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An overnight airstrike hit the Afghan city of Kandahar, home to the Taliban government's supreme leader, a resident told AFP early Thursday.
Pakistan's minister of information said its forces had struck 10 targets in Afghanistan -- without specifying where -- accusing its neighbour of allowing "terrorist sanctuaries" on its soil
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BREAKING The United States has denied Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas an entry visa to attend the UN General Assembly in New York next week, a source familiar with the case says
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🇯🇵 International Criminal Court President Tomoko Akane of Japan warned on Friday against "the demise of international rule of law" after she was hit by US sanctions.
"The sanction against me this time was something I had anticipated to an extent, so I'm not surprised," Akane said in a statement released on X by her publisher Bungei Shunju.
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Milei demands expulsion of foreigners expressing 'hate' against Argentina
🇯🇵 Japanese Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi was heckled at a World War II memorial event by protesters angry about Tokyo's further shift away from its decades-long pacifist stance, television footage showed.
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Football 'ambassador' and fan favorite: a duck becomes a star in Mexico
Merlin meets the journalists in the afternoon after a busy morning at Mexico's biggest TV station. His agenda is jam-packed, going late into the night so he can join thousands of admirers at the World Cup "Fan Fest" in Mexico City
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BREAKING British PM announces ban on social media for under-16s
'He's tiny! It's blue!'
Charles Darwin Foundation scientists discover a new species of octopus nearly 1,800 metres (5,900 feet) down on the ocean floor near the Galapagos Islands. No bigger than a golf ball, the blue octopus has stubby little arms with only one row of suckers
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