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TEHRAN: Nine foreign nationals, believed to be Pakistanis, were slain by unidentified gunmen in southern Iran on Saturday, more than a week after the neighbours traded deadly cross-border fire. “Witnesses said this morning that unknown gunmen killed nine non-Iranians in a house in the Sirkan neighbourhood of Saravan city” inRead More →

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LISBON (Reuters) – Hundreds of police officers stormed farms in Portugal’s southern Alentejo province on Tuesday, detaining 28 individuals accused of human trafficking and labor exploitation, according to authorities. The accused are thought to be part of a criminal ring that lured migrants from Romania, Moldova, Ukraine, India, Senegal, andRead More →

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RIYAD : Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries demanded an immediate cessation of military operations in Gaza on Saturday, dismissing Israel’s rationale for its actions against Palestinians as self-defense. According to the final statement of the unusual joint Islamic-Arab summit in Riyadh, the International Criminal Court was asked to probeRead More →

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JERUSALEM/GAZA (Reuters) – Israel claimed on Tuesday that its forces assaulted Hamas terrorists inside the Islamists’ enormous tunnel network beneath Gaza, after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ignored demands for a cease-fire to relieve the humanitarian situation in the Palestinian enclave. The tunnels are a critical goal for Israel as itRead More →

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(AFP) Cairo – The image of tent towns housing displaced Palestinians in Gaza’s war-torn territory brings up painful memories for Israel’s Arab neighbors, particularly Egypt and Jordan. “That’s how the Nakba started,” asserts the Gaza-based rights organization Al Mezan, echoing widespread fears that Israel has plans to expel the coastalRead More →

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At least 1,900 Palestinians have died in Israeli attacks on Gaza since Hamas’ devastating cross-border raid, including 614 children, according to the health ministry of the enclave. According to the Hamas-run health ministry, 370 women were among those murdered over the seven days of airstrikes. It further stated that 7,696Read More →

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(Reuters) – According to the Financial Times, India has informed Canada that it must return 41 ambassadors by October 10. Ties between India and Canada have deteriorated significantly as a result of Canadian suspicions that Indian government operatives were involved in the June assassination in Canada of Hardeep Singh Nijjar,Read More →

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Brooklyn (AFP) – According to the foreign ministry on Friday, Azerbaijan has asked a UN delegation to visit Nagorno-Karabakh “in the coming days” as a result of a sudden military offensive by that country that has caused a major evacuation of ethnic Armenians from the area. This weekend, a U.N.Read More →