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Two police officers and one first responder were shot and killed early Sunday while responding to a domestic abuse call in a Minneapolis suburb, according to a law enforcement association.

THE caretaker prime minister recently asserted that the nation has “accepted” the election results and that we must, therefore, “move on”. With all due respect, this seems like an overly optimistic take on a terribly messy situation.

Invasions, massacres, and genocidal actions cannot break the souls of the Palestinian people who have been living under occupation for a long time, Türkiye's communications director says.

When I stepped out on a cool Thursday morning to cover Pakistan’s 12th general election, there was an air of inevitability about the whole exercise. Most respectable analysts had already expressed predictions that the ground was set for the return of three-time former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to power.

Panic is growing in Rafah over an imminent ground invasion after Israel’s prime minister ordered his military to prepare to enter the city in the southern Gaza Strip that is sheltering 1.2 million people with nowhere else to go as he rejected Hamas’s truce plan and rebuffed US efforts to reach a deal.

The government plans to carry out some 3.5 trillion won (US$2.63 billion) worth of aid projects this year to help promote the growth and welfare of developing countries, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.

The Israeli military plans to expand its ground assault into Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip, where most Palestinians in the besieged enclave have been forced to seek shelter amid heavy bombardment of the rest of the enclave.

France’s leading farming unions have called to end nationwide roadblocks over pay, tax and regulation after securing promises of government assistance. French farmers have blocked roads around the country for two weeks in protests that spread across Europe last week.

French farming unions are taking aim at the European Union’s free-trade agreements, which they say open the door to unfair competition from products arriving from overseas. At a time when the EU is urging farmers to adopt more sustainable – and sometimes more costly – agricultural practices, unions say these trade deals are making it hard for them to stay solvent.

Despite being the second-largest natural gas reserves holder, the third-largest oil-rich country, and abundant in renewable energy sources, the regime’s media outlets claim that the country will face energy supply problems in less than 20 years.