Strikes by the Israeli army killed at least 20 people in Gaza on Sunday, the civil defence said, while also hitting a Hezbollah stronghold near Beirut's international airport. Israel has been fighting on two fronts since September, ramping up attacks on Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah after nearly a year of cross-border clashes
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10 newborn babies dead in hospital fire in Inida
A fire tore through a neonatal intensive care unit in a hospital in northern India, killing 10 newborn babies and injuring 16 others, authorities said. The fire occurred late Friday at a hospital in Jhansi city in India's Uttar Pradesh state. Officials said the blaze spread quickly through the ward, where
US pushes to convert Kenya-led Haiti force to UN peacekeepers
The United States has stepped up its campaign to transform the Kenya-led multinational force in Haiti into a U.N. peacekeeping force, spurred by escalating gang violence that shut all air traffic to the capital of Port-au-Prince this week. The U.S. proposed a U.N. peacekeeping mission in early September as one way
Trump Pressures U.S. Senate with Divisive Cabinet Picks
Questions -- and, for some, outrage -- intensified over several of President-elect Donald Trump's cabinet picks Friday, as Washington awaits announcements for more major positions, including the FBI and Treasury chiefs. Trump has vowed to dismantle the liberal "deep state" he says is running Washington and is banking on his decisive
Uncertainty ahead for UN agency’s students in West Bank camp
Ukraine war will end sooner: Zelensky
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky said Friday that Russia's war against his country will "end sooner" than it otherwise would have done once Donald Trump becomes US president next year. "It is certain that the war will end sooner with the policies of the team that will now lead the White House.
Japan PM expresses concerns to Xi over China Sea
Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba expressed "serious concerns over the situation surrounding the South China Sea, Hong Kong and Xinjiang" to Chinese President Xi Jinping in the pair's first in-person talks, Tokyo's foreign ministry said Saturday. At the talks on the sidelines of the APEC summit in Peru, the pair also
COP29 reveals world’s most polluting cities
Cities in Asia and the United States emit the most heat-trapping gas that feeds climate change, with Shanghai the most polluting, according to new data that combines observations and artificial intelligence. Nations at U.N. climate talks in Baku, Azerbaijan are trying to set new targets to cut such emissions and figure
Far side of moon once had erupting volcanoes
Israeli strikes killed 12 peoples, 15 in Syria
An Israeli airstrike killed at least 12 Lebanese rescue workers on Thursday inside a civil defense center in the eastern city of Baalbek, according to health and rescue officials, hours after state media in Syria said Israeli strikes in and around the capital killed at least 15 people. Lebanese emergency workers