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30-04-2024 RAFAH/ CAIRO: Israeli air strikes on three houses in the southern Gaza city of Rafah killed dozens people and wounded many others, medics said on Monday. Hamas media outlets put the death toll at 15. In Gaza City, in the north of the strip, Israeli planes struck two houses, …

30-04-2024 BEIJING/ TOKYO: China’s coast guard confronted Japanese lawmakers in waters claimed by both countries in the East China Sea, China’s embassy in Tokyo and Japanese media said on Sunday, the latest in a series of maritime disputes involving China and its neighbors. Chinese vessels took unspecified law enforcement measures, …

29-04-2024 CANBERRA: Rallies have taken place across Australia in response to a wave of recent violence against women. Demonstrators want gender-based violence to be declared a national emergency and stricter laws put in place to stop it. Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said the issue was a national crisis. In Australia, …

29-04-2024 LONDON: A gold watch found on the body of the richest passenger on the Titanic has been auctioned in the United Kingdom for 1.17 million British pounds ($1.46m), a record sum paid for an object linked to the infamous 1912 shipping disaster. The watch, engraved with the initials JJA …

29-04-2024 BEIRUT: Missiles fired from southern Lebanon were caught on camera as they hit Meron, a farming collective in northern Israel. Hezbollah claimed responsibility for the rockets, several of which seemed to make it through Israel’s Iron Dome air defence system. Lebanon’s Iran-backed Hezbollah movement said Saturday it had targeted …

29-04-2024 WASHINGTON/ NEW YORK: Hundreds of students have been arrested across universities in the United States as protesters continue to demand a ceasefire in Gaza and divestment from companies enabling Israel’s nearly seven-month war on the Palestinian enclave. Police were out in full force on college campuses on Saturday, some …

29-04-2024 JERUSALEM/ GAZA CITY: News in the Middle East moves fast. One moment it is all about unprecedented missile and drone attacks between Iran and Israel. The next the headlines return to the fighting and suffering in Gaza but policymakers, analysts and military leaders are still absorbing the extraordinary exchange …

29-04-2024 MADRID: Thousands of supporters of Spain’s Prime Minister, Pedro Sanchez, have rallied in the streets of Madrid in an effort to persuade him not to resign. The Socialist leader stunned the country on Wednesday by announcing he was cancelling all official engagements in order to reflect on his future. …

29-04-2024 BERLIN: Six suspected spies have been arrested in Germany this month alone, in what has become a torrent of allegations of Russian and Chinese espionage. For the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party it has proved especially embarrassing, because their top two candidates for the European elections in June …

29-04-2024 BAGHDAD: Iraq’s parliament has passed a bill criminalizing same-sex relationships with jail terms of between 10 and 15 years. Transgender people could also be sent to prison for between one and three years under the new law. Supporters of the changes say they will help to uphold religious values …