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Mourners attend the funeral of Lebanese civil defence members who were killed in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Nabatieh in Sidon, Lebanon. — Reuters
Lebanon, Israel hold new talks as ceasefire nears end

Lebanon and Israel held new peace talks in Washington on Thursday, as their latest ceasefire -- considered to still be in place despite hundreds of deaths in Israeli strikes -- nears its end.Israel's military said it was striking Hezbollah targets in south Lebanon on Thursday after warning residents of several towns and villages there and in the country's...
Smoke rises behind buildings following an Israeli air strike in the southern city of Tyre. — AFP

Israel strikes Lebanon as talks enter second day
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping while leaving the Zhongnanhai Garden. — Reuters

Trump leaves Beijing with warm words for Xi
Firefighters work at a site of a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. — Reuters

Zelensky rages at Russia after strike on housing block kills 24
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Trump and Xi play up stability
Women in a mall try to watch US President Donald Trump's motorcade pass by in Beijing on Thursday. — AFP

New attacks hit ships as Trump, Xi discuss Iran
Mourners attend the funeral of Lebanese civil defence members who were killed in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Nabatieh in Sidon, Lebanon. — Reuters

Lebanon, Israel hold new talks as ceasefire nears end
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Motorists ride past the site of an Israeli air strike that targeted the headquarters of a local NGO, in the southern coastal city of Tyre. — AFP

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Dhofar boosted their survival hopes with a 2-0 win over Al Shabab.

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Oman U20 players during a training session at their recent internal camp in Muscat.

Oman U20 fall to Egypt in opening friendly

INTERNATIONAL VIDEOS
Region
Smoke rises behind buildings following an Israeli air strike in the southern city of Tyre. — AFP

Israel strikes Lebanon as talks enter second day

BEIRUT: Israel carried out new strikes in southern Lebanon that it said targeted the Lebanese group Hezbollah on Friday, hours before the two countries' envoys were set to meet for a second day of peace talks in Washington. A truce in the war...

Women in a mall try to watch US President Donald Trump's motorcade pass by in Beijing on Thursday. — AFP
New attacks hit ships as Trump, Xi discuss Iran
Mourners attend the funeral of Lebanese civil defence members who were killed in an Israeli strike on the southern town of Nabatieh in Sidon, Lebanon. — Reuters
Lebanon, Israel hold new talks as ceasefire nears end
India's Foreign Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar welcomes Iran's Foreign Minister Abbas Araqchi during the BRICS foreign ministers' meeting in New Delhi. — Reuters

Iran urges BRICS to condemn US, Israel over war actions
Christine Cipolla from the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) sits next to Hans Grundberg, UN Special Envoy for Yemen, as members of the Supervisory Committee on the Detainees Release Agreement attend the closing ceremony of a meeting between the Yemeni government and the Ansar Allah in Amman. — Reuters

Parties in Yemen agree to exchange 1,600 prisoners
Iraqi lawmakers attend a parliamentary session to vote in a new government headed by Ali al Zaidi as prime minister, in Baghdad. — Reuters

Iraq seeking IMF, World Bank aid due to war
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Americas

Frontier Airlines planes are parked at gates in Denver International Airport (DEN) in Denver, Colorado.

Plane hits and kills a pedestrian during takeoff

Pentagon releases declassified UFO files dating back to 1940s

Ted Turner, TV mogul, dies at 87

Passenger plane hits lamppost, truck while landing

US seeks 'maritime freedom' coalition to restart Hormuz traffic

Africa

Mid-East conflicts threaten whales off South Africa

Sudanese schoolchildren race to make up for years lost

3 die on Atlantic cruise from suspected hantavirus: WHO

'Not the Cairo we know': Energy shock dims Egypt nights

South Africans march for 'sovereignty' after US pressure

Europe

Firefighters work at a site of a Russian drone strike in Zaporizhzhia, Ukraine. — Reuters

Zelensky rages at Russia after strike on housing block kills 24

Russia pummels Kyiv, killing 7 and denting peace hopes

UK health minister resigns in new blow to premier Starmer

Italy to send minesweepers closer to Gulf

EU plans one journey, one ticket for train travel

Asia
US President Donald Trump shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping while leaving the Zhongnanhai Garden. — Reuters

Trump leaves Beijing with warm words for Xi

BEIJING: US President Donald Trump left China on Friday with no major ​breakthroughs on trade or tangible help from Beijing to end the Iran war, despite two days spent heaping praise on his host, Xi...
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Trump and Xi play up stability

People remove a fallen tree during a heavy storm in Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh, India. - Reuters

Storms, lightning kill 89 in India's UP state

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UN says can feed a million more Afghan children if wars stop

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Nearly 90 killed as storm lashes India's most populous state of Uttar Pradesh

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
Losing international students could devastate many US colleges

Xiaofeng Wan, a former admissions officer at Amherst College, now works as a private consultant to international students who want to come to the United States. This week, as he held meetings in China with prospective...

The campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 12, 2018. (Cody O'Loughlin/The New York Times)

Sanitation crisis in Gaza spreads disease

Gazans flee homes as Israeli strikes resume

10 years after typhoon, Philippine city rises from the ruins
Australia
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Gynaecologist accused of unneeded surgeries on women

Sydney - An Australian gynaecologist was referred to police on Tuesday over media allegations that he carried out unneeded surgeries on women, including organ removals.Multiple patients of Melbourne...
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Man jailed for mailing reptiles in popcorn bags

Australia's national flag flutters at half mast at Bondi Beach during Australia's National Day of Mourning for the victims of the Bondi Beach mass shooting in Sydney. - Reuters

Australia mourns in candlelight for Beach shooting victims

Emergency services were called to the scene following reports of a shooting in Lake Cargelligo, 450 kilometres west of Sydney.

Gunman at large after 3 killed in eastern Australia

A marine life ranger stands near the closed signage of the North Steyne Beach in Sydney. — AFP

shark attacks: Australia shuts dozens of beaches

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