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A Russian air attack has bombarded Kyiv in the latest attack on the Ukrainian capital.Ukraine’s air defence units destroyed dozens of cruise and ballistic missiles early on Monday morning, the city’s military administration said on the Telegram messaging app.Meanwhile, authorities in the...
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has promised “harsh punishment” for Israel in retaliation for the killing of Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran.“The criminal and terrorist Zionist regime martyred our dear guest in our house and made us b...
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Severe fuel shortages have caused power outages at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in central Gaza, with hospital officials warning that many sick and wounded patients face certain death if supplies needed to run medical equipment and generators are not replenished.Early on Friday, the hospital in Deir el-...
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Israeli forces have seized control of Gaza’s Rafah border crossing, cutting off a vital route for humanitarian aid and potential sanctuary for civilians from a building offensive.The Israeli military said on Tuesday that it had seized “operational control” of the Gaza side of the b...
Paris, France – Tensions are rising between the French state and students at top universities who are staging pro-Palestine protests amid Israel’s war on Gaza, inspired by their American counterparts.Students of the Sciences Po university in Paris occupied parts of the institution and bl...
The first of seven phases of the Indian national election is set to kick off on April 19. These elections are for the 543 seats of the Lok Sabha, India’s lower house of parliament. The party or coalition that secures a majority of the seats in the Lok Sabha will form the next government.It is ...
The Houthis have recruited and trained more than 200,000 new fighters since the group began its actions in the Red Sea in support of Palestine, a Houthi spokesperson says.To pressure Israel for a ceasefire in Gaza, the group has been intercepting and attacking Israel-linked ships passing through the...
Save articles to read later and create your own reading list.William Lai Ching-te from the governing Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) has won Taiwan’s presidential election, despite warnings from China – which claims Taiwan as part of its territory – not to vote for him.The DPP d...
Al Jazeera and News AgenciesChinese military officials have told their US counterparts that Beijing will “never compromise” on the issue of Taiwan, the self-ruled island that China claims as its own.The United States and China wrapped up two days of military talks in Washington, DC on Tu...
At least five police officers have been killed and nearly two dozen others wounded after an explosive device targeted their vehicle during a polio vaccination drive in northwestern Pakistan.Officials told Al Jazeera the blast took place early morning on Monday in Bajaur, a tribal district in Khyber ...
At least 100 journalists have been killed since Israel’s war on Gaza began on October 7, according to new figures released by the government media office in Gaza.Palestinian journalist Muhammed Abu Hweidy was the latest to be killed in an Israeli air raid on his home in the east of Gaza City o...
Russia’s upper house of parliament has voted to set the date for the country’s next presidential election for March 17, 2024, potentially moving President Vladimir Putin closer to a fifth term in office.Members of the Federation Council of the Federal Assembly voted unanimously on Thursd...
The Israeli army has arrested the director of al-Shifa Hospital, the largest medical complex in the Gaza Strip, according to a doctor and media reports.Muhammad Abu Salmiya was arrested along with several other “senior doctors”, Khalid Abu Samra, a department chief at the hospital, told ...
About 90,000 people have been displaced in Myanmar due to the intensifying conflict between the country’s military rulers and an alliance of ethnic armed groups, the United Nations said.“As of 9 November, almost 50,000 people in northern Shan were forced into displacement,” the Uni...
European scientists say 2023 is on track to be the hottest year on record after temperatures soared across the planet in October.The Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S), the EU’s climate monitor, said on Wednesday that October was 0.4 degrees Celsius (0.7 degrees Fahrenheit) hotter than th...
More than 10,000 people have been killed in 31 days of relentless Israeli attacks on the Gaza Strip, according to Palestinian health officials, with no signs of a ceasefire in the besieged enclave.In a statement on Monday, Gaza’s Ministry of Health said the death toll has risen to at least 10,...
Thousands of Palestinians from Gaza, previously working in Israel and the occupied West Bank and then detained by Israel, are being pushed into the war-torn enclave, according to media reports.Footage showed some of the workers returning on Friday through the Karem Abu Salem (Kerem Shalom) crossing ...
The United States House of Representatives has passed a Republican plan providing $14.5bn in military aid for Israel, setting up a partisan clash over the usually bipartisan issue of backing the staunch US ally.The plan, which is funded by cuts to the Internal Revenue Service, passed on Thursday by ...
Israel’s military has announced that its forces have surrounded Gaza’s main city while rejecting growing international calls for a ceasefire to halt bloodshed in the besieged Palestinian territory.Israeli military spokesperson Daniel Hagari said on Thursday that Gaza City has been encirc...
Niger has announced the reopening of its borders with several of its neighbours a week after a coup that has been condemned by foreign powers and raised fears of a wider conflict in West Africa’s Sahel region.“The land and air borders with Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Libya and Chad are ...
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