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Pakistani security forces Wednesday killed a Daesh group commander and two other militants during a raid on a militant hideout near the border with Afghanistan, the military said. The raid was conducted in Bajur, a district in the Khyber…

Jurors who will decide the fate of actor Kevin Spacey were sworn in Wednesday in a London court as the Oscar winner faces charges of sexually assaulting four men as long as two decades ago. The outcome of the trial could send Spacey to…

President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. called on Filipinos on Wednesday to show solidarity with Muslims as the Catholic-majority Southeast Asian nation observed Eid Al-Adha. Muslims constitute roughly 5 percent of the nearly 110 million…

Representatives of municipal authorities and of the Catholic Church attended on Wednesday morning celebrations organized in several Italian cities for Eid Al-Adha. To mark the occasion, Avvenire, the daily newspaper owned by the Italian…

German police warned Wednesday of a potentially lethal “Blue Punisher” variety of ecstasy in circulation after the death of two teenage girls was linked to the drug. Police in the northeastern state of Mecklenburg Western Pomerania said…

Lebanese expatriates and tourists from Arab nations planning to spend the Eid Al-Adha holiday, or longer summer breaks, in Lebanon continued to arrive at Rafic Hariri International Airport in Beirut on Wednesday. The number of arrivals…

Syrian and Russian forces have launched air strikes on rebel bases in the country’s northwest, the defense ministry said Wednesday, amid a weeklong uptick in deadly violence in the area. Syrian forces “in cooperation with the friendly…

Air strikes and anti-aircraft fire rattled parts of Sudan’s capital Khartoum on Wednesday, residents said, despite both the military factions that have been battling each other since mid-April declaring truces for the Muslim holiday of Eid…

Egyptian accountant Youssef Abdel Hamid regrets that he was unable to make his usual Eid sacrifice this year. Amid rising inflation and a weakening local currency, Hamid is among those who have been skimping on household essentials.…

In line with the aims of Bahrain’s National Energy Transition Plan, the state has stepped up efforts to increase the share of its renewable energy to 5 percent of its total electricity generation by 2025. Kamal bin Ahmed Mohammed,…