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Moscow 'approves arms sale' to Iraq

The Iraqi parliament’s security and defense committee this weekend announced that Moscow had approved the sale of Russian arms to the war-torn country. Notably, the move comes one month after the Iraqi government gave Russia the green light to target convoys sent into Iraqi territory from...

Turkish Airlines plane diverted after bomb threat

A Turkish Airlines flight traveling from New York to Istanbul has been diverted to the Canadian east coast city of Halifax due to a "bomb threat", authorities said. Police in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia said on Twitter that the flight TK2 landed safely at Halifax Stanfield...

400 Palestinian children suffer in Israeli prisons

At least 700 Palestinian children between the ages of 11 and 17 have been arrested by the Israeli army this year, with more than half still languishing in Israeli prisons. “The Israeli army has detained 700 Palestinian children and minors from the occupied East Jerusalem and the West Bank...