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US allows non-emergency staff to leave Israel as Trump threatens Iran strikes

GENEVA, Feb 27 (Agencies): The United States (US) authorised the departure of non-emergency embassy staff from Israel on Friday, as it threatened strikes on Iran and pressed its biggest military build-up in the Middle East in decades.The move came a day after a round of Oman-mediated talks between Iran and...

Israeli strikes kill at least 5

GAZA CITY, Feb 27 (AFP): Gaza's civil defence ministry said Israeli strikes killed at least five people on Friday.Violence has continued in the Palestinian territory despite a US-brokered truce that entered its second phase last month, with Israel and Hamas trading accusations of violating the agreement.The civil defence agency, which...

India court acquits Modi opponent in graft case

NEW DELHI, Feb 27 (AFP): An Indian court acquitted a former Delhi chief minister on Friday in a corruption case he denounced as a "political conspiracy" by the rival ruling party of Prime Minister Narendra Modi.Arvind Kejriwal, leader of the opposition Aam Aadmi Party, had served as the capital's chief...

UK Labour party loses parliamentary seat to left-wing Greens

MANCHESTER, Feb 27 (AFP): Britain's ruling Labour party on Friday lost a crunch local poll in one of its traditional heartlands to the left-wing Greens, official results showed, adding to the woes of unpopular Prime Minister Keir Starmer.Green candidate Hannah Spencer won the by-election in the Manchester suburb of Gorton...

Civilian death toll in Sudan war more than doubled in 2025: UN

GENEVA, Feb 26 (AFP): Killings of civilians in Sudan's war more than doubled in 2025 compared with the previous year, the United Nations rights chief said Thursday, warning that thousands more dead are unidentified or remain missing.Since April 2023, Sudan has been engulfed in a conflict between the army and...

Bill Clinton to face grilling on significant Epstein ties

CHAPPAQUA, Feb 27 (AFP): Former US president Bill Clinton will be grilled by a Congressional panel on Friday on his well-documented links to Jeffrey Epstein, as Democrats seek to shift focus onto Donald Trump's own ties to the convicted sex offender.Clinton features prominently throughout the latest Epstein files disclosures, with...

Tens of thousands without power in Russia after Ukrainian attack

MOSCOW, Feb 27 (Reuters): About 50,000 people were left without power in the Russian city of Belgorod on Friday after Ukrainian missiles struck it overnight, the regional governor said.Governor Vyacheslav Gladkov said about half of those affected should be reconnected by the end of Friday following the latest in a...

Duterte killed thousands, prosecutors of ICC say

THE HAGUE, Feb 27 (AFP): Rodrigo Duterte killed thousands during his anti-drug campaign, an International Criminal Court prosecutor alleged Friday, as the crimes against humanity hearing against the former Philippines president wrapped up. "He's proud of his killings. He wants to be remembered for them," said Julian Nicholls, summing up...

171 bodies found in mass graves in eastern Congo

KINSHASA, Feb 27 (AP): Congolese authorities and a civil society group said Thursday that mass graves were found in part of eastern Congo that the M23 rebel group has recently withdrawn from, as fighting in the region escalates despite a US-mediated peace deal.The governor of South-Kivu province, Jean-Jacques Purusi, said...