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Asylum requests slump as EU borders tighten following shift to far right

Asylum applications in the European Union have declined compared to 2023, a trend that aligns with the rise of far-right political parties in Germany and the Netherlands, leading to stricter immigration policies. First-time applications from people seeking asylum in European Union countries declined in June of this year, with Syrians, Venezuelans, and Afghans being the primary applicants. […]

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Is Israel preparing for a ‘new phase’ of war?

Israel followed the pager attack with heavy air raids on Hezbollah positions on the night of September 19. The toll wreaked from the events of September 17 and 18 has been extensive. According to the best estimates, more than 3,500 people were injured and thirty-seven were killed. The events I’m referring to, of course, were

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500 evacuated as heavy rain floods roads, homes in southern regions of S. Korea

Heavy overnight rains across South Korea triggered landslides and flooding, forcing the evacuation of more than 500 people in southern regions as roads and buildings were submerged on Saturday, Yonhap reports. Heavy rain warnings were in effect across the southern Gyeongsang region and parts of Gangwon, Chungcheong and Jeolla provinces as of Saturday morning, with up to

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Some 101 Ukrainian drones intercepted over Russia

“During the past night, the Kyiv regime’s attempted terrorist attack on facilities in Russia with the use of fixed-wing unmanned aerial vehicles was thwarted as air defenses intercepted and destroyed 101 Ukrainian UAVs, including 53 over the Bryansk Region, 18 over the Krasnodar Region, five over the Kaluga Region, three over each of the Tver

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Lebanon says death toll in Israeli strike on Hezbollah commanders in Beirut rises to 31

At least 31 people were killed, including three children and seven women, in an Israeli strike on a meeting of Hezbollah commanders in Beirut’s suburbs on Friday, the Lebanese health ministry tells a televised news conference. Hezbollah has said at least 16 of its operatives, including two of its most senior commanders, were killed in

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IDF says leading Hamas intel officer killed in Gaza airstrike

IDF troops are seen operating in the Gaza Strip in this handout photo published on September 21, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces) A prominent Hamas intelligence officer was killed in an Israeli airstrike in the Gaza Strip, the IDF says. The military says Muhammad Mansour was a “significant source of technological knowledge in Hamas’s military intelligence.”

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Tlaib slams cartoon of her with exploding pager

Palestinian-American member of US Congress Rashida Tlaib condemns a cartoon published in a conservative magazine that depicted her next to an exploding pager. The cartoon, published Thursday in the National Review, referred to a wave of exploding communication devices this week in Lebanon. The blasts that killed at least 37 people and wounded nearly 3,000

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Hezbollah names 15 more members killed in airstrike, including a senior commander

Overnight, Hezbollah named 15 members of the terror group killed in yesterday’s Israeli airstrike in the Lebanese capital of Beirut, alongside top commander Ibrahim Aqil. One of those named by Hezbollah, Ahmed Wahabi, is identified by the terror group as a “commander.” Hezbollah rarely refers to its senior operatives slain in Israeli strikes as commanders.

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US said to agree to on withdrawal of troops from Iraq by end of 2026

File – US army soldiers, part of the US-led coalition against the Islamic State (IS) group, walk around at the K1 Air Base northwest of Kirkuk in northern Iraq before a planned US pullout on March 29, 2020. (Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP) The US and Iraq have reached an agreement for the withdrawal of US and other

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