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Israel is voting in its first general election since the October 2023 attacks, pitting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu against former military chief Gadi Eisenkot in a tight contest to build a governing coalition.
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Exit polls indicate opposition leader Gadi Eisenkot will have to work with Arab-Israeli leaders to have a hope of governing Israeli elections: live updates The big gains made by Palestinian parties in Israel’s general election pose an urgent and fundamental challenge to the country’s mainstream opposition: either cooperate with Arab Israelis or hand Benjamin Netanyahu a roadmap to political survival. In the wake of Tuesday’s exit polls, the leader of the opposition bloc, Gadi Eisenkot, declared them a victory for “Israel’s Zionist national majority” but the real outcome looks as if it will be far more complex than that. Continue reading...
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The turnout was 77.7%, the highest in more than two decades and around 7 percentage points higher than in the previous election in 2022
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The truce was originally planned for the stranded residents of Oleshky, and Russia and Ukraine say no breaches have been reported.
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Jordan said its airstrikes targeted ISIS fighters, while Syria said civilians were killed, sparking outrage.
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Ras Tanura is home to the kingdom’s largest refinery and one of the world’s most important oil export terminals.
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In an ambulance carrying the bodies of relatives killed in a Jordanian strike on southern Syria, a young man sat in shock, having lost much of his family in an instant. "We were asleep when the missile hit us. My mother, my older brother and his three children --two boys and a girl -- were killed," Nassouh al-Salim said, staring at a grey body bag. Jordan launched the Monday strikes in response to a jihadist attack on a church last week that killed nine people.
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Amnesty International said the verdict against Attalah and independent outlet Mada Masr represented "a crushing blow to press freedom".
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Two men were charged on Tuesday under Britain’s National Security Act following last month’s security incident at the RAF Fairford military base, with prosecutors accusing one of them of trying to assist Iranian intelligence operations in Britain. RAF Fairford had been used by US bombers to carry out strikes on Iran, but they were withdrawn on security grounds shortly after five British men were arrested outside the base in southwest England in the early hours of September 27. The...
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President Cyril Ramaphosa has deployed 510 SANDF members to KwaZulu-Natal at a cost of R34 million to assist police in maintaining law and order following unrest linked to misinformation around the Refugee Act judgment.
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GUWAHATI, India, Oct 27 - India has deployed hundreds of additional security personnel in its remote northeast, authorities said on Tuesday, after youth protesters clashed with police last week over a plan to build a mega-dam to counter a Chinese hydropower project upstream.
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The cycle of revenge attacks continue as the country heads towards its first election since independence.
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Israel faces what many view as one of the most pivotal elections in the country's history.
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A resident says the attack took place on Monday evening at a market in the north of Nyala city in the Darfur region.
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Clashes in the border town of Moyale have displaced more than 14,000 people and killed at least nine others, as violence between forces associated with Ethiopia’s Oromia and Somali regional administrations spreads to additional districts in southern Oromia. According to a situation report published on October 26 by the Europe External Programme with Africa (EEPA), […]
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Since June, civil society groups and local media warned of PLA encroachments into Arunachal Pradesh. Hitherto, Delhi’s response was to deny and dismiss their claims.
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WASHINGTON, Oct 26 - Dozens of countries including the US and major European powers said Sudan was experiencing an alarming deterioration in its food security and urged parties to the conflict in the country \"to lift all impediments on humanitarian assistance.\"
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