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Category: 3. World

  • Trump’s portrait to be taken down at Colorado Capitol after president claimed it was ‘distorted’

    Trump’s portrait to be taken down at Colorado Capitol after president claimed it was ‘distorted’


    ADDIS ABABA: Eight survivors of the devastating conflict in Ethiopia’s northern Tigray region have accused 12 high-ranking Ethiopian and Eritrean civilian and military officials of war crimes and crimes against humanity, the legal rights group representing them said on Monday.


    The Tigray region, bordering Eritrea, endured a war between 2020 and 2022 that claimed up to 600,000 lives, according to some estimates.


    The conflict pitted Tigray People’s…

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  • ’Nazis got better treatment,’ judge says of Trump admin deportations

    ’Nazis got better treatment,’ judge says of Trump admin deportations

    WASHINGTON: A federal judge on Monday sharply criticized the Trump administration’s summary deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members, saying “Nazis got better treatment” from the United States during World War II.
    President Donald Trump sent two planeloads of Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador on March 15 after invoking an obscure wartime law known as the 1798 Alien Enemies Act (AEA).

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  • US alleges Columbia student covered up his work for UNRWA

    US alleges Columbia student covered up his work for UNRWA

    WASHINGTON: The US government has alleged that Columbia University student and pro-Palestinian demonstrator Mahmoud Khalil withheld that he worked for a United Nations Palestinian relief agency in his visa application, saying that should be grounds for deportation.
    The UN agency known as UNRWA provides food and health care to Palestinian refugees and has become a flashpoint in the Israeli war in Gaza. Israel contends that 12 UNRWA employees were involved in Hamas’ attack on Israel on…

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  • Chad warns could retaliate if Sudan attacks

    Chad warns could retaliate if Sudan attacks

    N’DJAMENA: Chad on Monday warned its traditional foe Sudan that it “reserves the legitimate right to respond” if attacked, following threats made by a senior Khartoum military official.
    In a video broadcast Sunday on Al Jazeera, the deputy commander of the Sudanese forces, Yasser Al-Atta, warned that the airport in the Chadian capital N’Djamena and at Amdjarras in northeastern Chad “are legitimate targets for the Sudanese armed forces.”

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  • Trump names Iraqi American as interim US attorney for New Jersey

    Trump names Iraqi American as interim US attorney for New Jersey


    LONDON: A Holocaust survivor was questioned by police after laying flowers in London’s Trafalgar Square to commemorate Palestinians killed in Gaza.


    Stephen Kapos, 87, took part in a demonstration in the UK capital on Jan. 18. He was among nine people later questioned by the Metropolitan Police, after 77 others were arrested in what critics say was an example of “repressive and heavy-handed policing.”


    Kapos survived the Holocaust after Nazi Germany…

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  • Israeli air strike kills top Hamas official in Gaza

    Israeli air strike kills top Hamas official in Gaza

    An Israeli air strike on the southern city of Khan Younis in Gaza has killed top Hamas political leader Salah al-Bardaweel, a Hamas official has told the BBC.

    Locals say the air strike killed both Bardaweel, regarded as Hamas’s highest-ranking political leader, and his wife. Israeli officials had no immediate comment.

    The total death toll in Gaza since the war began surpassed 50,000 on Sunday, its Hamas-run health authorities said, with least 30 people killed in Khan Yunis and Rafah so far on…

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    News Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cq5zxe5l58go

  • The US lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, including Sirajuddin Haqqani

    The US lifts bounties on senior Taliban officials, including Sirajuddin Haqqani

    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 Justice website. The FBI website…

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  • Russian drone attack on Kyiv kills two, injures several, Ukrainian officials say

    Russian drone attack on Kyiv kills two, injures several, Ukrainian officials say


    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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    News Source: www.arabnews.com

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

    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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  • Wildfires force mandatory evacuation order in western North Carolina

    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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    News Source: www.arabnews.com