Israeli attacks have damaged at least 18 hospitals and clinics and destroyed one health facility, the World Health Organisation said. Nearly half of all essential drugs have run out.

The developments threaten to wedge sponsors of the Olympics teams and the Australian government as the Brisbane Games bid hangs in the balance.

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French gastronomes were aghast when Alain Ducasse, who has the most Michelin stars in the world, announced he was leaving his Plaza Athenee vegetarian restaurant.

Your fast guide to the high-tech shield that’s changed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

China’s Defence Ministry said the transit of the US guided missile destroyer USS Curtis Wilbur through the Strait was “sabotaging the regional situation”.

Former president Donald Trump faces two probes into his company’s finances, one by the Manhattan District Attorney and another by New York’s attorney general Letitia James.

Laws are meant to protect civilians during war and alleviate their suffering. Australia must ensure both Hamas and Israel are held accountable when they breach them.

Riad Ishkontana was buried in the wreckage of his Gaza home with his children, “listening to their voices beneath the rubble”. Suzy is the only survivor.

Johnson’s former adviser Dominic Cummings tweeted he was willing to sell or disclose secret coronavirus plans that would expose disastrous early decisions.

Air France flight 342 flew with a 16 per cent mix of sustainable aviation fuel in its fuel tanks, produced in France by Total from used cooking oil.

The idea of corporations and political figures boycotting the games - while allowing athletes to compete - is gaining momentum on both sides of US politics.

His film career began with a small role in Rosemary’s Baby in 1968. He achieved leading man status four years later with The Heartbreak Kid.

Some believe Rabat had initially allowed the migrant surges as a means of pressuring Madrid over its decision to admit a rebel leader from the Western Sahara to a Spanish hospital.

Jenny McGee stood at the side of the British Prime Minister when he was hospitalised with COVID-19 last year. Now she has resigned, citing lack of government support for health care workers.

Israel bombarded Gaza with air strikes and Palestinian militants resumed cross-border rocket fire on Tuesday after a brief overnight lull.

The Indian Navy has mounted a massive air and sea rescue mission for 81 oil workers and crew whose barge sank in heavy seas following a powerful cyclone.

India’s total virus cases swept past 25 million on Tuesday as the country registered more than 260,000 new cases and a record 4,329 deaths in the past 24 hours.

Scott Morrison’s adviser Brendan Pearson told South Korean business leaders there was “a big risk if it becomes natural for countries to dictate” carbon taxes.

The mission to raise Indonesia’s Nanggala submarine wreck from the seabed near Bali has found two life rafts but there’s no sign of the 53 men onboard.

The US top military chief General Mark Milley warned the conflict could spread “and you risk a whole series of negative consequences if the fighting continues”.

A new climate change roadmap calls on advanced economies to phase out dirty coal-fired power plants by 2030 - a decade ahead of developing nations.

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By hearing the case in their next term, the conservative-majority bench will look at whether to overturn a central part of the decades-old ruling.

A new Kyrgyzstan law allows the government to take control of the company for three months if, as RFERL reports, the company “damages or endangers the local environment”.

The deal would see the required salary threshold lowered and the minimum duration of a work contract reduced. The recognition of professional skills in the IT sector would be facilitated.

The deal was a worrying development for Matt Gaetz the Republican from Florida under investigation into whether he violated sex trafficking laws by paying the a 17-year-old for sex.

A country’s fertility rate falls as it grows richer. But in China’s case, it’s quite abnormal.

Twenty-two flights from Britain were due to land in Portugal on Monday, with most heading to the southern Algarve region, famous for its beaches and golf courses.

The US President also revealed he was co-ordinating an “entirely new” multilateral effort with other democracies to vastly increase the global supply of vaccines.

The most powerful cyclone in more than two decades, which has already killed at least 16 people and left a trail of destruction, has now made landfall in the state of Gujarat.

The Israeli military says it has destroyed 15 kilometres of militant tunnels and killed a top Gaza leader of Islamic Jihad as fighting enters a second week.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said he’ll do “whatever it takes” to restore order and that his goal is to “degrade” the ability of Hamas to threaten Israel.

In the last week, the number of new cases plunged by nearly 70 per cent in India’s financial capital Mumbai, home to 22 million people.

Taiwan, Singapore and South Korea all flattened the curve with quarantine and contact-tracing. Now their sluggish vaccination programs are being questioned.

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Lieutenant Colonel Matthew Lohmeier also decried anti-racism training and education and Secretary of Defence Lloyd Austin’s diversity and inclusion initiatives.

Working long hours is killing hundreds of thousands of people a year in a worsening trend and Australia is part of the region that is worst affected, the World Health Organisation says.

On at least a few occasions, Gates pursued women who worked for him at Microsoft and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, say people with direct knowledge of his overtures.

While Australia has excelled at keeping the virus at bay, it seems to be falling behind the rest of the world in its understanding of what the vaccines can do. 

A police raid on the Al-Aqsa Mosque, one of the holiest sites in Islam, was one of several actions that led, less than a month later, to the sudden resumption of war between Israel and Hamas.

Japan, a country that’s witnessed the consequences of too much government power, has proved reluctant to implement strict rules to combat a mounting health crisis ahead of the Olympics.

Heavy rainfall and winds from the cyclone, which formed in the Arabian Sea, had already pounded some states along India’s western coast, causing power outages, downing trees and resulting in deaths.

Johnson was responding to a video that showed a convoy of cars bearing Palestinian flags driving through a Jewish community in north London, broadcasting anti-Semitic messages.

The attack took place one day after Israel’s military was accused of misleading foreign journalists by announcing it had launched a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, then retracting that claim an hour later.

It’s an odd proposition at an odd time given that major airlines have suspended flights to Israel amid the deadly violence.

The Gaza Health Ministry says Israeli air strikes in the heart of Gaza City have killed dozens of people in the deadliest single attack since the start of heavy fighting a week ago.

The city state, home to more than 20,000 Australians, was less than three weeks ago named the best place to be during COVID-19. Now it’s virtually in lockdown.

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The latest Israeli air strikes further reduce our understanding of what is taking place inside the Gaza Strip at a time when accurate information is more important than ever.