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        <description><![CDATA[Both sides reported hitting dozens of targets, placing fresh strain on an interim deal to end their war and pushing oil prices to their highest level in two weeks.]]></description>
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        <title>Crowds bid farewell to Khamenei in Iranian holy city of Qom</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thousands of people took to the streets on Tuesday in the Iranian holy city of Qom during a fourth day of marathon funeral proceedings for late supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Top Democrats called on US Senate candidate Graham Platner to quit the race after a sexual assault allegation threatened to derail the party&#039;s best chances of flipping a Republican-held seat.]]></description>
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        <title>Why Prince Harry will not stay at Buckingham Palace</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Prince Harry&#039;s accommodation plans were thrown into confusion after Buckingham Palace contradicted his spokesperson and denied he would stay there, in the latest snag to his UK visit.]]></description>
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        <title>Russia launches deadly barrage on Kyiv region on eve of NATO summit</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[Russia struck Ukraine&#039;s Kyiv region with ballistic missiles and drones on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding dozens, authorities said, on the eve of a NATO summit in Turkey.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Hit by the biggest energy supply shock in decades during the Middle East war, import-dependent India is expanding domestic crude exploration, its oil minister says.]]></description>
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        <title>'Very dangerous' super typhoon nears US Pacific islands</title>
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        <description><![CDATA[People in Guam and the Northern Marianas moved to emergency evacuation centers on Sunday, hours before a &quot;super typhoon&quot; was projected to bulldoze through the US Pacific territories.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[China and Russia will hold their annual joint naval exercises this month and conduct patrols in unspecified areas of the Pacific Ocean, Beijing&#039;s defence ministry said on Sunday.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;From this far-flung corner of Europe on the Mediterranean Sea, one can more clearly perceive the momentous challenge that the phenomenon of migration poses to European societies.&quot;]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2026 14:16:50 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[They beat their chests in a sign of grief, overlooked by a giant portrait of the former leader.]]></description>
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        <title>Iran prepares for late supreme leader's funeral</title>
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        <pubDate>Tue, 30 Jun 2026 17:32:17 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Giant portraits of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, Iran&#039;s late supreme leader killed in US-Israeli airstrikes, hung from Tehran&#039;s Grand Mosalla as workers raced to prepare for his funeral ceremony.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Thailand&#039;s main opposition leader and nine other MPs were among dozens on trial Tuesday, accused of ethics breaches over attempts to reform the kingdom&#039;s strict royal insult law.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Taiwanese investigators have raided the Taiwan offices of US company Super Micro Computer and two other tech firms, as part of probe into the alleged smuggling of Nvidia AI chips to China.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Nigerian engineer Olayinka Hakeem Babalola will become the second African president of Rotary International, focusing on peacebuilding, public health and polio eradication.]]></description>
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        <title>In Idaho, the next generation of US nuclear reactors nears reality</title>
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        <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2026 11:06:03 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[A new generation of small nuclear reactors is up and running -- or nearly so -- in the United States, in what backers are calling a turning point for the industry.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 13:15:20 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[&quot;These brutal attacks, which targeted Iranian coastal surveillance facilities, are a blatant violation&quot; of the memorandum of understanding to end the war, the Iranian foreign ministry said.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:58:30 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[Some 404 million people across Europe (excluding Turkey) will see temperatures of more than 30C -- a slight dip from the day before, according to the analysis.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:53:34 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[&quot;The enemy attacked two districts of the region more than 30 times with drones and aerial bombs,&quot; said Ganja.]]></description>
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        <pubDate>Sat, 27 Jun 2026 12:49:29 +0300</pubDate>
        <description><![CDATA[The trading of fire raised questions about efforts to keep the crucial waterway open while Washington and Tehran negotiate a final settlement to a war that began on February 28.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[According to the World Health Organization, the outbreak has infected more than 1,000 people and killed at least 267 others.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[&quot;We now have a ceasefire. The withdrawal must take place according to a timetable. Israel has no choice but to fully withdraw from all Lebanese territory, without retaining an inch.&quot;]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[Larry has been in residence since 15 February 2011; he is the first cat at Number 10 to be bestowed with the official title Chief Mouser.]]></description>
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        <description><![CDATA[British Prime Minister Keir Starmer announced his resignation on Monday after less than two years in office in a term characterised by policy U-turns and deep public unpopularity.]]></description>
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