rio de Janeiro, …

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Russia pounded Ukraine on Sunday with a massive attack that killed 11 civilians across several regions and damaaged the country’s already fragile energy grid, as the world prepared to mark 1,000 days since Moscow’s invasion. Nationwide emergency power restrictions would be implemented Monday ahead of a much-feared winter, the state grid operator announced.President Volodymyr Zelensky said …

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Tanzanian rescue workers dug through the ruins of a collapsed building for a second day on Sunday, hoping to pull survivors from beneath the rubble in a disaster that has claimed 13 lives. The four-storey block came down at around 9:00 am (0600 GMT) on Saturday in the east African country’s busy Kariakoo market, in the …

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Finland is hosting its first large-scale NATO artillery exercise since the Nordic nation joined the military alliance last year, with live fire drills starting on Sunday.The exercise conducted in the northern Lapland region in November is part of Dynamic Front 25, the largest NATO artillery exercise ever held in Europe, with fire drills in Finland …

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US President Joe Biden began an historic trip to the Amazon rainforest on Sunday to promote his record on fighting climate change amid fears Donald Trump will tear up his environmental policies.Biden landed in the Brazilian city of Manaus, in the heart of the world’s largest jungle, on the penultimate leg of a valedictory South …

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Ukraine said it would introduce nationwide emergency power restrictions Monday after a “massive” Russian attack further damaged its already fragile energy grid ahead of a much-feared winter, with nine civilians also killed across the country on Sunday. Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Moscow launched 120 missiles and almost 100 drones, targeting Kyiv as well as southern, …

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India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Nigeria’s President Bola Tinubu met Sunday to renew what they call the “strategic partnership” between two major nations of Asia and Africa.Nigeria’s capital Abuja was Modi’s first stop in a tour that will take the Indian premier on to the G20 summit in Brazil, and to Guyana.The visit was …

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US President Joe Biden will make an historic trip to the Amazon rainforest on Sunday to promote his record on fighting climate change ahead of a G20 summit overshadowed by Donald Trump’s vow to roll back his green policies.Biden is heading to Manaus in Brazil, a city in the heart of the world’s largest jungle, …

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