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Displaced Palestinian children wait for a water supply tank to fill their containers amid soaring temperatures at a tent camp in Rafah
Team from Gaza mediator Egypt heads to Israel

TEL AVIV: A delegation from mediator Egypt is travelling to Israel on Friday, a source close to the Israeli government said, in what local media said is a bid to reignite stalled captives-release negotiations.The effort comes alongside preparations for a military push against Palestinian groups in southern Gaza's Rafah, and with spillover from the Gaza war leading to...
Uncle of Sabreen al Rouh crouches next to her grave in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

Baby, rescued from dead mother's womb from Israel strike, dies
French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu shakes hands with his German counterpart Boris Pistorius as they meet at the Hotel de Brienne in Paris on Friday

France, Germany sign deal on 'tank of the future'
Greek actress Mary Mina, playing the role of High Priestess holds an Olympic torch by the cauldron during the handover ceremony in Athens on Friday

Greece hands Olympic flame to 2024 Paris Games hosts
Displaced Palestinian children wait for a water supply tank to fill their containers amid soaring temperatures at a tent camp in Rafah

Team from Gaza mediator Egypt heads to Israel
Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Great Hall of the People

Xi tells Blinken US, China should be 'partners, not rivals'
A woman gestures before a damaged apartment hit by recent shelling

Russian attacks kill two in northeastern Ukraine
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Airbus delivers 142 commercial aircraft in Q1, 2024

Uncle of Sabreen al Rouh crouches next to her grave in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip

Baby, rescued from dead mother's womb from Israel strike, dies

French Defence Minister Sebastien Lecornu shakes hands with his German counterpart Boris Pistorius as they meet at the Hotel de Brienne in Paris on Friday

France, Germany sign deal on 'tank of the future'

INTERNATIONAL VIDEOS
Region
A woman gestures before a damaged apartment hit by recent shelling

Russian attacks kill two in northeastern Ukraine

KYIV: Russian air attacks hit an industrial facility and a residential buildings in northeastern Ukraine on Friday, killing two people and wounding at least seven, local officials said.Three children and a woman were hurt when guided bombs hit a...

A doctor stands near bodies lined up for identification after they were unearthed from a mass grave found in the Nasser Medical Complex in the southern Gaza Strip
More bodies discovered in Gaza mass grave
People work to recover the bodies of Palestinians killed in Khan Younis
It could take 14 years to clear debris in Gaza: UN
Palestinians mourn by the bodies of relatives killed in Israeli bombardment, at the al-Najjar hospital in Rafah in Thursday.

Israeli strike kills Belgian aid worker
A Palestinian searches the rubble of a building destroyed in overnight Israeli bombardment in Rafah in Thursday. — AFP

Israel intensifies strikes on Rafah
LEBANON-ISRAEL- PALESTINIAN-CONFLICT

Lebanon postpones polls as violence rocks south
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Americas

Pro-Palestinian students march and hold signs as they protest the Israel-Hamas war on the campus of the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, on Wednesday. — AFP

Pro-Palestinian protests spread in US

Columbia vows more talks with pro-Palestinian student protests

Trump schemed to corrupt 2016 election

US, UK slaps new sanctions on Iran

Trump arrives at court for third day of jury selection

Africa

Displaced Palestinian children wait for a water supply tank to fill their containers amid soaring temperatures at a tent camp in Rafah

Team from Gaza mediator Egypt heads to Israel

A remote island draws thousands of turtles each year

155 killed in Tanzania as heavy rains lash East Africa

War in Sudan: Why displaced people can’t go home

Drone strikes break calm in Sudan

Europe

A woman and baby at the Zamzam displacement camp, close to El Fashir in North Darfur

UN warns of possible imminent attack on Sudanese city

Venice launches five-euro entry fee to curb overtourism

Run away cavalry horses injure 4 people in London

France records growing number of supercentenarians

UN calls for probe into Gaza deaths

Asia
Chinese President Xi Jinping talks with U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken at the Great Hall of the People

Xi tells Blinken US, China should be 'partners, not rivals'

BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday told top US diplomat Antony Blinken that the world's biggest economies should be "partners, not rivals" as the two sides pressed for headway on a range...
Tran Qui Thanh

Vietnam court jails tycoon in $40 million scam case

GB

Chinese astronauts blast off to space

A worker transports blocks of ice through a fresh market on a hot day in Bangkok

Danger warning issued for Bangkok as extreme heat bites

Thousands of Bangladeshis held prayers for rains in cities and rural towns

Thousands in heatwave-hit Bangladesh pray for rain

GLOBAL SPOTLIGHT
Sanitation crisis in Gaza spreads disease

In a sprawling tent encampment in the Gaza Strip, the Israeli bombs fall close enough to hear and feel. But daily life is also a struggle against hunger, cold, and a growing sanitation crisis. A lack of sufficient...

Displaced Palestinians fill jerrycans with seawater for washing and cooking, at the beach in Deir al-Balah, in the central Gaza Strip, Oct. 28, 2023.

Gazans flee homes as Israeli strikes resume

10 years after typhoon, Philippine city rises from the ruins

India launches key test for manned orbital mission
Australia
People attend a candlelight vigil for the victims of the Bondi Junction Westfield shopping centre in Sydney. — AFP

Crowds join Bondi Beach memorial for stabbing victims

SYDNEY: Crowds gathered at Sydney's iconic Bondi Beach on Sunday for a candlelight memorial to the six people killed by a knife-wielding assailant at a nearby shopping mall.Many hundreds sat on the...
Families walk out of the Westfield Bondi Junction shopping mall after a stabbing incident in Sydney

Sydney knife attacker shot dead after killing 5

The fresh fruit is used in muffins, cakes, jams and smoothies, and it begins appearing on high-end menus each March

New Zealanders are crazy for this fruit

Britain's Foreign Secretary David Cameron participates in a signing ceremony with Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong at Parliament House in Canberra. — AFP

UK, Australia sign new defence pact

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‘Strong Movement’ on flight leaves dozens injured

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