Middle East latest: Israel prepares to move deeper into Gaza and issues new evacuation orders
The Israeli military indicated on Monday it could soon launch another major offensive in Rafah and ordered most of the southernmost city in the Gaza Strip evacuated. Israel ended its ceasefire with Hamas and renewed its air and ground war earlier this month. At the beginning of March it cut off all supplies of food, fuel, medicine and humanitarian aid to the territory’s roughly 2 million Palestinians to pressure Hamas to accept changes to the truce agreement. Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin...
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Sun, 30 Mar 2025
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Sat, 29 Mar 2025
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Thu, 27 Mar 2025
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- King Charles III briefly hospitalized for observation following side effects from cancer treatment
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- Australia to hold general elections on May 3 with inflation and a housing shortage major issues
- Global automakers say Trump's tariffs will be painful for them and US consumers
- Greenland lawmakers form a new government on the eve of Vance visit
- Canada's new prime minister says he'll be speaking soon with Trump for the first time
- An apartheid-era song Elon Musk has decried as anti-white is headline news again in South Africa
- A stabbing attack in Amsterdam wounds five people, including four foreigners
- Prosecutor asks for 18-month suspended sentence for Grard Depardieu if convicted of sexual assault
- US Homeland Security Secretary Noem visits Colombia to discuss immigration and crime
- Trump places 25% tariff on imported autos. Carmakers could face higher costs and lower sales
- French president says not all European allies agree on a proposed force for Ukraine
- French prosecutors seek 7-year sentence for Sarkozy in Libya campaign financing trial
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- Police use force to break up protests at a university in Turkey's capital
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- A fire at a winter resort hotel in Turkey kills an Olympic skier and his father
- South Sudan opposition says peace deal has collapsed after arrest of its leader
- South Korea struggles to contain wildfires that have killed 28
- Israel's parliament approves a key part of Netanyahu's divisive judicial overhaul
- Brazilian President Lula swipes at Trump as US imposes auto tariffs
- US gives initial approval for Qatar to purchase MQ-9 armed drones for nearly $2 billion
- Indonesia arrests Argentinian woman and British man for smuggling cocaine into Bali
- Crowds flock to newest Catholic saint in Assisi a millennial teen whose ordinariness is the draw
- Brazil ex-President Bolsonaro will stand trial over an alleged coup plan. Heres what happens next
- Brazilian Supreme Court panel orders ex-President Bolsonaro to stand trial over alleged coup plan
- France's foreign minister is in China to discuss Ukraine and trade issues
Wed, 26 Mar 2025
- North Korea sent 3,000 more troops to Russia, according to South's assessment
- Climate change and overfishing threaten Vietnams ancient tradition of making fish sauce
- NATO clarifies comments that four missing US soldiers had died during training in Lithuania
- Canadian Prime Minister Carney calls Trump's auto tariffs a 'direct attack' on his country
- Macron says a proposed European force for Ukraine could 'respond' if attacked by Russia
- Sudans army chief returns to Khartoum for first time in 2 years of war after airport recaptured
- Erdogan accuses the opposition of wrecking Turkey's economy during protests over mayor's jailing
- Chinese researchers report a pig kidney transplant and a first-step liver experiment
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- Nigers junta leader is sworn in as president for a 5-year transition period under new law
- Change in itinerary for US Vice President JD Vance brings cautious relief for Greenland and Denmark
- German authorities raid group that allegedly aims to overthrow Eritrean government
- Deeply unpopular Peruvian president calls for general elections in April 2026
- Thai prime minister survives a challenge by rivals who say her father is pulling the strings
- South Koreas truth commission says government responsible for fraud and abuse in foreign adoptions
- Sudan aid groups say 54 killed in an airstrike blamed on the military in Darfur
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- Brazil apologizes to families of victims of military dictatorship's mass grave
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