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Prabowo faces Muslim group backlash, says Indonesia will quit Trump’s Board of Peace if it fails to benefit Palestinians
JAKARTA, March 7 — Indonesia’s President Prabowo Subianto said he will withdraw from US President Donald Trump’s ”Board of Peace” if it does not benefit Palestinians, according to a government statement yesterday, after the Iran war deepened doubts over his
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Trump rules out talks, says only Iran’s ‘unconditional surrender’ can end Middle East war
TEHRAN, March 7 — US President Donald Trump said yesterday that only Tehran’s unconditional surrender would bring an end to the escalating Middle East war as crude oil prices surged on fears about global supply disruption. As Israel intensified its
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Israel hits Tehran as Iran fires new missiles; oil soars as Hormuz traffic collapses and regional attacks spread
WASHINGTON, March 7 — Here are the latest events in the Middle East war today: Israel launches ‘broad-scale’ strikes The Israeli military said today it had launched a “broad-scale wave of strikes” on targets in Tehran, as the Iranian state
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No boots on the ground? Trump says sending US troops to Iran is a ‘waste of time’
WASHINGTON, March 6 — President Donald Trump said Thursday it would be a “waste of time” currently to consider sending US ground troops into Iran, NBC News reported, dismissing the Iranian foreign minister’s warning that such a move would spell
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Eight killed, four missing as Brazil nursing home collapses
RIO DE JANEIRO, March 6 — At least eight people died on Thursday when a nursing home collapsed in the southern Brazilian city of Belo Horizonte, as firefighters searched through the rubble for four missing people. Twenty-nine people were in
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HK magnate Jimmy Lai won’t appeal 20-year sentence for collusion and sedition, lawyer says
HONG KONG, March 6 — Hong Kong media tycoon Jimmy Lai will not appeal against his conviction and 20-year prison sentence for collusion with foreign forces and sedition, his lawyer said on Friday. A member of Lai’s legal team told
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US sinks 30 Iranian ships, targets missile factories as ‘Operation Epic Fury’ enters new phase
TAMPA, March 6 — The United States has sunk more than 30 Iranian ships during the ongoing war, while ballistic missile and drone attacks by Tehran’s forces are down substantially, a top US military officer said Thursday. “We’re now up
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US investigators believe American military likely responsible for deadly strike on Iranian girls’ school
WASHINGTON, March 6 — US military investigators believe it is likely that US forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls’ school that killed scores of children on Saturday but have not yet reached a final conclusion
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Philippines uncovers leak of South China Sea resupply data to China, calls breach ‘alarming’
MANILA, March 5 — A spokesman for the National Security Council (NSC) of the Philippines today said some information on the country’s resupply missions in the South China Sea was compromised and passed on to Chinese intelligence agents. His statement
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Russia accuses US and Israel of trying to drag Arab states into a wider Middle East war
MOSCOW, March 5 — Russia today accused the United States and Israel of trying to drag Arab countries into a wider Middle East conflict by provoking Iran into striking targets across the region and said there was no sign Washington
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