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State Department clarifies deletion of Blinken’s post encouraging ‘cease-fire’

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken By Anadolu Agency The US State Department clarified on Tuesday the deletion of a tweet by Secretary of State Antony Blinken, citing that it was “unfortunately worded.” “The tweet was unfortunately worded, did not capture that appropriately. So we pulled it down,” said Spokesman Matthew Miller in response to

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Scotland’s leader fears for wife’s parents ‘trapped’ in Gaza

Scotland’s first minister and Scottish National Party (SNP) leader Humza Yousaf arrives at St Giles’ Cathedral to attend a National Service of Thanksgiving and Dedication, in Edinburgh on July 5, 2023. PAUL ELLIS/Pool via Reuters/files By Reuters Scotland’s leader Humza Yousaf said on Monday that his wife’s parents were “trapped” in Gaza, leaving him worried

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Somali NHS scientist wins £60,000 after colleagues gave her offensive nickname

Ubah Jama was one of four senior biochemists within the Clinical Biochemistry department at Queen’s Hospital, Romford (Image: Google Maps) The Mirror By Chiara Fiorillo A senior NHS scientist has been awarded almost £60,000 in compensation after her colleagues replaced her username with an offensive nickname on a work spreadsheet. An employment tribunal heard Ubah

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Somali community mourns deaths of mother, four children in Vantaa fire

Candles outside the apartment building where Sunday morning’s fire claimed the lives of a mother and her four children. Image: Simo Kymäläinen / Yle By YLE News The Somali community in Vantaa is grieving the deaths of a mother and her four children following the outbreak of a fire in an apartment in the early

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2 Israeli tourists killed in Egyptian shooting

By Anadolu Agency At least two Israeli tourists were killed in a shooting in Egypt’s Alexandria city on Sunday, according to Hebrew media. The Israeli Foreign Ministry also confirmed that a gunman opened fire on a bus carrying Israeli tourists in the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. The Cairo 24 news channel, citing a security

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Kenya paid $17m for Somalia security mission

By The East African Kenya has received Ksh2.5 billion ($17 million) in the past five years for its contribution to the Somalia peacekeeping mission (now known as the African Union Transition Mission in Somalia) whose mandate is set to end in December next year. Defence Cabinet Secretary Aden Duale told parliament this week that the

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At least 750 Israelis missing since fighting broke out early Saturday: Local media

By Anadolu Agency At least 750 Israelis have been missing since fighting broke out on Saturday morning, local media reported early Sunday. “According to an unofficial report, approximately 750 Israelis are currently missing,” the daily Jerusalem Post said on X. Hamas launched Operation Al-Aqsa Flood on Saturday and said the surprise attack was in response

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Hamas kills 22 in unprecedented, wide-ranging incursion into Israel. Netanyahu says ‘we are at war

Police officers evacuate a woman and a child from a site hit by a rocket fired from the Gaza Strip, in Ashkelon, southern Israel, Saturday, Oct. 7, 2023. The rockets were fired as Hamas announced a new operation against Israel. (AP Photo/Tsafrir Abayov) By The Associated Press The ruling Hamas militant group in the Gaza

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Russia says hit Ukrainian UAV workshops, depots of Storm Shadow and HIMARS systems

By Anadolu Agency Russian Defense Ministry spokesperson Igor Konashenkov said Friday that the country hit assembly workshops of Ukrainian-made unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and depots housing Storm Shadow and High Mobility Artillery Rocket System (HIMARS) in missile strikes on Ukraine. “Ammunition depots, missile and artillery systems, military-technical equipment, production workshops of enterprises producing weapons and

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African Union backs Somalia’s request to pause troop withdrawal for 3 months

By Xinhua News Agency The Peace and Security Council (PSC) of the African Union (AU) has endorsed a request by Somalia for a three-month pause in the withdrawal of 3,000 troops stationed in the country, the AU mission said on Thursday. The PSC, which is the standing decision-making organ of the AU for the prevention,

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