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Orange-red ground has been broken in the jungle of East Borneo, where the Indonesian government has begun construction of its new capital city. Officials promise a “sustainable forest city” that puts the environment at the heart of…
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A longtime ally of the Rajapaksa political family was appointed Friday as Sri Lanka’s new prime minister, hours after security forces cleared the main protest site occupied for months by demonstrators angry at the Rajapaksas over the…
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Experts were poised to search the site of an airplane crash in northern Greece early Sunday to determine what kind of cargo it carried. The An-12 cargo plane, which took off from the city of Nis, Serbia, on Saturday, and was headed to…
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Israeli warplanes struck a weapons manufacturing facility in the Gaza Strip early Saturday, the military said, after rocket fire against Israeli territory. The exchange of fire came hours after US President Joe Biden visited Israel and…
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Sri Lanka’s main city, Colombo, was calm on Thursday as people waited for the resignation of President Gotabaya Rajapaksa, who fled to the Maldives to escape a popular uprising that erupted as the country struggles with an economic crisis.…
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Authorities in Tehran were told on Tuesday to explain the presence of uranium particles at three undeclared nuclear sites in Iran after a critical report by the UN nuclear watchdog. The latest report by the International Atomic Energy…
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Saudi-based Yamama Cement Co. has received financing of SR1.6 billion ($426 million) from the Saudi National Bank to boost the production capacity of its new site in Northern Halal, Al-Kharj. The amount includes a long-term financing of…
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Israel’s National Cyber Directorate said that the country suffered a cyberattack on Monday that briefly took down a number of government web sites. “In the last few hours, a denial of service (DDoS) attack has been identified on a…
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An F-16 destroyed a ballistic missile launcher in Al Jawf, Yemen in the early hours of Monday immediately after the Houthis fired two ballistic missiles at Abu Dhabi, the UAE’s MOD Joint Operations Command said. The UAE’s defense…
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Arab coalition airstrikes destroyed two caves used to store ballistic missiles and four secret drone facilities in the Yemeni capital Sanaa, the coalition announced early on Wednesday. The attacks come after Saudi Arabian forces…
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