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A drone struck an apartment building in Galați, Romania and exploded early Friday, wounding two people, Romania’s defense ministry said. The strike came as Russian drones simultaneously hit the Izmail port area across the Ukrainian border.
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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Thursday he has directed the Israeli military to take control of 70% of Gaza’s territory. Speaking at a conference in the occupied West Bank, Netanyahu said Israeli forces are currently holding 60% of Gaza, up from 50%.
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Spain’s Ministry of Health confirmed Monday that a second Spanish national evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship has tested positive for hantavirus, raising the confirmed case count among Spanish passengers and crew to two. The patient, identified through contact tracing, has been transferred to a high-level isolation unit at a Madrid military hospital.
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A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near a passenger train in Quetta, Pakistan, on Sunday, killing at least 19 people and wounding more than 70, officials said. The Baloch Liberation Army claimed responsibility, saying the train was carrying security personnel.
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Africa’s top public health body confirmed a new Ebola outbreak Friday in Congo’s remote Ituri province, with 246 suspected cases and 65 deaths recorded. The strain has not yet been fully identified, raising questions about whether existing vaccine stockpiles will be effective.
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Twelve hospital workers at Radboudumc university medical centre in Nijmegen have been placed in precautionary quarantine for six weeks after staff used a standard blood-draw procedure instead of the stricter protocol required for hantavirus patients, the hospital announced Monday. The patient had been evacuated from the MV Hondius cruise ship on May 7.
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OpenAI CEO Sam Altman issued a public apology Friday for his company’s failure to alert police about the online activity of Jesse Van Rootselaar, the 18-year-old who killed eight people in Tumbler Ridge, British Columbia, in February. Altman’s letter, dated Thursday, acknowledged OpenAI had identified and banned Van Rootselaar’s account in June 2024 for ‘furtherance…
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Iran ruled out direct negotiations with U.S. representatives Saturday even as envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner traveled to Islamabad for a new round of ceasefire talks, according to AP. Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi arrived in Pakistan on Friday night, but his ministry quickly clarified that any exchange would be indirect, with Pakistani officials…
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A hydrogen sulfide release at the Catalyst Refiners plant in Nitro killed two workers and sent more than 30 others for medical treatment Wednesday morning, authorities said.
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The response comes amid conflicting claims from U.S. and Iranian officials about whether negotiations are underway.
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This comes as tensions escalate across the region amid widening conflict involving the United States, Israel and Iran
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Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei was killed Saturday in joint U.S.-Israeli airstrikes that hammered Tehran, according to multiple Israeli officials and sources close to the operation. The strikes hit the leader’s compound and other key regime sites as part of a broader campaign against Iran’s nuclear and military infrastructure. Israeli sources said Khamenei’s body…
