Lebanese officials were reviewing on Friday a US truce proposal in the Israel-Hezbollah war as Hamas said it was ready for a ceasefire on Israel’s other front, in Gaza.Israel has been at war against Iran-backed Hezbollah in Lebanon since late September, after a year of relatively low-level cross border exchanges which Hezbollah said were in …
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Chinese President Xi Jinping warned Friday the world was entering an era of harmful “protectionism,” in remarks to an Asia-Pacific summit in Lima overshadowed by fears of new trade wars under Donald Trump.On the eve of what will be his final official face-to-face with outgoing US President Joe Biden, Xi raised concern about “spreading unilateralism …
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A Nigerian nurse who was kidnapped by Islamic State-affiliated jihadists has escaped after six years in which she was forced into two marriages, it was announced Friday.The Nigerian military presented Alice Loksha, who had been a health worker for the UN children’s agency UNICEF in the northeast of the country, to reporters at a military …
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US President Joe Biden joined Asia-Pacific leaders for a summit on economic cooperation Friday in Lima, where he is set to meet Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping under a cloud of uncertainty cast by Donald Trump’s election victory.Xi — who was not present for Friday’s opening of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) summit — is scheduled …
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China is seeking to push forward in its quest to build the first lunar base, launching an in-space experiment to test whether the base’s bricks could be made from the Moon’s own soil.A cargo rocket carrying brick samples blasted off late Friday for the Tiangong space station, part of Beijing’s mission to put humans on …
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News outlets have begun quitting X, formerly Twitter, once a favourite of global media but now accused of enabling the spread of disinformation under its owner, president-elect Donald Trump ally Elon Musk.Citing a “harsh and extreme” climate, Sweden’s newspaper of reference, the left-liberal Dagens Nyheter (DN), on Friday became third major media outlet to stop …
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Suzanne Karkaba and her father Ali were both civil defence rescuers whose job was to save the injured and recover the dead in Lebanon’s war. When an Israeli strike killed him on Thursday and it was his turn to be rescued, there wasn’t much left. She had to identify him by his fingers.Karkaba then rushed back …
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A French court on Friday ordered the release of pro-Palestinian Lebanese militant Georges Ibrahim Abdallah, jailed for 40 years for the 1982 killings of two foreign diplomats, prosecutors said.The court said Abdallah, first detained in 1984 and convicted in 1987 over the murders, would be released on December 6 provided he leaves France, French anti-terror …
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The deaths of 23 children in Johannesburg this year from suspected food poisoning has ignited anger in South Africa against foreign nationals who run small corner shops known as spazas. There is still police tape around a now-closed spaza shop in Soweto’s Naledi area that allegedly sold snacks to six young children who died from poisoning …
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US vice president Al Gore told AFP Friday it was “absurd” for petrostates such as Azerbaijan to host UN climate talks, saying the selection process should be overhauled.Mukhtar Babayev, a former oil executive who now serves as Azerbaijan’s ecology minister, chairs COP29 in Baku while the country’s leader, Ilham Aliyev, caused a stir this week …
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