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Tehran says won't reopen Hormuz until US accepts Iran's conditions

Iran's Revolutionary Guards on Sunday said they would not reopen the Strait of Hormuz until the United States accepts all of Tehran's demands.

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Free as a bird: Rare Serbian eagle rescued and returned through Lebanon

Feliks, a rare eastern imperial eagle, is again soaring through the skies of his Serbian homeland after being rescued from the clutches of bird smugglers during his inaugural migration, the national bird society said.

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Houthi attacks kill 10 in Yemen as rebels target oil-rich Marib

Houthi attacks on a strategic Yemeni province killed at least 10 people, according to a minister and military source, as the rebels escalated strikes on the oil-rich region.

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Exodus: West Bank hardships drive out Palestinian Christians

Palestinian Christians call themselves "living stones" and say they have lived continuously in the Holy Land for the last 2,000 years. Maybe not for much longer, believes Reverend Mitri Raheb.

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Drone from Romania explodes near pipeline in Bulgaria

A drone that entered Bulgaria from neighboring Romania on Saturday exploded near the border between the two countries and the Trans-Balkan gas pipeline, which links Turkey to Ukraine, Bulgarian Prime Minister Rumen Radev announced.

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Three members of Yemen government forces dead in Houthi attack

A Houthi drone attack on Yemen's Marib province killed three members of government forces on Friday and wounded another four, a Yemeni military source told AFP.

"Three killed and four wounded in a preliminary toll from the Houthi drone attack on the Harib area, in the south of Marib," the source said, requesting anonymity to discuss sensitive matters.

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Houthi attack wounds 11 civilians in Saudi Arabia, Riyadh-led coalition says

Yemen's Houthis late Thursday wounded 11 people in an attack on southern Saudi Arabia, a Riyadh-led coalition said, the highest toll in the kingdom from an attack by the rebels in years.

The attacks come as Yemen is increasingly drawn into the U.S.-Israeli war with Iran, with the rebels stepping up attacks against both Yemen government forces and neighboring Saudi Arabia, a key U.S. ally and supporter of the internationally recognized Yemeni government.

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Eight dead, including teen suspect's grandparents, in Thailand shooting

The suspect in a school shooting in Thailand killed a total of eight people Friday, police said.

First he shot his grandparents dead, using his grandfather's handgun, then went to his school north of Bangkok and killed three teachers and three students, national police said in a statement.

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Israel refuses to withdraw from more south Lebanon areas at talks

Israel refused in talks on Thursday to withdraw from more areas of south Lebanon unless the Lebanese army had full control of an initial two "pilot zones", a Lebanese presidential source told AFP.

The seventh round of negotiations between Lebanon and Israel was held in Rome under U.S. auspices, aimed at ending hostilities between Israel and the militant group Hezbollah that have become a second front in the Middle East war.

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US Senate committee votes to hold top Covid expert Fauci in contempt

A Republican-led U.S. Senate panel on Thursday voted to hold the country's former top infectious disease official Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress, in an escalation of efforts to blame him for potential pandemic missteps.

On the advice of lawyers Fauci last week had invoked his constitutional right to stay silent under antagonistic questioning from Republican senators, as they probed him over unsubstantiated claims that the origins of the pandemic were covered up.

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