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1/29/2023 3:43:24 PM
Israeli guards killed a Palestinian near a settlement in the occupied West Bank, Palestinian health officials said Sunday, with the Israeli military alleging he was armed.
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1/29/2023 12:34:37 PM
Bomb-carrying drones targeted an Iranian defense factory in the central city of Isfahan overnight, authorities said early Sunday, causing some damage at the plant amid heightened regional and international tensions engulfing the Islamic Republic.
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1/29/2023 10:42:25 AM
US Secretary of State Antony Blinken arrived in Cairo Sunday on the first stop of his Middle East visit, where he is expected to address a surge in deadly Israeli-Palestinian violence.
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War in Ukraine
1/23/2023 9:51:57 AM
The German government will not object if Poland decides to send Leopard 2 battle tanks to Ukraine, Germany's top diplomat said Sunday, indicating movement on supplying weapons that Kyiv has described as essential to its ability to fend off an intensified Russian offensive.
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1/22/2023 5:58:13 PM
Outrage over a Quran-burning protest in Sweden produced a second day of protests in Turkey, reflecting tensions between the two countries.
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1/22/2023 3:23:06 PM
Sweden's prime minister has condemned as "deeply disrespectful" the weekend burning of a Quran in Stockholm, which has raised tensions with Turkey as the Nordic country courts Ankara over its NATO bid.
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1/22/2023 1:03:45 PM
Two years after Azerbaijan and Armenia ended a war that killed about 6,800 soldiers and displaced around 90,000 civilians, tensions between the countries are again high in a dispute over a six-kilometer (nearly four-mile) road known as the Lachin Corridor.
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Africa
1/19/2023 6:03:19 PM
Rwanda on Thursday accused Kinshasa of abandoning a deal aimed at bringing peace to DR Congo's volatile east as tensions spiral between the neighbours.
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1/17/2023 6:29:26 PM
Jordan summoned the Israeli ambassador to Amman on Tuesday to protest a move by Israeli police to block the Jordanian envoy from entering a volatile holy site in Jerusalem. The incident quickly escalated tensions between the neighbors and reflected the heightened sensitivity around the sacred compound under Israel's new ultranationalist government.
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1/11/2023 3:52:25 PM
The leaders of Britain and Japan are signing a defense agreement on Wednesday that could see troops deployed to each others' countries.
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1/10/2023 5:26:41 PM
The prime minister of Armenia said Tuesday that his country has refused to host military drills planned by a Russia-dominated security pact, an announcement that reflected the Armenian government's growing tensions with Moscow.
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1/10/2023 3:29:17 PM
President Joe Biden, Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are meeting for a series of talks on migration, trade and climate change on Tuesday as the three leaders try to mend tensions that have divided the continent.
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1/2/2023 1:54:34 PM
Seoul and Washington are discussing joint planning and exercises involving US nuclear assets to counter growing threats from the nuclear-armed North, South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has said.
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1/1/2023 11:10:48 PM
Colombia and Venezuela on Sunday opened a key bridge linking the countries that had been closed for almost seven years amid political tensions, launching an era of improved relations under Colombia's new leftist president.
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War in Ukraine
1/1/2023 10:05:44 AM
A provision in the recently signed defense spending bill mandates that the United States work to ease Ukraine's debt burden at the International Monetary Fund, which could create tensions at the world's lender-of-last-resort over one of its biggest borrowers.
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International
12/31/2022 11:53:13 AM
North Korea fired three short-range ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters in its latest weapons display on Saturday, a day after rival South Korea conducted a rocket launch related to its push to build space-based surveillance to better monitor the North.
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12/30/2022 1:33:30 PM
Britain's cost-of-living crisis has turned into a bitter winter in households trying to keep their energy bills down some lecture flatmates for keeping the lights on. Others move to better-heated homes.
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12/29/2022 5:30:01 PM
Kosovo's primary border crossing with Serbia was back open Thursday, dialling down growing tensions that had drawn international calls for de-escalation.
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12/28/2022 9:10:00 PM
The European Union and the United States urged Kosovo and Serbia Wednesday to take "immediate" steps to deescalate tensions amid mounting unrest in their border region.
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12/26/2022 10:52:46 PM
Ruzan Hovhanisyan fears that she will have to ring in the New Year without her family in the breakaway region of Nagorno-Karabakh due to a blockade by arch-enemy Azerbaijan.
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