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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Trump says Russia plague death unlikely linked to bioweapon

  ALBAWABA- US President Donald Trump said Wednesday that American officials do not believe the death of a laboratory worker in Russia is linked to a biological weapon, while calling for greater transparency from Moscow

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Two killed, 28 injured in Houthi strike on Saudi Arabia’s Abha airport

  ALBAWABA- Two people were killed and 28 others were injured after a Houthi attack targeted Abha International Airport in southwestern Saudi Arabia, the kingdom’s General Authority of Civil Aviation (GACA) said Wednesday, as the conflict between Saudi Arabia and the Houthis entered a new phase of escalation

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Former German spy chief held on suspected treason and espionage

  ALBAWABA- A German federal judge on Wednesday ordered former intelligence chief August Hanning to remain in pre-trial detention after prosecutors accused the 80-year-old of treasonous espionage, obtaining state secrets, attempted treason and other intelligence-related offences

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Sydney Sweeney faces backlash over SYRN nudity after Novig ad controversy

  ALBAWABA - Sydney Sweeney is facing another wave of online criticism after promoting her latest SYRN lingerie collection with a provocative “Send Nudes” campaign, just weeks after her controversial Novig advertisement sparked backlash over its use of nudity

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Mercan Köşk to end with episode 7: When is the finale?

  ALBAWABA - ATV’s new drama Mercan Köşk will reportedly come to an early end with its seventh episode after failing to meet expectations in the ratings

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Intelligence sources: Iran recruits African tribes to control Bab al-Mandab

  ALBAWABA - Highly informed intelligence sources uncovered that Iran is planning a "terror" operation in the Bab al-Mandab Strait with the help of local African tribes

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Discord suffers major data breach leaking 275,000 emails

  ALBAWABA - Discord suffered another major data breach involving a server protection service called Double Counter, which leaked about 275,000 unique email addresses

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Video: Policeman accused of sexually assaulting young girl in France

  France recently witnessed nationwide student-led protests over school conditions and low funding. One video flooding social media sparked out

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Zendaya accused of insulting Brigitte Macron

  ALBAWABA - American star Zendaya was heavily attacked on social media after a behavior that was dubbed as an insult to France's First Lady Brigitte Macron

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Trump announces building the largest new shipyard for $6.6 billion

  U.S. President Donald Trump said that Washington will be constructing the country’s largest new shipyard in the U.S. at Sparrows Point in Mar

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Christa Pike is 'conscious and talking' after failed execution

  ALBAWABA - American death row inmate Christa Pike is "conscious and speaking" after surviving a failed execution attempt in Tennessee last Wednesday, according to her lawyers

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Video: Naval drone strikes tanker off Russia's Sochi

  ALBAWABA - A naval drone struck a Liberian-flagged oil tanker off the city of Sochi in Russia, causing a massive blaze, The Guardian reported Wednesday

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-07✓ Read

  Venezuela's second-largest oil refinery catches fire, operations halted

  ALBAWABA - Venezuela halted operations at the Cardon oil refinery, the country's second-largest field with a ​capacity of 310,000 barrels per day, after a fire ‌sparked by a ruptured natural gas line, according to state-run oil company PDVSA

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Saint Levant admits he does not have a voice as Haifa Wehbe story revealed

  ALBAWABA - Palestinian-Algerian artist Saint Levant, whose real name is Marwan Abdelhamid, has sparked discussion after making a candid admission about his voice and explaining what he believes truly defines his music

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Saudi strikes intensify across Yemen as fighting escalates on multiple fronts

  ALBAWABA- Saudi-led coalition aircraft carried out strikes on multiple areas of Yemen on Tuesday as fighting intensified across several fronts, with the Houthis reporting 66 air and missile attacks over the previous 24 hours and Saudi Arabia confirming strikes against Houthi ballistic-missile infrastructure in Sana’a and Sa'dah

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  France school protests intensify as 488 detained and 43 police injured

  ALBAWABA- At least 488 people were detained and 43 police and gendarmes were injured during nationwide protests in France on Tuesday, as a growing student-led movement over deteriorating school conditions entered its most intense day since it began in September

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Syrian president meets Saudi crown prince in Riyadh amid regional tensions

  ALBAWABA- Syrian President Ahmed al-Sharaa met Saudi Crown Prince and Prime Minister Mohammed bin Salman in Riyadh on Tuesday during a brief official visit focused on bilateral relations and regional developments

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  France conducts first sea launch of upgraded M51.3 nuclear missile

