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Israeli forces kill 62 Palestinians in Gaza in 20 hours

04-08-2025 GAZA STRIP: Sixty-two Palestinians, most of them aid seekers, have been killed by Israeli fire in Gaza since dawn on Saturday, hospital sources in the besieged enclave have told media. The death toll includes 38 Palestinians seeking aid at distribution sites operated by the controversial United States and Israel-backed …

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Forced pregnancy & sexual torture in Tigray

04-08-2025 Warning: this news contains graphic and distressing testimony and images ADDIS ABABA/ MEKELLE: Hundreds of health workers across Tigray have documented mass rape, sexual slavery, forced pregnancy and sexual torture of women and children by Ethiopian and Eritrean soldiers, in systematic attacks that amount to crimes against humanity, a …

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Pope greeted by vast crowd at Catholic youth event

04-08-2025 VATICAN CITY: Hundreds of thousands of young faithful feted Pope Leo XIV like a rock star on Saturday at an open-air prayer vigil outside Rome, after the head of the Catholic Church made a dramatic entrance by helicopter. Pilgrims began crying and cheering when the white military helicopter descended …

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Syria forms committee to investigate Sweida violence

03-08-2025 DAMASCUS/ BEIRUT: Syria has pledged to investigate clashes in the southern province of Sweida which killed hundreds of people last month, the second major episode of sectarian violence since the ouster of longtime Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad. In a decree dated July 31, justice minister Muzher al-Wais said a …

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