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The truce between Israel and Hamas entered its final 24 hours on Monday, with both sides willing to extend the pause.The pause that began Friday has seen dozens of hostages freed, with over 100...

War raged on in Gaza on Thursday, as a proposed truce and release of hostages was delayed for at least another day.Columns of black smoke could be seen rising above northern Gaza's war zone from...

Gaza: Israel has agreed pauses in its offensive in northern Gaza that will allow some civilians to flee heavy fighting, but Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu ruled out any broader ceasefire as a...

Primary schools in India's capital city will remain closed until Nov. 10 due to high pollution levels, a Delhi government minister said in a post on social media platform X. "As pollution levels...

The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said Saturday that at least 12 people had been killed when Israel struck a United Nations school where thousands of displaced Palestinians were sheltering.The...

Kathmandu - At least 128 people were killed in an overnight earthquake that struck a remote pocket of Nepal, officials said Saturday, as security forces deployed to assist with a frantic rescue...

An Israeli air strike on an ambulance being used to evacuate the wounded from besieged northern Gaza killed 15 people and injured 60 others on Friday, the health ministry said.The Ministry of Foreign...

Lionel Messi won the eighth Ballon d'Or of his remarkable career at a glittering ceremony in Paris on Monday, while Spain's World Cup-winning star Aitana Bonmati took the women's prize.For Messi, the...

A UN agency warned it could be forced to stop aid operations in war-riven Gaza on Wednesday due to dwindling fuel supplies, as calls mounted for a humanitarian "pause" in fighting. After 18 days of...

Muscat: A 14-month-old Palestinian baby Wateen was injured in an Israeli strike that killed her mother and injured her twin brother Ahmed.At least 2,000 children have been killed in Gaza over the past...

RAFAH- Gaza's government said Tuesday that Israeli air strikes on the besieged territory during the night killed at least 140 people. A statement from the government's media office said that more than...

RAFAH: Hamas released two American hostages held in Gaza, offering a "sliver of hope" to desperate families, as Israel pounded the densely-populated territory where millions waited for promised aid...

CAIRO - Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi told a summit in Cairo on Saturday that he had invited leaders to come to an agreement for a roadmap to end the humanitarian crisis in the Gaza Strip...

Islamabad - Three-time Pakistani prime minister Nawaz Sharif will return home on Saturday after four years of self-imposed exile, primed to make a political comeback ahead of elections.The South Asian...

Rafah, Egypt - Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for war-torn and besieged Gaza started passing into the Rafah border crossing from Egypt Saturday, a security source and an Egyptian Red Crescent...

Gaza Strip - More than one million people have fled their homes in Gaza in scenes of chaos and despair as Israel bombarded the Gaza Strip and continued amassing troops Monday in preparation for a...

Gaza City - Israeli strikes on the Gaza Strip killed at least 324 people in the past 24 hours alone, including 126 children, the Hamas-controlled health ministry said.There were 88 women among those...

Thousands of Palestinians fled Saturday to southern Gaza seeking refuge after Israel warned them to evacuate before an expected ground offensive against Hamas.Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned...

Countries urged Israel on Friday to hold off on plans for an all-out assault on northern Gaza, where more than a million civilians largely defied its order to evacuate before it goes after...

Israel said it would escalate its response to an attack by the Palestinian group Hamas with a ground offensive even as 5 Palestinians were killed by Israeli occupation bullets in the West Bank,...