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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 …

Meta’s latest feature, dubbed “topic tags,” introduces a fresh avenue for users to explore and discover brands.Metas Threads now has its own version of hashtags.Meta calls this new feature “topic tags”, emphasizing its difference from hashtags by prioritizing community focus. Topic tags are now accessible to all users worldwide to …

BERLIN — German prosecutors have charged 27 suspected far-right extremists with planning a violent coup. The suspects are accused of membership of the fringe Reichsbürger — or Citizens of the Reich — movement. “The members of the group strongly rejected state institutions and the free democratic constitutional order,” according to …

WASHINGTON (AP) — Top Biden administration officials labored Wednesday to try to reach a last-minute deal for wartime aid for Ukraine by agreeing to Senate Republican demands to bolster U.S.-Mexico border policies, with urgency setting in as Congress prepared to depart Washington with the impasse unresolved. The White House was …

Twelve Palestinians were martyred, and dozens were injured early Tuesday when an Israeli occupation airstrike hit a home in the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip.Medical sources said that 12 citizens, including six children, were martyred, and dozens were injured as Israeli warplanes targeted a house belonging to …