Saleh Aruri, an exiled senior Hamas leader, said his group has turned down a proposal from Egypt for a three-hour hiatus in the fighting.

The 6.6 earthquake struck off the western coast of Sumatra at a depth of 10 kilometres. No tsunami warning was issued.

The conflagration in Israel and Palestine should spur both sides to restart the long-dead peace process.

At an event for foreign diplomats and media, Uighur Muslim leaders defended the Communist party and denied human rights abuses in Xinjiang.

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Changi Airport is now the single biggest cluster of COVID cases, with 46 linked to the aerodrome, raising fears that travellers have spread the pathogen to airport staff despite strict post-arrival quarantine regulations.

The new fear and distrust in Lod has old roots in duelling nationalism. Violence that started there in reaction to events in Jerusalem this week, has now spread.

On one state, plans to give priority to the “poorest of the poor” were successfully challenged in court by residents living above the poverty line.

Biden wants to treat the Middle East like any other region outside of Asia. But overnight, he’s found out that’s easier said than done.

The former British prime minister was accused of “stalking” rather than lobbying on behalf of controversial banker Lex Greensill.

Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon, who wants to wrest immigration powers from the United Kingdom government, welcomed the police force’s actions.

The team at Eleven Madison Park in New York have challenged themselves to make vegan food desirable, covetable, and worthy of a steep price tag.

The attack is the latest escalation after four days of cross border rocket attacks from Palestinian militants.

Asked on a podcast ,if he felt as if he was in a cage while in his royal duties, the former senior British royal opens up about living in the public life.

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Payne said Australia is pushing for a thorough investigation into the origins of COVID-19 while still viewing a Chinese laboratory leak as an unlikely cause.

Israelis worried that the battle inside the country may be harder to stop than the air war still being waged with Gaza. 

In a striking move to send the US back toward pre-pandemic life, the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention has eased indoor mask-wearing guidance for fully vaccinated people.

The company paid the hefty ransom in untraceable cryptocurrency within hours of the cyber attack, which shut down the United States’ largest fuel pipeline.

A Swiss and an American climber have died on Mount Everest, hiking company officials said on Thursday.

Amid the most severe outbreak of violence between Israel and the Gaza Strip since a 2014 war, people are asking an all-too-familiar question: Where should we go?

Of 528 towns registered to welcome international competitors, about 40 have decided not to accept athletes for training camps and cultural exchanges before the Games.

A little war now and then is good for Hamas and for Binyamin Netanyahu.

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Vietnam is facing a fresh battle with the virus but with fewer than 4000 total cases among its nearly 100 million people, it has stood out from the pack.

President Emmanuel Macron’s party has pulled support from a woman who appears in a campaign poster in a Muslim headscarf.

Tough lockdowns and its geographical location have helped NZ eliminate the coronavirus but left the nation isolated from the rest of the world. 

The Roman Catholic Church teaches the Virgin Mary appeared to three Portuguese children in 1917 in Fatima, which was then an impoverished farming village.

Loyalty to Donald Trump himself - rather than a commitment to any particular policy position - is now the defining feature of the modern Republican Party.

Former British prime minister fires off a withering critique of the far-left and its approach to culture, gender, race and identity.

The pace of vaccinations in the US has slowed in recent weeks due to ambivalence or scepticism about the medication and declining infections.

Israel vowed to keep pummelling the Islamist faction in Gaza in the fiercest hostilities in years despite a prediction by US President Joe Biden that fighting might end soon.

The discredited theory that coronavirus is a bio-weapon created in a Wuhan lab is gaining new momentum. This is the conspiracy’s origin story.

More than half the retweets diplomat Liu Xiaoming got from June through January came from accounts that Twitter has suspended for violating the platform’s rules.

Israel has killed a string of senior Hamas military figures and pounded three multi-storey towers as it hammered the Gaza Strip with airstrikes, and militants in the territory fired rocket barrages.

Cheney was removed after she repeatedly rebuked Donald Trump for his false claims of election fraud, and the former president quickly responded that Cheney was a “bitter, horrible human being”.

Forty years ago, Pope John Paul II was shot by a gunman in front of 15,000 pilgrims in St Peter’s Square in Rome.

The Israeli government, the surrounding Arab nations and the Palestinian Authority all desperately want to shut down the crisis but the call to arms has moved to social media.

Young women working on the Ebola outbreak in 2019 claim they were offered or appointed to jobs in return for sex.

But that’s no excuse to sit around waiting for it to happen, say the researchers who quantified the regeneration.

P&G’s brands include Gillette, Pantene, Olay,  Tampax, Vicks and Old Spice, but it’s the company’s non-profit work that lines up with the royal couple.

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Gazans reported their homes shaking and the sky lighting up with Israeli attacks, outgoing rockets fired by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and Israeli air defence missiles intercepting them.

Almost every morning Juliet appears. She swoops onto the zoo’s macaw enclosure and, through the fence, engages in behaviour that looks like conjugal canoodling.

The Panama-flagged, Japanese-owned ship ran aground in the single-lane stretch of the canal on March 23, blocking international trade for six days.

The European-Mediterranean Seismological Centre reported the earthquake’s depth at 112 km.

The Royal Australian Navy has confirmed the two carcasses shifted from underneath the vessel as it berthed.

Cheney said those who dispute the election results were at war with the Constitution and were sowing the seeds of future political violence.

She indicated she would seek the death penalty for the suspect who was also charged with one count of domestic terrorism.

Diplomatic pressure is unlikely to have much effect as the death toll rises and action brings more retaliation.