  ALBAWABA- France has conducted the first sea launch of its upgraded M51.3 strategic ballistic missile from the nuclear-powered ballistic-missile submarine Le Vigilant, in a test witnessed by President Emmanuel Macron off the coast of Brittany

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  US and Iran still talking, Qatar says

  ALBAWABA - Mediator Qatar has said that the U.S. and Iran are still in active talks to end the war which has dragged on and off with varying degrees of intensity for seven months

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Video: Knife attack kills 1 student at a school in Turkey

  ALBAWABA - At least one student was killed in a knife attack at a school in Istanbul, Turkey.A teenage girl stabbed colleagues at the Sheikh Shamil Imam Hatip Middle School in Istanbul's Başakşehir district in Istanbul on Tuesday, the education minister revealed in remarks carried by local media

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Assassination attempt on Israeli crime boss

  ALBAWABA - A car bomb went off on Meir Feinstein Street in Israel on Tuesday morning, the explosion seriously injured Israeli crime figure Itzik Bar Mocha and his son

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Assassination attempt on Israeli crime boss

  ALBAWABA - A car bomb went off on Meir Feinstein Street in Israel on Tuesday morning, the explosion seriously injured Israeli crime figure Itzik Bar Mocha and his son

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Is Cemre Baysel leaving Güller ve Günahlar?

  ALBAWABA - Unconfirmed reports emerged on social media in the past few hours that Turkish star Cemre Baysel is separating "Güller ve Günahlar" series

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Is Cemre Baysel leaving Güller ve Günahlar?

  ALBAWABA - Unconfirmed reports emerged on social media in the past few hours that Turkish star Cemre Baysel is separating "Güller ve Günahlar" series

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Trump says Canada imposed 'secret tariffs' that only he knew about

  ALBAWABA - Before heading off to a rally in Nebraska, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters outside the White House that Canada imposed 'secret tariffs' on the U

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Trump says Canada imposed 'secret tariffs' that only he knew about

  ALBAWABA - Before heading off to a rally in Nebraska, U.S. President Donald Trump told reporters outside the White House that Canada imposed 'secret tariffs' on the U

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Tanker attack off Oman injures 12 people

  At least 12 crew were injured after an attack on a tanker off Oman, India announced on Tuesday.India’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Tanker attack off Oman injures 12 people

  At least 12 crew were injured after an attack on a tanker off Oman, India announced on Tuesday.India’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  UK to expel Israeli diplomats over East Jerusalem consulate closure

  ALBAWABA - Britain is implementing a one-for-one expulsion strategy, promising to expel one Israeli diplomat for each British diplomat expelled from the British consulate in East Jerusalem

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  UK to expel Israeli diplomats over East Jerusalem consulate closure

  ALBAWABA - Britain is implementing a one-for-one expulsion strategy, promising to expel one Israeli diplomat for each British diplomat expelled from the British consulate in East Jerusalem

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Boycott calls erupt for Andrea Bocelli's concert in Petra, Jordan

  ALBAWABA - Pro-Palestine and human rights activists in Jordan are calling for the boycott of Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli's upcoming concert in Petra over his history and strong ties with Israel

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Soaring diesel drives 16 trucking companies to bankruptcy

  ALBAWABA - In just 30 days, 16 trucking companies declared bankruptcy due to record diesel prices in the U

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Soaring diesel drives 16 trucking companies to bankruptcy

  In just 30 days, 16 trucking companies declared bankruptcy due to record diesel prices in the U.S. – Trump points to Ukraine hitting Russian

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  New shocking secrets leaked about Flydubai's Omani co-pilot

  ALBAWABA - The incident on board the UAE's Flydubai plane remains center stage of attention across social media platforms after the start of the investigation into the Omani co-pilot who attacked the flight's main pilot

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  New secrets leaked about Flydubai's Omani co-pilot

  ALBAWABA - The incident on board the UAE's Flydubai plane remains center stage of attention across social media platforms after the start of the investigation into the Omani co-pilot who attacked the flight's main pilot

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Browser GTA 5 goes viral, playable without 100GB download

  ALBAWABA - A new website took the internet by storm after letting gamers play GTA 5 in their browser for free using leaked source code and compressed 700MB of assets

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Israel: Hamas is planning new attacks on October 7

  ALBAWABA - Tomorrow is the third anniversary of the October 7 attack launched by Hamas against Israel, in which the Palestinian group took 251 people hostage in the Gaza Strip in 2023

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Trump on Iran: Let them take out LA and San Diego, it's a 'small price to pay'

  ALBAWABA - Speaking on war and high prices at a Nebraska rally, U.S. President Donald Trump stirred debate after saying to let Iran take out Los Angeles and San Diego since it's a "very small price to pay" for keeping the world and America safe

