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Iraqi judiciary says it has No powers to “dissolve parliament”
Iraq’s top judicial body said Sunday it doesn’t have the authority to dissolve the country’s parliament, days after an influential Shiite cleric gave it one week to dismiss the legislature so that new elections can be held. The Supreme Judicial…
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Fire in Egyptian Church Kills Dozens Of People
At least 41 people were killed and dozens more were injured in a fire inside a church in the Egyptian city of Giza on Sunday, several media outlets reported citing Egypt’s Coptic Church. According to…
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IAEA: ‘Very Alarming’ Conditions at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant
The situation at Ukraine’s Zaporizhzhia nuclear power plant has deteriorated rapidly to the point of becoming “very alarming,” Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) Rafael Mariano Grossi warned the Security Council on Thursday afternoon.…
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The hostilities in Gaza are over, for now, but…
There might have been a temptation to breathe a deep sigh of relief at the ending of the most recent round of hostilities between Israel and Islamic Jihad last weekend, with yet another ceasefire announced…
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Russian army is bombing residential areas in Pesky “Donetsk province”
The Russian military bombed residential areas across Ukraine at night, Ukrainian authorities said, as Ukrainian forces pressed a counterattack to try to retake an occupied southern region, striking the last operating bridge over a river…
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Taliban terrorists fire shots into air to disperse women’s protest
Taliban fighters fired into the air Saturday to disperse a rare women’s protest in the Afghan capital, days ahead of the first anniversary of their return to power. About 40 women — chanting “Bread, work…
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Iraq’s political chaos spreading to the Kurdistan region
Iraqi Kurdistan, the autonomous zone considered a haven of stability in a war-torn country, has been roiled in recent days by political tensions. A violent crackdown on an anti-government protest last weekend and the arrest…
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Russia: There is no justification for the West not calling on the Kyiv regime to stop its “Nuclear Terrorism”
Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova stressed that there is no justification for Western countries not to call on the regime in Kyiv to put an end to its nuclear terrorism. Commenting on the Security…
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