At least six Palestinians have been killed and 35 injured by Israeli security forces after they launched a major operation in Jenin in the occupied West Bank, the Palestinian health ministry says. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Israel’s military, police and Shin Bet security service had launched an “extensive and significant” operation to “defeat terrorism”…
EPA Lim Kimya was hit in the chest by two bullets in Bangkok’s royal quarter It had all the hallmarks of a cold-blooded, professional assassination. Next to a well-known temple in Bangkok’s historic royal quarter a man is seen on a security camera video parking his motorbike, removing his helmet, so that his face was…
Three Israelis have been killed and eight wounded in a Palestinian shooting attack on a bus and other vehicles in the north of the occupied West Bank, the Israeli military and paramedics say. The Magen David Adom ambulance service identified the dead as two women in their 60s and a man in his 40s. The…
Getty Images Workers removing tree limbs from a truck after a tornado struck the town of Katy, Texas on 28 December. At least four people have been killed after dozens of tornadoes swept across the southern US, causing extensive property damage and leaving tens of thousands of people without power. On Saturday and Sunday, nearly…
A Palestinian TV channel says five of its journalists have been killed in an Israeli strike in the central Gaza Strip. They were in a Quds Today van parked outside al-Awda hospital, where the wife of one of the journalists was about to give birth, in the central Nuseirat refugee camp. The channel posted a…
French Prime Minister François Bayrou believes dozens of people died when Cyclone Chido hit the French Indian Ocean territory of Mayotte on 14 December, rather than thousands as some have feared. Bayrou told BFMTV he thought the “alarmist and sometimes terrifying numbers put forward won’t be borne out in reality”. The confirmed death toll on…
Israel’s defence minister has for the first time acknowledged that Israel killed Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh in Tehran in July. Israel Katz made the comments in a speech vowing to target the heads of the Iran-backed Houthi movement in Yemen, which has been firing missiles and drones at Israel. Haniyeh was killed in a…
At least 28 people, including children, have died in a wave of Israeli military strikes throughout the Gaza Strip, according to Gaza’s civil defence agency. A school sheltering displaced families was among the facilities struck, killing eight people including four children over the weekend, the agency said. It comes as the UN issues a plea…
EPA About 100 people were at Quetta station when the explosion happened Police say at least 24 people have been killed after a bomb exploded at a railway station in Pakistan’s Balochistan province. Dozens of others were injured in the blast, which happened as a popular morning train was about to leave Quetta station in…
Nov 02, 2024 07:57 AM IST Since the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah erupted last year, at least 2,900 people have been killed and 13,150 wounded in Lebanon. Rescuers searched for survivors Friday after Israeli airstrikes killed at least 52 people and wounded 72 others across northeastern Lebanon, the country’s Health Ministry reported. The wave…