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-06✓ Read

  Houthis claim hitting Riyadh airport, oil refinery in Saudi Arabia

  ALBAWABA - Yemen's Houthi group claimed on October 5 that they had targeted King Khalid International Airport in Riyadh, an oil refinery and other sites in Saudi Arabia

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Halit Özgür Sarı and Özge Yağız reunite for Go Türkiye mini-series

  ALBAWABA - Halit Özgür Sarı and Özge Yağız are coming together again on screen, this time for a new mini-series designed to showcase the history and beauty of Çanakkale

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Fourth tanker struck by unknown projectile in Strait of Hormuz in 24 hours

  ALBAWABA- A commercial tanker was struck by an unknown projectile while transiting the Strait of Hormuz, causing a fire in its engine room, according to the UK Maritime Trade Operations (UKMTO)

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey activate collective defence pact

  ALBAWABA- Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Turkey have moved to put their newly established Makkah Joint Defence Agreement into practical operation, following an emergency meeting of the alliance’s Strategic Political and Defence Committee in Riyadh on Monday amid escalating Houthi attacks and a major intensification of fighting in Yemen

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Former Trump press secretary Karoline Leavitt joins Fox News

  ALBAWABA- Former White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt is joining Fox News as an on-air contributor, weeks after leaving the Trump administration to spend more time with her family

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Houthis warn airlines against Saudi airspace as Yemen fighting intensifies

  ALBAWABA- Yemen’s Houthi group on Monday warned international airlines against operating in Saudi Arabian airspace, declaring the kingdom’s skies unsafe and saying they would become a “theater of operations” for its armed forces amid a sharp escalation in fighting with Saudi-backed Yemeni government forces

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  32 feared dead in Nigerian military aircraft crash

  ALBAWABA- All 32 people aboard a Nigerian military aircraft are feared dead after it crashed in southwestern Nigeria on Monday, although authorities had not officially confirmed any fatalities as search-and-rescue operations continued

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Britain says Fairford airbase is 'safe'

  ALBAWABA - The U.S. has withdrawn their B-1 bombers from a British airbase due to "new threats" while Britain insists the site is safe

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  100 Saudi fighter jets supported Yemeni offensive

  ALBAWABA - The Saudi-led military coalition announced that it participated in Yemen’s government forces’ newest campaign against the Houthi militia – using 100 fighter jets to provide support and cover

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  France: 15-year-old school protester's hand blown off by police grenade

  ALBAWABA - A 15-year-old student, who joined school protests in France, has had their hand blown off while catching a police grenade, AFP reported Monday, citing authorities and police sources

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  How will 'Hob ala Waraq' end based on the Turkish version?

  ALBAWABA - The Arabic series "Hob ala Waraq" [Love on Paper] is approaching its final episode within two weeks, as fans question what the end of the series will be

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Germany pledges $1.46 billion in aid for Ukraine

  ALBAWABA - Following Merz’s unofficial visit to Ukraine on Oct. 4, Germany announced that it is preparing a new $1

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Video: Turkish company launches bulletproof school backpacks

  ALBAWABA - A Turkish company recently went viral on social media after launching bulletproof school backpacks to protect students following several school shooting incidents across the country

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Senior commander: Iran will target all US bases and vessels

  ALBAWABA - A senior commander of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) threatened the United States that Iran is ready to strike all U

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Data breach in Denmark leaks personal data of 8.8 million

  ALBAWABA - Names, addresses and personal identification numbers belonging to about 8.8 million people registered in Denmark’s central population database have been compromised

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Yemeni armed forces claim taking control of Bab al-Mandab

  ALBAWABA - Yemeni government forces said in a statement on Monday that they have succeeded in regaining control of Bab al-Mandab from the Houthi group

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Yemeni forces launch 'decisive military operation' against Houthis

  ALBAWABA - The Yemeni government announced Monday that its forces launched a "decisive military operation" against the Houthi group

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Oil exports exceed pre Iran war levels

  ALBAWABA - Oil coming from the Middle East surpassed its pre-Iran war levels last week even with Hormuz closure, according to data from the maritime tracking firm Kpler

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Spain's Pedro Sanchez dissolves parliament, calls for early elections

  ALBAWABA - Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez dissolved parliament on Monday and called for early elections in November

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• Al Bawaba - Daily2026-10-05✓ Read

  Who is Wanying Zhang? FBI arrests Chinese agent spying on Taiwan

  ALBAWABA - A California woman known as Heather was arrested by the FBI at Los Angeles International Airport before leaving for China

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