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Israeli raids in Gaza kill 27 more Palestinians, including 19 in the north, where a military siege has been ongoing for more than a month. At least 12 Palestinians were killed and several others wounded after Israeli forces bombed a school-turned-shelter for displaced people in northern Gaza. Gaza’s Civil Defence agency on Thursday said the … Read more
BREAKINGBREAKING, The Republican candidate is on the cusp of winning 270 Electoral College votes, per the Associated Press. Former United States President Donald Trump has claimed victory over Vice President Kamala Harris after projected wins in key battleground states. The Associated Press news agency called the swing states of Georgia, North Carolina and Pennsylvania for … Read more
Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris spent the last day of the United States election campaign in Pennsylvania, the state that could make or break her historic bid for the White House. Her message to supporters was blunt: Every vote is crucial in the state that holds 19 Electoral College votes, the most of all the … Read more
Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelenskyy has urged its allies to stop “watching” and take steps before North Korean troops deployed in Russia reach the battlefield, and the country’s army chief warned that his troops are facing “one of the most powerful offensives” by Moscow since the all-out war started more than two years ago. Zelenskyy raised … Read more
Arizona’s top prosecutor is investigating whether Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump violated state laws for suggesting that one of his most prominent critics should face “gunfire” in combat. Trump has been widely criticised for comments he made about former Republican lawmaker Liz Cheney at a campaign event in Arizona on Thursday. “She’s a radical war … Read more
Early voting is under way across the United States ahead of Tuesday’s presidential election. Republican candidate Donald Trump and Democratic candidate Kamala Harris have both made last-minute efforts to court union voters – a core voting bloc, especially in swing states like Michigan, where groups like the United Auto Workers (UAW) have significant sway among … Read more
Biggest typhoon in decades will hit Taiwan where schools and businesses have been suspended amid heavy rains, winds. Business and schools have shut across Taiwan and hundreds of flights were cancelled as millions of people brace for the arrival of Super Typhoon Kong-rey, one of the most powerful storms to threaten the island in decades. … Read more
US increases estimated number of North Korean troops sent to Russia amid fears Moscow’s war on Ukraine could expand. An estimated 10,000 North Korean troops have been sent to Russia to train and fight against Ukraine in “the next several weeks”, the Pentagon has announced, significantly increasing the estimated number of soldiers deployed by North … Read more
She was only seven years old at the time, but Michiko Kodama has a crystal-clear memory of the morning of August 6, 1945 in Hiroshima, Japan. “It was a sunny day,” she says. “At 8:15, I was at school, sitting at my desk at the front of the class, when there was a tremendous white … Read more
Georgians will vote in parliamentary elections on Saturday that look set to define whether the mountainous nation that straddles Eastern Europe and West Asia will pivot towards Moscow or Brussels. The geopolitical bifurcation of the country’s politics has been gradually building for years but came to the fore in April, when wide-scale protests broke out. … Read more