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UK PM Starmer says Trump has a point on European defense commitment

British Prime Minister Keir Starmer said US President Donald Trump has a point that European countries must bear a greater burden for their collective self-defense, the New York Times said on Sunday.
“We need to think about defense and security in a more immediate way,” he told the newspaper in an interview.
Starmer is trying to assemble a multinational military force that he calls a coalition of the willing to keep Ukraine’s skies, ports and borders secure after any peace…

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March 23, 2025
Israel strikes southern Gaza and orders new evacuation as Palestinian death toll climbs past 50,000

DEIR AL-BALAH: Israeli strikes across the southern Gaza Strip killed at least 26 Palestinians overnight into Sunday, including a Hamas political leader and several women and children. The military sent ground troops into part of the southern city of Rafah as thousands of Palestinians heeded new evacuation orders.
Gaza’s Health Ministry said the total number of Palestinians killed in Gaza since the start of the Israel-Hamas war has now passed 50,000 after Israel ended the ceasefire last week…

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March 23, 2025
Wildfires force mandatory evacuation order in western North Carolina

The US has lifted bounties on three senior Taliban figures, including the interior minister who also heads a powerful network blamed for bloody attacks against Afghanistan’s former Western-backed government, officials in Kabul said Sunday.

Sirajuddin Haqqani, who acknowledged planning a January 2008 attack on the Serena Hotel in Kabul, which killed six people, including US citizen Thor David Hesla, no longer appears on the State Department’s Rewards for…

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March 23, 2025
Iraqis find Ramadan joy in centuries-old ring game

Baghdad: In a Baghdad arena, a crowd cheers to the rhythm of drums, not for a football match but for a fiery centuries-old game enjoyed by Iraqis during Ramadan called “mheibes.”
“It’s a heritage game, the game of our ancestors, which unites all Iraqis,” said Jassem Al-Aswad, a longtime mheibes champion in his early seventies and now president of the game’s national federation.
The game involves members of one team hiding a ring — “mehbis” in Arabic — and the captain of…

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March 23, 2025
The Pentagon’s DEI purge: Officials describe a scramble to remove and then restore online content

WASHINGTON: Every day over the past few weeks, the Pentagon has faced questions from angry lawmakers, local leaders and citizens over the removal of military heroes and historic mentions from Defense Department websites and social media pages after it purged online content that promoted women or minorities.
In response, the department has scrambled to restore a handful of those posts as their removals have come to light. While the pages of some well-known veterans, including baseball and…

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March 23, 2025
Chinese to pursue ‘correct’ path of globalization

BEIJING: China’s number two leader told a gathering of business executives in Beijing on Sunday that the country would “adhere to the correct direction of economic globalization” in the face of “fragmentation.”
The China Development Forum convenes amid a renewed trade war with Washington, with the return of Donald Trump to the White House threatening China’s booming exports.
Beijing has been seeking to steer a shaky economy onto a more stable path since the end of the pandemic,…

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March 23, 2025
Canada’s new PM Carney will run in Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament

TORONTO: New Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney will run in an Ottawa area district as he seeks to join Parliament for the first time, the Liberal Party announced Saturday, a day before Carney triggers an early general election before a vote on April 28.
The election will take place against the backdrop of a trade war and sovereignty threats from US President Donald Trump.

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March 23, 2025
Turkish prosecutors demand Istanbul mayor Imamoglu to be jailed pending trial

ISTANBUL: Turkish prosecutors have asked a court to jail Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu and four of his aides pending trial on terrorism and corruption charges, Imamoglu’s office said, as thousands of people across the nation protest what they call his undemocratic detention.
Imamoglu, a key opposition figure and potential challenger to President Tayyip Erdogan, was detained on Wednesday for charges such as graft and aiding a terrorist group.

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March 23, 2025
Israeli Airstrikes Kill Hamas Leader Salah al-Bardawil, Scores of Others in Gaza

Salah al-Bardawil, a top political figure in Hamas. (Photo: via Al-Jazeera Arabic Website)

Hamas leader Salah al-Bardawil and his wife were killed in an Israeli airstrike, part of a broader attack that has claimed the lives of at least 32 Palestinians.

Palestinian and international media reported that Salah al-Bardawil, a top political figure in Hamas, was killed in an Israeli airstrike on Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip.

Quds News, Reuters, and other media outlets stated that…

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March 23, 2025
LIVE BLOG: Massacres in Khan Yunis, Rafah | Political Crisis in Israel Deepens – Day 534

Sun, Mar 23, 1:27 PM (Palestine Time)

Israeli Officials: Ready to Negotiate with Hamas

WASHINGTON POST (citing Israeli officials):

Awaiting the results of ceasefire talks, with no decision yet on escalating the current phase.

Ready to negotiate with Hamas through mediators before launching any large-scale invasion.

Occupying Gaza requires 5 military brigades, exhausting the army, with reserve soldiers skeptical about engaging in an…

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March 23, 2025