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30-12-2024 GAZA STRIP: Israeli forces have detained and interrogated medical staff after forcibly evacuating the last major hospital in northern Gaza, the Hamas-run health ministry says. The director of Kamal Adwan Hospital, Dr Hussam Abu Safiya, was among those taken for questioning by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), which accused …

30-12-2024 TBILISI: Thousands of Georgian protesters have formed a human chain in the capital, Tbilisi, ahead of a political showdown as the new president prepares to be sworn in. The inauguration of a new president former Manchester City footballer Mikheil Kavelashvili, who is seen as an ally of the ruling …

29-12-2024 SEOUL: Fire authorities have recovered 120 bodies from the Jeju Air crash site at Muan International Airport, with 59 people still missing, according to South Korea’s national fire agency. Officials say the death toll so far includes 54 men, 57 women, and nine victims whose gender could not be …

29-12-2024 BEIJING: A court in China has sentenced a man to death for killing 35 people last month by driving into a crowd, in an attack that raised national concern about mass killings. Fan Weiqiu was venting his anger because he was unhappy with his divorce settlement, the court in …

29-12-2024 Bureau Report NEW DELHI: India has announced seven days of mourning and a state funeral for former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, who was hailed as one of the architects of the country’s economic liberalization in the early 1990s. The government declared on Friday that mourning would be observed until …

29-12-2024 MADRID: At least 69 people, including 25 Malians, died after a boat heading from West Africa to Spain’s Canary Islands capsized off Morocco, Malian authorities have said. The makeshift boat was carrying about 80 people when it capsized on December 19; only 11 people survived, the Ministry of Malians …

29-12-2024 ISTANBUL/ DAMASCUS: Nearly 31,000 Syrians have returned home since the fall of strongman Bashar al-Assad, according to the interior minister of neighboring Turkiye, which shelters some 3 million Syrian refugees. Meanwhile, inside the country on Friday, Syrians rallied for a day of remembrance in honor of the victims of …

29-12-2024 HELSINKI: NATO said on Friday it would boost its presence in the Baltic Sea after the suspected sabotage this week of an undersea power cable and four internet cables, while alliance member Estonia launched a naval operation to guard a parallel electricity link. Finland on Thursday seized a ship …

29-12-2024 DAMASCUS/ SANA’A: A Houthi political official says the group will continue attacking Israel in solidarity with the Palestinians despite the escalating Israeli air strikes in Yemen. Mohammed al-Bukhaiti told media that the Houthis would “escalate our military targeting of Israel” until it stopped what he described as “the genocide …

29-12-2024 TEHRAN: Italian journalist Cecilia Sala has been detained in Tehran, Italy’s foreign ministry said in a statement Friday. Sala was reporting in the Iranian capital when she was “stopped by Tehran police” on December 19, the statement said, adding that the foreign ministry “has worked with the Iranian authorities …