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The Palestinian death toll in Gaza has climbed to 27,365 after the ongoing Israeli offensive killed another 127 people there over the last 24 hours, the besieged territory’s Health Ministry said Sunday. A Palestinian youth rummages through the rubble of a building destroyed in Israeli attacks, Gaza, Palestine, Feb. 4, 2024. (AA Photo) “The Israeli […]

Namibia’s President Hage Geingob has died at the age of 82 while receiving medical treatment at a hospital in the capital, Windhoek. A veteran of the country’s independence struggle, Mr Geingob had been diagnosed with cancer and revealed the details to the public last month. He died early on Sunday with his wife and children […]

New York Times’ Thomas Friedman, who’s close to the US administration, says emerging doctrine would include Saudi-Israeli normalization, 2-state solution, and campaign against Iran Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas (right) and US President Joe Biden shake hands in the West Bank town of Bethlehem, July 15, 2022. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) US President Joe Biden’s administration […]

European Union leaders reached on Thursday morning a deal to establish a €50-billion plan for Ukraine after Viktor Orbán lifted his veto. The decision was taken surprisingly fast at the beginning of an extraordinary summit in Brussels, where financial aid for Kyiv was at the very top of the agenda. The special fund, known as […]

Sweden’s national bomb squad were called to the Israeli embassy in Stockholm on Wednesday, after a suspected explosive device — reportedly a hand grenade — was found nearby. Police cordoned off an area outside the Israeli embassy after the object was found. Photo: Henrik Montgomery/TT According to a report from the broadcaster TV4, an explosion was […]

Nearly 100 migrants died or went missing in the central and eastern Mediterranean Sea in the month of January, more than double the number reported in the same timeframe last year. The findings were reported by the UN migration agency on Monday, the International Organisation for Migration (IOM), during the Italy-Africa summit in Rome. On […]

AEurope-based human rights monitor said Israel is starving Palestinians as a means of war to push them out of Gaza or even kill them, as Palestinians are also left with no access to clean water amid Israel’s blockade and incessant attacks, which have destroyed civilian infrastructure in the blockaded enclave. A Palestinian man carries a […]

Authorities say five people have been charged, with one person detained while trying to cross the border. If found guilty, they face up to 12 years in prison. Employees from a Ukrainian arms firm conspired with defence ministry officials to embezzle almost $40 million (€36.82 million) earmarked to buy 100,000 mortar shells for the war […]

Medical facilities are at risk of collapse in Khan Younis, the southern Gaza city now at the focus of Israel’s offensive, the Gaza Health Ministry warned on Sunday, as fighting raged across the Palestinian enclave. Palestinians carry bags of flour they grabbed from an aid truck near an Israeli checkpoint, as Gaza residents face crisis […]

Ukraine says Russia hasn’t provided any evidence to prove their claim – that Ukraine itself shot down a Russian plane carrying Ukrainian POWs. Russia’s Investigative Committee posted a video that it claims shows Ukrainian prisoners of war boarding the plane that later crashed in the Belgorod region near Ukrainian border. Meanwhile Ukrainian intelligence has claimed […]