When a Saudi Arabian national was accused of ramming a car into a German Christmas market, members of the frequently anti-Muslim European far right said it proved their point. The deadly incident in Magdeburg was another example of Islamist terrorism, […]
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He did so as the rebels entered and seized Damascus, seemingly with little fightback from Assad’s government forces. Their lightning advance only began Nov. 27, quickly overrunning the cities of Aleppo, Hama and then the capital itself. The rebels appear
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LONDON — The world is entering a “third nuclear age,” the head of the British armed forces has warned, with world-ending weapons once again spreading globally and international agreements to control them collapsing. Adm. Tony Radakin, chief of the defense
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In the messy patchwork of conflicts raging across the Middle East, one country has been absent from the spotlight: Syria. A civil war that dominated international headlines for more than a decade has now been reignited after a coalition of
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After Hamas’ terror attack that saw 1,200 people killed and 250 kidnapped, Hezbollah started firing missiles at Israel, which responded in kind by launching rockets of its own. This then flared to a full-scale war in September, with Israel killing
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Share Red and blue ‘mirages’: How election night vote counts make it hard to tell who will win +2 Once the last voter casts their ballot in a state and the polls close, the process of revealing the winner begins.
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The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded Friday to Japanese anti-nuclear weapon group Nihon Hidankyo. “This grassroots movement of atomic bomb survivors from Hiroshima and Nagasaki, also known as Hibakusha, is receiving the peace prize for its efforts to achieve a
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Israel gets most of its weapons from the U.S., which provides it with more than $3 billion in military aid annually. After Oct. 7 this was dramatically increased, with Congress agreeing in April to send a further $14 billion to
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LONDON — A Norwegian princess marrying her Hollywood fiancé — it sounds like exactly the sort of fairy tale to charm a world beset by war and political strife. But the wedding on Saturday of Princess Märtha Louise to Durek
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