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Baghdad, Oct 26 (EFE).- United States forces deployed in northern Iraq, as part of the international coalition fighting the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group, shot down two drones launched by Iraqi militias against a base with US troop presence on Thursday. According to a Kurdish official, two drones targeted the...

Veronica Dalto Buenos Aires, Oct 26 (EFE). – With the November runoff election in sight, Argentina experienced another day of high political tension on Thursday as candidates Sergio Massa and Javier Milei try to consolidate their support base while the defeated Together for Change coalition slowly bleeds out. Hours after...

Lewiston (USA), Oct 26 (EFE).- The governor of Maine, Janet Mills, confirmed Thursday that 18 people were killed and 13 others wounded in a double shooting Wednesday night in Lewiston. The shooter is still at large. Some media had initially reported that 22 people were killed in the attack, whose...

Asunción, Oct 26 (EFE).- Without having completed his first 100 days in office, Paraguayan President Santiago Peña has already faced a protest by inmates at the country’s largest prison, highlighting a decades-long challenge for the government: prisons. What began as a call for a press conference by Tacumbú inmates led...

Jerusalem, Oct 26 (EFE).- The Israeli army on Thursday struck an armed unit that had tried to attack northern Israel from Lebanon, a statement said. Israeli forces used a precision drone strike to eliminate the armed group, whose affiliation was not disclosed, the statement added. In recent days, the Lebanese...

Brussels, Oct 26 (EFE).- NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg on Thursday called on Russia to withdraw its troops from Moldovan territory, as the military alliance strengthens its partnership with Chisinau. Stoltenberg was specifically referring to Russian forces deployed in the separatist breakaway territory of Transnistria. “NATO fully supports Moldova’s sovereignty...

The Hague, Oct 26 (EFE).- Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al Maliki on Thursday called on the International Criminal Court to investigate alleged war crimes committed by Israel during its «war of revenge» in the Gaza Strip. Al Maliki was in the Hague, seat of the ICC and the UN tribunal,...

Brussels, Oct 26 (EFE).- Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orban on Thursday hailed his ties with Russian president Vladimir Putin, saying he wants to promote peace in Ukraine. Hungary is one of the only European Union member states to have avoided publicly denouncing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, while Orban has condemned...

Brussels, Oct 26 (EFE).- The heads of state and government of the European Union (EU) were meeting to call for «humanitarian corridors and pauses» to allow aid to reach the Gaza Strip, according to the latest draft of the conclusions they hope to adopt at the summit they began Thursday...

Madrid Desk, Oct 26 (EFE).- Spain’s Socialist Party (PSOE) announced Thursday they will report an alleged hate crime to the Prosecutor’s Office after a Popular Party (PP) councilor in the southern city of Torrox compared migrants arriving in the Canary Islands to animals. PSOE spokesperson in Torrox Mari Nieves Ramírez...

Cairo, Oct 26 (EFE).- A convoy of humanitarian aid of at least 12 trucks entered through the Egyptian Rafah crossing in the direction of the Gaza Strip on Thursday loaded with emergency medical supplies and medicines but without much-needed fuel, witnesses on the ground confirmed to EFE, who added that...