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Jubilant Spanish Soccer Fan Returns Home After Being Freed by Iran
Madrid — A Spanish soccer fan who was detained by the Iranian authorities on espionage charges for over a year as he walked to the Qatar Soccer World Cup from Europe returned to his home country on Tuesday.
Santiago Sanchez, who was 41 when he disappeared, touched down at Madrid's Barajas Airport at around 1 p.m. (1200 GMT), where a large crowd of well wishers awaited him.
"It has been very long, very hard but I am here in my country," a jubilant Sanchez told reporters at...
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Turkey Says It Rounds Up 33 Suspected Spies for Israel's Mossad
Ankara — Turkish police detained 33 people suspected of spying for Israel's Mossad intelligence service and of targeting foreigners living in Turkey, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said Tuesday.
Last month, Turkish officials warned Israel of "serious consequences" if it tried to hunt down members of the militant group Hamas living outside Palestinian territories, including in Turkey. President Tayyip Erdogan warned that would be a mistake.
Turkey, unlike most of its...
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Pro-Palestinian Protest Restricts Access to NYC Airport's International Terminal
NEW YORK — Access to a busy terminal at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport was restricted Monday as pro-Palestinian protesters converged on the airport for the second time in a week.
Videos posted online show heavy traffic and a slow-moving line of cars, some flying Palestinian flags and featuring text on the windows such as “Stop the genocide.” Police directed a line of cars around a checkpoint. Protesters also had planned to arrive at the airport in Queens, New York, by...
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Tunisian Journalist Detained After Criticizing Minister, Lawyer Says
Tunis, Tunisia — Tunisian judicial authorities on Monday ordered that prominent journalist Zeid El-Heni should be detained and tried on charges of defamation, days after he criticized the trade minister, his lawyer said.
El-Heni will have his first court hearing on January 10 on the charge of "defaming others on social media," his lawyer Ayachi Hammami told reporters.
Police first arrested him on Thursday after he made comments about the minister on local radio in an interview...
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US Aircraft Carrier Returning Home After Extended Deployment Defending Israel
WASHINGTON — After months of extra duty at sea providing protection for Israel, the USS Gerald R. Ford aircraft carrier strike group will be heading home, the Navy announced on Monday.
The Ford and its accompanying warships will be replaced by the amphibious assault ship the USS Bataan and its accompanying warships, the USS Mesa Verde and the USS Carter Hall. The three vessels had been in the Red Sea and have been transiting toward the Eastern Mediterranean over the last few days.
The...
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Israel's Supreme Court Overturns Key Component of Netanyahu's Polarizing Judicial Overhaul
jerusalem — Israel's Supreme Court on Monday struck down a key component of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's contentious judicial overhaul, a decision that threatens to reopen the fissures in Israeli society that preceded the country's ongoing war against Hamas.
Those divisions were largely put aside while the country focuses on the war in Gaza, which was triggered by a bloody cross-border attack by Hamas. Monday's court decision could reignite those tensions, which...
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