Iran's president to visit Iraq Wed on first foreign trip
TEHRAN, Sept 08 (AFP): Iran's President Masoud Pezeshkian will visit neighbouring Iraq on Wednesday, state media reported Sunday, in what will be his first trip abroad since he took office in July.Pezeshkian will head a high-ranking Iranians delegation to Baghdad to meet senior Iraqi officials.The visit comes at the invitation...
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Landslides cause havoc in parts of California
CALIFORNIA, Sept 08 (BBC): The land is moving and sinking so fast in parts of the California community of Rancho Palos Verdes that authorities have switched off gas and electricity "indefinitely" to hundreds of homes.The area has long grappled with unstable land but now the landslides causing the problem have...
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Palestinians chased by Israeli settlers return to a village in ruins
WEST BANK, Sept 08 (AP/Reuters): An entire Palestinian community fled their tiny West Bank village last fall after repeated threats from Israeli settlers with a history of violence. Then, in a rare endorsement of Palestinian land rights, Israel's highest court ruled this summer the displaced residents of Khirbet Zanuta were...
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India isolates 'suspected mpox case'
NEW DELHI, Sept 08 (AFP): India reported Sunday that it had put a "suspected mpox case" into isolation, assuring that the world's most populous nation had "robust measures" in place, the health ministry said in a statement.There have been no confirmed cases of mpox in India, a country of 1.4...
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Blinken visits UK today to discuss M East, Ukraine
NEW YORK, Sept 08 (Reuters): US Secretary of State Antony Blinken plans to travel to the United Kingdom on Monday, the State Department said, a week after Britain suspended some arms export licenses with Israel over equipment that could be used in the war in Gaza.In the trip slated to...
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