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8/30/2022 6:01:29 PM
Thirty supporters of Shia leader Moqtada Sadr have been shot dead in nearly 24 hours of fighting between rival Iraqi forces that has since died down, according to the latest toll from medics.
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8/29/2022 11:14:03 PM
Shelling targeted Baghdad's high-security Green Zone Monday, a security source said after Shia cleric Moqtada Sadr said he was quitting politics, sparking chaos in which 12 of his supporters were killed.
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8/29/2022 10:21:00 PM
Muqtada al-Sadr announced Monday that he would resign from Iraqi politics, prompting hundreds of his angry followers to storm the government palace and sparking clashes with security forces. At least 15 protesters were killed.
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8/29/2022 3:54:45 PM
Sixteen rights groups on Monday urged Yemen's Houthi rebels to end their siege of the country's third-largest city, as the internationally recognized government said an overnight rebel attack killed at least 10 troops.
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International
8/28/2022 5:17:11 PM
Pope Francis on Sunday called on the international community to help Pakistan, where deadly floods have killed more than 1,000 people.
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Africa
8/28/2022 1:57:56 PM
Eighteen people were killed in clashes between two communities in western Democratic Republic of Congo earlier this month, according to a government report seen by AFP Sunday.
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8/28/2022 12:42:48 PM
Clashes between backers of Libya's rival governments killed at least 32 people, the health ministry said Sunday in a new toll, after a battle that sparked fears of major new conflict.
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8/27/2022 7:41:48 PM
Clashes between backers of rival governments killed at least 12 people and damaged six hospitals in Libya's capital Saturday, sparking fears that a political crisis could spiral into a major new conflict.
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International
8/27/2022 2:50:29 PM
Flash floods triggered by heavy monsoon rains across much of Pakistan have killed nearly 1,000 people and injured and displaced thousands more since mid-June, officials said Saturday.
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8/27/2022 12:37:50 PM
Clashes broke out early Saturday between rival militias in Libya's capital, killing at least one civilian and wounding five others, a health official said.
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International
8/25/2022 2:49:25 PM
More than 180 people have been killed and 3,000 homes destroyed by floods in Afghanistan over the past month, a government spokesman said Thursday.
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War in Ukraine
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Military
8/24/2022 9:36:34 PM
Russian forces Wednesday launched a rocket attack on a train station in central Ukraine on the embattled country's Independence Day, killing at least 15 people and wounding about 50, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said after warning for days that Moscow might attempt ``something particularly cruel'' this week.
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Region
8/23/2022 10:30:52 AM
A general of Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has been killed while 'on a mission' in Syria, Iranian state media reported on Tuesday.
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Military
8/22/2022 4:42:10 PM
Russia's FSB security services said Monday that Ukraine was behind a car bombing in the outskirts of Moscow that killed the daughter of hard-line Russian ideologue Alexander Dugin.
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Military
8/22/2022 4:08:34 PM
Nearly 9,000 Ukrainian soldiers have been killed since Russia's invasion began, Ukraine's commander-in-chief said on Monday, Interfax-Ukraine news agency reported.
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World
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Africa
8/21/2022 2:06:46 PM
The number of civilians killed in a 30-hour siege by Al-Shabaab jihadists at a hotel in Somalia's capital Mogadishu has climbed to 21, Health Minister Ali Haji Adan said Sunday.
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International
8/21/2022 2:05:54 PM
The daughter of a Russian nationalist ideologist who is often referred to as ``Putin's brain'' was killed when her car exploded on the outskirts of Moscow, officials said Sunday.
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Africa
8/21/2022 10:50:53 AM
Somali authorities on Sunday appeared to have ended a deadly attack on a hotel in the capital in which at least 20 people were killed.
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World
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Region
8/21/2022 10:47:45 AM
Turkish authorities on Sunday investigated a pair of secondary crashes at emergency sites that killed at least 35 people the previous day. In both cases, first responders tending to earlier collisions were among the dead.
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Egypt
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Defence
8/20/2022 11:17:49 PM
A prominent terrorist cadre, Jamil Suleiman Zuraei (aka 'Abu Anas') and his son were killed on Friday in a qualitative operation by the Armed Forces in El-Arish city, the capital of the North Sinai Governorate, a well-informed source told Ahram Online.
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