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TRT World - Netanyahu corruption trial testimony cancelled at last minute after lawyer's overnight update
8+ hour, 46+ min ago (247+ words) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's testimony in his corruption trial, scheduled for Monday, was cancelled after the court received an undisclosed overnight communication from his lawyer, Israeli media reported on Monday. The hearing will not take place on Monday "following…...
TRT World - At least 10 injured in mass shooting at lake near Oklahoma City, police say
46+ min ago (160+ words) At least 10 people were injured late on Sunday in a shooting near Lake Arcadia in the US state of Oklahoma, local police said. The Edmond Police Department told reporters that at least 10 people were taken to nearby hospitals in "various…...
TRT World - Gun attack kills four in Colombia's Cucuta ahead of elections
12+ hour, 11+ min ago (274+ words) Four people have been killed in the Colombian border city of Cucuta amid a wave of violence just weeks before presidential elections in the South American country. "Unfortunately, we confirm the death of four people," Lieutenant Colonel Ricardo Conde of…...
TRT World - Emaciated Palestinian journalist calls Israeli prisons 'cemeteries for the living"
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (313+ words) A Palestinian journalist released from Israeli abduction has called the country's jails as "living graves," detailing severe physical deterioration after a year in custody. Ali Samoudi, 59, spoke to reporters on Thursday following his release after a year of imprisonment in…...
TRT World - Fresh drone attack sparks new fire at Russia's Tuapse oil refinery
2+ day, 23+ hour ago (145+ words) The Tuapse oil refinery in Russia's southern Krasnodar Krai has reportedly come under another drone attack on Friday, reigniting fires that have been burning intermittently for days, according to local reports and regional officials. It marks the fourth reported strike…...
TRT World - Mother of tortured Syrian child Hamza al-Khateeb 'relieved' as Assad cousin faces trial
6+ day, 7+ hour ago (488+ words) The mother of Hamza al-Khateeb, a Syrian child who died under torture in former regime prisons, said she felt relief after former security official Atef Najib stood trial for the first time since the fall of Bashar al Assad's regime....
TRT World - "I never thought I'd see this day': Syria opens first trial of Assad-era tyrants
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (983+ words) Last week, a disgraced former brigadier general in a striped prison uniform stepped into an iron cage at Damascus's Palace of Justice." Atef Najib, who once declared "I am god in Daraa," before killing his victims, was finally where Syrians…...
TRT World - Israeli settler arrested for assault on French nun in Jerusalem, police withhold identity
4+ day, 22+ hour ago (362+ words) The Israeli police have said that they arrested a man suspected of assaulting a French nun in Jerusalem the previous day, declining to confirm reports that the attacker was an Israeli settler. The incident has renewed concern over a pattern…...
TRT World - US soldier arrested, charged with using inside info to win $400 K bet on Maduro's seizure
1+ week, 3+ day ago (263+ words) A US soldier has been charged with using inside information to win $400, 000 in an online betting market on the Venezuelan President Maduro's seizure, federal officials announced. Federal authorities said on Thursday that Gannon Ken Van Dyke "bet a total of…...
TRT World - Mexico to investigate unauthorised presence of CIA agents in the country
5+ day, 3+ hour ago (292+ words) Mexico's attorney general's office on Tuesday announced a full investigation into two US CIA agents, who were not authorised to take part in a local raid and later died in a car crash. The Specialised Regional Control Prosecutor's Office (FECOR),…...