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Fighting around Gaza’s battered Shifa medical complex intensifies for a third day

Fighting around Gaza’s battered Shifa medical complex intensifies for a third day

Jerusalem:  Fighting around Gaza’s largest hospital raged on for a third day Wednesday as the Israeli military said it had arrested hundreds of Palestinians during its raid at Shifa Hospital. Gaza officials said thousands of Palestinian patients, medical staff and others were trapped inside the sprawling complex, although the military said it allowed passage for […]

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Russia fires 31 missiles at Kyiv in the first attack in 44 days, and 13 people are hurt

Kyiv:  Russia fired 31 ballistic and cruise missiles at Kyiv before dawn on Thursday in the first attack on the Ukrainian capital in 44 days, officials said. Air defenses shot down all the incoming missiles, though 13 people including a child were injured by falling wreckage, they said. Residents of Kyiv were woken up by […]

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EU leaders gather with Ukraine ammunition production and Gaza aid at the top of their agenda

Brussels:  European Union leaders gathered on Thursday to consider new ways to help boost arms and ammunition production for Ukraine and to discuss the war in Gaza amid deep concern about Israeli plans to launch a ground offensive in the city of Rafah. Ukraine’s munition stocks are desperately low, and Russia has more and better-armed […]

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Palestinians mourn 28 killed in Israeli airstrikes on urban refugee camps in Gaza

Palestinians mourn 28 killed in Israeli airstrikes on urban refugee camps in Gaza

Jerusalem:  Mourners held funeral prayers Wednesday morning outside a hospital in central Gaza for 28 people killed in three separate Israeli airstrikes on urban refugee camps the previous night.        Associated Press footage showed mourners praying over the bodies, which were wrapped in funeral shrouds, before the bodies were taken away in donkey carts for […]

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India criticises UfC model for UNSC reform, says 21st century world desperately needs UN 2.0

United Nations: India has criticised a model for the UN Security Council presented by the Uniting for Consensus group that includes Pakistan, saying it stands against the idea supported by a majority of member states to expand permanent and non-permanent seats and underscored that the world of the 21st century “desperately needs a UN 2.0”. […]

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China to launch ‘international manhunt’ to target officials involved in graft in BRI projects: Report

Beijing:  China plans to launch an “international manhunt” to target fugitive officials allegedly involved in corruption in the country’s ambitious decade-old multi-billion-dollar Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a media report here said Wednesday. The Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI), the ruling Communist Party of China’s anti-corruption watchdog, made the call in a meeting on […]

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Deeply concerned about prospective Israeli operation in Rafah: Biden tells Netanyahu

Deeply concerned about prospective Israeli operation in Rafah: Biden tells Netanyahu

Washington: US President Joe Biden has told Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that he is deeply concerned about the prospect of Israel conducting major military operations in Rafah on the lines of those in Gaza City and Khan Younis, US National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said. During his telephonic conversation with Biden on Monday, Netanyahu […]

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US and Japan seek UN resolution calling on all nations to ban nuclear weapons in outer space

United Nations:  The United States and Japan are sponsoring a UN Security Council resolution calling on all nations not to deploy or develop nuclear weapons in space, the US ambassador has announced. Linda Thomas-Greenfield told a UN Security Council meeting on Monday that “any placement of nuclear weapons into orbit around the Earth would be […]

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Qatar is ‘cautiously optimistic’ after cease-fire talks with Israeli intelligence chief

Jerusalem: Qatari officials were “cautiously optimistic” after talks with Israel’s intelligence chief in Doha aimed at trying to reach a cease-fire, Qatari Foreign Ministry spokesperson Majed al-Ansari said on Tuesday at a news conference, stressing that an Israeli ground operation in Rafah would set back any talks. Meanwhile, incoming Palestinian Prime Minister Mohammad Mustafa laid […]

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Israel launches another raid on Gaza’s main hospital

Israel launches another raid on Gaza’s main hospital

Rafah (Gaza Strip):  Israeli forces launched another raid on the Gaza Strip’s largest hospital early Monday, saying Hamas militants had regrouped there and had fired on them from inside the compound, where Palestinian officials say tens of thousands of people have been sheltering. In a separate development, the European Union’s top diplomat, Josep Borrell, accused […]