US, Qatar, Egypt, Turkey urge restraint in Gaza
MIAMI, Dec 21 (AFP): The United States was joined Saturday by Qatar, Egypt and Turkey in urging parties in the Gaza ceasefire to uphold their obligations and exercise restraint, the chief US envoy said after talks in Miami.Top officials from each nation met with Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump's special...
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Proposals ‘won’t improve peace prospects’
MOSCOW, Dec 21 (Reuters): Russian President Vladimir Putin's top foreign policy aide said on Sunday that changes made by the Europeans and Ukraine to U.S. proposals for an end to the war in Ukraine did not improve prospects for peace.The U.S.-drafted proposals for an end to the nearly four-year-old war,...
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Nine killed, 10 injured
BEKKERSDAL, Dec 21 (AFP): Nine people were killed when gunmen opened fire at a bar outside Johannesburg early Sunday, police said, in the second such shooting in South Africa this month.Ten more were wounded in the early morning attack at the tavern in the impoverished Bekkersdal township in a gold...
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Iran, UK foreign ministers hold phone call
TEHRAN, Dec 21 (AFP): Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi has spoken by phone with his British counterpart Yvette Cooper, an Iranian foreign ministry statement said on Saturday, in a rare case of direct contact between the two countries.The ministry said that in Friday's call the ministers "stressed the need to...
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At least 16 files disappear from DOJ webpage for Epstein docs
NEW YORK, Dec 21 (AP): At least 16 files disappeared from the Justice Department's public webpage for documents related to Jeffrey Epstein - including a photograph showing President Donald Trump - less than a day after they were posted, with no explanation from the government and no notice to the...
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