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Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike on Sunday killed 23 people, including seven children, in the village of Almat north of the capital Beirut.AFPTV footage showed rescuers rummaging with their bare hands through the wreckage of a house that had been completely razed, pulling out bodies wrapped in blankets while an excavator moved the …

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Lebanon’s health ministry said an Israeli strike on Sunday killed 20 people including three children in the village of Almat, north of the capital Beirut.The Shiite Muslim majority village of Almat is located in a mostly Christian region. It is outside Hezbollah’s traditional strongholds of south Beirut and south and east Lebanon which Israel has …

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After jihadists jailed him in 2014, Iraqi religious scholar Muhammad al-Attar said he would sometimes pull his prison blanket over his head to cry without other detainees noticing.Islamic State group extremists arrested Attar, then 37, at his perfume shop in Mosul in June 2014 after overrunning the Iraqi city, hoping to convince the respected community …

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Taylor Swift, Charli XCX and Billie Eilish are among the female artists tipped to dominate the 2024 MTV Europe Music Awards to be held in Manchester, northwest England, on Sunday.The ceremony’s 30th edition, which brings together the biggest names in world music, gets under way at the city’s new Co-op Live venue from 8:00 pm …

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Mauritius was voting Sunday in a close-fought parliamentary election, with police at polling stations as the opposition warned about the risk of fraud in a nation touted as one of Africa’s most stable and prosperous democracies.The vote in the Indian Ocean archipelago follows a historic agreement last month that saw Britain cede sovereignty of the …

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Cuba’s government said Saturday it arrested an unspecified number of people who staged demonstrations when a hurricane left the island without power for the second time in weeks.Street protests are very rare in communist-run Cuba.The prosecutor’s office said those arrested in Havana and the central provinces of Mayabeque and Ciego de Avila were being charged …

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Mauritius began voting on Sunday in a close-fought election race that has been clouded by a wire-tapping scandal in a nation usually touted as one of Africa’s most stable and prosperous democracies.Campaigning has been tense, and police have been deployed at polling stations to ensure security, according to election commissioner Irfan Rahman, as media reports …

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Swimmer Florent Manaudou is feeling glum, French MPs despair over a plummeting sports budget and the Eiffel Tower has lost its Olympic rings.Two months after the flame went out on the glittering Paris Olympics and Paralympics, the French capital is in the grip of a bout of post-Games blues. Swimming superstar Leon Marchand, a four-time gold …

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Qatar has suspended its role as a key mediator for a Gaza ceasefire and hostage release deal until Hamas and Israel show “seriousness” in talks, the foreign ministry said Saturday.The Gulf emirate, which has hosted Hamas’s political leadership since 2012 with US blessing, has been involved in months of protracted diplomacy aimed at ending the …

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Tens of thousands of people marched Saturday in Valencia to voice their anger at the authorities’ handling of deadly floods.Thousands also marched in other Spanish cities, but the Valencia regional authorities put the turnout in the regional capital at 130,000.Some protesters shouted “Murderers! Murderers!” and some carried placards denouncing Valencia’s regional president as well as …

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