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Philippine lawmakers back move to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte
The lower house of the Philippines has impeached Sara Duterte
February 05, 2025Gaza is in ruins, and it's unclear how it will be rebuilt
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited ceasefire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war
February 05, 2025Rwandan-backed rebels have seized another city in eastern Congo
Rwandan-backed rebels are gaining ground in eastern Congo despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week
February 05, 2025
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South African president phones Musk after Trump's funding threat
South African President Cyril Ramaphosa spoke with Elon Musk a day after U.S. President Donald Trump promised to cut the country's funding over a land expropriation law
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Witnesses describe chaos and bloodshed in Sweden’s worst mass shooting
Witnesses who survived Sweden’s worst mass shooting have described horror and panic that gripped an adult education center west of Stockholm as the gunman killed at least 10 people
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Rwandan-backed rebels have seized another city in eastern Congo
Rwandan-backed rebels are gaining ground in eastern Congo despite the unilateral ceasefire they declared earlier this week
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Trump's Gaza plan has stunned the region. Here's a look at the serious obstacles it faces
President Donald Trump’s proposal to forcibly transfer hundreds of thousands of Palestinians out of the Gaza Strip and develop faces some major obstacle
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Pakistan's president says extremist attacks won't end friendship with China
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Concerns grow over press freedoms in Cambodia after British journalist blacklisted from the country
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Earthquakes keep rattling Greece's volcanic island of Santorini every few minutes
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Poland can't get its money back after the EU fined the country's previous, conservative government
Poland won’t get any money back after its previous, conservative government was hit by a record-breaking fine by the European Union for ignoring a court order to undo changes to its judicial system
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Thailand cuts power supplies to Myanmar border towns in effort to curb scam rings
Thailand on Wednesday cut off power supplies to areas in Myanmar where scam networks operate, following a public outcry demanding government action to tackle the problem
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Gaza teen who lost arm in Israel-Hamas war now receiving care in US
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11 dead in worst mass shooting in Sweden's history, authorities say
The alleged shooter was among the dead, Swedish police said late Tuesday.
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What's ahead for a 50-year-old West African bloc after 3 junta-led countries left the group?
A 50-year-old West Africa regional bloc is facing significant challenges after three junta-led countries — Mali, Niger and Burkina Faso — formally left the group, known as ECOWAS
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Ukraine wants partner countries to join in postwar development worth billions
Ukraine's foreign minister says his country wants to collaborate with partner countries on postwar projects worth billions of dollars not just in mining rare earth elements, but also in energy and construction sectors
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More than 100 Indian migrants deported by the US arrive home
A U.S. military plane carrying 104 deported Indian migrants has arrived in a northern Indian city, the first such flight to the country as part of a crackdown ordered by the Trump administration, airport officials said
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Gaza is in ruins, and it's unclear how it will be rebuilt
Palestinians in the Gaza Strip are eager to leave miserable tent camps and return to their homes if a long-awaited ceasefire agreement halts the Israel-Hamas war
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Palestinians fear a repeat of their 1948 mass expulsion in the wake of Trump's remarks on Gaza
Palestinians will mark this year the 77th anniversary of their mass expulsion from what is now Israel
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US Postal Service flip-flops on Hong Kong-China packages, lifting a ban imposed a day earlier
The U.S. Postal Service is reversing course a day after placing a ban on all inbound mail and packages from China and Hong Kong
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Philippine lawmakers back move to impeach Vice President Sara Duterte
The lower house of the Philippines has impeached Sara Duterte
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Sweden's worst mass shooting leaves at least 11 dead, including the gunman
Sweden’s worst mass shooting has left at least 11 people dead including the gunman and five seriously wounded at an adult education center
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Middle East latest: Palestinians say Trump's proposal for Gaza violates international law
Palestinians, their allies and other nations are reacting strongly to President Donald Trump’s proposal that the United States “take over” the Gaza Strip and permanently resettle its residents
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Inside the operations that took captive 2 North Korean soldiers fighting Ukraine
When Ukrainian soldiers captured two North Korean prisoners of war last month, it provided the first undeniable proof of Pyongyang’s direct involvement in the war against Ukraine
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Islamic State members held for years in a Syria prison say they know nothing of the world
A prison in Syria holds about 4,500 members of the Islamic State group who have been there for years without trial
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The Gaza Strip has long been a powder keg. Here's a look at the history of the embattled region
Gaza has long been a powder keg, and it exploded after Hamas fighters stormed southern Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, and began killing and abducting people, sparking a crushing Israeli military operation there that’s only recently reached an uneasy ceasefire
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India PM Modi's party seeks to oust anti-corruption crusader in New Delhi state elections
Thousands are voting in the Indian capital’s state legislature election, with Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist party trying to unseat a powerful regional group that has ruled New Delhi for over a decade
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From Gaza to the US: A teen's journey from war and amputation to hope
Motassembelah Abuzayed is one of more than 25,000 Palestinian children injured in Gaza, according to the United Nations.
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Trump: 'The US will take over the Gaza Strip'
In a press conference with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, President Donald Trump discussed the U.S. potentially taking an “ownership position” in rebuilding the Gaza Strip.
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Trump continues to push idea that Gazans should leave Gaza
President Donald Trump doubled down on his belief that Gazans should be relocated out of the country while taking questions at the White House with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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Trump says he's given instructions to 'obliterate' Iran over assassination threats
President Trump, who signed an executive order that took aim at Iran, was asked about the threats the nation has made against him. The president said they "would be obliterated" if they did that.
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Fatalities confirmed in shooting at adult education facility in Sweden, police say
Authorities did not say whether the suspect was among the dead.
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Rubio says El Salvador agrees to take US criminals
Marco Rubio met with El Salvador’s president and said they've agreed to not only take in deported foreign nationals who committed crimes, but also jailed U.S. citizens.
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Jewish population in West Bank keeps rising. Settlers hope Trump will accelerate growth
The Jewish population in the West Bank grew at twice the rate of the general Israeli population last year
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What to know about El Salvador's mega-prison after Trump deal to send people there
The Trump administration and the president of El Salvador said they struck a deal allowing the U.S. to ship detained migrants and imprisoned criminals to a mega-prison there
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Soldiers from El Salvador join U.N.-backed mission in Haiti to combat gang violence
Seventy soldiers from El Salvador arrived in Haiti on Tuesday to support a U.N.-backed mission led by Kenyan police to help fight gangs that killed thousands of people last year and control much of the capital
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Anglican Church in South Africa admits failures in handling of sexual abuse claims
The Anglican Church leadership in South Africa has admitted to failing to disclose sexual abuse allegations against its former member John Smyth, who mistreated children in the 1970s and 1980s in the U.K. and Zimbabwe before fleeing to South Africa, wh...
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Italian politicians seek action against Trump Jr. hunting party for allegedly killing protected duck
Politicians in Italy have asked authorities to take action against a hunting party including Donald Trump Jr. that may have killed a protected species of duck near Venice
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UN nuclear watchdog chief to visit Moscow as fears for Ukraine's nuclear plants spike
The head of the U.N. atomic watchdog says he will visit Moscow in the coming days to speak with officials about Russia’s persistent attacks on Ukraine’s energy infrastructure which threaten nuclear safety
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US doctor in Gaza on USAID freeze: ‘Consider the consequences’
Dr. Adam Hamawy said the funding freeze has led to hospital layoffs and patients being discharged.
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