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Baghdad govt. has outlined plans for pullout of foreign forces, says Iraqi prime minister
Jan 17, 2024 14:20Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia' al-Sudani says the Baghdad government has outlined plans aimed at ending the presence of US-led foreign military forces in the West Asian country.
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Trump back in court for defamation case after landslide Iowa victory
Jan 17, 2024 09:48Former US President Donald Trump attended a New York courtroom session, after a landslide campaign victory in Iowa, to defend himself against the latest defamation lawsuit filed by writer E. Jean Carroll, who accused him of sexual violence.
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Iran warns Biden not to ‘tie his destiny’ to Netanyahu’s fate
Jan 17, 2024 06:29Iran has warned US President Joe Biden not to “tie his destiny” to that of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who is leading the regime’s genocidal war on the Gaza Strip while enjoying Washington’s all-out support.
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Iran slams US plots for post-war Gaza, asserts only Palestinians can decide their future
Jan 17, 2024 05:42Iranian Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has slammed US plots for the post-war Gaza Strip, saying only Palestinians can decide their future.
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British oil giant Shell halts Red Sea shipments after US-UK strikes on Yemen
Jan 17, 2024 03:45UK-based energy giant Shell suspended all shipments through the Red Sea indefinitely, amid heightened tensions in the Red Sea over Washington’s unrelenting support for the Israeli genocidal war against Palestinians in the besieged Gaza Strip.
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Palestinian Foreign Ministry calls for placing Israeli settler organizations on ‘terror’ lists
Jan 17, 2024 02:56The Palestinian Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Expatriates has condemned the escalation of violence by Israeli settlers in the Occupied Territories, calling for putting the settler organizations on international terrorism lists.
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Israel denying deliveries of medicine, lifesaving supplies to northern Gaza: UN
Jan 17, 2024 02:46The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) says the Israeli regime is denying access to aid missions delivering medicine and fuel to the northern part of the Gaza Strip, amid a deepening humanitarian disaster in the besieged enclave.
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US, UK forces can no longer pass through Bab el-Mandeb Strait: Yemeni official
Jan 17, 2024 02:40A Yemeni official has warned that American and British forces can no longer pass through the strategic Bab el-Mandeb Strait as tensions grow in the region following illegal US-led military strikes on the Arab country.
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In letter to UN, Iran defends anti-terror operations against Takfiri, Israel-linked targets
Jan 17, 2024 02:21Iran's UN envoy has defended the country's recent anti-terror operations targeting the facilities belonging to Takfiri terrorists in Syria and Israel-linked anti-Iranian terror groups in Iraq.
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Kim says S Korea ‘number one hostile state’, unification no longer possible
Jan 16, 2024 12:20North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un has said he no longer believed unification with South Korea was possible and called for constitutional change to identify the south as “number one hostile state.”