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US prosecutors in Alec Baldwin case drop charge 'enhancement'
Los Angeles: Prosecutors who have charged Alec Baldwin with involuntary manslaughter over a fatal shooting on a movie set dropped a so-called "firearm enhancement" that carried a potential five-year sentence, officials said Monday. The US actor was holding a Colt .45 during rehearsals for low-budget Western "Rust" in October 2021 when it discharged, killing cinematographer Halyna Hutchins and wounding the film's director, Joel Souza.The weapon...
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Biden makes surprise visit to Kyiv
KYIV: US President Joe Biden on Monday made a trip to Kyiv organized in strict secrecy, promising $500 million in fresh arms deliveries and "unwavering" American support ahead of the first anniversary of Russia's invasion. Air raid sirens rang out across Kyiv at one point as Biden walked alongside Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during what was the US president's first visit to the country since Russian troops invaded on February 24,...
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EU adds two ministers to its new sanctions list on Iran
Brussels: The European Union Monday added 32 individuals and 2 entities in Iran to its news sanctions list.According to the list published by the EU's Official Journal today, the black list includes Mohammad Mehdi Esmaeili Iranian Minister of Culture and Islamic Guidance and Nouri Yousef Iran's minister of education.The list also includes a number of officials from the Iranian Ministry of Intelligence and Security, as well as MPs, prosecutors and...
Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein.
Iraq denies US economic aid hinges on "political" conditions
Baghdad: Iraq's Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein denied on Monday that US economic aid given to Baghdad needs to meet certain "political" conditions, in the wake of new currency revaluation guidelines approved by the government. Fresh off a visit to the US, the Iraqi foreign minister said talks he held with officials there mainly revolved around trade ties and economic relations, denying that Washington has named certain provisos before providing...
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Japan PM pledges $5.5 billion in additional Ukraine aid
Tokyo: Japan will offer Ukraine fresh financial support worth $5.5 billion, Prime Minister Fumio Kishida said Monday, days before the first anniversary of Russia's invasion."There is still a need to assist people whose livelihoods have been destroyed by the war, and to restore destroyed infrastructure," he said in a speech at a think tank symposium in Tokyo."We have decided to provide additional financial support of $5.5 billion," Kishida said.He...
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Iran denies enriching uranium above 60 percent
Tehran: Iran on Monday denied reports that it has enriched uranium up to 84 percent, just below the 90 percent needed to produce an atomic bomb, state media reported.The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) said on Sunday evening that it was in discussions with Tehran after Bloomberg News reported that the watchdog's inspectors in Iran last week found uranium enriched to 84-percent purity.The spokesman for the Atomic Energy Organisation of...
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Beijing slams 'false' US claims that China may arm Russia
BEIJING: Beijing strongly denied on Monday US claims that China was considering arming Russia in its war against Ukraine, as it reiterated a call for dialogue to end the conflict. On Sunday, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Beijing was now "considering providing lethal support" to Moscow ranging "from ammunition to the weapons themselves"."It is the United States and not China that is endlessly shipping weapons to the battlefield,"...
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Rashford shines as Man Utd rout Leicester amid takeover race
Manchester: Marcus Rashford showed Manchester United won't be distracted by the race to buy the Old Trafford club as his double inspired a 3-0 win against Leicester on Sunday.United owners the Glazer family are considering rival offers from Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad Al Thani, chairman of one of Qatar's biggest banks, and British billionaire Jim Ratcliffe.Further bids could still be made amid reports United may be under new ownership within six...
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Plane crashes on Philippine volcano, search underway for survivors
Manila: Rescuers struggled on Sunday to reach the slopes of an active volcano in the central Philippines where a small plane is believed to have crashed, officials said, with the fate of those on board still unconfirmed.The Cessna 340 aircraft with four on board went missing shortly after departing for Manila from Bicol International Airport in Albay province, several kilometres from Mayon volcano, on Saturday.Manila-based Energy Development...
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Kuwait FM to Munich's MSC-2023 conf.: Dialogue "key" to resolve disputes
MUNICH: To resolve disputes and crises worldwide, countries must seek balanced dialogue and effective policies to proliferate peace and end violence, Kuwait’s Foreign Minister Sheikh Salem Al-Abdullah Al-Jaber Al-Sabah said on Sunday. Speaking at a discussion panel at the 59th Munich Security Conference, Sheikh Salem indicated the Middle East region has witnessed some worrisome developments, especially those connected with the Zionist...
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North Korea says it fired ICBM as warning to US, Seoul
Seoul: North Korea said Sunday it had test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile as a warning to Washington and Seoul, saying the successful "surprise" drill demonstrated Pyongyang's capacity to launch a "fatal nuclear counterattack".In response, the US and South Korea staged joint air drills featuring a strategic bomber and stealth fighter jets, Seoul said.North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the "sudden launching drill" at 8:00 am...
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Ex-US president Jimmy Carter receiving 'hospice care' at home
Washington: Jimmy Carter, the 98-year-old former US president who led the nation from 1977 to 1981, is receiving hospice care at home, where he will spend his "remaining time," his nonprofit foundation said Saturday.Carter, the oldest living former president and a Nobel peace laureate, resides in Plains, Georgia, with his wife, Rosalynn.That hamlet is where he was born and worked as a peanut farmer before becoming the governor and later launching...
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HATHRAS, India: Policemen carry a person who died in a melee during a sermon in Uttar Pradesh state on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Stampede at India religious event kills 116
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GAZA: Displaced Palestinians from areas in east Khan Yunis flee after the Zionist army issued a new evacuation order for parts of the city and Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on July 2, 2024. - AFP
Arabs reaffirm Zionist boycott
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BEIRUT: Lebanese Uber driver Hussein Khalil shows his GPS jammed geolocation as Gaza's southern city of Rafah, as he sits in his vehicle in Beirut's Hamra Street on June 11, 2024.- AFP
Zionist jamming disrupts Lebanon ground, air traffic