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After Israeli forces pulled out of Gaza City’s vast al-Shifa hospital complex on 1 April, following their second raid there, stunned Palestinians who pored over the burnt-out ruins said it reeked of death.During the past eight months of war, hospitals have come under repeated attack, with Isra...
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Ahead of opening statements in Hunter Biden’s gun possession trial, which are expected on Tuesday, his father released a statement that illustrated the fine line he is trying to walk in the midst of his re-election campaign.“I am the president, but I am also a dad,” said President ...
China says its lunar probe has successfully taken off from the far side of the moon to begin its journey back to Earth carrying the first samples ever collected from the region.State media says the collecting module of the Chang'e-6 craft lifted off about 07:38 on Tuesday (23:38 GMT Monday) to b...
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Claudia Sheinbaum has been elected as Mexico’s first woman president in an historic landslide win.Mexico’s official electoral authority said preliminary results showed the 61-year-old former mayor of Mexico City winning between 58% and 60% of the vote in Sunday’s election.That give...
Two far-right Israeli ministers have threatened to quit and collapse the governing coalition if Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu agrees to a Gaza ceasefire proposal unveiled by US President Joe Biden on Friday.Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich and National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir said the...
Sports,Cricket
Consult any comprehensive cricket archive and you will read, eventually, that the first international match was played at the MCG in March 1877 - the original men's Ashes Test. There's a lot of fake news out there, and that's a prime example. And we can't blame an AI glitch.In fact, ...
Israel's military has said it has taken control of the strategically important buffer zone along the Gaza-Egypt border known as the Philadelphi Corridor, meaning it now controls Gaza's entire land border.A spokesman for the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) said about 20 tunnels used by Hamas to s...
Pressure is growing on US President Joe Biden to allow Ukraine to use West-supplied weapons to strike Russian territory.A number of US allies this week signalled they were open to this possibility, after months of concern about escalation.Russia's Vladimir Putin has warned of "serious conse...
Hong Kong has found 14 pro-democracy activists guilty of subversion in the largest use yet of a China-imposed National Security Law.They included former lawmakers Leung Kwok-hung and Helena Wong, journalist-turned-campaigner Gwyneth Ho, and ordinary Hong Kongers who joined the mass protests of 2019 ...
At least 19 people were killed as tornadoes and storms tore across four US states, destroying homes and cutting power to hundreds of thousands.Seven people were killed in northern Texas, eight in Arkansas, two in Oklahoma and two in Kentucky. Scores more were injured, and almost 500,000 were without...
American actor Johnny Wactor has been shot dead in Los Angeles by a thief who was trying to steal a part from his car. The 37-year-old suffered fatal injuries after interrupting three men who were attempting to remove the catalytic converter from his parked vehicle. Wactor - who previously featured ...
At least six newborn babies have died following a fire at a hospital in Delhi, according to police.The blaze broke out late on Saturday evening at a hospital in the Indian capital’s Vivek Vihar region.There were 12 babies in the unit, senior police officer Surendra Choudhary said. Another had ...
About 670 people are estimated to be buried under a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea, a UN official says.The head of the International Organization for Migration in Papua New Guinea, Serhan Aktoprak, said the impact of Friday’s landslide in the country’s isolated Enga province was g...
Twelve months of mandatory national service would be reintroduced by the Conservatives if they win the general election.Eighteen-year-olds would be able to apply for one of 30,000 full-time military placements or volunteering one weekend a month carrying out a community service.Prime Minister Rishi ...
This was the outcome Israel sought to avoid: a demand to halt a military operation the government regards as essential for the defeat of Hamas and the return of hostages.But there is no immediate indication that Israel will change course as a result of Friday's ruling by the International Court ...
Emergency services are racing to reach villages hit by a massive landslide in Papua New Guinea's isolated Enga province, where hundreds of people are feared to have died.A rapid response team made up of medics and military personnel has managed to reach the isolated landslide site, humanitarian ...
The bodies of three more Israeli hostages have been recovered from Gaza, the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) have said.They are those of Hanan Yablonka, Michel Nisenbaum and Orion Hernandez, it said in a statement.The IDF said the men's bodies were recovered from the northern town of Jabalia overnig...
World,Front Page
Food distribution in the southern Gaza city of Rafah has been suspended due to a lack of supplies and insecurity, the UN says.The UN agency for Palestinian refugees, Unrwa, warned its distribution centre and a World Food Programme warehouse were now inaccessible because of the ongoing Israeli milita...
Iran’s supreme leader has presided over a funeral for the country’s late president, foreign minister and others killed in a helicopter crash on Sunday.Ayatollah Ali Khamenei led prayers at Tehran University, where caskets carrying the dead were draped in Iranian flags.President Ebrahim R...
Thousands of Iranians have gathered on the streets of Tabriz to mourn President Ebrahim Raisi after he was killed in a helicopter crash. Mourners followed a funeral procession through the city in north-west Iran while waving Iranian flags and portraits of the late president. Raisi and seven others w...
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