09-02-2026 WASHINGTON: The US military is in the process of transferring nearly 7,000 ISIS suspects from prisons and jails in northeast Syria to detention facilities across the border into Iraq. The operation comes amid concerns over security, following a mass escape from at least one prison in Syria, but it …
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09-02-2026 MADRID/ LISBON: Spain and Portugal are bracing for a new storm, just days after Storm Leonardo’s deadly floods killed at least two people, one in Portugal and one in Spain and forced more than 11,000 residents to evacuate their homes. On Saturday, authorities in Portugal mobilized more than 26,500 …
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08-02-2026 WEST PALM BEACH, FLOEIDA: Ryan Routh has been sentenced to life in prison for attempting to assassinate President Donald Trump on a Florida golf course in September of 2024. Routh, 59, was found guilty last year of trying to kill Trump, then still a presidential candidate, at the Trump …
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08-02-2026 BEIJING/ WASHINGTON: China is considering buying more US-farmed soybeans, President Donald Trump said after what he called “very positive” talks with President Xi Jinping on Wednesday, even as Beijing warned Washington about arms sales to Taiwan. In a goodwill gesture two months before Trump’s expected visit to Beijing, Trump …
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08-02-2026 Bureau Report LONDON/ NEW DELHI: Britain’s aviation authority has asked Air India to explain how a Boeing, opens new tab Dreamliner passenger jet which was grounded on arrival in India for safety checks took off from London on Sunday with a possibly faulty fuel switch, a letter shows. The …
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08-02-2026 RAFAH/ GAZA STRIP: When Rotana al-Raqab learned that her name and her mothers were included on the first list of Palestinians allowed to return to Gaza through the Rafah crossing, she felt, briefly, that the long months she had spent stranded in Egypt were finally coming to an end …
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08-02-2026 MOSCOW/ WASHINGTON: Russia has declared it is no longer bound by limits on the number of nuclear warheads it can deploy, as the last remaining arms control treaty with the United States nears expiry, threatening to dismantle the final constraints on the world’s two largest atomic arsenals. The comments …
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08-02-2026 KHARTOUM: Montaha Omer Mustafa, 18, was among many people who managed to get out of el-Fasher before the city’s seizure by the Rapid Support Forces (RSF) paramilitary group, but only after paying for passage and going days on foot with little water, moving through villages and scrubland. As fighting …
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08-02-2026 SYDNEY: An Australian teenager has been charged for allegedly making online threats against Israeli President Isaac Herzog, whose visit to the country on Sunday has been met with planned protests, police complaints over alleged war crimes, and efforts to have his invitation revoked. Australian Federal Police said in a …
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07-02-2026 By SJA Jafri + Bureau Report ISLAMABAD/ KARACHI: Pakistan’s military says it has arrested four “facilitators” who helped the attacker in Friday’s deadly Islamabad mosque bombing as authorities intensify a security crackdown amid rising concerns over cross-border attacks. Thousands of mourners gathered in the capital on Saturday to bury …
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