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It has been more than two weeks since Hamas, the armed Palestinian group that controls Gaza, launched a terrorist attack that killed 1,400 Israelis. Since then, the Hamas-run health ministry has said that more than 5,000 people have died in retaliatory strikes by Israel. It has not been possible to independently verify the death toll in…

Women's rights campaigner serving 12 years' jailNorwegian Nobel committee lauds Iranian protestersPrize likely to anger Islamic Republic's governmentIranian news agency notes 'prize from Westerners'OSLO, Oct 6 (Reuters) - Imprisoned Iranian women's rights advocate Narges Mohammadi won the Nobel Peace Prize on Friday in a rebuke to Tehran's…

U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak has proposed raising the legal age that people in England can buy cigarettes until it applies to the whole populationBy SYLVIA HUI Associated PressOctober 4, 2023, 9:47 AM ET• 3 min readLONDON -- U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday proposed raising the legal age that people in England can buy cigarettes…

Comment on this storyCommentConservative Catholics in the United States — home to perhaps the wealthiest and loudest concentration of Pope Francis’s right-wing critics — are watching the major Vatican meeting opening this week with dread and deep mistrust. Concrete organizing against the “Synod on Synodality” or against Francis is rare, but…

Huge crowds marched through Poland’s capital, Warsaw, on Sunday, converging around a giant flag commemorating a 1944 uprising against Nazi Germany, as opponents of the governing party sought to rally voters for a critical general election that they see as the last chance to save the country’s hard-won democratic freedoms.The Warsaw city…

THE SOUTHERN FRONT LINE, Ukraine — The Russian position was marked with the blue flag of Moscow’s elite airborne units, but the fabric looked almost translucent through the Ukrainian sniper’s scope.The flag, atop a Russian-occupied building in southern Ukraine, was just over 1 mile away. If a Russian soldier appeared, it would take roughly 4…

30 September 2023, 11:10 BSTUpdated 18 minutes agoImage source, AFP via Getty ImagesImage caption, The vast majority of ethnic Armenians have now left Nagorno-KarabakhMore than 100,000 people have fled the Nagorno-Karabakh region, Armenia says.It means that that almost the entire population of the ethnic Armenian enclave has left since…

Islamabad, Pakistan — A religious gathering to celebrate the birthday of Islam's Prophet Mohammad turned deadly Friday in Pakistan when a suicide bomber exploded a powerful device near a mosque, killing at least 52 people and leaving some 70 more injured in an attack targeting worshippers and police. Another attack elsewhere in the country,…

Armed men attack village in north KosovoOne policeman, three attackers dead in shootoutsEthnic Serbs want more autonomy in regionNORTH MITROVICA, Kosovo, Sept 24 (Reuters) - Gunmen in armoured vehicles stormed a village in Kosovo on Sunday, battling police and barricading themselves in a Serbian Orthodox monastery in a resurgence of violence in…

A Ukrainian missile attack on the Russian navy’s Black Sea fleet headquarters on Friday killed and injured “dozens” of Russian troops, including a number of senior officials, Ukraine’s armed forces claimed on Saturday. The claim, which couldn’t be verified, came as another rocket attack was launched on the Crimean city…