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Pakistan army officer killed in gunbattle with militants buried with full military honors

  • ISLAMABAD: A Pakistan Army officer who succumbed to his wounds last week after clashes with militants, was laid to rest with full military honors, the army’s media wing said on Monday.  Lt. Uzair Mehmood Malik was injured during clashes between Pakistani security forces and militants in ...
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French police win plaudits after high-risk Olympics

  • PARIS: The vaulting ambition of the Paris Olympics made them risky and hard to police, but French security forces kept thousands of athletes and millions of fans safe — a “gold medal” performance according to Interior Minister Gerald Darmanin. The two-week sporting extravaganza which finished ...
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Paris closes out the 2024 Olympics with a final star-studded show

  • SAINT-DENIS, France: Setting out to prove that topping Paris isn’t mission impossible, Los Angeles rolled out a skydiving Tom Cruise, Grammy winner Billie Eilish and other stars on Sunday as it took over Olympic hosting duties for 2028 from the French capital, which closed out its 2024 Games ju...
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Ukraine and Russia trade accusations over fire at occupied nuclear plant

  • Moscow and Kyiv accused each other of starting a fire on the grounds of Europe’s largest and now Russian-occupied Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant in Ukraine on Sunday, with both sides reporting no sign of elevated radiation. The UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) nuclear watchdog,...
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Lithium protests part of hybrid warfare against Serbia, says president

  • BELGRADE: Serbia’s president on Sunday accused demonstrators who opposed a lithium mining project in the Balkan country of being part of a Western-backed “hybrid” warfare against his government and vowed to take strong legal action against those protesters who have blocked railway and road traf...
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UK treats far-right attacks less harshly than Islamist violence, think tank says

  • LONDON: The UK’s approach to tackling extremism has been criticized for being “two-tiered,” with far-right attacks not being treated as seriously as Islamist ones, according to a leading think tank. The Royal United Services Institute has raised concerns that right-wing violence is often dism...
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Army officer injured in northwest Pakistan gunfight succumbs to wounds at hospital

  • ISLAMABAD: An army officer, who was injured in a gunfight with militants in northwest Pakistan this week, on Sunday succumbed to his injuries at a military-run hospital in Peshawar, the Pakistani military said. Lt. Uzair Mehmood Malik was injured during clashes between Pakistani security force...
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Gazans flee as Israel broadens evacuation order, pushes into Khan Yunis

  • KHAN YUNIS: Palestinians fled southern Gaza’s main city on Sunday as Israel warned of a new military operation, a day after one of the deadliest reported strikes in more than 10 months of war. The fighting in the besieged Gaza Strip between Israeli forces and Palestinian militants since H...
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Pakistan PM, president back security forces after militant attack that killed 3 soldiers

  • ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif and President Asif Ali Zardari this week backed the country’s security forces in their battle against militants, state-run media reported, after a recent attack in northwestern Pakistan left three soldiers and four militants dead.  Pakistan’s secu...
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Australia spy chief accuses friendly nations of foreign interference

  • SYDNEY: Australia’s spy chief on Sunday accused some friendly nations of running foreign interference operations in the country, saying their identities would surprise people if revealed. Canberra last year named Iran as having engaged in foreign interference, adding that Australian intelligen...
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