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EU leaders set course for tougher policy

European Union leaders agreed to use all their leverage, including trade, development aid and visa policy, to speed up returns of migrants illegally entering the bloc and asked the European Commission to urgently draft a law.

October 18, 2024 5:34 pm
 

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Sinwar's death came at the end of months of searching

Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was killed, opens new tab during a gun battle in southern Gaza by Israeli troops who were initially unaware that they had caught their country’s number one enemy, Israeli officials said.

October 18, 2024 4:05 pm
 

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UK's new foreign minister travels to China seeking 'pragmatic' ties

Foreign minister David Lammy will arrive in China seeking to demonstrate Britain’s new government is taking a pragmatic and strategic approach to building ties with Beijing, even while acknowledging areas of sharp disagreement.

October 18, 2024 3:41 pm
 

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Discrimination still haunts Japan's Nobel-winning A-bomb survivors

Having survived the atomic bomb that flattened his hometown of Hiroshima when he was nine months old.

October 18, 2024 2:22 pm
 

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Trump blames Ukraine's Zelenskiy for starting war with Russia

Donald Trump blamed Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy for helping start that nation’s war with Russia.

October 18, 2024 1:17 pm
 

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Suspected teen school shooter and his father indicted

A grand jury indicted a 14-year-old alleged shooter and his father.

October 18, 2024 12:06 pm
 

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After Sinwar death, Biden faces big obstacles

Joe Biden is expected to use Israel’s killing of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to wind down the war in Gaza.

October 18, 2024 11:40 am
 

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Kenya senate votes to remove deputy president from office

Kenya’s senate voted to dismiss Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua from office by impeachment.

October 18, 2024 10:28 am
 

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UN seeks probe into reported mass killing of Afghans

The United Nations’ mission in Afghanistan called for an investigation into reports that a large group of Afghan migrants had been shot and killed on the Afghanistan-Iran border.

October 18, 2024 9:14 am
 

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Hamas leader Sinwar killed: Israeli foreign minister

Israel says Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar has been killed in the Gaza Strip, with Foreign Minister Israel Katz calling it a “victory for the entire free world”.

October 18, 2024 6:30 am
 

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Georgia judge blocks elections rules backed by Pro-Trump Republicans

A judge on Wednesday overturned controversial changes to Georgia election rules made by a Republican-controlled state board, the latest defeat for allies of Donald Trump seeking to change how the battleground state’s votes are counted in the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.

October 17, 2024 5:25 pm
 

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Nebraska law allowing felons to vote upheld by state court

Nebraska’s top state court upheld a state law allowing felons who have completed their sentences to vote, enabling thousands more people to cast ballots in the Nov. 5 U.S. presidential election.

October 17, 2024 4:18 pm

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