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A deal for the United Nations to start work on a remote Bangladeshi island where the government has sent thousands of Rohingya refugees offers no guarantee they will be allowed to move freely to the mainland, according to a copy of the agreement. The Bangladesh government has moved nearly 19,000 …

The suspect in a bow-and-arrow attack that killed five people and wounded three in a quiet Norwegian town this week is facing a custody hearing Friday. He won’t appear in court because he has confessed to the killings and has agreed to be held in custody. Espen Andersen Braathen, a …

South Korean police have arrested four people for allegedly installing hidden cameras in the rooms of an entire motel and attempting to extort money from the hundreds of guests who were filmed. The suspects filmed for months and tried to blackmail some guests with threats to release their videos but …

Fully vaccinated passengers arriving in England from low-risk countries from Oct. 24 will no longer have to take expensive COVID-19 tests, the British government said on Thursday. Last month the government simplified the rules for international travel to England in a boost to the tourism industry, which has blamed the …

Boeing Co said on Thursday that some titanium 787 Dreamliner parts were improperly manufactured over the past three years, the latest in a series of problems to plague the wide-body aircraft. The quality issue does not affect the immediate safety of flights, the company said, adding it had notified the …

Former US president Bill Clinton has been hospitalized with a non-Covid-related infection, a spokesman said Thursday evening. Clinton’s doctors said it was a blood infection. Clinton, 75, was admitted to a hospital in Irvine in Southern California on Tuesday evening, Angel Urena tweeted. He gave no details other than to …

A bipartisan group of lawmakers, headed by Senators Amy Klobuchar, a Democrat, and Republican Chuck Grassley, plan to introduce a bill that would bar Big Tech platforms, like Amazon and Alphabet’s Google, from favoring their products and services. Amazon, for example, has been accused of using data from third-party sellers …

The US is offering two $1million cash rewards to bring Pakistani national and human smuggler Abid Ali Kahn to justice and to crackdown on his people-smuggling network that operates across the Middle East and Asia, the Department of State announced on Thursday. Ali Khan allegedly operates a Pakistani-based smuggling network …

A British lawmaker in Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative Party was stabbed to death on Friday in a church by a man who walked into a meeting with voters from his electoral district, police said. Police said a man had been arrested on suspicion of murder. David Amess, who represented …

A top-level meeting at Lebanon’s Interior Ministry has concluded that the extremist Lebanese Forces (LF) political party, led by Samir Geagea, had started the Thursday shooting in Beirut that killed six people on Thursday. According to reports, all details of the bloody event were discussed in a meeting of the …

The illegal Zionist entity has one again used civilian aircraft as a shield against Syrian air defense systems during its attacks on the West Asian country, says a Russian general. “On October 13, from 23:35 to 23:39, four F-16 tactical fighters of the Israeli Air Force entered Syrian airspace in …

The UK government has approved tear gas exports to numerous authoritarian West Asian regimes, including in the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Bahrain, Kuwait, Jordan and Oman, over the past decade, new research finds. According to survey results released by British NGO Action on Armed Violence (AOAV), since 2008, the British …

Dozens of people in Bahrain have taken to the streets to protest normalization of ties with the Tel Aviv regime and inauguration of the Israeli embassy in the capital Manama. Locals staged a rally late on Wednesday in the village of Sanabis, where they voiced their indignation about the establishment of …

Turkey has increased its export of combat drones to Morocco and Ethiopia in a move set to anger Egypt and Sudan, Egyptian security sources say. Egypt, which is at odds with Ethiopia over a hydropower dam, has already asked the United States and some European countries to help Cairo freeze any armed …

Resistance groups in Syria have vowed a “very harsh” response to an overnight aerial act of aggression by the Israeli regime against the central Syrian province of Homs that left a number of casualties, the second such strike in a week. The Israeli airstrike targeted the Palmyra area in the eastern …

Saudi-funded hospitals in Yemen have been involved in “unnecessary amputations” of young children and others injured during the Saudi-led war against the impoverished country, according to an investigation. Carried out by the Arab Reporters for Investigative Journalism (ARIJ), the investigation found that proper procedures were not followed by medical staff …

A large explosion has hit a Shia Muslim mosque in Afghanistan’s southern city of Kandahar, martyring at least 33 people and wounding scores of others. According to Press TV, Qari Saeed Khosti, the spokesman of the Taliban’s new government’s interior ministry said, said the blast which took place during Friday …

Several DC-10 jets have been pressed into service to douse the wildfire that has grown to 15,500 acres (6,272 hectares) in a southern California coastal mountain range, according to reports. The jets dropped fire retardant over the western flank of the massive fire along the southern California coast on Thursday, …

Nigeria’s top military commander has announced the death of Abu Musab al-Barnawi, the head of the West African branch of the Daesh terrorist group. Chief of Defense Staff General Lucky Irabor said during a press briefing on Thursday that the leader of the Deash West Africa Province (Iswap) was dead. He did …

Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov says all of Russia’s Central Asian allies and neighbors are opposed to the deployment of US or NATO troops on their soil against the backdrop of the Taliban takeover of neighboring Afghanistan. Lavrov at a press briefing in Moscow on Thursday said that former Soviet states, including Uzbekistan, stand …