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Israel says it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza
Israel says it has killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in Gaza
Kim Jong-un has called his army the ‘strongest in the world’ but they are vulnerable to malnutrition, and none have seen combat or know the terrain in Russia’s war
A Lebanese ship captain abducted by Israeli special forces may have been acting as a double agent.
Benjamin Netanyahu has offered a new deal to Hamas that would see Israel pay $1m for each of the remaining Oct 7 hostages and allow their captors to leave.
Israel's Air Force said on Monday that it struck Hezbollah intelligence assets near Damascus in an attack on key infrastructure in Syria. The news came as Israel's army bombarded the last partially functioning hospital in north Gaza, the area of intense Israeli military operations for the past month, according to the enclave's health ministry. Read our live blog to see how the day's events unfolded. (FRANCE 24 with AFP, AP and Reuters)Read more on FRANCE 24 EnglishRead also:Dozens dead in fresh
Canadian authorities charged three people on Monday following violence at a Hindu temple which provoked angry condemnation from India and sent already frosty bilateral ties between the two nations to a fresh low. Peel Regional Police, who cover Brampton, said Monday that three people had been arrested and charged in connection with protests at a place of worship.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s spokesman has been arrested over allegedly leaking intelligence documents that may have hindered a potential Israeli hostage release deal.
Significant number of North Korean troops headed to the frontline areas, including Kursk, says Seoul
Social media videos show a student walking around outside the Islamic Azad University in Tehran, Iran, stripped to her underwear. According to students and activist groups from the university, the woman was protesting Iran’s strict Islamic dress code. A student social media channel, Amir Kabir newsletter, says members of an Iranian volunteer paramilitary group ripped the woman’s headscarf and clothes, whereas state-run Fars news agency says she took off her clothes after security personal “calmly talked” to her about flouting the dress code. But, the university’s spokesman said the woman was suffering from mental health issues. CNN has been unable to independently establish the circumstances behind the incident.
Yemen’s Houthi rebels have been transformed from a local armed group with limited capabilities to a powerful military organization with support from Iran, Iraqi armed groups, Lebanon’s Hezbollah militants and others, U.N. experts said in a new report. The Iranian-backed Houthis have exploited the Israel-Hamas war in Gaza and worked to enhance their status in Iran’s self-described “Axis of Resistance” to gain popularity in the region and beyond, the experts monitoring sanctions against the Houthis said in the 537-page report to the U.N. Security Council.
Hamas-run Gaza's health ministry said Monday Israeli forces were bombarding the last partially functioning hospital in the territory's north, as Israel formally notified the UN it is cutting ties with the main aid agency for Palestinians.Gaza's health ministry said Israeli forces were "continuing to violently bombard and destroy Kamal Adwan Hospital".
Israeli naval commandos abducted a senior Hezbollah operative in an operation in the northern Lebanese town of Batroun, officials said Saturday. Lebanese authorities said earlier Saturday they were investigating whether Israel was behind the capture of a sea captain who was taken by a group of armed men near the coastal town of Batroun, The…
There are as many opinions on why UNRWA – which provides services and aid to millions of Palestinians across the Middle East – was banned as there are people to ask.
A U.S. Army soldier who was in critical condition after suffering non-combat injuries while supporting the military's pier off the coast of Gaza has died, the U.S. military said on Monday. Sergeant Quandarius Davon Stanley, who recently retired from the military, suffered critical injuries in May while supporting operations at sea of the U.S.-built pier designed to increase flows of humanitarian aid into the Gaza Strip. In a statement, the U.S. Army confirmed that Stanley had died, though it did not specify when.
KARACHI, Pakistan (Reuters) -Two Chinese nationals were wounded on Tuesday by a security guard who opened fire at a garment factory in Pakistan's commercial hub Karachi, in the latest in a string of attacks that have spurred Beijing to demand better security for its citizens. Large contingents of police were deployed at the site of the factory in Karachi's industrial area, and forensic teams could be seen entering the premises, which had been cordoned off. Senior superintendent of police Faizan Ali told Reuters that the Chinese nationals had been shot at, but gave no further details.
US warns Pyongyang’s troops fighting inside Putin’s ‘meat grinder’ war would be legitimate targets
Residents in some towns say there was no warning before IDF airstrikes that killed more than 120 people
Lawyer for police argues business should be allowed to continue as Rising Tide threatens to halt exports for 30 hours
Angry protesters hit the streets of several cities in mainly-Kurdish southeastern Turkey on Monday after the authorities sacked three mayors on "terrorism" charges, sparking a rebuke from Europe's leading rights organisation.Despite the authorities quickly banning any protests, more than 2,000 people hit the streets of the Kurdish majority city of Diyarbakir, shouting: "Get out, trustees!"
Peel police issued a public safety alert Monday evening after they said weapons were seen in a demonstration near a Hindu temple in Brampton.Residents were warned to stay away from the demonstration on The Gore Road near Tyler Avenue. The area is close to the Hindu Sabha Mandir temple, one of the sites where violence erupted between groups of protesters on Sunday.In the alert posted on X, formerly Twitter, police said the weapons were observed within the crowds. Police said its public order unit
Lying in her hospital bed, wearing a yellow t-shirt covered in lions, leopards and toucans, little Ivana Skayki is the very definition of innocence. "There's been so much pressure on us," Hadi Mushref, a nurse in the burns unit, told Sky News.