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GAZA: Palestinians in Gaza reported fierce air and artillery strikes early on Monday as Israeli troops backed by tanks pressed into the enclave with a ground assault that prompted more international...

JERUSALEM/GAZA: Israeli forces are expanding ground operations in Gaza while their fighter jets have struck hundreds more Hamas targets, the Israeli military said on Sunday, in what Prime Minister...

NEW DELHI: A Qatar court has announced the death penalty for eight Indians arrested in the country last year, the Indian government said on Thursday, adding it was "deeply shocked" by the verdict.New...

Gaza: A total of 756 Palestinians, including 344 children, were killed in the past 24 hours, Gaza's health ministry said on Wednesday. It said at least 6,546 Palestinians had been killed by Israeli...

CAIRO: Arab leaders at a Cairo summit condemned Israeli bombardment of Gaza as Europeans said civilians should be shielded, but the absence of Israel and senior US officials at the meeting undermined...

Australia: Pramac Racing's Johann Zarco won the Australian Grand Prix on Saturday for his first MotoGP race victory in nearly seven years in the premier class, while his team mate and championship...

WASHINGTON: The possibility of persistent inflation leading to higher interest rates and potential losses in the commercial real estate market are among the top concerns of respondents in a Federal...

Music publishers Universal Music , ABKCO and Concord Publishing sued artificial intelligence company Anthropic in Tennessee federal court on Wednesday, accusing it of misusing an "innumerable" amount...

Israel levelled a northern Gaza district on Friday after giving families a half-hour warning to evacuate, and hit an Orthodox Christian church where others had been sheltering, as it made clear that a...

BENGALURU: Pakistan may have suffered a heavy defeat last week to India at the World Cup but fast bowler Hasan Ali said on Thursday that the loss was "not the end of the world" as the 1992 champions...

TEL AVIV/GAZA: Egypt agreed to reopen its border crossing with the Gaza Strip to allow aid to reach Palestinians, the U.S. said, as the humanitarian crisis worsened for the 2.3 million people trapped...

GAZA: The head of orthopedic surgery at Al-Ahli al-Arabi Hospital in Gaza, Fadel Naim, had just finished a procedure when he heard a huge explosion and his department filled with people screaming for...

GAZA/ABOARD AIR FORCE ONE: A huge explosion at a Gaza hospital killed hundreds of Palestinians, wrecking a diplomatic mission by U.S. President Joe Biden, who arrived in Israel on Wednesday but was...

More than 300 people were killed in an Israeli air strike on a hospital in Gaza Strip on Tuesday evening, the civil defense chief told Al-Jazeera TV. A health ministry official in Gaza said at least...

GENEVA: The United Nations human rights office said on Tuesday that Israel's siege of Gaza and its evacuation order for the north of the enclave could amount to a forcible transfer of civilians and...

WASHINGTON/JERUSALEM/GAZA: Israel bombed Gaza overnight, saying it had targeted an elite Hamas unit that led the weekend attacks, while the U.S. Secretary of State headed to the Middle East to show...

Nine Republican candidates have qualified for the party's debates so far as they seek their party's nomination to take on Democratic U.S. President Joe Biden, who is running for re-election in the...

DUBAI: Israel calls last week's devastating attack by Hamas its 9/11 moment. The secretive mastermind behind the assault, Palestinian Mohammed Deif, calls it Al Aqsa Flood.The phrase Israel's most...

GENEVA: Israeli air strikes struck residential buildings and schools across Gaza, the United Nations Human Rights chief said on Tuesday, warning that "sieges" were illegal under international...

As a health worker in South Sudan, Night Stella Elias sees from year to year how rising temperatures are adding to the dangers faced by pregnant women and their babies.Armed conflict, drought,...