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Decision by the nation's top court turns down a request by prosecutor Jack Smith to expedite review of immunity plea.

TRIPOLI: The UN mission in Libya called Thursday for an investigation into the deaths of former defense minister Al-Mahdi Al-Barghathi and six other people in the custody of rival authorities in the east. The UN mission said it was “concerned” by the deaths, which came after “allegations of ill-treatment and torture” since their arrest in the main eastern city of Benghazi on October 7.

Alex Batty lived an off-grid life after he disappeared while on holiday with his mother and grandfather.

'The death of a Palestinian child is no less horrifying than the death of an Israeli child,' author tells Al Jazeera.

JERUSALEM: The Israeli military campaign in Gaza, experts say, now sits among the deadliest and most destructive in recent history. In just over two months, the offensive has wreaked more destruction than the razing of Syria’s Aleppo between 2012 and 2016, Ukraine’s Mariupol or, proportionally, the Allied bombing of Germany in World War II. It has killed more civilians than the US-led coalition did in its three-year campaign against the Daesh group.

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ANKARA: Turkish authorities have detained 304 people suspected of having ties to militant group Daesh in operations across 32 provinces, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said on Friday. The majority of the suspects were detained in Turkiye’s three biggest cities of Ankara, Istanbul and Izmir, Yerlikaya said on social messaging platform X. He said the operation, “Operation Heroes-34,” was carried out simultaneously across the country.