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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) — Chileans are voting Sunday on whether to approve a new constitution that will replace the country’s dictatorship-era charter. The vote comes over a year after Chileans resoundingly rejected a proposed constitution written by a left-leaning convention and one that many characterized as one of the world’s …

Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan speaks during an interview with Reuters in Islamabad, Pakistan June 4, 2021. REUTERS/Saiyna Bashir Netblocks, an Internet monitoring organisation, reported a nationwide disruption in social media platforms last night during a “virtual power show” organised by the main opposition Pakistan Tehrik-i-Insaf.“Live metrics show a nation-scale …

LONDON/ GAZA — The Israel Defense Forces (IDF) claims to have discovered “the biggest Hamas tunnel” in Gaza, spanning a length of four kilometers (about 2.5 miles). The IDF said the tunnel, secured “a few weeks ago” but revealed to the public Sunday, is wide enough to drive a large …

The IDF published the names of four more soldiers who fell in battle in the Gaza Strip this week. Their families have been informed of their deaths. The IDF published the names on Monday morning. Sergeant-Major Urija Bayer, 20 years old, from Ma’alot Tarshiha, was a soldier in the …

Republican presidential candidate, former US president Donald Trump reacts during a campaign event at the Whittemore Center Arena in Durham. (AFP) Donald Trump, the Republican presidential frontrunner, has said that undocumented immigrants were “poisoning the blood of our country,” repeating language that has previously drawn criticism as xenophobic and echoing …

Saudi Gazette report KUWAIT CITY — The Amiri Diwan of Kuwait has announced that the funeral of the late Emir Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah will be limited to family members and relatives. The Minister of the Amiri Diwan Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah conveyed this decision on Saturday, acknowledging …

Thousands of Israelis demonstrated in Tel Aviv on Saturday after the Israeli military mistakenly killed three hostages carrying a white flag in Gaza, which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called a “terrible tragedy.” U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has left for the Middle East, with planned stops in Bahrain and Qatar, …

LAMPEDUSA, SICILY, JULY 2, about 188 migrants arrive in the island after cross the mediterranean sea on 2021 At least 61 migrants were missing and presumed dead after their boat sank off Libya’s coast, the International Organization for Migration (IOM) said Saturday, in the latest such tragedy off North Africa.The …

GAZA — The UN Spokesperson has welcomed the announcement on Friday by the Israeli Cabinet that the Kerem Shalom border crossing into the Gaza Strip will be reopened. Until the Hamas-led terror attacks of Oct. 7 and Israel’s full-scale military response which has devastated much of the enclave, the crossing …

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Once nearly impenetrable for migrants heading north from Latin America, the jungle between Colombia and Panama this year became a speedy but still treacherous highway for hundreds of thousands of people from around the world. Driven by economic crises, government repression and violence, migrants from China …