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Review: 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 4' Kills the Special Forces Paradigm

When Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare debuted in 2007, it was a revelation.
Whereas earlier games in the series followed the familiar pattern of World War II stories…
Players undertook nighttime counterterrorism raids, maneuvered tanks through urban environments that bore striking resemblance to Baghdad…

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Israel closes Hebron’s Ibrahimi Mosque to Palestinians for Jewish holiday | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera

Contested West Bank holy site is reopened exclusively for Israelis, deepening tensions over control of the mosque.
Israeli forces have closed the Ibrahimi Mosque in the occupied West Bank city of Hebron to Palestinian worshippers as thousands…
The Palestinian Ministry of Religious Endowments said worshippers and mosque employees had been barred from entering and the call…

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Review: 'Wild Horse Nine' Looks Away From Chilean History

Wild Horse Nine , the latest feature from Oscar-winning British Irish director Martin McDonagh, opens in Santiago, Chile.
It’s 1973, shortly before the U.S.-backed military coup that would oust socialist President Salvador Allende.
The CIA, which had spent years watering the seeds of discontent with Allende that would blossom into betrayal…

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Review: 'Wild Horse Nine' Looks Away From Chilean History

Wild Horse Nine , the latest feature from Oscar-winning British Irish director Martin McDonagh, opens in Santiago, Chile.
It’s 1973, shortly before the U.S.-backed military coup that would oust socialist President Salvador Allende.
The CIA, which had spent years watering the seeds of discontent with Allende that would blossom into betrayal…

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Trump says making adviser Stephen Miller White House chief of staff | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera

This is a breaking news story.
United States President Donald Trump has said he is making Stephen Miller his new White House chief of staff.
Trump made the announcement on his Truth Social account on Friday, calling Miller “one of my most trusted advisors”.

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Armed men kill at least 33 in village in Ebola-hit eastern DRC | Armed Groups News | Al Jazeera

Locals blame ADF armed group, which pledged allegiance to ISIL in 2019, for the deadly raids on North Kivu villages.
Armed men thought to be linked to an ISIL (ISIS)-affiliated group have raided villages in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo…
The attackers also set fire to a ⁠health post during their overnight assault on Cantine…

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New International Fiction Reviews: Louise Kennedy's 'Stations'; Keletso Mopai's 'We Belong to the Trees'

This month, we’re reading two new novels that explore the long shadow of shame and secrecy across Ireland and South…
Louise Kennedy (Riverhead Books, 288 pp., $28, November 2026) This month…
Louise Kennedy (Riverhead Books, 288 pp., $28, November 2026) The first half of Stations , Louise Kennedy’s sophomore novel…

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Activists break into building site of Microsoft datacentre in Amsterdam | Activism | The Guardian

Separate actions also take place outside fence and across Europe in backlash against impact of AI boom
Separate actions also take place outside fence and across Europe in backlash against impact of AI boom Activists have stormed…
Protesters from Geef Tegengas, a Dutch direct action group…

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Russia’s land gains in Ukraine dwindle as its diesel reportedly goes unsold | Russia-Ukraine war News | Al Jazeera

Moscow is suffering losses on the battlefield as US traders reportedly refuse to honour Trump’s diesel deal with Putin.
Russia’s battlefield gains in Ukraine have fallen to almost nothing this year…
Territory seized by Russian forces in the first 10 months of 2026 amounts to 117.38 sq km (45.32 sq miles)…

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Russia-Ukraine Hacks and U.S. Midterm Elections: Foreign Policy's Weekly International News Quiz

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Residents in Ukraine and Russia received phony emergency alerts late on Sunday and early Monday…
Which of the below was not one of the false warnings sent?

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Yemeni gov’t forces, Houthis trade blame for deadly strikes on Taiz market | Houthis News | Al Jazeera

The attack on al-Hadara market in Taiz governorate’s al-Waziiya district killed at least 30 people, Houthi rebels say.
Yemen’s government forces and the Houthi rebel group are trading blame for an attack on the al-Hadara market…
The spokesperson for the Yemeni government forces, Colonel Majed al-Nazili…

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How Paraguay’s Ueno collapse is only its latest banking crisis | Banks News | Al Jazeera

President Santiago Pena is under fire over links to parent company of collapsed bank.
Paraguay’s president impeached amid bank collapse crisis Paraguay’s President Santiago Pena is facing impeachment following the collapse of Ueno Bank…
Pena announced his resignation on Thursday, but politicians formally filed impeachment charges against the president.

