Israel sends observers to military drill in Morocco
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Israeli military observers have taken part in a drill in Morocco for the first time, Israel’s Defense Ministry said on Saturday, describing the move as a mark of improved relations, which were upgraded in 2020. The presence of the three observers at this week’s “African Lion 2022” exercise, which also involved US forces, followed the participation last year of a Moroccan counter-terrorism unit at a multinational drill in Israel, the ministry said. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Read more: Morocco condemns Israeli raid on Jerusalem’s al-Aqsa m ..read more
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Libyan protest group: Rallies should go on until goals achieved
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Libyan protesters say they will keep demonstrating until all the ruling elites quit power after rallies in most main cities on Friday culminated in a crowd storming the parliament building and torching parts of it. Protesters held their biggest rally in Tripoli for years, chanting slogans against Libya’s feuding political elites, and demonstrators blocked off roads in Benghazi and Misrata and set fire to government buildings in Sebha and Qarabuli. “We affirm our determination to continue the path of peaceful demonstration until the last breath to achieve our goals,” the Beltrees youth movement ..read more
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Palestine to hand over bullet that killed Shireen Abu Akleh to US authorities
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The Palestinian Authority will hand the bullet that killed prominent Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh to US authorities for forensic examination, a Palestinian official said on Saturday. Abu Akleh was killed on May 11 while was covering an Israeli military raid in the Palestinian city of Jenin in the occupied West Bank. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. After an investigation, the Palestinian Authority said she had been shot by an Israeli soldier in a “deliberate murder.” Israel has denied the accusation and says it is continuin ..read more
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Watch: Israel intercepts Hezbollah drones aimed at gas rig in Mediterranean
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The Israeli army said it intercepted three drones launched by Lebanon’s Hezbollah Saturday that were headed towards an offshore gas field in the Mediterranean. “Three hostile drones approaching the airspace in Israel’s economic waters have been intercepted,” the army said in a statement, adding that the drones were headed towards the Karish gas field, which is partly claimed by Lebanon. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. The drones were not armed and did not pose a risk, Israeli military sources said. One drone was intercepted by a fighter jet an ..read more
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Second Russian scientist from Siberian city detained on treason charges
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Russia has detained a second scientist in the Siberian city of Novosibirsk on suspicion of state treason in the space of a few days, the TASS news agency reported on Saturday, citing a source close to the investigation. Anatoly Maslov, a chief scientist at an institute of theoretical and applied mechanics in Novosibirsk, a city around 2,800 km (1,750 miles) east of Moscow, was detained and transferred to a prison in the Russian capital in an investigation by the FSB intelligence agency, TASS reported. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. “Maslov is su ..read more
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Lukashenko says Belarus intercepted attempted missile strikes by Ukraine
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Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko said on Saturday Ukraine had tried to strike military facilities on Belarusian territory three days ago, but all its missiles had been intercepted, the state-run Belta news agency reported. Lukashenko, who did not provide evidence for the claim, said Belarus does not want war with Ukraine. Developing ..read more
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UAE sends field hospital, medical team to provide urgent aid to quake-hit Afghanistan
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The UAE sent a 75-bed field hospital, two operating rooms, medical supplied, and a medical team to earthquake-hit Afghanistan, the Emirates News Agency WAM reported on Saturday. The relief material was sent by three planes and reportedly under the directives of UAE President Sheikh Mohamed bin Zayed. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Eisa Salem Aldhaheri, UAE Ambassador to Afghanistan, said: “The UAE recently sent an aid plane carrying 30 metric tonnes of food supplies as part of the relief air bridge for earthquake victims in Afghanistan. The s ..read more
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Elon Musk uses Twitter to announce meeting with Pope
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Tesla CEO Elon Musk, whose $44 billion bid to buy Twitter remains in limbo, used the social media platform to announce he had met with Pope Francis. “Honored to meet @Pontifex yesterday,” Musk tweeted of the Friday afternoon audience, alongside a photo showing Musk, Francis and four of Musk’s teenage children. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. The Vatican didn’t announce the audience or provide any information about what was discussed. Musk’s tweet followed one of a street scene in Venice, suggesting he might have had other stops on his tour. Fr ..read more
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US: Bodies of two of three missing kids found in Minnesota lake
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The bodies of two young children have been recovered from a Minnesota lake, and searchers are still looking for a third they fear may have been intentionally drowned. Meanwhile, the father of the children died at a different location hours earlier, and their mother is missing. Names have not been released. For the latest headlines, follow our Google News channel online or via the app. The chain of events began Friday morning when the father was found dead at a mobile home park in the town of Maplewood, near Minneapolis. Police determined that the woman had left with the children, and a search ..read more
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One killed, six injured in shootout between migrant groups in Serbia
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One migrant was killed and at least six others, including a teenage girl, were injured Saturday in a shootout between migrant groups in Serbia near the Hungarian border, the state-run RTS television reported. The 16-year-old girl sustained life threatening injuries in the incident that occurred in a forest in the outskirts of Subotica, some 160 kilometers (100 miles) north of Belgrade, where the injured were hospitalized, RTS reported. For all the latest headlines follow our Google News channel online or via the app. Police, who made no immediate comment, blocked access to the forest where the ..read more
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