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Pacific Rim leaders divided on Ukraine, Gaza wars
Pacific Rim leaders showed divisions over the wars in Ukraine and Gaza after a two-day summit of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) forum on Friday, although they pledged support for reform of the World Trade Organization.…
UNSC calls for pauses in Gaza fighting for aid
The United Nations Security Council on Wednesday called for urgent and extended humanitarian pauses in fighting between Israel and Palestinian Hamas militants in the Gaza Strip for a "sufficient number of days" to allow aid access.
The…
New clashes in Myanmar’s Rakhine state displace 26,000: UN
Renewed fighting this week between Myanmar's military and an ethnic minority armed group has displaced more than 26,000 people in western Rakhine state, the United Nations said on Friday.
Ongoing clashes between the Arakan Army (AA) and…
Israel orders residents from southern Gaza towns, raising fear of war’s spread
Israeli leaflets tell Gazans to leave four towns east of Khan Younis
Thousands more Palestinians were fleeing from the embattled north to the south along a perilous frontline path after Israel told them to evacuate
Israel says…
Biden calls Xi a dictator after planned summit
US President Joe Biden said early yesterday he had not changed his view that Chinese President Xi Jinping was effectively a dictator, a comment likely to land with a thud in Beijing after the two leaders held straightforward summit…
Israel ‘not successful’ to minimise Gaza civilian casualties: Netanyahu
Israel is doing all it can to get civilians out of harm's way as it battles Hamas in Gaza, including dropping leaflets warning them to flee, but its attempts to minimise casualties were "not successful", Prime Minister Benjamin…
UK PM Rishi Sunak says Rwanda merry-go-round must end
The government is introducing emergency legislation to mark Rwanda as a safe country, the prime minister says, after the UK Supreme Court ruled the flagship asylum policy was unlawful.
Rishi Sunak said the UK was working on a…
179 buried in ‘mass grave’ in Gaza hospital compound
Gaza's main hospital buried 179 dead patients in a "mass grave", said the director of the hospital.
The hospital has no power.
US President Joe Biden pressed Israel to protect the hospital complex trapped in fierce combat.
Israeli…
Israeli troops raid Gaza’s main hospital
Israeli soldiers yesterday raided and combed through Gaza's main hospital in an offensive against Hamas, raising fears for thousands of patients and other civilians trapped inside.
The operation at Gaza City's Al-Shifa hospital set…
Biden says still considers Xi a ‘dictator’
US President Joe Biden said after a summit with Xi Jinping Wednesday that he still considers the Chinese president a "dictator", after he sparked fury from Beijing by making the comparison earlier this year.
"Well look he is, I mean he's…