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World oil prices rallied more than 2% on Monday (October 7, 2024) as tensions escalated in the crude-rich Middle East one year after the deadly Hamas attacks on Israel. European stock markets mostly rose after more big gains in Asia as China’s stimulus boost, a strengthening U.S. economy and the outlook for interest rates in…
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Total death toll crosses forty thousand in Palestine | Photo Credit: AP The health ministry in Hamas-run Gaza said on Sunday (August 18, 2024) that at least 40,099 people have been killed in the Palestinian territory in more than 10 months of war with Israel. The toll includes 25 deaths over the past 24 hours,…
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Syria’s President Bashar al-Assad, right, with Iran’s FM Hossein Amir-Abdollahian. | Photo Credit: AFP Syria has avoided getting embroiled in the Gaza war, experts said, despite a strike on Iran’s Damascus consulate, blamed on Israel, that threatened to ignite a regional conflagration. The government of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad is seeking to strike a delicate…
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Netanyahu accused Iran of being behind several attacks against Israel “through its proxies”. (File) Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday said Israel was “one step away from victory” in the Gaza war and vowed there would be no truce until Hamas frees all hostages. He was speaking in a cabinet meeting marking six months of…
Some aid groups have accused Israel of using hunger as a weapon in its war against Hamas. A top Hamas police commander met in mid-March with the heads of a Gaza clan who’d been commandeering aid meant for hungry Palestinians. He told them to stop taking the shipments or they’d be killed. A week later,…
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Pentagon spokesman Air Force Brig. Gen. Patrick Ryder speaks at the Pentagon on Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023 in Washington. The U.S. military launched airstrikes early Friday on two locations in eastern Syria linked to Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps, the Pentagon said. | Photo Credit: AP The U.S. military launched airstrikes early Friday, October 27, 2023…
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People inspect inside a church within the premises of Al-Ahli hospital where hundreds of Palestinians were killed in a blast that Israeli and Palestinian officials blamed on each other, on October 18, 2023. | Photo Credit: Reuters The Hamas-controlled interior ministry said several displaced people who had taken shelter at a church compound in the…
A Nepalese woman welcomes her daughter who is evacuated from Israel, at the Tribhuvan International Airport in Kathmandu, Nepal, on October 13, 2023. | Photo Credit: AP A group of 254 Nepali students rescued from the strife-torn Israel and led by Foreign Minister N. P. Saud arrived in Kathmandu on October 13. A Nepal Airlines…
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