BEIRUT (AP) — Residents of southern Lebanon voted Saturday in the country’s municipal elections that will test support for Hezbollah in the predominantly Shiite areas, months after the end of the
Category: 4. World
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There is an alternative, Labour MPs tell Rachel Reeves
Iain WatsonPolitical correspondent
PARachel Reeves has insisted on the need to “get a grip” on the welfare bill Tina – an acronym, not a person – was very popular with the late Lady Thatcher.
It was in 1980 that the then prime minister – introducing…
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Dermatologists say Marines’ tightened shaving waiver could hurt Black members’ careers
Air Force veteran Ed Anderson can’t recall any time past puberty when he didn’t get razor bumps after shaving his face. His coarse facial hair would often cause painful inflammation and itchy bumps as it grew back.
Anderson, now 70, remembers…
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Israeli strike kills nine of Gaza doctor’s children, hospital says
Getty ImagesCivil defence teams carry a body after the strike in Khan Younis An Israeli air strike on Gaza hit the home of a doctor and killed nine of her 10 children, the hospital where she works in the city of Khan Younis says.
Nasser hospital…
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Israel is facing unprecedented pressure from allies over its war on Gaza. Can they force it to change its ways?
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After 19 months of pounding Gaza, Israel is now under growing pressure from unlikely quarters – some of its closest Western allies.
Their…
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Ethnic Hungarian, Moldovan voters saved Romania’s democracy – DW – 05/24/2025
Last week, just before midnight on Sunday, an important piece of news spread quickly around the world: The hard-right candidate George Simion has been defeated, democracy in Romania is safe, and the liberal, pro-European mayor of Bucharest,
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The Soviet plan to reverse Siberia’s rivers with ‘peaceful nuclear explosions’
Andrei FadeevIn the 1970s, the USSR used nuclear devices to try to send water from Siberia’s rivers flowing south, instead of its natural route north. The project was a grand failure – but 50 years on, the idea still won’t completely go away.
To…
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How an Iconic Blouse Became the Center of a Political Tussle in Romania
The painter Henri Matisse and the designer Yves Saint-Laurent both took inspiration from it. The British singer Adele wore it for a Vogue fashion shoot. Louis Vuitton used it for one of the company’s seasonal “By the Pool” collections of…
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KTR’s Subtle Advice to Sister Kavitha
Bharat Rashtra Samithi (BRS) working president and former Telangana minister K T Rama Rao (KTR) downplayed the significance of a letter written by his sister…
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