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West Bank

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Israel’s military launched an operation in the occupied West Bank on Friday, which it said would last several days and include searches and building demolitions, after gunmen killed two soldiers days ahead of Israeli elections in which security has been a key focus. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is locked in a tight race to keep his job in Tuesday’s vote, having campaigned on promises to keep Israelis safe , and he and his right-wing allies visited the scene of the attack to pledge an even harder line on West Bank militancy. Security forces were searching targets and questioning Palestinians to “locate and dismantle terrorist infrastructure” in the Hebron area from where they said the attackers had emerged, according to a joint statement from the Israeli military and Shin Bet d

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Jordan church shooting

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AMMAN: Gunmen killed at least seven people and wounded dozens at a church in southern Jordan on Friday, authorities said, with the king vowing retaliation for the rare attack on Christians in the majority Muslim kingdom. Assailants stormed the compound of a Greek Orthodox church in the village of Hammoud in Karak governorate and opened fire, authorities said. The gunmen got out of a vehicle and started shooting during a funeral procession, the public security directorate said in a statement, adding that a manhunt was underway for the perpetrators. “The terrorist attack against Karak will be met with the harshest retaliation,” King Abdullah II said in a post on X. “We will strike with an iron fist against those who dare to threaten our nation.” According to images from state broadca

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Building collapses

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In tonight's programme, scramble to get through rubble to trapped survivors after a more than 10 storeys building being built in Nairobi goes down. Also, Kenya says that there's been a second Ebola…

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Critical PHP

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Governments around the world are rushing to implement safety measures after AI technology found "severe" vulnerabilities in a key programming language called PHP.

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Tibet quake

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China ordered an “all-out” rescue effort in Tibet on Friday after an earthquake killed at least 16 people, injured dozens and flattened hundreds of homes, state media reported. Footage showed rescue workers with torches clambering in the dark through some of the more than 300 houses that Xinhua said collapsed in the 7.0-magnitude quake on Thursday evening. Diners ran out of restaurants and items fell off wobbling supermarket shelves as the tremor struck, according to clips on state broadcaster CCTV , which said 65 people were injured. One resident told local media that her family had just gone to bed when her home shook, knocking over objects, and that they “rushed outside without even taking the time to get dressed.” “My legs were shaking the entire time I was heading downstairs

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Bolsonaro · election

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Senator Flávio Bolsonaro apologised twice to President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva during the last televised debate before Sunday’s runoff in Brazil, held on Friday night on TV Globo, which was more measured in tone than the first. The candidates arrived level: the latest Datafolha poll, published on Thursday, gives each 50% of valid votes.

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Netanyahu · election

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As Israel heads to the polls on October 27, its polarising and longest-serving prime minister is seeking re-election.

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Paris · protests

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France will deploy about 70,000 police nationwide and some of Paris' major museums will close Saturday as the country braces for a fresh wave of protests after looting and unrest erupted on the sidelines…

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Milei and his sister Karina cleared in $LIBRA crypto scandal

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The judge sided with prosecutor Eduardo Taiano, who found insufficient evidence to substantiate the alleged crimes, including fraud La entrada Milei and his sister Karina cleared in $LIBRA crypto scandal se publicó primero en Buenos Aires Herald .

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Trump says US may launch ‘another little Epic Fury’ attack on Iran

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US President Donald Trump on Friday said his country may launch “another little Epic Fury” on Iran, referring to the joint Israeli-American military operation that sparked the war with Iran at the end…

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Tigray rebels urged to disarm as commander vows to fight Ethiopia’s gov’t

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Rebel commander pledged to continue fighting government-allied forces who seized Ethiopia’s Tigray capital.

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Europe's heat claims 50,000 lives. Climate change blamed for two-thirds of deaths

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Blistering record heat in Europe this summer helped kill more than 50,000 people, with nearly two-thirds of that death toll blamed on human-caused climate change, a new study found.

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Hospital in Yemen’s Taiz warns of collapse in days because of Houthi siege

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Dialysis patients face shorter treatment sessions as severe shortages of fuel, medicines, and oxygen threaten hospitals.

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Fire breaks out at Hitler's mountain retreat, suspect detained: police

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German police said Saturday they had detained a suspect following a fire at Adolf Hitler’s mountain retreat, known as the Eagle’s Nest, in the state of Bavaria. Around 200 firefighters were deployed to tackle the blaze at the Nazi dictator’s remote Kehlsteinhaus residence, on the peak of Obersalzberg in southern Germany. Firefighters saw flames rising high into the air as they approached the scene, only to find the building “completely ablaze”, police said. “A suspicious person was taken into temporary custody,” they said in a later statement, adding that nobody was injured in the blaze. Police spokeswoman Lisa Maier said firefighters struggled to tackle the blaze due to its location at an altitude of 1,834 metres. The building was only accessible with “heavy breathing appa

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