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At least 68 killed in Nepal’s worst air crash in 30 years

At least 68 people were killed on Sunday when a domestic flight crashed in Pokhara in Nepal, the country's Civil…

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Turkey says Nordic NATO expansion unlikely before June

Sweden and Finland are unlikely to be able to join NATO before June, a senior Turkish official said Saturday. The…

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China reports huge rise in COVID-related deaths

China said on Saturday nearly 60,000 people with COVID-19 had died in hospital since it abandoned its zero-COVID policy last…

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Iran executes British-Iranian national despite UK, US pleas: report

Iran has executed British-Iranian national Alireza Akbari, the judiciary's Mizan news agency reported on Saturday, after sentencing the former Iranian…

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XBB1.5 — the most transmissible COVID subvariant yet

The Omicron subvariant XBB 1.5, the most transmissible COVID-19 subvariant so far, is spreading quickly across the United States and…

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Russia claims capture of Ukraine’s Soledar; Kyiv says fighting goes on

Russia said on Friday that its forces had taken control of the town of Soledar in eastern Ukraine, claiming Moscow's…

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WhatsApp Launches Anti-Censorship Tool

WhatsApp, Meta's end-to-end encrypted messenger, has launched its anti-censorship tool. In WhatsApp's anti-censorship, Meta allows people in censored countries to…

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US FAA system outage: Which flights, airports were affected?

US flights were slowly beginning to resume departures, and a ground stop was lifted after the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)…

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Israel martyrs Palestinian in West Bank raid

Israeli forces shot a Palestinian fighter who later died of his wounds in the West Bank Wednesday, the Palestinian health…

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