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U.S. Midterm Election: Do the Democrats Have an Economic Plan?

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This week’s congressional elections in the United States saw a historic shift toward Democrats…
But with President Donald Trump still in the White House and Democrats still trying to give shape to their own…

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U.S. Midterms: Explaining the Anti-Trump Wave

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By now, everyone has a pet theory to explain why the Democrats flipped both the House and the Senate—and why…

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Further bomb threats disrupt at least another 18 flights across Europe | Air transport | The Guardian

Media organisations in Ireland and UK also affected as apparently coordinated effort to cause chaos continues
Media organisations in Ireland and UK also affected as apparently coordinated effort to cause chaos continues A fresh wave…
The latest alerts affected at least 18 flights to or from Bulgaria , Cyprus, Czechia, France, Hungary, Italy, Portugal…

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US prosecutor who led Trump-backed election probe exits Justice Department | Donald Trump News | Al Jazeera

Jason Reding Quinones’ resignation comes as administration braces for Democrat-led investigations.
Another top prosecutor has resigned from the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) following the Democratic victory in the midterm…
US Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, Jason Reding Quinones, submitted his resignation on Friday…

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Paraguay resumes Pena impeachment proceedings as financial crisis deepens | Banks News | Al Jazeera

Political turmoil comes after a digital bank’s failure has left half the population without access to their accounts.
Why is Paraguay facing a banking and political crisis?
Lawmakers in Paraguay have resumed impeachment proceedings against President Santiago Pena…

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Taiwan to close representative office in Papua New Guinea, blames China | Politics News | Al Jazeera

Amid the fallout, Taiwan says it will stop purchases of liquefied natural gas from Port Moresby.
Taiwan says it is closing its representative office in Papua New Guinea and will stop buying liquefied natural gas (LNG)…
Taiwan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said on Friday that Papua New Guinea had repeated previous demands that staff leave its…

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'The Dissidents' Unearths Radical Cartoon History

An unambiguous autocrat holds the White House.
Americans now fear not only the corruption of their municipal law enforcement…
Plutocrats work hand-in-glove with white nationalists, spies have penetrated the political press…

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Bomb threats against European flights ‘likely a coordinated campaign of disruption’, Ireland says – as it happened | World news | The Guardian

Irish government issues statement in response to latest bomb threats against European flights after some Irish media organisations received similar…
The Irish government has warned against a “likely coordinated campaign of disruption” in a statement responding to the latest bomb…
“The threats made this morning against media organisations here are very serious.

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China's Aging Leader Xi Jinping Has a Legacy Problem

Ever since Xi Jinping bucked norms and made it clear he would not be held to a two-term limit…
Xi has purged several possible successors, but he is also aging—and even if he tries to hold onto power…
Although there is still no broadly recognized successor—and no such figure is likely to emerge before the CCP’s 21st National…

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Millions fleeing Sudan’s war risk losing shelter as funds run low, UN warns | Sudan war News | Al Jazeera

Fewer than 1 million of the 15.4 million people in need emergency shelter in Sudan have received assistance.
Millions of people in Sudan who have been displaced by the country’s civil war risk being left ⁠without emergency shelter…
An ⁠estimated 15.4 million people across Sudan urgently need emergency shelter and basic household items…

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Why is Denmark separating ‘Western’ and ‘non-Western’ citizens? | Migration News | Al Jazeera

Evicted families take Denmark’s controversial ‘ghetto law’ to the Supreme Court.
Seven families from Helsingor, a coastal city north of Copenhagen, are facing their former landlord in Denmark’s Supreme Court.
In a two-day hearing that began on Friday…

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New bomb threats target European broadcasters, air traffic | Crime News | Al Jazeera

A string of hoax alerts causing flight diversions across Europe this week has broadened to include newsrooms.
A new series of bomb threats caused more flight diversions across Europe on Friday…
British broadcaster Sky said it was one of a number of newsrooms that received a bomb threat.

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