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Olympics: Germany picks Munich for Summer Games bid
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Women take up arms as sexual violence ravages eastern DRC
As war and sexual violence rage in eastern DRC, women are joining pro-government Wazalendo fighters to defend themselves
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At least 10 people killed in Russian and Ukrainian attacks
New strikes come after the US proposes a fresh round of Russia-Ukraine ceasefire talks in the UAE.
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Trump rejects Iran deal to reopen Strait of Hormuz in seven days
US president is said to expect renewed strikes after midterms US president Donald Trump has said he has rejected an Iranian proposal to reopen the strait of Hormuz within a week and resume nuclear talks in return for the lifting of the US naval blockade of Iranian ports. “They made a proposal but I reject it,” he told reporters at the White House. Continue reading...
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Jerusalem Daily: violence continues as the world watches the UNGA
As the UN General Assembly enters its fifth day, with world leaders denouncing Israeli violence against Palestinians.
The Guardian
US strikes on Ecuadorian fishing boats raise humanitarian concerns but Trump admin not wavering
Attorney says fishers ‘losing their livelihoods’, but Marco Rubio maintains US still willing to ‘blow up ships if need be’ While the US secretary of state, Marco Rubio , was being decorated in Quito by Ecuador’s president for “helping to promote peace in the region”, 10 Ecuadorian fishers whose boat had been blown up by US forces were adrift in the eastern Pacific. On 8 September, a day before Rubio arrived, a US patrol vessel intercepted the fishing boat Don Rufo in international waters near Ecuador. Continue reading...
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Pope Leo celebrates open-air mass before 700,000 people in Paris
Crowds line Place de la Concorde on second day of pontiff’s first official papal visit to France in 18 years Hundreds of thousands of people lined the Avenue des Champs-Élysées in Paris on Saturday to attend an open-air mass with Pope Leo, on the second day of his visit to France. The Vatican estimated 700,000 people turned out for the outdoor mass with the 71-year-old American pope – about 100,000 more than the number of people who had registered to attend. Continue reading...