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Blinken says some of Hamas’ proposed changes to a cease-fire plan in Gaza are workable and some not

Beirut: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Wednesday that the war in Gaza would go on after Hamas proposed “numerous” changes to a US-backed cease-fire plan, some that he said were

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UN says violence against children in conflict reached extreme levels in 2023, including in Gaza

United Nations: Violence against children caught in multiplying and escalating conflicts reached “extreme levels” in 2023, with an unprecedented number of killings and injuries in crises, from Israel and the Palestinian territories

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Report by UN-backed experts cites crimes by Israeli forces, Palestinian militants starting Oct 7

Geneva: UN-backed human rights experts say in a report issued Wednesday that Israeli forces and Palestinian militants engaged in sexual and gender-based violence during the first months of the Israel-Hamas war. The

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UN Security Council adopts a cease-fire resolution aimed at ending Israel-Hamas war in Gaza

United Nations: The UN Security Council on Monday overwhelmingly approved its first resolution endorsing a cease-fire plan aimed at ending the eight-month war between Israel and Hamas in Gaza. The US-sponsored resolution

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Migrant boat sinks off coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead, 140 missing, UN agency says

Cairo: A boat carrying migrants sank off the coast of Yemen, leaving at least 49 dead and 140 missing, the UN’s International Organization for Migration said Tuesday. The boat was carrying some

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Hamas commander killed in West Bank clash

Jerusalem: Hamas said that one of its commanders in the occupied West Bank was killed in a clash with Israeli forces, while Israel said four soldiers were killed in an explosion in

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Blinken welcomes UN vote in favour of Gaza cease-fire plan and again calls on Hamas to accept it

Tel Aviv: Secretary of State Antony Blinken said Tuesday that the UN Security Council’s vote in favour of a US-backed proposal for a cease-fire in Gaza made it “as clear as it

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UN human rights office says Israeli forces, Palestinian armed groups may have committed war crimes

Geneva: The UN human rights office is citing possible war crimes by Israeli forces and Palestinian armed groups in connection with a deadly raid by Israeli forces that freed four hostages over

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Blinken holds talks on Gaza in the wake of Israeli rescue raid and Palestinian deaths

Jerusalem: US Secretary of State Antony Blinken began a new visit to the region on Monday in the shadow of the dramatic rescue of four Israeli hostages held in Gaza and turmoil

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Missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels strike 2 ships in the Gulf of Aden, US military says

Manama (Bahrain): Missile attacks by Yemen’s Houthi rebels struck two ships in the Gulf of Aden, authorities said on Sunday, the latest assaults on shipping in the region. One anti-ship ballistic cruise

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

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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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