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UNITED NATIONS (AP) — Iraq’s government is focused on avoiding a domestic or regional spillover of the Israel-Hamas war but continuing attacks on the country threaten its hard-won stability, the U.N. envoy for Iraq warned Tuesday.With the war raging in Gaza, Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert told the U.N. Security Council that “the…
The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) called Tuesday for Senegal to reverse its decision to delay its presidential election by 10 months.President Macky Sall’s move to delay the Feb. 25 vote raised immediate concern from human rights watchdogs and opposition politicians.Term-limited Sall’s administration has stoked authoritarian fears before,…
LONDON (AP) — A former Royal Air Forces pilot has taken to the skies in a Spitfire at 102 years old.Jack Hemmings, an ex-squadron leader with Britain’s air force, is believed to be the oldest pilot to fly the World War II plane. His 20-minute flight, from an airfield in…
VIÑA DEL MAR, Chile (AP) — The death toll from wildfires that ravaged central Chile for several days increased to 131 on Tuesday, and more than 300 people were still missing as the blazes appeared to be burning themselves out.The fires in Valparaiso are said to be Chile’s deadliest disaster…
Ten people died as a result of unprovoked shark attacks last year, the Florida Museum of Natural History’s International Shark Attack File report states.A total of 120 worldwide alleged shark-human interactions were investigated. Of them, 69 unprovoked shark bites on humans and 22 provoked bites were recorded.Bites are considered provoked…
The European Union’s executive arm shelved an anti-pesticide proposal Tuesday in yet another concession to farmers after weeks of protests that blocked many capitals and economic lifelines across the 27-nation bloc.Although the proposal had languished in EU institutions for the past two years, the move by European Commission President Ursula…
Highways in Spain are blocked by tractors and other farm equipment as protests spread from neighboring countries. Members of the Asaja Asociación Agraria de Jóvenes Agricultores (the Spanish Young Farmers’ Association) took to the highways en masse Tuesday to protest European Union bureaucracy and hampered competition against non-EU countries.”With different shades,…
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken pressed ahead with a diplomatic tour of the Middle East on Tuesday, meeting Egyptian leaders as part of his efforts to secure a cease-fire in the Israel-Hamas war in exchange for the release of hostages.Blinken’s visit also comes amid growing concerns in Egypt about…
Former Irish Prime Minister John Bruton, who helped lay the foundations for Northern Ireland’s 1998 peace deal and later served as the European Union’s ambassador to Washington, died on Tuesday following a long illness, his family said.DUBLIN SEES HEAVY POLICE PRESENCE, 11 ARRESTS AMID ‘IRISH LIVES MATTER’ MARCH AGAINST MASS…
Israel has ordered an evacuation that now covers two-thirds of the Gaza Strip amid its ongoing war with the Hamas terror group, United Nations humanitarian monitors said Tuesday.The new evacuation order covers approximately 95 square miles of the Palestinian territory, according to the U.N. Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian…
