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Record rains in Japan's quake-stricken Noto region kill at least one
TOKYO - Record rains in central Japan's Noto region, still recovering from a major New Year's Day earthquake, killed at least one person...
Sep 24, 20241 min read
Exclusive-Iran's Guards ban communications devices after strike on Hezbollah, security officials say
Iran's elite Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has ordered all members to stop using any type of communication devices after thousands of...
Sep 24, 20243 min read
Hezbollah, Israel exchange heavy fire in 'new phase' of fighting
BEIRUT/HAIFA, Israel - Hezbollah and Israel exchanged heavy fire into Sunday, as the Lebanese militant group sent rockets deep into...
Sep 23, 20243 min read
Israeli troops raid, order closure of Al Jazeera's West Bank bureau
DOHA - Israeli forces raided the bureau of media network Al Jazeera in the West Bank city of Ramallah early on Sunday morning, issuing it...
Sep 23, 20243 min read
At least 31 dead in Iran coal mine blast
DUBAI - A gas explosion in a coal mine in Iran's South Khorasan Province killed at least 31 people and injured 16, the country's interior...
Sep 23, 20241 min read
Sri Lanka's president-elect breaks a tradition of political lineage
COLOMBO - Anura Kumara Dissanayake may lack the political lineage of some of his rivals, but his leftist anti-poverty policies and pledge...
Sep 23, 20242 min read
Palestinians say Israeli strike killed 22 in shelter, army says militants hit
GAZA/CAIRO - Palestinians said an Israeli strike killed at least 22 people in a school sheltering displaced people in southern Gaza City...
Sep 22, 20242 min read
Record rains in Japan's quake-stricken Noto region kill at least one
TOKYO - Record rains in central Japan's Noto region, still recovering from a major New Year's Day earthquake, killed at least one person...
Sep 22, 20241 min read
Sri Lanka votes for new president with economic future at stake
COLOMBO - Sri Lankans voted on Saturday in an election to pick a president who will face the task of bolstering the country's fragile...
Sep 22, 20243 min read
Top Hezbollah commander among 14 killed in Israeli strike on Beirut
BEIRUT/JERUSALEM - Israel killed a top Hezbollah commander and other senior figures in the Lebanese movement in an airstrike on Beirut on...
Sep 21, 20244 min read
Prospects for a Gaza ceasefire dim even as US keeps hope
WASHINGTON - U.S. officials have not given up hope of landing a Gaza ceasefire and hostage deal but are increasingly pessimistic that a...
Sep 21, 20243 min read
For Sri Lanka's minority Tamils, election does not offer hope
JAFFNA, Sri Lanka - Scarred by a decades-long civil war and struggling to survive in Sri Lanka's crippled economy, ethnic minority Tamils...
Sep 21, 20242 min read
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