The Justice Department said 20-year-old Muhammad Shahzeb Khan was arrested in Canada and charged with providing support to a terror organization. Federal officials said on Friday a Pakistani citizen in Canada was arrested and charged with providing material support for a terror organization in a plot to attack targets in New York City. Twenty-year-old Muhammad […]
First Vice-President Mehriban Aliyeva shared a post congratulating Azerbaijani athlete Orkhan Aslanov on winning a gold medal at the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games, Azernews reports. AZER NEWS
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Russia’s Ministry of Economic Development has revised its 2024 GDP growth forecast from 2.8% to 3.9%, Azernews reports. The Ministry projects that Russia will produce a GDP worth 195 trillion rubles this year, which is 4.4 trillion rubles more than the April forecast. Additionally, the Ministry predicts that economic growth in the country will be 2.5% in
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Russia launched 67 Shahed drones at various targets in Ukraine Saturday, but Ukrainian officials on Saturday said they destroyed 58 of them while several others flew into other regions. Russia launched the drones overnight Friday and into early Saturday morning from Kursk, Yeisk and the Russia-occupied Crimean Peninsula, Ukrainska Pravda reported. Ukraine’s air surveillance systems tracked the 67
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The typhoon landed at Vietnam’s coastal provinces of Quang Ninh and Haiphong with wind speeds of up to 92 miles per hour, state media reported. Vietnamese authorities say Typhoon Yagi has killed at least four people and injured 78 others after making landfall Saturday afternoon in the north of the country. Yagi, described by Vietnamese
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ALGIERS, ALGERIA — Algerians head to the polls Saturday to cast votes for president and determine who will govern their gas-rich North African nation — five years after pro-democracy protests prompted the military to oust the previous president after two decades in power. Since elections were scheduled in March — ahead of the predicted schedule —
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Israeli military strikes across the Palestinian Gaza Strip killed at least 61 people in the space of 48 hours, local medics said on Saturday. Eleven months into the war, numerous rounds of diplomacy have so far failed to clinch a ceasefire deal to end the conflict and bring the release of Israeli and foreign hostages
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Five fatalities reported in three border provinces, where vaccination rates are traditionally low. Health authorities have launched an intensive vaccination campaign following the deaths of five people in the latest outbreak of measles in Thailand’s three southernmost provinces. Three of the five victims who died from the highly contagious disease over the past month in Yala, Narathiwat and Pattani
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PARIS – Thousands of people took to the streets across France on Saturday to protest against President Emmanuel Macron’s decision to appoint centre-right Michel Barnier as prime minister, with left-wing parties accusing him of stealing the legislative election. Macron named 73-year-old Barnier, a conservative and the European Union’s former Brexit negotiator, as prime minister on
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The Ukrainian military has released footage of a MiG-29 fighter jet after it made an emergency landing in the Dnipropetrovsk region during the spring of 2024. The pilot safely exited the aircraft without injury, according to local sources. The exact condition of the aircraft remains unclear, but some sources suggest that the airframe sustained damage.
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