CAIRO -- Ten members of a criminal gang were killed and one injured during a police raid on a drug smuggling network in southern Egypt, the Egyptian Interior Ministry said Thursday.

The operation followed investigations confirming that the gang was planning to distribute large quantities of drugs to their clients, the ministry said in a statement, without providing the time frame of the raid. (Egypt-Drug Smuggler-Killing)

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TEHRAN -- Iranian Foreign Minister Seyed Abbas Araghchi on Thursday reiterated Iran's "longstanding" and "clear" commitment to global nuclear non-proliferation.

"Iran signed, in 1968, the NPT (the Non-Proliferation Treaty) as a founding member. Iran's Supreme Leader (Ali Khamenei) has issued a religious edict outlawing all WMDs (weapons of mass destruction)," Araghchi wrote on social media platform X. (Iran-Nuclear-Non-Proliferation)

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GAZA -- Two Palestinians were killed in an Israeli artillery strike on Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Thursday, Gaza's civil defense said, accusing Israel of violating the ceasefire agreement with Hamas.

Mahmoud Basal, a spokesperson for Gaza's Civil Defense, said Israeli forces targeted a group of Palestinians in the Tel Al-Sultan neighborhood west of Rafah. He confirmed two deaths and several injuries, with the wounded taken to a local hospital. (Gaza-Israel-Conflict)

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DAMASCUS -- A car bomb exploded Thursday in the city of Manbij in Aleppo province in northern Syria, killing three people and wounding five others, a war monitor reported.

The car bomb went off near the Zidan Hanizal School in Manbij, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. (Syria-Car-Explosion) Enditem

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