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Israeli strikes kill 11 overnight in Gaza, including a family of 3 at a refugee camp

Jerusalem: Palestinian health officials in the Gaza Strip said Israeli strikes killed at least 11 people overnight into Tuesday, including a family of three in the built-up Bureij refugee camp and eight

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Biden takes big swing at hostage-for-truce deal, puts onus on Israeli, Hamas officials to step up

Washington: President Joe Biden is looking past resistance from key Israeli officials as he presses Israel and Hamas to agree to a three-phase agreement that could immediately bring home dozens of Israeli

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Israel declares 4 more hostages are dead in Gaza, including 3 older men from Hamas video

Jerusalem: Four more hostages kidnapped on October 7 were declared dead by the Israeli military — including three older men seen in a Hamas video begging to be released. Monday’s announcement heightens

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Police arrest pro-Palestinian demonstrators inside San Francisco building housing Israeli Consulate

San Francisco: Police on Monday arrested pro-Palestinian demonstrators who occupied the lobby of a San Francisco building that houses the Israeli Consulate. It was not immediately clear how many people were taken

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Tractors rumble in streets again ahead of EU polls

Beersel (Belgium): The far-right Flemish Interest party had set up the demonstration in the picture-pretty rolling fields south of Brussels, ahead of the four-day European Union elections which start on Thursday. The

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Israeli airstrikes near city of Aleppo kills several people, Syrian state media say

Beirut: Israeli airstrikes around the Syrian city of Aleppo killed several people early on Monday, Syrian state media reported. The state-run SANA news agency gave no specific toll. It said the strikes

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Iran’s acting top diplomat visits Lebanon in the first official visit since his predecessor’s death

Beirut: Iran’s acting foreign minister arrived in Lebanon Monday, his first official diplomatic visit since his predecessor died in a helicopter crash last month. Iran’s state-run IRNA news agency reported that Ali

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Israel tells citizens to avoid travel to Maldives, leave if present there

Jerusalem: Israel has advised its citizens, including those holding an additional foreign passport, to avoid travelling to the Maldives and asked those staying there to leave the Indian Ocean archipelago, a day

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Energy shutdowns hit Ukraine after Russian attacks target infrastructure

Kyivy: Ukraine imposed emergency power shutdowns in most of the country on Sunday, a day after Russia unleashed large-scale attacks on energy infrastructure and claimed it made gains in the eastern Donetsk

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China’s Chang’e-6 successfully lands on rarely explored Moon’s far side to collect samples

Beijing: A Chinese spacecraft successfully touched down on the far side of the Moon on Sunday, in the first endeavour of its kind to collect samples from this rarely explored terrain. The

Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registers for June 28 presidential election

Dubai: Iran’s hard-line former President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad registered Sunday as a possible candidate for the presidential election, seeking to regain the country’s top political position after a helicopter crash killed the nation’s

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Oil producers led by Saudis extended supply cuts amid slack prices

Frankfurt: Saudi Arabia and allied oil producing countries on Sunday extended output cuts through next year, a move aimed at supporting slack prices that haven’t risen even amid turmoil in the Middle

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Hostage families call for a cease-fire deal pushed by Biden. Israel says conditions must be met

Tel Aviv: Families of Israeli hostages held by Hamas called for all parties to immediately accept a proposal detailed by US President Joe Biden to end the nearly 8-month-long war and bring

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US defence secretary says war with China neither imminent nor unavoidable, stressing need for talks

Singapore: United States Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin told a gathering of top security officials Saturday that war with China was neither imminent nor unavoidable, despite rapidly escalating tensions in the Asia-Pacific

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12 killed in airstrikes in central Gaza as strikes targeting Houthi rebels kill 16

Jerusalem: At least a dozen people were killed in two airstrikes Friday in central Gaza. Two children and four women were among the dead. Palestinians in the border city of Rafah have

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Israel confirms its forces are in central Rafah in expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city

Jerusalem: The Israeli military confirmed Friday that its forces are operating in central parts of Rafah in its expanding offensive in the southern Gaza city. Israel launched its ground assault into the

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UN refugee chief says 114 million have fled homes because nations fail to tackle causes of conflict

United Nations: The number of people fleeing their homes because of war, violence and persecution has reached 114 million and is climbing because nations have failed to tackle the causes and combatants

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Donald Trump becomes first former US president to be convicted of felony in hush money trial

Washington: Donald Trump has been found guilty of all 34 charges of falsifying business records by a grand jury in New York, an unprecedented and historic verdict that makes him the first

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UN chief cites the promise and perils of dizzying new technology as ”AI for Good” conference opens

Geneva: The UN telecommunications agency has kicked off its annual AI for Good conference, hoping to guide business, consumers and governments on ways to tap the promise of the new technology but

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Massive international police operation takes down ransomware networks, arrests 4 suspects

The Hague (Netherlands): Police coordinated by the European Union’s justice agency have taken down computer networks responsible for spreading ransomware via infected emails, in what they called the biggest ever international operation

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