Palestinian doctors reported on Saturday that at least 11 people were killed in Gaza City after an Israeli airstrike hit a family home. According to doctors at a Gaza hospital, the victims included four children and three women. The attack reportedly hit a house in the Tuffah neighborhood. The information could not be independently verified […]
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Russia is getting more missiles from Iran, but claims about their accuracy may be wrong. A recent Iranian attack has made clear that ballistic missiles likely have major flaws. Missile accuracy may not be high on Russia’s list of priorities. Russia is expanding its ballistic missile arsenal with help from Iran, but there is good
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More than 60,000 Czech households are without power after heavy storms, news agency CTK reported on Saturday, citing energy suppliers. The northwestern administrative region of Usti nad Labem, bordering Germany, has been hit hardest. More than 20,000 households are temporarily experiencing power outages as trees have fallen onto power lines due to strong winds. The
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(Bloomberg) — South Sudan has postponed elections scheduled for December for two years, extending the mandate of the country’s transitional government. Most read from Bloomberg The delay will allow for the implementation of “critical remaining protocols” agreed under a 2018 peace deal to end a civil war in the East African country, President Salva Kiir’s
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Flooding has been reported in the Czech Republic and neighbouring Poland, caused by heavy rainfall overnight. Since Friday, emergency services in both countries have been preparing for severe weather. Heavy rainfall in the Elbe and Vltava river areas in the Czech Republic caused the water level of the Elbe to rise. Authorities have issued a
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MALINDI, Kenya (AP) — Shukran Karisa Mangi used to show up to work drunk, where he would find the bodies of members of the doomsday cult buried in shallow graves. But alcohol could not dull his shock the morning he found the body of a close friend, whose neck was so badly twisted that his
CHALCO, Mexico (AP) — As 56-year-old Juana Salazar Segundo walked through her home in Chalco, a poor suburb southeast of Mexico City, she remembered how black, had reached stinking water up to her navel after the floods early last month. With the receding fluid reaching her ankles, Salazar waddled into her bedroom, bare of furniture,
The situation is critical, a Ukrainian soldier in the east told the BBC, near the front line south of Pokrovsk. It appears that Russia’s military strategy is now focused on encircling the city, which is a major transportation hub in the region. The officer, who asked not to be named, said his military leaders want
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LIMA, Peru (AP) — A spectacled bear has been born at a sanctuary built by a Peruvian farming community that has protected the animals for more than two decades. The bear cub, which has not yet been named, was discovered after park rangers in the community of Santa Catalina de Chongoyape in northern Peru noticed
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WHO chef Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus tweeted that it had been “a huge success amidst the tragic daily reality of life“for more than two million Gazans who have been embroiled in heavy fighting since the Hamas terrorist attacks last October that sparked the war in Gaza. In three phases over 12 days, from 1 to 12
