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Israel death toll rises to 1,200: military
More than 1,200 Israelis have been killed in the Israel-Hamas conflict, an Israeli Defense Forces spokesperson said Wednesday, up from 1,000 previously reported.
"The death toll is a staggering 1,200 dead Israelis," IDF spokesperson…
US doesn’t want civilians killed in Gaza or Israel: White House
The United States does not want to see innocent civilians killed anywhere, including in Gaza and Israel, White House national security spokesman John Kirby said today as the first tranche of US security assistance headed to Israel.
"What…
How Israel was duped as Hamas planned devastating assault
A careful campaign of deception ensured Israel was caught off guard when the Palestinian Islamist group Hamas launched its devastating attack, enabling a force using bulldozers, hang gliders and motorbikes to take on the Middle East's most…
Gender gap economist Claudia Goldin wins Nobel prize
American economic historian Claudia Goldin won the 2023 Nobel economics prize for her work examining wage inequality between men and women, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences said on Monday.
The prestigious award, formally known as…
London police step up patrols after Israel-Gaza violence
London police said yesterday that they had boosted patrols across parts of the city following the attacks on Israel by the Palestinian militant group Hamas.
"We are aware of a number of incidents... in relation to the ongoing conflict in…
Nobel winner Mohammadi ‘celebrates’ prize in jail
Rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi "celebrated" her Nobel Peace Prize with fellow detainees in their Tehran prison cell, her family told AFP yesterday.
"Narges learned that she had been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize yesterday afternoon…
Israeli forces clash with Hamas gunmen after nearly 500 killed
Israeli forces clashed with gunmen from the Palestinian group Hamas on Sunday, 24 hours after the militants launched a surprise attack on Israel in which nearly 500 people were killed in the deadliest day of violence in Israel for 50 years.…
Kevin McCarthy ousted as US House Speaker
A handful of Republicans in the US House of Representatives on Tuesday ousted Republican Speaker Kevin McCarthy, as party infighting plunged Congress into further chaos just days after it narrowly averted a government shutdown. The…
Canada wants pvt talks with India: FM
Canada wants private talks with India to resolve a diplomatic dispute over the murder of a Sikh separatist leader, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said on Tuesday, after a report said India had asked the country to withdraw 41 diplomats.…
Trio win Nobel in physics for work on electrons
Scientists Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz and Anne L'Huillier won the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physics for creating ultra-short pulses of light that can give a snapshot of changes within atoms, potentially leading to better detection of…