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The three Israeli hostages who were killed by Israeli forces in Gaza on Friday had emerged shirtless from a building and were bearing a makeshift white flag when they were shot, the military said on Saturday. The troubling details of how they died have created widespread anguish in Israel and …

Italian Cardinal Giovanni Angelo Becciu takes part in the procession of the Palm Sunday mass on April 2, 2023 at St Peter’s square in The Vatican. (AFP) A Vatican court on Saturday sentenced a once powerful Italian cardinal to five years and six months in jail for financial crimes at …

KHAN YOUNIS — At least 17 people were killed and dozens of others were injured early Friday morning after artillery fire struck a school and a residential home in Gaza’s southern city of Khan Younis. Two artillery strikes hit Haifa School – where displaced residents were sheltering – and killed …

UN: More than 70% of Palestinians killed since Israel’s war began are women and children  Al Jazeera English Israel-Hamas war, Texas abortion, Golden Globes: Monday’s news  USA TODAY Menstrual periods an ordeal, health risk for Gaza women and girls  Yahoo News Gaza is Most Dangerous Place for Women Right Now – ActionAid  Palestine Chronicle …

Eleven Palestinians were martyred and scores were injured after the Israeli occupation warplanes shelled houses in Rafah and Nuseirat in Gaza Strip at dawn Monday.According to Palestinian news agency (WAFA), six Palestinians, most of them children, were martyred and several were injured in an Israeli bombardment of Al-Sultan neighborhood in …

SYDNEY — A woman once branded “Australia’s worst mother” has had her convictions for killing her four children quashed. The New South Wales Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the evidence originally used to jail Kathleen Folbigg was “not reliable”. The 56-year-old was pardoned and freed by the state government …

Unlock the Editor’s Digest for free Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Prime Minister Fumio Kishida is on Thursday expected to remove influential cabinet members as he seeks to save his premiership from Japan’s biggest political funding scandal in more than three …

The Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) on Sunday set up a committee of three leaders to negotiate with Niger’s military junta on a transition to democratic rule and to consider easing sanctions.A commission from Benin, Togo and Sierra Leone would engage with the Niger regime’s CNSP (National Council …

TEL AVIV — Israeli troops are still locked in heavy combat with Hamas fighters in and around Gaza City, more than six weeks after invading the territory’s north. Palestinian militants carried out one of the deadliest single attacks on Israeli soldiers since the Gaza invasion began, killing at least nine …

By Greg Torode HONG KONG (Reuters) – Every day, nearly 60 fully loaded very large crude-oil carriers sail between the Persian Gulf and Chinese ports, carrying about half of the oil that powers the world’s second-largest economy. As the vessels enter the South China Sea, they ply waters increasingly controlled …