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More than 700 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip over the past 24 hours, the Hamas-run health ministry says.Israel's military said it struck 400 "terror targets" and killed several Hamas commanders over the same period.It also declared that it would ...
The US House of Representatives is preparing to vote on a fourth Speaker nominee, a day after the last candidate withdrew as Donald Trump assailed him.The full chamber is expected to vote on Louisiana congressman Mike Johnson's bid for the gavel on Wednesday.Mr Johnson was chosen after three rou...
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China has officially sacked its defence minister Li Shangfu, two months after he disappeared from public life.No explanation has been given for his removal, nor has a replacement been announced for his job.His sacking follows recent axings of several top military officials, including Qin Gang - who ...
Iran's Foreign Minister Hossein Amir-Abdollahian has warned Israel that the Middle East could spiral out of control if it does not stop strikes on Gaza.He said the US was also "to blame" for providing military support to Israel.Hours later, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu warned troops h...
A 39 year-old Irish woman has been killed in a shooting at a house in New York.Denise Morgan, who was originally from Tullyallen in County Louth, was found dead in the early hours of Saturday.The New York Police Department (NYPD) said a man and a woman were found with gunshot wounds to their heads i...
At the Al-Aqsa Martyrs hospital in central Gaza, they are running out of material to cover the dead with.The bodies are stacked in a courtyard outside, prayers are said, and relatives collapse to the floor wailing in grief.Inside the hospital, doctors battle to patch up the walking wounded and save ...
Six postal workers have been killed and a further 16 injured after a missile hit a distribution centre in eastern Ukraine late on Saturday night.Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said on Telegram the Nova Poshta sorting office was struck in Kharkiv.Pictures from the scene posted on President Ze...
A group of UN agencies have called for a humanitarian ceasefire in Gaza as conditions worsen in the territory.The World Food Programme (WFP) and the World Health Organization (WHO) were among five agencies who described the situation in Gaza as "catastrophic" in a joint statement.The UN...
US soldier Travis King, who fled from South to North Korea before being returned home last month, is reportedly facing charges including desertion, and soliciting and possessing sexual images of a child.The charges also reportedly include assault against fellow soldiers.The reconnaissance specialist...
Sports,Football
Lionel Messi scored twice in Argentina's 2-0 win at Peru in a World Cup qualifier on Tuesday, playing the entire match for his national team. The 36-year-old appeared fit after he was sidelined for several matches with his club Inter Miami because of muscular painAlso Tuesday, Brazil — the...
Ibrahim AlAgha and his wife Hamida had been enjoying an extended holiday in Gaza when Israeli air strikes on the territory began.The couple, who are Irish citizens, had wanted their three Dublin-born children to meet their relatives and learn about the language and culture.But instead of the relaxed...
A new earthquake has hit western Afghanistan - several days after two large tremors in the region killed more than 1,000 people.The US Geological Survey (USGS) says the magnitude 6.3 quake struck near the city of Herat. It was at a depth of 6.3km (four miles).At least one person has died, according ...
The opposition National Party has won the New Zealand election, taking enough seats to form a coalition with its allies on the right wing of politics.Incumbent prime minister Chris Hipkins, of Labour, phoned National's leader Chris Luxon to concede defeat.Mr Luxon thanked National voters and sai...
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A day after being chosen as the Republican party's nominee to be Speaker of the House of Representatives, Steve Scalise has withdrawn from the race. What happens now?After beating right-wing hardliner Jim Jordan to get the backing of his party, Mr Scalise quickly saw support erode on Thursday.De...
A teacher has been killed and two people have been seriously injured in a knife attack at a school in France, officials say.Interior Minister Gérald Darmanin said the attack happened at the Gambetta high school in the northern city of Arras at about 11:00 local time.The attacker has been arre...
Journalist Cheng Lei has returned home to Australia after more than three years of detention in China."She was met at the airport by the Foreign Minister Penny Wong," Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said, announcing her release.Cheng Lei, 48, was working as a business repor...
In the old Lenin shipyard in Gdansk, where striking workers were once the catalyst for major political change, young Poles now debate how to protect democracy in their country.They worry that the rights and freedoms won by the Solidarity movement over three decades ago are at risk, as the ruling rig...
"Where do we go? Is there a safe place left in this neighbourhood, which was so quiet and beautiful?" residents of an apartment block in Rimal asked me, with heavy sarcasm.I had just spent the most difficult seven hours of my life inside there, as Israeli warplanes carried another wave of ...
At least 29 people, including children, have been killed in an artillery strike on a displaced persons' camp in north-east Myanmar, near the Chinese border.The camp is in an area controlled by the Kachin Independence Organisation (KIO), one of several ethnic insurgent groups which have been figh...
Voters in Germany's largest state, Bavaria, choose a new parliament on Sunday, after a very nasty election campaign in which populist upstarts have rattled the status quo.The far-right AfD, tied in second place, is hoping for a big result.Its leaders say they are being physically attacked or thr...
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