It is “absolutely impossible” for Communist China to become Taiwan’s motherland because the island’s government is older, Taiwan’s president has said in a carefully timed speech that underscores the intense historical rivalry between the two.…
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Israel’s kibbutz Be’eri became the symbol of Hamas’ brutality. Some survivors are determined to return
by adminScorch marks and bullet holes scar the battered walls of the Haran family home in kibbutz Be’eri. Its tiled roof has caved in, windows smashed, littering the floors with sharp shards of terracotta and glass…
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Hong Kong plans to install thousands of surveillance cameras. Critics say it’s more proof the city is moving closer to China
by adminGlance up while strolling through parts of downtown Hong Kong and, chances are, you’ll notice the glassy black lens of a surveillance camera trained on the city’s crowded streets. And that sight will become more…
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Yazidi woman captured by ISIS rescued in Gaza after more than a decade in captivity
by adminA 21-year-old Yazidi woman has been rescued from Gaza where she had been held captive by Hamas for years after being trafficked by ISIS. The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said Thursday that Fawzia Amin Sido was freed…
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More than a dozen tigers were incinerated after the animals contracted bird flu at a zoo in southern Vietnam, officials said. State media VNExpress cited a caretaker at Vuon Xoai zoo in Bien Hoa city saying the animals…
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Israel’s bombardment of Lebanon the ‘most intense aerial campaign’ outside Gaza in last two decades
by adminIsrael has pummeled Lebanon with an unprecedented airstrike campaign in less than three weeks, killing over 1,400 people, injuring nearly 7,500 others and displacing more than one million people from their homes, according to the Lebanese…
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‘There will be a lot of deaths’: Israelis living near Lebanese border fear tit-for-tat escalation
by adminYair Pinhas grew up hiking in the hills around Kiryat Shmona, his hometown in northern Israel, near the border with Lebanon. “We always thought that the October 7 (attack) would happen here, we always talked…
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The fate of a possible successor to Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is unclear following an Israeli airstrike on Beirut. Safieddine is a maternal cousin of Nasrallah – the two studied in Iran together in the…
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Hezbollah leader agreed to temporary ceasefire days before assassination, says Lebanese foreign minister
by adminThe temporary ceasefire was called for by US President Joe Biden, his French counterpart Emmanuel Macron and other allies during last week’s UN General Assembly. “He [Nasrallah] agreed, he agreed,” Habib told Christiane Amanpour in…
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Georgian parliamentary speaker Shalva Papuashvili said in a Facebook post on Thursday that he had signed into law a “family values” bill curbing LGBT rights, just weeks before a high-stakes parliamentary election. Lawmakers from the…