Gunmen kill 11 at Jewish festival on Australia’s Bondi Beach, one of the biggest tourist draws
Police declared the shooting a "terrorist incident" and said they had found suspected "improvised explosive devices" in a vehicle near...
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UNRWA chief denounces Israeli police’s seizure of agency’s Jerusalem assets
The compound in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem has been empty of UNRWA staff since January, when the law banning its operations...
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Six Palestinians killed in Israeli raid in West Bank
The official Palestinian news agency Wafa reported early Sunday that a major deployment of Israeli forces was under way in...
- A PA official said that Israeli bombardment on a group of citizens killed six people in Jenin
- At least 327 Palestinians have been killed in the West Bank since the conflict broke out
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Palestinians rebury bodies exhumed from Gaza cemetery
The footage from the cemetery in Al-Tuffah neighbourhood in Gaza City showed bodies wrapped in bags and laid out on...
- Hamas on Saturday accused the Israeli military of "destroying 1,100 graves"
- Israeli brutal bombardment in Gaza has killed at least 22,722 people
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US military shoots down another drone over Red Sea
The Houthis say they are targeting Israel and Israeli-linked vessels to push for a stop to the offensive in Gaza....
- Maersk said Friday that it would divert all vessels around Africa instead of using the Red Sea
- The rebels have launched more than 100 drone and missile strikes in Red Sea
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Hamas command structure ‘dismantled’ in north Gaza: Israel
The army spokesman told reporters that its forces dismantled "the Hamas military framework in the northern Gaza Strip" and that...
- Israeli PM said his government had directed the army to "eliminate Hamas"
- He said the war should not stop until Israel has achieved "all of the goals"
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EU’s Borrell meets Hezbollah official in bid to avoid wider war
Josep Borrell held talks with the head of Hezbollah's parliamentary bloc, Mohammad Raad, Lebanese media reported. An EU source confirmed...
- Borrell said it is important to avoid Lebanon being dragged into a regional conflict
- Cross-border fire has killed 181 people in Lebanon, including 135 Hezbollah fighters
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UAE orders trial of 84 on terrorism charges, says media
Dubai, UAE - The Emirates is to put 84 people on trial for terror-related offenses, state media said on Saturday. The...
- The Gulf state's attorney general ordered the trial of "mostly members of the terrorist organization of (the) Muslim Brotherhood", official news agency WAM said.
- In 2013, the UAE tried 94 activists, lawyers, students, teachers and other government critics, accusing them of membership of the outlawed Muslim Brotherhood.
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Dragon Oil, Turkmennebit ink MoU
Aim is to expand Dragon Oil’s investments in Turkmenistan.
- Dragon Oil has been engaged in oil and gas cooperation with Turkmenistan on the basis of a production sharing agreement since 2000.
- The company’s primary focus is on the extraction of hydrocarbon resources in the Caspian Sea, in the Cheleken Contract Area.
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EU urges peace at Israel-Lebanon border amid escalation fears
The European Union foreign policy chief warned against a regional conflict that would involve Lebanon, as border clashes intensified nearly...
- Lebanon's Iran-backed Hezbollah and Israel have exchanged near-daily cross-border fire since Hamas's unprecedented October 7 attack
- But a strike that killed Hamas's deputy leader in Hezbollah's south Beirut stronghold on Tuesday intensified fears of a wider conflagration
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Hamas urges US diplomat to end Israeli aggression in Gaza
ISTANBUL, TURKEY - Hamas leader Ismail Haniyeh has called on US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to use his current...
- US support for Israel's military campaign "has caused unprecedented massacres and war crimes against our people in Gaza", Hamas chief Haniyeh said.
- Haniyeh also urged regional leaders due to meet Blinken to tell him that stability in the Middle East was "closely linked to our Palestinian cause".
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Fired over 60 rockets at Israeli military base, says Hizbollah
Beirut, Lebanon - Lebanon's Hizbollah fired on Saturday over 60 rockets at an Israeli military base, the group said, describing the...
- The Israeli military said it had identified around 40 rocket launches from Lebanese territory on Saturday morning.
- Air raid sirens went off in towns and cities across northern Israel, later also blaring in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights.
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Hezbollah chief says won’t surrender under Israeli threats
Hezbollah leader Naim Qassem said Sunday his group would not surrender or lay down its weapons in response to Israeli...
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Netanyahu says Trump meeting could ‘advance’ Gaza ceasefire deal ahead of Doha talks
Speaking before boarding Israel's state jet bound for Washington, Netanyahu said: "We are working to achieve this deal that we...
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Hosting BRICS, Brazil’s Lula hits out at ‘genocide’ in Gaza
"We cannot remain indifferent to the genocide carried out by Israel in Gaza, the indiscriminate killing of innocent civilians and...
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Britain reestablishes full Syria ties as FM David Lammy visits Damascus
In 2011, Britain was among the first countries to acknowledge rebel groups as the official Syrian government after then-president Bashar...
- In 2011, Britain was among the first countries to acknowledge rebel groups as the official Syrian government after then-president Assad's crushing of pro-democracy protests
- Assad was ultimately toppled in December after more than 13 years of fighting by a rebel offensive led by Sharaa, now Syria's interim president
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Hamas says ready to start Gaza ceasefire talks ‘immediately’ on US-sponsored proposal
"The movement is ready to engage immediately and seriously in a cycle of negotiations on the mechanism to put in...
- "The movement is ready to engage immediately in a cycle of negotiations on the mechanism to put in place" the US-backed truce proposal," Hamas said
- Trump has been making a renewed push to end nearly 21 months of war in Gaza, where the civil defence agency said 35 people were killed in Israeli military operations on Saturday
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Israel minister says army will ‘ensure Iran cannot threaten’ country again
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said the army must draw up a plan to prevent Iran from threatening Israel again...
- "The army must prepare on the intelligence and operational level to ensure that the air force maintains air superiority over Tehran, Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz said
- Israel launched a bombing campaign against Iran on June 13 following a decades-long shadow war, saying it aimed to prevent it from developing a nuclear weapon